The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-03
Montpelier and Vicinity.

THE spring term of Washington county
court opens on Tuesday of next week.
ONE hundred seventy-nine tickets to the
carnival were sold at the Montpelier sta
ton last week.
DIR. G. A. BAILEY has moved from Will
lard's block and taken an Office in Blanch-
ards Opera-house block.
THE Ladies' Sewing Society of Christ
church is to meet with Mrs. Kempton at two
o'clock Thursday afternoon.
REV. HOWARD f. HILL expects to hold
religious services at Wrights Mills on Sum
day next, at half-past two P. NJ.
GEORGE P. DEWEY of Portland, Maine,
was in town a short time last week, on his
way home from the Burlington carnival.
JOHN DoUcETTE has purchased of o. d.
Scribner his house and fifteen acres of land
located in Berlin near the Pioneer Works
THE Norman Dramatic Company, which
was to have appeared at Blanchard Opera
house this week, has cancelled the engage
ment.
Mrs. j. M. BOUTWELL, was badly burned
about the back of her neck by fireworks
during one of the protechnycal displays at
the carnival.
Mrs. G. A. BEST will have charge of the
old stand " during Miss Meinecke's absence,
and Mr.. Best will remain in the w. E. Vail
store opposite.
For county commissioner John W. Peck
received 22S votes in Montpelier and Rev.
j. r. Bartlett, 90. Seventeen towns give
Peck, 943; Bartlett, 10.
POSTMASTER WING was among the few
who "walked in" from the snow bound
train at Langdon's last Friday night and
froze both his ears on the way.
The Chautauqua class was detained at
Northfeld Friday night, on account of the
storm, and the ladies did not reach Mont
pelier until late Saturday forenoon.
THE suit of Charles Selinas against the
Vermont State Agricultural Society and the
Champlain Valley Association is to be tried
at the coming March term of Washington
county court.
IT will be of interest to his Montpelier
friends to know that Mr. G. II. Prescott of
the Biddeford (Maine) Journal, accompanied
by Mrs. Prescott, attended the carnival at
Burlington last week.
Miss GERTRUDE MEINEcKE left Friday
for her home in Brooklyn, accompanied by
Mrs. H. w. Drew, who is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. c. w. Learned. Miss Meinecke ex.
poets to return the first of April.
THE employees of the Montpelier Carriage
Company made the secretary of the com.
pany, Mr.. Henry Biggs, an unexpected
visit last week Wednesday evening and
were very pleasantly entertained.
Hon. HENRY L. DODGE of San Francisco
and Mrs. Dodge were the guests of T. G
Barrows last Saturday. Mr.. Dodge is East
as one of the assay commissioners appointed
by President Cleveland to visit the mint a.
Philadelphia.
Mr.. CHARLES E. MOODY, recently re
moved from this place to Concord, N. H.
was married at Wallingford, Conn, Feb
ruary 25th, to Miss Margaret Percy Leaven
, worth. They will be at home " to thei
friends, in Concord, after March 4.
ALL ladies interested in the organization o
a Womans Relief Corps, in connection will
the G. A. r., are desired to attend the meet
t ing on Thursday evening, at G. A. r. hal
at seven o'clock. Representatives from tn
. state organization will be present.
OWING to the inclemency of the weathe
: Mrs. Mary III. Hunts lecture, which wa
announced to be given at the Unitarian
church Friday evening, was postponed unit
= Monday afternoon Of this week, and tn
t place was changed to Seminary chapel.
, To Mr.. A. G. Brown, the courteous mar
: ager of the Montpelier telephone exchange
y we are indebted for the facilities which Ell
able us to give in this issue reports of tn
= proceedings at the March meetings in S
many of the neighboring towns. Nearly a
t were sent in by telephone.
u THE tobogganing epidemic, so common i
Burlington, gave evidence of its contagiou.
" ness by the suddenness with which it seize
: Montpelier people who were exposed durin
:, the carnival, and it is already an assure
- fact that another season will see it develope
in its wors form at the capital.
DIR. G. G. ELLIS, a prominent home,
pathic physician of Nashua, N. H., has pu
> chased of +. w, Morse his house on Bar
-. hureeu,noW occupied Dy w "A. OJOWell, pa
" ing $1,000 therefor, and will come to Mon
pelier to reside. DR.. Ellis is a nephew
y Mr.. j. w. Ellis of this place, and the Sc
- of William M. Ellis, formerly of Berlin.
" The announcement of the marriage
t. Mr.. III. c. Gleason Of this place and Mi
Mary =. Timothy of Ransomville, N. \
!, which occurred last week Tuesday, at Il
NJ residence of the brides parents, is receiv
40 with pleasure by the friends OF the groom
"a Montpelier and vicinity, and the bride
r. sure of cordial welcome to Montpeli
no society
st w. A. LORD assumed the management
g. the Golden Fleece polo team at the time
of its game with the Concord, N. H., clu
at Since then the team has won every gan
W. six in number, and twenty-one goals,
Guiding exhibition goals. Only three goi
Il have been lost by them, one being an I" G
h: hibition." Mr.. Lord has reason to (,
al proud OF the record.
of Hon. AND MRS. CHARLES DEWEY a
Dr. family leave for Boston next Tuesday a
i'm Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey will sail for Engla