The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-27
MONTPELIER BRIEFS.

a daughter was born on May 10Th to |
Rev. and Mrs. l.. w. Pease Mrs. Pease |
will be remembered in this city as Miss
Bertha Cummings.
Secretary of State Guy W. Bailey
has sent to each owner of an auto
mobile in Vermont an application
blank upon which there are ques-
tons to be answered for the infor-
nation of the secretary of states
Office.
The announcement is made OF the re
trement Of Capt. w. w. Russell of
White River Junction, regiment adjutant
V. N. G.. Captain George H. Thomp-
son of Bellows Falls is his successor and
the office is changed from White River
Junction to Bellows Falls. Capt Russell
is we'll known in this city and has many
friends here.
One or two specimens of the snail
like bugs which abound on lower
State street and in other parts of
L
Dewey to the experiment station at
Burlington by request of several in
terested 'bugologists. The snail
has a great love for early garden
efforts and has spread extensively
this year.
The clerks, at least, of the gro
GERS, butchers and fruit dealers,
; would like closed shop all legal
holidays during the year. The mer
chants committee of the Board of
Trade has been discussing the mat
ter The drug stores, insurance Of
fees have always closed regularly
on these holidays but the other bus
mess places mentioned have no reg
ular system and often keep open q
part or all of the day.
Vermont now has % schools in the
approved list, that is, schools whose
graduates may enter New England
colleges without taking entrance ex-
aminations. The list includes Spauld-
ing High and Goddard Seminary Of
Barre, Montpelier High school and
Montpelier Seminary. Peoples Acad
envy Morrisville Poultney, Rand,
olph, Richford, Rutland, st. Adams.
ST. Johnsbury, Saxtons River, Stowe,
Vergennes, White River Junction.
Bethel, Brattleboro, Burlington, Els
sex Junction, Fairfax, Ludlow, Man,
chester.
Employees of the Capital City
Gas company while working on Up
per Main street Saturday, tapped
the water main instead of the gas
main as they intended. The men
were putting in connection and
thought they had uncovered the gas
main, but as the water pipe is very
similar to the gas main at this
point, being of the same size and
situated at almost the same place in
the street, the mistake was easily
made. The water department men
liunleuldtely Cdue up anu dilSi ~
eating the gates, shut off the water
long enough to put in a stop cock.
The purchase of a new locomotive
by the Montpelier C Wells River
railroad company from the Baldwin
Locomotive Works bring out the fol
lowing interesting item from "Thf
Mechanics Complete Library" and
furnished the Times by w. V. Av'
cry: "The Baldwin Locomotive
Workers of Philadelphia, in 1892
cnsidered it great feat that they
had constructed an engine which
could draw 80 tons on the level, an6
the papers of the day announced
that the locomotive engine built by
NJ. w. Baldwin of this city, will de
part daily, when the weather is fine
with a train of passenger cars. Or
rainy days horses will be attached.
The death of Mrs. Ada Lindsay
wife of Oscar Lindsay of this city
occurred Thursday at her home OF
River street. her demise being i'm
mediately attributed to the effects
of cancer from which she has suf
fered for some time. The deceased
was AZ years of age, having beer
born in Canada, her parents bein:
Mack and Annie Woods. She il
survived by four children, three o
whom are minors and one, Mrs. Lo
rem Muzzy, resides in this city. She
also leaves two sisters and foul
brothers, Mrs. Alexander LeClaire o
Barre. Mrs. J. G.. Dumar of st
Johnsbury, Isaac, Mack, Jerry an(
Cole Woods of ST. Johnsbury.
Dying in almost abject poverty, hi
last years passed in the fulfielmen
of the most common tasks, Luce
Nicholas, claiming for himself thu
| title of count" and asserting tina