The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-18
Montpelier and Vicinity.
A. WING is in Saratoga.

Mrs. MAHLoN TAPLIN returned to Boston
Monday.
c. II. CROSS, Jr., is at home from Boston
for brief vacation.
GENERAL CIRCUIT was in town on Friday.
He is in good health.
c. E. RoLEAU of ST. Adams spent Sunday
at his home in this village.
PAINTERS are brushing up the heavy iron
fence around the Capitol grounds.
M. c. KINsoN of this place, station agent
at Barre, is on two months vacation.
PUTNAM & MARVIN have the stone founda-
ton laid for new tenement house on First
avenue.
Miss FRANK DUNToN took part in Mr.. F.
j. Smiths concert in ST. Adams last Friday
evening.
EIGHTEEN dwellings and blocks are in the
process of construction in Montpelier village
at present.
w II. CoFFRIN returned on Monday to
Bristol, Conn, where he is clerking in
meat market.
EX-GOVERNOR BARsTow and State Treas
urer Dubois were among the arrivals at the
Pavilion Monday.
Mr.. BALDWIN, wife and daughter of Wash
ington, ID. c., are visiting at r. II. Whit
ney's on Ridge street
A NEW plank sidewalk is being laid be-
tween the lower end of State street and
Green Mount cemetery.
REV. d. II. SH1NN of Portland, Maine,
was in town for few days visit to Mr.. and
Mrs. n. Davis last week.
Mr.. AND Mrs. S. L. HOWE have been alb
sent from home for few days on a trip to
Saratoga and other points.
MISSES r. G. HoLLIsTER and Mary Ford
of Lisbon, n. H., are visiting at Mrs. E. N.
Scovill's on Seminary Hill.
DENMAN THOMPSON will appear in his new
play, The Old Homestead" +" at Blanchard
Opera-house September 1st.
GEORGE II. ALMoN, formerly of the tele-
phone exchange, is at work for the electric
light company in this village.
WILL GOODWIN, an apprentice in the Daily
Telegraph Office at Nashua, N. H., is maxi
ing a two weeks visit in town.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CLARK KING returned Sat
erday evening from a trip to Brockton,
Mass, and Martha's Vineyard.
MEN commenced yesterday the work Of
building new trestle over the Winooski
river near Sabin's on the Barre road.
Mrs. DR.. BAILEY and loot " are spend
ing fortnight at Rye Beach with Mrs. Bal
leys parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Brown.
o. A. BARTLETT is building a two-story
house, Queen Anne style, on East Liberty
street, and the outside is nearly completed
MR.. AND Mrs. GEORGE w. WILDER are
passing few weeks at one of the popular
summer resorts on the Massachusetts coast.
The Boston mail was four hours late last
evening, owing to an accident to a freight
train on the Northern railroad, which OBJ
structed the track.
Mr.. WRIGHT is to conduct religious SER
vices in the Westinghouse at Wrightsville
at two o'clock and in the Dewey school
house in Berlin at Jour o'clock next Sunday
afternoon.
ONE HUNDRED persons went from Mont
pelier to attend the reunion at RoXbury last
week, and about one hundred fifty went to
Queen City Park, Burlington, on the eXcur-
sion Friday.
THE fair of the Dog River Valley Associ
alton is to be held at Northfeld, September
2S, 20 and 80, and that of the Winooski Val
ley Agricultural Association at Waterbury
from September 8 to IL.
FIVE carloads of excursionists from the
line of the Missisquoi railroad, accompanied
by the Berkshire and Enosburgh band
came to Montpelier last Saturday and
viewed the "sights of the capital,
STILLMAN ALLEN of Warren is preparing
to erect house on East Liberty street
: The stone work for the cellar is com
pleted and the lumber is being framed al
Warren and drawn by teams to the build
ing lot
} THE birth notice sent to the WAToHMAs
by Calais correspondent and printed las
week turns out to have been incorrect, Sc
far as the use was made of the name of Mr.