The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-16

April 30, aged twenty-nine years and four
months.
THE Vermont Eclectic Medical Society
will hold its twenty-third annual meeting
at the state-house June 6 and Z.
A MEETING of young people for the Or
ganization of tennis club was held with
the Misses Tromblee last evening.
A SERVICE of sacred song is to be held in
the Church of the Messiah next Sunday
evening at half-past seven o'clock.
REV. S. w. THORNTON, superintendent of
Methodist missionary work in New Mexico,
preached at Trinity church Sunday morn
ing.
THOMAS CAsAvA1NT has bought lot of
George II. Bennett on the hill in the rear of
Hillside and will soon erect thereon a
dwelling-house.
THE marriage of Mr.. Romeo G.. Brown of
Minneapolis and Miss Mary Lee Holister
of Marshfed is announced to occur the latter
part of the present month
THE Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor of Bethany church will have a
social gathering at the chapel at seven
o'clock tomorrow evening.
f. j. MARTIN of Northfield succeeds p. T.
Kellogg of Worcester as deputy county
clerk. Perrin has gone to his home in
Worcester for the summer.
A DISPATCH was received in Montpelier
Monday announcing the illness in Boston
of Mrs. George Langdon and summoning to
her bedside Miss NJ Annette Upham.
DAN FOSTER of St. Albans is in town,
having been called here on account of the
serious illness, with typhoid fever, of Mrs.
Foster, who had come to visit her parents.
The usual session of Sunday-schoo at the
Congregational church was omitted on
Sunday last on account of the inclemency
of the weather and the resulting small at
tendance.
THE baseball mines of the Vermont Meth
odst Seminary and the Grammar School
will meet in mortal combat upon the Nicho-
las meadow next Saturday afternoon at
two o'clock
e. E. TowNER will attend the inter-
national convention of Young Peoples So
cietes of Christian Endeavor, to be held in
Chicago early in July, and Henry A. Cobb
is also thinking seriously of going.
EXCUSE the suggestion, but it's our pri-
vate opinion, publicly expressed, that if
you don't select your seat for " Adonis -
Thursday morning you won't get the best
one in the hall by large majority
THE st. Johnsbury Republican of May 10
says: "This is great day for the demo-
Gratis and the Montpelier rum-selers. What
boom the latter will have, to be sure
And so they did, the more's the shame to
the town.
A RECENT issue of the Albany On. "
journal announces the elopement of Mrs.
Eugene Harvey (untl recently Miss Marion
Chester) of the Sanger Opera Company and
Warren Lombard of She ~ company, a
former lover.
THE annual meeting of the Washington
County Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held in the Methodist church
in Plainfeld May % and "a. Mrs. j. X.
Barney of Providence, r. l., is expected to
speak the last evening.
A NEW granite firm, under the name of
Stafford & Lynch, has leased the hitherto
unoccupied portion of the stone-sheds on
Barre street, and the Montpelier Building
Association is erecting a blacksmith shop
for the use of this firm.
Mrs. j. II. HINcKs and her three young
est children started Friday night for New
York city, where they will pass a fortnight
visiting relatives. Master Percy accom-
panied them as far as Stamford, Conn, the
home of his grandparents.
THE board of civil authority will meet at
the grand jury room in the courthouse on
Tuesday, May %, at ten o'clock in the fore
noon, to hear all persons who have taken an
appeal from the action of the listers, and
will continue in session until the business
is completed.
The division encampment of the Sons of
Veterans will hold a meeting in Grand
Army Hall next week Wednesday evening.
The headquarters of the division will be at
the Pavilion. The Relief Corps will tender
a reception to the encampment at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Newcomb in the evening.
PLANS are made and contracts signed for
dwelling-house to be erected at the corner
of Barre and Hubbard streets by George II.
Wilder. Ihe house Will be OF queen Anne
style, modern and elegant in all its features,
and by the terms of the contract is to be
completed by January /, 1889. Work upon
the foundation will probably begin this
week
THERE was a pleasant gathering at Mrs.
A. l., Cartoons Friday evening, comprising
the committee of the Ladies Society of
Bethany church, the pastor and his wife
and few neighbors. 1t was made the oc-
casion for the presentation to Mrs. Hincks
of purse of one hundred dollars from the
ladies of Bethany church, and the evening
was also an enjoyable one socially.
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpelier
(Vt.) post-office May IA, 1888:
Mrs. Martha j. Bean, Thomas j. Erwin,
Miss Amer Dawes, O. W. w. Goodridge,
Miss Viola Goodnow Louis +. Girard,
Mrs. j. II, Holt Frank Hunt,
Mrs. Frank Hunt IN,
Miss Garry Williams, James Mack,
John Bell, Joseph Perreau,
Martin Chandler, Andrew Walcott.
Parties applying for any of the above must
say " advertised Z" and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
AT about four o'clock yesterday morning
the old Montpelier junction station-house
at the south end of the Y, so long occupied
e.. 4 a