The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-06-17

son of Proctor, salutatorian of the
senior class at Middlebury College.
The graduating class of the Rut-
land High school, by far the largest
in it's history, numbers AZ members,
Is of them being boys. Fourteen
will enter college.
The University of Vermont play,
William Warren's Welcome" was
presented to large house in Ben
nington Saturday evening. It's au-
thor, Roger G. Ramsdell, 09, lives
in Bennington.
w. P. Miller Troy, Nelson, Hall
& Co., of Montgomery and w. T.
Donovan of St. Adams have filed an
involuntary petition in bankruptcy
against Charles L. Hutchins of
Montgomery. His liabilities are al
legged to be $1,000.
The last jury trial of the term was
that of State VS. Frank Bushey of
Monkton, charged with an assault
upon an aged woman, Helen Boulieu,
at Monkton, March 6, 1908. The jury
after being ont an hour brought in
a verdict of not guilty.
The granting of an increase in
pension to Calvin Drown of Island
Pond, at the rate of $50 a month
from May 16, 1909, came little too
late to aid Mr.. Drown as he died
May 20, having survived his wife
only seven weeks.
Jerome w. Hathaway the Enos-
burg game warden, found the car
cass of a doe on the bank Of brook
in the Cold hollow country, so-called,
recently. The doe, which evidently
had been shot and left where 1t fell
had been dead for some time.
The total amount of fees received
from wholesale liquor licenses up to
June was s10,452, as against $3.50
last year. This increase is due to
special legislation in the last ses-
sion that makes effective laws relat-
ing to wholesale licenses previously
enacted.
In Addison county court at Mid
dlebury Friday afternoon the jury
in the case of State VS.. Charles
Marston, after &c hours delibera-
ton, brought in a verdict pronoun-
cling the respondent guilty of simple
assault on Miss Anne Smith, local
school teacher. Sentence was mol
pressed.
Guy Hutchins of Starksboro, aged
is years, pleaded guilty to a simple
assault upon young girl named
Ada Marseills March II. He was
sentenced to from two to three years
in the house of correction at Rut-
land but sentence was suspended
and he was placed in the charge of
the probation officer.
Mrs. Daisy Valencia was awarded
verdict of $1,790 against the Cen
trail Vermont Railway Co. by jury
in the United States circuit court
at Portsmouth, N. H., last week.
Mrs. Valencia had brought suit for
$4,000 damages for injuries alleged
to have been received while boarding
the defendants train at Burlington
June 81, 1908.
The list Of orators for the tercen-
tenary celebrations to be held on
the New York shore of Lake Cham
plain has been completed by the
choice of ex-Mayor Seth Low of New
York city and Judge Albert C. Barnes
of Chicago, a native of Chimney
Point, VT, as speakers at Crown
Point, Monday, July s.
Chauncey A. Adams, who has
resigned the secretaryship of the
st. Johnsbury Young Men Christ
ian Association after two years SER
vice, will be succeeded July by c.
A. Palmer, the present physical
director. Mr.. Adams, who has been
in association work six years in
Montreal and the island of Ceylon,
goes to another position.
The second "Red tag dav'i for tha