The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-25
Montpelier and Vicinity.

MRS. IL. L. WALTON le1t on MOHudy lOr
Columbus, Ohio, to visit friends.
Mrs. A. w. EDGERLY died at her home on
First avenue last week Friday night.
REV. HOWARD f. HILL expects to preach
at Waitsfeld next Sunday afternoon.
MRS MARY A. PoMERoY of Ogdensburg
n. Y, is visiting at Colonel II. ID. Hopkins
| S. c. SHURTLEFF Esq, is announced to
deliver the address at the Franklin county
fair.
THERE will be no band concert this week
on account of the absence of some important
parts.
Mrs. JOHN GRAvELIN is having extensive
repairs made upon her residence on Court
! street
Mr.. AND Mrs j. c. HoUGHToN spent Sun
day at the Franklin House, Highgate
Springs.
MRS FRANK GR1swoLD of Nashua, n. H.,
has been visiting with her mother, Mrs.
Goodwin
G. A. BARNARD is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the John b. Thurston place on
State street
CHRIST CHURCH will be open on Sunday
next and services will hereafter be con-
Quoted as usual.
COLONEL j. II. LUCIA is mentioned by
several republicans as a suitable candidate
for town representative.
Mrs. w. w. AINswoRTH of Des Moines
Iowa, has been visiting friends in this
vicinity for few days past.
REV. j. j. HALL of Berlin preached at
Bethany church Sunday morning, in ex-
change with Rev. Mr.. Hincks.
ELDER AND Mrs GEORGE Brown and Mr..
and Mrs. Fayette Flanders of Center Hav-
erhill, N. H., were in town Monday.
THE fall term of Washington County
Grammar and Montpelier Union schools
will begin one week from next Monday.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE 7. CoNNoR of Mel
rose, Mass, were in town over Sunday, the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. d. S. Wheatley.
Mr.. AND Mrs. NJ. MARVIN left home Mon
day morning for a two weeks carriage trip
through Lamoille and Franklin counties.
JEFFERSON BRUCE has his new shop in
the rear of French's block nearly COM
anu 10 w Dulll an t,i,luioh ioi a ioi So
A PARTY of about a dozen members of Re-
becca Lodge of Odd Fellows visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Taylor, above Wright's Mills,
last Thursday evening.
Hon. LEWIS L. CoBURN, prominent law
yer of Chicago and a former resident of East
Montpelier, with Mrs. Coburn, is spending
few days at the Pavilion.
REV. DR.. l. e. DwINELL of California will
preach in Bethany church next Sunday
morning. Rev. Mr.. Hincks will preach Sum
day morning in East Calais.
A soREL mare and harness were stolen
, from the barn of Edward w. Ormsbee at the
, Center Sunday night, and a blackboard was
also taken at a neighboring farm
The Sunday-school excursion to Owls
Head planned for Tuesday was postponed
on account of the rain, with the promise that
it shall be had in the near future.
SEVERAL of our Montpelier people have
visited the Wilbur farm in East Calais,
; from time to time, and found it most de-
sirable place for summer boarding.
; f. l.. WALTON, announced to appear at
Blanchard Opera-house this evening in
) "The Diamond Broker" has Cancelled the
engagement, with a promise to renew it at
an early day.
Miss MEINEcKE was called home to New
York last week by the death of her father
She will return to Montpelier about Septem-
Der 1st and expects to open millinery store
as soon as possible after that date.
!, Mr.. j, A. DEBoER, principal Of Wash
ington County Grammar and Montpelier
< Union schools, has made arrangements to
occupy the house on Mechanic street which
has hitherto been the residence of l.. w.
i, Welch.
D THE Montpelier checklist for 1886, when
revised and completed, will contain about
;. eleven hundred names, or nearly one hun
= dred more than after its last previous re-
y vision. A large proportion of the increase
. is found in the names of new comers.
o THE fall term of the Methodist Seminary
: opened on Monday with excellent prospects
The arrivals on the first day were larger
than on the first day of any previous term
n and the total number of students already
= enrolled is one hundred seventy-five.
q AMONG the entertainments to be given at
e Blanchard Opera-house the coming season,
Y besides those mentioned elsewhere in this
issue, are "Monte Christo,' 4" Storm
n Beaten" Romany Rye" and a series OF
operas by the Boston Mariana Opera Com
L pany,
:, THERE is every promise Of a large attend
VI ance upon the excursion to Saratoga to-day
>, over the Central Vermont and Delaware x
= Hudson River railroads. The train leaves
ate; 90 o'cloclI instead Al, the time given
per order of the railroad officials, in last
a weeks issue.
If CAPITAL HALL is being renovated, pre-
IS paratory to the approaching theatrical sea
d son, when it will be under the management