The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-07
Montpelier.

town yesterday.
GEORGE w. RIPLEY is very low and not
expected to recover.
REV. e. d. MASON has been spending a
few days in Boston and vicinity.
STEPHEN HERRIcK of Middlesex is spend
ing the present week with relatives in this
village.
Mrs. c.. c. AINswoRTH is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Smalley and her sister, Mrs
Hutchns, in Gouldsvile.
The week of prayer is being observed
by daily evening services at the Baptist,
Congregational and Methodist churches.
THERE were no fires in Montpelier during
the last year, it being the fourth year of the
past decade in which no fires have occurred
WHEN is the special meeting to be called
to hear the report of the bailiffs upon the
expense of lighting the streets by electricity?
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOEL FOSTER will close
their residence on Barre street and board at
the American House during the next three
months.
REV. HOWARD F. HILL is expected to con-
duct the service in the Westinghouse at
Wrightsville, next Sunday, at half-past
two p. NJ.
JUDGE CARLETON, having resigned the
office of superintendent of Bethany Sunday
school, A. j. Howe has been elected to fill
the vacancy.
Mrs. G. w. LEARNED of Brooklyn. n. Y,
is visiting relatives and friends in Mont
pelier. She will remain here until about the
1st of February.
w. II. CoCHRANE has been spending a
brief vacation at the home of his father in
Grand Isle county. He returned to town
last Wednesday.
JANUARY 1st the First National Bank
declared dividend of twenty per cent, from
the earnings of the past six months and
from the surplus.
THE second Barre social will be held at
the Pavilion, Friday evening of next week.
Music will be furnished by ellison & Cush-
man orchestra, seven pieces.
WILLIAM A. LORD, ESQ, has been solic-
iting signatures to petition requesting the
pardon of Henry Bowers, who is serving a
term at Rutland for robbing the mails.
Mrs. f. [. PITKIN returned from Boston
last Monday evening, accompanied by Miss
May Barrell, who is to take the part of
Little Buttercup" in Pinafore next week.
Mrs. PRESTON TRow and daughter have
closed their house on Baldwin street, and
will make their home for the present at the
residence of III. III, Deming ON State street
MANY of our singers yesterday received
! invitations TO the seventeenth annual con-
vention of the Littleton On. H) Musical
Association, which will be held January, 10
20, u, y and %.
| ANOTHER trial of the comparative merits
of the Tuerk and the Backus motors was
made at William Miller's store last Friday
evening. The result is officially announced
in another column.
Mrs OsGooD instructor in instrumental
music at the Vermont Methodist Seminary
| played the organ at Bethany church last
Sunday. Mr.. j. III. Engels will preside al
the organ next Sunday
THERE will be a match game of polo al
| Barre tonight between the Granite Club oi
Barre and the % KS" of this place. Quite
a number of the friends of the Montpelier
! team will go up to witness the game.
DURING the twenty-four hours from mid
night Thursday night to the same hour Fri.
day night, five persons lay dead within the
limits of this village. This is the first in
stance of the kind since April %, 1875.
SPECIAL communication of Aurora
Lodge, No. %, Free and Accepted Masons
will be held at Masonic hall on Monday
evening, January 18th. Gavel will fal
promptly at seven o'clock. Work-third
degree.
THE spring term of the Washington
| County Grammar and Montpelier Unior
Schools began on last Monday. Miss Julii
Houghton was unable TO resume her duties
and her place will be filed this term by Miss
Anna j, Chandler
Mrs. ID. w. DUDLEY and Mrs, f. r
Stevens will give a sociable at the vestry o
the Church of the Messiah next Friday
evening. Supper will be served from half
past five o'clock until seven. All are in
vited including the gentlemen.
On the last day of the present montl
George p. Dewey will leave for Portland
Maine, where he is to establish an agency
for the National Life Insurance Company o
this place. He will assume control of th'
agency himself and will make his future
home in Portland
HAROLD NYE, the well-known East Mont
pelier Violinist, contemplates removing L
this village. This he viii probably do If h'
can secure a sufficient number of pupils
His removal to Montpelier would be q
grand thing for mnsical circles here, ant
we trust his encouragement from our peo
Pile will be liberal.
Ar the annual election of officers OF Noun
Calvary Council, Princes OF Jerusalem, i6o
held December 30, the following were dul,
elected and installed:
y. II. Fletcher, 3j2 j2..,...,,..,....G u 7, ID. g. NJ
Henry Lowe, 6'.,,,.,,...,..,.,..'''",ME T. ). g..
T.. H. Bascom, 53 val dr treas
Rey Il; I, nm, S2o o,s;,"...,....v..y G. NJ OF Ger
.; W, r. Nashbnrh, J-''.'''.'F.''sl lu W. Ahhonel
MOSES Iealson val ~ M OF hh1
James A. Erwin $50 ,.,.......,.,...",,.G Grand Tyler
THE other day the seven-years-old SON o
one OF the republican oilce-holders at thu
Capital heard his father read the account o
double elopement which occurred in
Long Island town. The heroines of tn
affair were the wife and daughter OF Con