The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-23

THE band will give an open-air concert at
the Pavilion tomorrow evening If the
weather is favorable. The following is the
programmes:
March, Winthrop ........,.................T THOMAS
Medley Td:Bts.;; Boyer,
Serenade Magn9na'
Waltz Immortellen .Gungl
American go. Catlin
March, First Brigade. Reeves.
THE marriage of Smith S. Ballard of this
place and Alice b., daughter of ID. G. Girls
wold of Jeffersonville, is announced to take
place at the residence of the brides parents
this afternoon at four o'clock. Miss Ger
trude Meinecke will be bridesmaid. Mr..
and Mrs. Ballard will come at once to
Montpelier and will take up their abode in
the house at the head of Hillside avenue, re-
Gently purchased by Mr.. Ballard of Mrs.
Louise Ladd
e. E. LUCE, son of Alanson Luce of Berlin
morning of liberation of the bowels. He
was native of Mddlesex and had been an
attorney-at-law in Wadena, MINI. He was
in the war as waiter to General Wells and
was member of the One Hundred Ninety
third New York Regiment. Funeral services
will be held this wednesday, afternoon
under the auspices of Brooks Post, G. A. r.,
| anu HIS TeIudlnS Will De ldken 10 MluuleStX
for burial. Mr.. Luce was about thirty-eight
years old and leaves wife and two children
! THE Peoples Theater Company is an
nounced to appear at Blanchard opera
house for two weeks, commencing Monday
evening, June 2Sth, in drama and farce
! each evening with change of bill nightly
The familiar Madison Square success, Ha-
eel Kirke," and Lewis farce, " That Hus-
band of Nine" will be presented on the
opening night. The prices of admission will
be very low, as the advertisement in another
column shows and all can afford to attend
the entertainments given by the company,
which are highly spoken of by the press
everywhere.
REMEMBER that there is to be a lawn
party under the auspices of the Ladies' Lii
brary Guild, for the benefit of the public
library, at the residence of Mr.. j. V. Bah
| cock on East Liberty street Friday evening,
and that the military band will be in at
tendance and refreshments will be served.
Everybody is invited to be present and no
one should decline. Should the weather
prove unsuitable for a lawn party, the en-
tertanment will be held in the Golden
Fleece, the free use of which has been ten
dered to the ladies in case they may need it.
| The entertainment will begin at six o'clock.
Admission, including refreshments, twenty
| five cents.
c. d. HENRYs Peoples Theater Company
will begin an engagement for a week in
Capital Hall tomorrow Thursday evening.
Prices, ten and twenty cents. They have
just played an engagement in the Windsor
Theater, Boston, with success. A drama
and farce will be given each night with
good music. The opening play will be the
" Shaughran." This company comes here
under the management of Mr. j. j. Pratt.
Mr.. f. r.. Burton, the celebrated comedian,
will appear each night in negro farces.
Don't confound this with Lewis People s
Theater Company at the opera-house next
week. They are distinct organizations.
JAMES MCLAUGHLIN, one of Montpelier S
oldest residents, died suddenly of heart dis
ease at his home last week Monday after
noon. Mr.. Mclaughlin was born in the
county of Antrim, Ireland, in 1901. In 1881
he married Hannah McMullen, and the fol-
lowing year he came with his young wife to
America and at once located in Montpelier,
where he had since resided. His work was
principally that of a mason, and in all the
walks of life he was honest and upright and
his death will be regretted by many in
this vicinity. Funeral services were held
Wednesday, Rev. j. H. Hincks officiating
and the remains were buried at Green
Mount cemetery beside those of Mrs. Nc.
Laughlin, who died in December last.
the Vermont press of the Original Peoples
Theater Company: The Peoples TheateI
Company presented the romantic play, The
Gypsy Queen to an excellent audience in
the Howard opera-house last evening. -
burlington Free Press. - Although
the opera-house is calculated to accommo.
date only eight hundred people, the Peoples
Theater Company last evening found room
for nine hundred fifty-seven-one of the
1orpaat auIipnpaa in the hall Tho n
tertainments given by the Peoples Theatel
Company are thoroughly first-class, ant
they are making reputation here that will
ensure them liberal patronage during the re
mainder of their stay and at any other time
they may come here.-Rutldnd E1chdnge.
EXTENSIVE changes have been made il
, the corps of instructors of the Vernon
Methodist Seminary and Female College
Professors Terrill, Light, Dickinson ant
Hadley and Mrs. Nellie l.. G. Osgood hav'
left the institution for various causes am
the following have been engaged for tn,
ensuing year: Edwin C. Morey A. B., in
structor in Latin and Greek; Irving w
, Fay, ABB, instructor in natural science; ID
S. Blanpied, B>M., instructor in vocal anC
instrumental music; Eva l.. Harrison, B.P
(preceptress), instructor in painting ant
drawings Clara p. Vance, Mia, instructo
in French rhetoric and history Emma
, Poland, M Ell, instructor in German auI
mathematics, and Lola A. Bixby, instructo
! in gymnastics.
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpelie
: (Vt.) post-ofice June 18th, 1886:
: Mrs. Laura L. Clogston, A, c. Bates,
. Mrs. Jed Carr, Pierre Cote,
1 Miss Sarah Jennings, Louis Denim,
Mrs. Georgia Is. Leach, Frank Lindsay
Lucy NJ. NuttinR James Megonn
. | Miss Barbara Welch, Barney Peck,
Miss Gasp willard l. b. StoughtoI
! Willis A. Ange
y Letters uncalled for at the Montpelie
, (Vt.) post-ofiice June 10th, 1886:
Mrs, Mary Bartlett, Miss Eta Snow
Mrs. Bert Clark VIM. NJ Kellogg
Mrs. James NJ, Hatchi Jos. Mumby,
Mrs. NJ. Is, Pape, Ernets PefgeroI
Mrs. Teodore Nachon, Jabez l.. Peck,
Q Mrs. Ellen Segar,
{ Parties applying for any of the above mus
say advertised" and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING Postmaster.
AT the republican caucus on Monda
evening to choose thirteen delegates to tn
republican county convention ii. w. KemI
ESQ, was chosen chairman and j. r. Sabi
S secretary. The following were elected
a Delegates-Stephen Thomas, p, p. Pitkin
!, Clark King, IL, A. Huse, j. l.. Tuttle, G. 7
Sabin, f. l.. Eaton, A. w. Ferrin, w. ii
Hannaford, III. W. Kemp, A. ID. Farwell
+ H. p Rowell and III, G. Lull. Substitutes
' j. w. Brock, Il. NJ, Guernsey, NJ. NJ. Cut
: Ter, @. f. Collins, G.. o. Stratton, Orvill
t Dewey, John Moriarty, A. M. Cheney, NJ