The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26
Montpelier and Vicinity.

a. c. BRowN x Sons insurance agency
has opened branch office in Barre
TRUMAN r.. GORDON and Miss Hattie NJ.
Norris were married on Christmas day.
FLoREcE GRAHAM trimmer in Best's mil
hnery store, has gone to Jersey Heights.
The infant daughter of Osman ID. Clark
died last week of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
BETHANY Sunday-schoo concert will be
held at the church at hall-past six Sunday
evening.
F. W. FUTILE, attorney and counselor
| at-iaw at NergenneS, is home to spend the
| holidays.
A PATENT was issued last week Tuesday
to f. II. Perry of this place for type-writ-
| ing machine.
! BURNsIDE b. BAILEY returned Sunday
night from an extended trip through the
Western States.
ALoNzo a. DODGE died Monday night of
! consumption, from which he had been suf-
ferng for about year.
The grading on the Montpelier g. Wells
River railroad between here and Barre was
completed last Sunday night.
RALPH, the siX-year-old son of w A.
Jones, who has been dangerously i'll with
diphtheria, is now recovering.
Mr.. II. c. WEBSTER was taken i'll last
Saturday night and on Monday was unable
to attend to his duties in the store.
REV. DIR. PERKINS of Burlington, father
OF Professor Perkins of the State Univer-
sity,, preached at Bethany church last
Sunday
REV. II. A. SPENCER of West Randolph,
a former pastor of Trinity church, will con-
Duct the services at that church Sunday,
January 6.
logical Seminary will occupy the pulpit of
Bethany church next Sunday afternoon
and evening
y, Z. HoUGHToN, treasurer of the Ma
tional Life Insurance Company, has closed
his house and engaged rooms at the Payil-
ion for the winter.
The national banks in town will be open
from nine to eleven o'clock A. NJ. on New
Years day and will be closed during the
remainder of the day
The Christmas concert by the Bethany
Sunday-school, which was to have been
gwen last Sunday, has been postponed to
next Sunday, December 20.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL T. S. PECK has an
pointed Mrs. Mary b. Peck, widow of the
late General James S. Peck as assistant in
the adJutant-generals office at the capitol
SENATOR BATES spent last Sunday in
town. He left for ST. Johnsburv on Mon
day, with Mrs Bates, who has been ston-
ping at Hotel Fullerton since the legislative
session.
lHE Barre correspondent of the Free
IFeSS says that it is reported on good au-
thorty thai electric ears are soon to be run
between that place and Montpelier This
is " important, if true"
f. III. BARNES, clerk in ID. l.. Fuller's
store and president of the Bethany Chris
tlan Endeavor Society, will be absent from
town Tor about three months He left last
week, in company with his father. for a tour
among the Middle States.
THERE was a large attendance at the
Christmas hop at the Pavilion last night.
Messrs. A, ID. Farwel, II. NJ. Cutler. J. &.
Brown and Richard Hyde served as floor
managers. Music was furnished Inv the
Mechanics band orchestra.
FUNERAL services will be held at the late
residence of Mr.. Charles r. Sabin THURSDAY.
al hali-past one O'Clock p NJ Mr.. Sabinfs
Illness began September 2S with an attack of |
pneumonia, attended by an enlargement of |
the heart. The tide of battle for life ebbed |
and flowed till Monday evening, when death |
came suddenly, but not unexpectedly. An |
obituary notice Of the deceased appears i'm |
another column of this issue
DIR, ID. G. KEMP has just returned from a
three weeks stay at the New York Eve and |
Ear lntrmary, where he has been observing
the diseases that attack these members of |
the human anatomy as presented in the
great number of patients treated in that in
stitution. In a practical way much was
seen and learned of the ailments OF these