The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-27
MONTPELIER and Vicinity.

MR.. w. w. sr1cKNEY of Ludlow was in
town last Saturday on business.
THE thermometers in this place reached
twenty degrees below zero again Sunday
morning.
The Mission Band will meet with Mrs.
Mason next Saturday afternoon at half-past
two o'clock
THERE will be a chicken-pie dinner at
Bethany chapel tomorrow noon. See busi-
ness notices.
FOUR happy couples came from Chelsea
in a large Sleigh last Saturday, and took
dinner at the Pavilion.
Mr.. WRIGHT is to conduct religious serv-
ices in the Morse school-house, East Mont
pelier, next Sunday at fifteen minutes past
two o'clock P. NJ.
THE ladies of Christ church are to hold a
"mum " sociable at Hotel Kempton to-
morrow evening Particulars will be found
in the business locals.
ARTHUR JONES, who has been local re-
porter for the ArguS for few months past,
has quit work there and gone into the en-
ploy of c. F. Buswell of the Union Card
Company.
AN evening school will open this week
Thursday and Friday evenings at seven
o'clock in the Union School building, un-
der the direction of Professor Campbell of
Barre Business School.
The eighth annual ball of Company II,
n. G.. ", will be held at the Pavilion,
Thursday evening, February 11th. The
Montpelier military hand orchestra of nine
pieces will furnish music.
LAURA DANTEy, formerly well known as
an elocutionist, will appear here Tuesday
evening, Febrary 23d, in the Mountain
Pink" and Neil Burgess will follow on
Wednesday evening with VIM"
The Bjou polo team of Portland are talk
ing of meeting the Golden Fleece team at
Montpelier rink some time next month.
They come to Vermont to contest for prizes
at the Burlington winter carnival.
THE Brennan & Quinn Star Theater Com
pany will travel next season under the
management of j. j. Pratt. During the
summer vacation Messrs. Brennan & Quinn
will go to Europe for pleasure trip.
THE afternoon trains from Boston, Mon
day, were from three to four hours late
owing to an obstruction caused by the col
lision of two trains on the drawbridge OF
the Boston & Lowell road over the Charles
river in Boston.
THE members of the Apollo Club are
diligently rehearsing for their approaching
minstrel entertainment. -Four evenings o
| II.
pose. The show will probably be giver
early in February.
EDWARD w. BIsBEE and Julia B. Snow
were united in marriage by Rev. John III
Hincks at the residence of E. r. Skinne
last week Wednesday morning. The cere
mony was witnessed by a small circle o
relatives and friends. Mr.. and Mrs Bisbe
| will reside in Barre.
o. w. CHASE has returned from Salem
Mass, whittier he went as a candidate TO
membership of the Salem polo team. III
signed with the team last week, but con
cluded that the work was too hard and tn
pay too little. His return is the best fortun
for the Golden Fleece team.
MARIA CALDWELL, widow of the late G. w
Storrs, died of nervous prostration at he
home on Main street on Saturday last, at tn
age of eighty-three years. Funeral service
were held from the house yesterday after
noon, Rev. j. III. Hincks officiating Mrs
Storrs was sister of the late w. w. Gao
well, and was the last of that family to pas
away.
GENERAL p. p. PITKIN, Colonel f. I
Smith and General Stephen Thomas wer
elected members of the executive commtte
of the Vermont Officers Reunion Society
Burlington, last week, and Mr.. Smith wa
also elected one of five delegates to represer
the department of Vermont, Grand Army
the Republic, at the national encampment
San Francisco next summer.
Mrs A. d. LANE, with nurse and littl
daughter Corinne, arrived safely at OranG
Park, Florida, and, considering the state
her health, stood the journey well. She
enjoying the hospitality of Mr.. and Mr.
Charles Ward but starts soon for Palatlk
, to spend the remainder of the winter at u
Putnam House. The hotel is the largest
the city, occupying whole square
ALL singers of Montpelier and vicini
who are interested in measures which ms
be taken to hold second annual must
festival in Montpelier the coming sprihg AZ
Q requested to meet for few minutes a. y, ~
Golden Fleece on Friday evening oi "
= presenl week me allehuantt aao,,Ia ro,
u as indicating the feeling Of the people co GO
Z cerning the matter, and 1t IS desiraDie tn
: it should be large. The meeting Is appolht'
for seven o'clock.
y MONTPELIER is to be favored with Sc
son of opera, commencing "Wednesday eve
ing February 18th, and continuing thr
nights, The company, which is perha
+ the best that will leave Boston this seaso
It is under the direction of Leon Reach, I
| ! widely-known and able musician, and