The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-15
Montpelier and Vicinity.

GEORGE A KNAPP is singing tenor with
Bethany choir.
Miss MARY MCCLURE is absent on a visit
to friends in Massachusetts,.
Miss E. B. RUBLEE goes to Fitchburg,
Mass, to-day to visit friends in that city.
JAMES AvERILL has been visiting Miss
May Leland, his aunt, during the past week.
THE visit of the military band to Water
bury occurs on Tuesday evening of next
week.
HARRY THURsToN returned Monday to
Johnson, where he is attending the Normal
School.
THE usual meeting of the Ladies' Society of
Christ church at the rectory will this week
be held on Thursday.
Hon. w. II. Dubois of West Randolph
and Hon. Henry Ballard of Burlington
were in town Thursday.
CHARLES II. SHIPMAN is at Lisbon, n. H.,
this week, attending the musical conven-
ton and visiting relatives.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT expects to con-
duct the meeting at Wrightsville next Sun
day afternoon at two o'clock.
THE Young Ladies' Missionary Society of
Trinity church are to give pudding supper
in the church vestry this evening.
w. w PARK is negotiating for the stock of
the Henry Lowe & Son grocery store, which
was closed for invoicing on Tuesday.
Mr.. AND MRS. EDWARD DEWEY were MEM
bers of the Raymond excursion party which
left Boston, bound for California, last week
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union meets with Mrs. j. o. Sherburn this
afternoon. Subject "What Shall We Eat
and Drink?"
THE Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor of Bethany church is to have a
Martha Washington supper at the chapel
next Monday evening.
Miss MAY U. GRIFFIN, who has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. E. p. Walton for a
few weeks past, returned last week to her
home in Somerville, Mass.
MoNTPELIERs excellent musical talent
is being kept busy; several of the young
singers are under engagement to assist in
neighboring towns.-MeSSenger.
GEORGE E. ScRIBSER, who was accident
ally, and so nearly fatally, shot on Sunday,
February s. is constantly improving and
there is no apparent reason why he may not
entirely recover.
Mr.. o. NJ. TINKHAM, agricultural editor of
the WATCHMAN, is convalescing at his home
in North Pomfret after a severe attack of
congestion of the liver, and Mrs. Tinkham
is i'll with pneumonia.
THE Catholic fair at Union House Hall
the past week has been largely attended and
very successful financially. Large deega-
tions from st. Albans, Richmond, Barre
and elsewhere have visited the fair.
THE board of civil authority will meet at
the grand jury room in the courthouse on
Monday next at 10; 90 A. NJ, for the abate-
ment of taxes and the transaction of other
business which may come before the meeting.
CARDS of invitation have been issued to
some two hundred ladies for a reception to
be given tomorrow afternoon, from three
o'clock until six, by Mrs. Marcus ID. Gilman
at her pleasant home, No. Baldwin street.
THE concert by the Church of the Messiah
in the vestry of that church Friday evening
was highly enjoyable affair, though not
largely attended This latter fact was
undoubtedly largely due to insufficient ad-
vertising.
THE last band assembly at the Pavilion
was too largely attended to be enjoyable
for any. A large portion of the dancing
floor was covered by the chairs of spectators
and the entrance to the dining hall was Sc
riously obstructed.
Mr.. MARTIN INGRAHAM, for a time a resi-
dent of Montpelier and father of the late
Miss Emma Ingraham, died at the residence