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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

In compliance with the new law
that requires all alcoholic beverages
sold in the state to comply with the
United States standard, which
means that the goods must con-
form with the labels and be at least
four years old many wholesale
liquor dealers who have sold goods
in Vermont will have to wait some
time before their goods can be plac-
ed on sale. The state laboratory
force are working on the samples
as fast as possible, but the large
number submitted means that some
dealers will have to wait before the
proper analysis can be made. The
dealers who have sold their liquors
in the state heretofore must also
submit to the analysis to conform
with the new law.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

and a severe female
weakness. T h e
doctor said l would
have to go to the
hospital for an
operation, but L
could not bear to
think of 1t. L de.
cided to try Lydia
E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
and Sanative w ash
and was entirely
cured after three
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The New England Live Stock as
ISOLATION. meeting in Boston, con-
firmed the following state commit
tees named by President Ernest l..
Libby: For Maine, H. l.. Good
rich, F. o. Thompson, G. H. Far
rington; for New Hampshire, W.
F. Wallace, E. B. Holbrook, F. l..
Cotton; for Vermont, Benjamin
Galley, J. w. Blanchard, n. H.
Woodward; for Massachusetts, H.
A. Gilmore. H. F. whitney, A. NJ.
Bags.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13
NEWS OF VERMONT
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS
Minor Events from the Vermont Field, Condensed
Tor Our Busy Readers-Brief Notes from
Tar and Near of General Interest,"
and of Local Importance.

Robert A. Lawrence of Rutland,
who is recovering frof the fracture
of the skull receiveds three weeks
ago in a runaway accident in Chit
tenden, is making satisfactory pro-
gress.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The spring meeting Of the Con-
gregational Club of the Western
Vermont will be held at the Union
church at Proctor Friday, May IA.
The afternoon session will open at
8 80 o'clock with the annual busin-
ess meeting. A report of the New
England Congregational Congress at
Manchester, n. H., held February
1924, will be given by the Rev.
Frederick W. Raymond of Proctor.
the representative of the club to
that gathering. A general discus
sion of various points in the report
will follow. At 6 o'clock a supper
will be served in the Y. NJ. G.. A.
building. In the evening the Rev.
John H. Morley of Springfield will
deliver an address on Charles OAR
win"
A demonstration of the use OF
dynamite for the removal Of stumps
and boulders was given Thursday
afternoon on the Burlington college
farm by Messrs. Dennis and La
mont, representing the Dupont Pow
der company of Wilmington, Del
While primarily the exhibition was
intended for the benefit of civil en-
gineers and agricultural students
of the University of Vermont, it was
attended also by a large number OF
citizens. Twelve or more stumps.
some relics of first growth pine,
were blown to fragments and two
boulders, one being a large, heavy
flint, were shattered The latter
boulder was of such size that it
could hardly have been otherwise
handled except at a great expense
of labor and money. Six cartridges
and ten minutes time did the work.
Sixteen charges were used in ali.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. NJ
Barrett of Asbury Park, n. j., was
the scene of a pretty wedding We'd
nesday evening when Friedrich Nell
son butcher of st. Adams and Miss
Millicent Barret, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. H. NJ. Barrett, were unit
ed in marriage by the Rev. John I.
| Nichols, pastor Of the First Congre-
| gational church of that city. Only
relatives and intimate friends were
present. At o'clock, to the strains
| of the Lohengrin Bridal Chorus,
| played by Mrs. Norman n. Atwood
| of St. Adams, the bride entered the
| parlor on her fathers arm, pre-
( ceded by the officiating clergyman
| and the bridegroom, and stood be-
meath a bower of mountain laurel
and wild fruit blossoms. The Epis-
copal service was used, the bride be-
ing given in marriage by her faith
| err. Miss Barrett's gown was or
white satin, cut entraine, and trim
med with princess lace, and made IN
Empire style. She wore veil and
carried a bouquet Of bride roses.
After receiving the congratulations
and good wishes of the assembled
friends a wedding supper was serv'
ed. One of the features OF the &C.
casion was the lighting Of the room
in which the ceremony was perform
ed by old-style lamps, which fur
nished illumination at the weddings
of both mother and grandmother Of
the bride and which were over 10C
years old.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Roswell E. Beckley of Mortified,
a plumber, Wednesday filed a petit
ton in bankruptcy with Clerk F. S.
Plat of the United States court.
He had liabilities of $S,S56.49 and
his assets aggregate $6,5O5.O9, of
which $500 is exempt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
Q a 8 T Q Fri q

The present length of the course
in the state normal schools is two
years and the advisability of ex-
tending it TO four years is under
consideration by the state board of
education. The employment of in
dustrial and manual training in the
normal schools is also being inves-
tigated, An increase Of $500 in
the appropriation was authorized by
the last legislature for the use Of
the normal schools and the best
manner of expanding this money is
being taken into account by the
board.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The Rutland improvement league
which is in effect a board of trade
is talking holding a banquet to re-
new popular interest in the organi-
cation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

A meeting of the Vermont Consis-
tory, 32nd degree, Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite Masons is to be
held in Burlington Monday, June z,
at which time the 21st and 22nd
degrees will be conferred in full
ceremonial form.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

At the annual meeting Of the
stewards of the Burlington district
of the Troy conference at Rutland
Monday the salary of the district
superintendent, the Rev. P. l.,
Dow. was fixed at $4,000 and it was
voted that SPAS be raised by the
district.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The Rev. John B. McGarry of the
diocese of evrmont, has been as
signed to the chaplaincy OF the YER
mont state prison at Windsor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Alec Miller, Arthur Walhstrom,
Peter Dorey and Frank Seyfour re-
turned to Burlington Thursday
morning from Alburgh, where to-
gether they caught 223 pounds of
pike. The fish were exhibited to an
admiring crowd.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Accidents will happen, but the best
regulated families keep DR.. Thomas
Eclectric Oil for such emergencies.
It subdues the pain and heals the
hurt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Nearly 100 business and profess
sionl men with their wives and
friends sat down to a May banquet
at the Windsor House in Windsor.
Toastmaster Sherman Evarts called
attention to the fact that the old
house where the constitution of
Vermont was adopted in 1777 was
now used for a storehouse. He said
the town of Windsor should take
measures to preserve it. Other
speakers were Hon. Gilbert o. Da-
Wis, Rev. A. B. Maclauren and H.
P McClary. Representative Chas.
n. Fitch had charge of the gather
ing,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

James Tagus, who served as
private in Company A, 9Th Vermont
Vols. ,\during the Civil War. was re-
Gently admitted to the soldiers
home from Fairlee.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The members of Roberts Post, G.
A. R., Rutland, are somewhat agi-
tated over the criticism that they
do not show the forgiving spirit to-
wards Confederate soldiers because
of their disapproval of the ST. AL
bans invitation to Bennett Young.
Gen. l.. G.. Kingsley cited several
instances which go to show that the
Rutland post has buried the Ratchet
with real Confederate soldiers.
"Twenty-three years ago." he said,
THE Rev. w. B. Buckingham, a
former rebel soldier, then pastor
here, gave the Memorial Day ad-
dress at the invitation of the posts
officers. When Charleston, S. c.,
was suffering from the earthquake
shock of 1886, our post sent sS5 to-
wards the relief of confederate vet
Grams, who were in distress. We
were preparing to invite Gen. Hen
ry Kyd Duoglas to address us a few
| years ago, when his death interior
! ed. When General Gordon gave a
lecture here some years ago, the
members of the post sat on the
stage of the opera house with him
Within six months the post contrib
uted money towards a fund for g
monument for Sam Davis, the mar
tyred Confederate soldier, buried a
Nashville, Tenn"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Word has been received in Rut-
land of the violent death of Paul
Odell, son of Albert Odell of that
city. According to the report, Mr..
Odell was sandbagged at town in
Texas, stripped of all his clothing,
and left beside the road. He was
alive when found and was hurried to
a hospital, but died shortly after
wards. He was formerly chief train
dispatcher for the Rutland railroad,
later going to Chicago. His father,
Albert Odell, is in the West at pres
ent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

City Clerk B. M. Hopkins of st.
Adams has been favored this year
with 800 raise in salary from
$1,000 to $1,400.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

A supper will be given President
John M. Thomas, D. D., of Middle
bury College, Saturday night at the
Berwick Hotel in Rutland by the
alumni of the college from Rutland
and vicinity. The Rev. DR.. Thorn
as will preach in the Rutland Con
gregational church on the following
day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

WOMAN
CURED
ByLydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Gardiner, Maine.--"I have been a
great sufferer from organic troubles
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

President John NJ. Thomas of
Middlebury College, has bought Of
the administrators of the estate of
the late William G. Bixbv of YER
gennes, the three islands in the bay
between Thompson's Point and Long
Point on Lake Champlain, which
Mr.. Bixby used as a summer home
for several years, having purchased
them in 1895, and secured a title
through the state auditor. The ISL
ands comprise less than an acre in
extent, and the only cottage is that
built by Mr.. Bixby.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The directors of the Rutland Ma
tional bank have bought the Ripley
block in Rutland in which the bank
is now located. 1t is understood
that the consideration was in the
vicinity of $4,000. The building
was built in 1862 by w. Y. w. Rip
ley, the first president of the bank.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The Rev. Marion Leroy Burton,
Phi. D., pastor of the Church Of the
Pilgrims in Brooklyn, who has &C.
copied call to the presidency of
Smith College, has been engaged to
deliver the graduation address be-
fore the Brattleboro high school Sc
niors June 30.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The value of the slate quarried
and sold in the United States in
1908, as reported to the nited States
geological survey, amounted to So
316,S17, an increase or S297,5 97 over
the value of the 1907 output s6,-
O19,22O--in spite of the general bus
mess depression which prevailed
during the later year. The state
producing the largest amount of
slate are Pennsylvania and YER
mont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Thirty-four thousand white pine
seedlings from Germany have been
brought to Woodstock, 10000 of
them for Frederick Billings farm
and $4,000 for A. L. Powers. They
were secured through the agricul-
tural station and were packed in
eleven large baskets holding three
to four thousand pines each. Bill
ings farm has also received several
thousand trees-cedars. spruces
ETC., most of which will be set out
on Mount Peg. The pines will be
used on Billings farm. Mr.. Powers
will use his pines in reforesting
part of a tract of thirty acres OF
land in Hartland, purchased by him
about month ago, which is about
two miles from the farm he has
owned for several years. He in
tends to cultivate about four acres
of his recent purchase.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The Methodist church at Rutland
pays its pastor $1,40O and furnishes
a parsonage.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

B. q. Hicks, now principal of the
high school in Bristol, has been ell
ected superintendent of schools by
the joint committee of the towns of
Monterey, Otis, birmingham and Lee,
Massachusetts. at it's annual meet
ing in Lee on Friday. Mr.. Hicks
has a normal school training be-
sides his college course, and has
long experience as a public school
teacher. He is So years old.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Three WinoosN youngsters were
sentenced Thursday in justice court
to spend the remainder Of their mi
nority at the Industrial School at
vergennes. They were Fred and
Willie Belouin and Henry Thetrault
and all three were arrested by Spec
ial officer Bergeron on the Com
plant of Overseer of the Poor Geo &,
Sheppard who charged them with
truancy. The Belouin byos were
sons of the Mrs. Belouin who at
tempted suicide by cutting her
throat on Canal street about two
years ago.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Frederick Jewell, retired Clare
mont, n. H., business man, who
died May 5, after several months
illness, was born in Windsor, May
%, 1927. He was Republican, rep
resentative in the New Hampshire
legislature in 1890 and 1892 and in
1898 was elected senator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Three hundred elm trees, more or
less, were planted in Rutland Friday
on the county fair grounds in OBJ
servance of Arbor Day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The Sargent House at Middlebury
and outbuildings were searched
very thoroughly recently by the Of
ficers of the law and some supposed
~ contrabrand liquor was discov-
cred and seized. The temporary
hearing was held before Justice
Charles L Button prosecuting and
the hearing was continued until
Tuesday, May II. Landlord O'Con-
nell was put under 5000 bonds, 5000
on each of three of the charges.
The bail was furnished.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The second contest for the cham
pionship of Addison county has
been shot off at Middlebury by the
Middlebury Gun Club before large
number of interested spectators. j..
A. Wright, who passed the winter
in Florida, made his first appear
ance at the traps. The scores were
as follows: C. E. Palmer, AZ; n.
S. Foote, Al; George Palmer, 40;
J. A. Wright, 40; L. G. Russell,
So: R. F.. Pinney, 81; Cushing Hill,
So; G. NJ. Shafbo, 30; W. j. New
ton, 20. The next shoot will be
he'll dthe first Wednesday in June,
IT is said an elopement occurred
in Hardwick May when Mrs. Jes-
sic Stewart left town and William
c.. George, a man who has been
boarding with Mr.. and Mrs. Stew
art, also disappeared. When Mr..
Stewar tand four boarders returned
home at noon for dinner they found
none ready and Mrs. Stewart gone
However, Mr.. Stewart found a note
in which his wife told him she was
going home to Scotland and it was
afterward learned that she and Mr.
George had left for Boston. Mr.
and Mrs. Stewart were highly re
spected Scotch people and had liveC
here for some time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

Miss Mary Stickney of Rutland,
daughter of W. B. G.. Stickney of
Bethel, has designed memorial
tablet in honor of William Rollin
Shipman, for A years professor of
rhetoric in Tufts college, Medford,
Mass. The tablet will be placed in
the college chapel at commencement
time
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

T. C. Cheney of Morrisville, speak
err of the House of Representatives
is an alumnus of the University of
Vermont and it is safe to say that
no aluninus takes more interest in
it's welfare and athletics than he.
Although he has not seen the var
sity play this season, he knows the
name of every man on the team and
how many hits they have made this
season; he is also posted on the
football outlook for next season.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

John Malcome of Newport, died
May 4 and Joseph Malcome is not
expected to live as the result of
some form of food poisoning, sup
posed to have been caused by using
a food chopper which was unclean.
There were shipped from ST.
Johnsbury station last week seven
car loads of maple sugar, the total
weight of which was 143 tons and
for which eight cents a pound was
paid. The shipment amounted to
$22,SSS.O0 1t was purchased by 3.
II. Combs for the Carey Company
of St. Johnsbury. This week a
large amount of syrup is being
shipped.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The net operating revenues of the
Rutland railroad for march showed
an increase of $3,097.75 over the
corresponding month of 1908. The
net operating income increased ST.
S62.1S in a like period.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

George Cook was arrested by
States Attorney Buck at Windsor on
the charge of attempting to pass a
$25 check on the State National
Bank purporting to be signed by
Emily Slade. Cook was held under
$500. Attorney Buck said Cook re-
ceived a check for 81 from Mrs.
Slade, and after it had been raised
to SIT he passed it at Stone &
Tracy's store and that he offered the
S25 check on the bank but it was
refused.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13

The large barn owned by Frank
Teed at Clarendon Springs, was
struck by lightning at one o'clock
Friday morning and burned to the
ground. Eleven COWS and a four
year-old colt persisted. One horse
and all the stock were saved. Sew
eral hundred dollars worth of farm
ing tools were RUNE. The loss is
So 900. covered by insurance.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-08
LOUIS BLERIor.

latest achievement, prior to crossing
the channel, was a fight on July 13
from Etampes to Orleans, distance
of twenty-five miles. He made sue
cessful landing, covering the distance
in fifty-six minutes and ten seconds.
including stop of eleven minutes
near Toury to examine his aeroplane
By this achievement he won the
French Aero club prize of $500.
Hubert Latham made a daring but
unsuccessful attempt July 10 to cross
the English channel in his monoplane.
The rivalry of Latham and the Count
de Lambert prompted NJ. Bleriot to
strenuous effort at success, and his
feat was performed before photog-
raphers or the public generally had be-
come aware what he was about.
{ His machine is of the Latham type,
but is the smallest flying machine yet
built. 1t is fitted with three cylin-
der motor, which is air cooled and
drives two bladed propeller, The
pilots seat is in skiff-like body be-
hind the wings
The monoplane, seen at close range,
is more lii a great dragon fly than
bird, The wings and rudder are of
material that looks like vellum and
seems fragile and unsafe. 1t is hard
to believe that so comparatively small
a thing carried man across the
channel
M. Bleriot has received the decora-
ton of the French Legion of Honor
for his efforts in promoting the science
Of aviation. He is cripple, and when
all was ready for the start across the
channel he cast aside his clutches
and took his place in the monoplane,
on which he had already hoisted
red flag to guide the rescuers in case
ne should fall. AS he sat there smiling
he said, IF l can't walk | will show
the world that can fly"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-08

Lawrence plenty of leeway in prepar-
ing for the trip. and the Photographic
outfit which is to be taken along prom
Uses to eclipse any taken upon photo
graphic expedition into any corner OF
the earth.
Mr. Lawrence. Of whom most is
expected in the line Of picture taking,
is accustomed to novel feats in pho
Biography. He has been taking pic
lures from balloons for many years,
and his inventions in perfecting this
art are numerous He has now perfect
ed a controlling device which he says
will hold a camera steady for a time
exposure almost indefinitely, although
suspended from a balloon hundreds of
feet above the earth. This device be
has had patented in fifteen countries.
Six or seven cameras are to be taken,
the largest of which will be an aeriaz
machine holding plates % by SIS inches.
Sixty plates of this size are to be
taken.
with telescope lenses fitted to this
camera l expect to get larger pictures
LAda nave ever DelOIG DGen GdkRH,
said Mr.. Lawrence. 1.-THE lenses for
aerial work must necessarily be of
much greater focal length than those
of ordinary cameras-that is they
will photograph objects very large at
great distance One of my cameras
will have an equivalent focus of forty
feet-that is, it is equivalent to an or
binary camera with a bellows forty
feet long. This, in a way, is similar
to using long range rifle with tele-
scopic sight.
Il shall take two or three balloons,
each holding 10000 cubic feet of by
drogen gas and capable of supporting
three men as well as the camera, l
have great hopes of being able to pho
tOgraph the lions, elephants and other
animals in their native haunts, Just as
Mr.. Roosevelt now is shooting Them
Mr.. Boyce and Mr.. Hughes will leave
New York shortly for London, where
they will buy most of the equip
ment. Mr. Lawrence will leave on
Aug. IA on the Hamburg for Naples.
with his son. Raymond, eighteen years
old. and lido Ramsdell. also of Chi
cage. The party expects to be gone
nearly year.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-08
6otlam's Dead
Building Code.
Though DefunCt as a Code Il Is Much Alive
as an Issue-A Few GuesSeS About
Why Mayor Mcclellan Vetoed
j! the Proposed Ordinance.
BY JAMES A. EDGERToN.
four New York Correspondent

TOR a small man Mayor Nc
Clellan is certainly making
some large noises. Scarcely is
he through firing Bingham
than he jars all Tammany Hall by
vetoing the building code. Now, to
understand the building code one
must know the book Of graft. OF
hate years Tammany Hall has been
called the chief contracting firm of the
city. There are all sorts of juicy
building pfums to be had, and it has
been many times whispered, limited
and intimated in divers ways that Mr..
C. Francis Murphy, Tammany boss,
through himself, his brothers and as
Sociates, had very large and fat fin
ger in the contract pie. Through the
building inspectors many forms of tyr
amy are possible and many forms of
holdup can be practiced. Advantages
to certain manufacturers and others
may also be conferred in the building
code, as, for example, to the makers of
hollow tiles How easy it is for the
code revisers to specify that builders
must use a certain form of tile that
only one manufacturer or combine of
manufacturers produces! When it is
reflected that thousands of dollars
worth of tiles are often required in