The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-12-01
Montpelier and Vicinity.

IL. Y. bLEASON Is III DOSUOn.
II. w. KEMP has moved into his new
house on School street
H. E. SLAYToN is moving into his new
quarters in Walton's block.
The ladies' sewing society of Bethany
church will meet with Mrs. George A. Peck
tomorrow afternoon.
WARNINGS are posted for the annual vii
lage meeting, to be held next week Monday
evening at seven o'clock.
THE Young Mems Catholic Union cleared
about $500 from the recent entertainments
in Montpelier and Barre.
THERE will be a regular meeting of Au-
rora lodge next Monday evening at seven
o'clock. Work, third degree.
HORACE MARVIN came home from Boston
to spend Thanksgiving with his parents,
but returned to the " Hub" Monday.
EIGHTEEN inches of snow fell in Mont
pelier between eleven o'clock Thursday
forenoon and six o'clock Friday morning.
THERE will be a meeting of the Montpelier
woman's Indian association in Trinity
vestry Thursday afternoon at three o'clock.
WHITMoRE & CLARK's minstrels is the
only company at present booked to appear
at Blanchard Opera-house during the
months of December and January.
THERE will be union preachers meeting
at Bradford, commencing Monday evening,
December 6, for the Springfield, Montpelier
and st. Johnsbury districts. The meeting
is to continue three days.
The assemblies of the Montpelier military
band will begin just as soon as the neces-
sary arrangements can be completed, prob
ably by week after next. The prospects are
encouraging for a successful series
Mrs. f. l. PrrKIN has been engaged as the
soprano of the Unitarian choir in place Of
Miss Alice Lowe, who goes to Boston this
week for brief stay. Miss Phinney, Mr..
Bancroft and Mr. Shepard retain their posi-
tions in the same choir for the present.
A SUPPLY of the letter-sheet pads was re-
ceived at the Montpelier post-ofice last
week. Hitherto they have been furnished
only to post-offices of the first class. The
change will be of benefit to people here,
such as they cared to use.
The statement in last weeks WATcHMAN
that the fruit car, which Is to leave Boston
at 1880 P. NJ each Thursday, from and in
cluding December 9, will reach Montpelier
at two o'clock A. NJ. on the following Fri
day." was an error. The car will be due in
Montpelier at two o'clock p. NJ. each Friday.
THE annual meeting of the ladies' library
guild will be held in the parlors of Bethany
church this wednesday, afternoon at half
past two o'clock. An election of officers for
the year ensuing and other important busi.
ness makes the attendance of all members
and those designing to become members
earnestly desired.
"SI PERKINS" had very good house
Wednesday evening, and was generally en-
joyed by those present. The play has many
amusing features and the introduction
of the threshing-machine, "in full blast,
was novel and entertaining. The orchestra
is one of the best ever heard here with a
theatrical company.
WHY don't Montpelier lovers OF winter
sports build toboggan slide? One is build
ing at Northfed, and all the larger towns
in the state are ahead of the capital in this
respect. There are plenty of suitable p laces
for the erection of slide and somebody
ought to see that at least one OF them Is
used for the purpose at once,
FROM local correspondents we learn that
the Thanksgiving day snow-storm was very
general in this section, At Woodbury.
eighteen inches fell; at North Fayston
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inches at East Calais, fifteen inches; al
| Williamstown, fourteen inches; at Sharon
six inches; at Hardwick, sixteen inches.
ANOTHER slight change in the running o