The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-04
Montpelier and Vicinity.

Mr. AND Mrs. c. S. WHITTIER are in
Boston
Mrs. MARY w. DEWEY is visiting at E. p,
Waltons.
Mr. AND MRS w. w. PRESCOTT were in
town Monday and Tuesday.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE b. WALTON are
stopping at Mrs. Walton's former home in
Jericho.
REV j. II. HINcKs will preach at Mont
pelier Center next Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock.
REV. E. ID. MASON expects to conduct re-
ligous services at Wrightsville on Sun
day at two P. NJ.
A. A. HADLEY will give an organ concert
at Morrsville on Friday evening of next
week, August 18TH
DRs. DIBBLE & PUTNAM, specialists in
treatment of the eye, ear and throat, have
returned to the Pavilion
Mrs. ORRIN DALEY and Miss Olive
Guernsey left on Monday for Old Orchard
Beach to spend few weeks.
IT is expected that Rev. George b. Spald-
ing of Syracuse, n Y, will preach in Beth
any church next Sunday morning.
Mr. AND Mrs. f. W. MORSE went to
Fabyans Saturday and spent Sunday at
the summit of Mount Washington.
CAPTAIN IRA G. BAscoM and wife are
spending their vacation among the Thou
sand Islands in the St, Lawrence river.
REV. HOWARD F. HILL is to be absent
during most of the month of August, during
which time Christ church will be closed.
Mrs. w. A. BRIGGS was summoned to
Fitchburg, Mass, Tuesday by a telegram
announcing the serious illness of her father.
Mr.. A. A. HADLEy has about decided to
spend the next year in Montpelier, and in
that event will devote his whole attention
to his pupils in the village.
CAPTAIN BAsCoM, proprietor of the Redfield
drugstore, has secured the services of Mr..
L. H. Greene who for the last year has been
in the employ of Babcock & Barnard.
THE annual meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union is to be held
at the residence of Mrs. D. l.. Fuller at
three o'clock this "wednesday afternoon.
"HARRY G. DEwING and Lynn NJ. Hayes
of the Argus and Patriot, with ladies, made
visit to Burlington Saturday. ."-Free Press.
They took dinner at the Pavilion Sun
day, too.
THE band concert this week will probably
be given this evening, if the weather is ia
vorable, because of the excursion to High
gate tomorrow and another engagement for
Friday evening.
REV. PERRY MARSHALL of Stowe is to ex-
change with Mr. Wright next Sunday. He
expects to preach in the Church of the
Messiah in the morning and in the Dewey
school-house in Berlin at half-past two in
the afternoon.
c. F. BUswELL and John V. Sprague were
among the panic-stricken passengers of the
steamer l." Rose Standish " when she went
aground in Boston harbor Friday evening.
With some five hundred others they passed
night of agony and rode into Boston upon
} the steamer when she tioated Saturday
/ morning.
! HIRAM ATKINS, Misses Mary and Nellie
Tromblee and Morris +. Atkins went to
[ Camp Watson Monday They will be fol
lowed tomorrow by Mr.. and Mrs. E. F
Kimball, Mrs. Hiram Atkins and Mr.. Henry
Kimball of Boston, a brother of Mrs. Atkins
and by Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Leslie and
son on Friday.
a Miss FISK, who has done such good worl
, among us for two years as a kindergarten
teacher, is recruiting in Saratoga, and il
also recruiting in studying in the school o.
methods, and it is pleasant to know that she
is to be among us another year, and doubly
good for the children fortunate enough tt
' be under her charge.
OK Saturday, August IA, the Misssquo
4 railroad will give grand excursion from
: all towns along its line to Montpelier ant
return for the benefit of the Enosburgh ant
Berkshire bands. These bands will ac
. company the party. The last excursion t.
: Montpelier from this road was largely at
tended and it is expected that the one OF
!, August IA will be even more so.
Mr.. c. w. SKINNER, ieweler, is negoti
. ating for the purchase of G. A. Barnard's in
terest in the drugstore of Babcock &
Barnard and of the block in which the stor
is located, and there is little doubt that
transfer will he made. Mr. Skinner vii
# move his jewelry business to the stor
q above mentioned and will make his hom
! in the rooms over the store, where MI
u Barnard and family now live.
: TUESDAY evening of last week in the rea
o of the Union House an alteration arose be
tween John Nestor and John l.. Soza
Portuguese. The latter stabbed Nestor AM
! in return was most brutally kicked am
beaten. In court Friday SOFA was fined 81
n and costs for breach of the peace and Nesto
+ was fined So and costs for the same offence
y. Each was put under bonds to keep tn
" peace. Nestor's woun, vs. not a danger
,, GUS one,
$ WE understand that it is as good as de
cided that Mr.. II. w. Morse, general pas
n senger agent of the Montpelier & Well
y River railroad, will be Mr.. George W