The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-21
Montpelier and Vicinity.

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choir on Sunday last.
In the supreme court Friday Ward, the
Caledonia county arsonist, was sentenced
to eight years in states prison.
A F1ELD-PIEcE at the arsenal contributed
loud and long to the Harrison boom at in
tervals through the day Friday.
Mrs. b. +. FIFIELD will receive lady
friends at her home on State street, Thurs
day afternoon, from four o'clock until six.
PHIL CHAPLEAU, of the military band, will
lead the congregational singing at the meet
ing of the Societies of Christian Endeavor,
to be held here next month
REV. f. f. ROGERS of New York city will
preach in Bethany church next Sunday.
Mr. Rogers will be remembered as having
preached here four Sabbaths during the
summer.
REV. GEORGE w. PERRY of Rutland, state
geoogist, is to conduct the services in the
Church of the Messiah next Sunday, and
will preach also in Middlesex at q Is in the
afternoon.
A BRICK thirteen by forty foot addition is
being made to the machine shop of the Lane
Manufacturing Company, on the Franklin
street side, the increase of business requir-
ing space for additional machinery.
Mrs. j. p. SPEAR and daughters, Lila
and Nina are spending the winter with L.
p. Lawrence's family. Mrs. Spear has come
to Montpelier, hoping the change may be of
benefit to Miss Lila, who is in very poor
health.
ABOUT twenty young ladies enjoyed the
hospitality of Mrs. H. G. Cotton, Monday
evening, the occasion being a tea party
given by her for Misses Randall and Wis
well, the former being one of her household
and the latter guest for few days.
THE Caledonian says of the work put in by
our townsmen, Fred w. Bancroft and
George II. Wilder, at the Mary Howe con-
cert in St. Johnsbury: Mr.. Wilder ham
died his instrument very skilfully while
both gentlemen won deserved encores."
FRANK w. CARVER, e fiat cornetist of the
Montpelier band, leaves in few days for
Vinal Haven, Maine, where he will have
employment under the contractor who is to
furnish the granite for the Brooklyn city
post-office. He expects to be gone about
one year.
A TRUTHFUL explanation of the unprece-
dented sale of the ArguS, of which it boasts
people were curious to see how it would
manage to let itself down easy after its
campaign braggadocio and over-contidence
of democratic success.
THE ST. Albans Messenger very properly
speaks of our military band as an "excel-
lent one" and says that Philip Chapleau OF
Plattsburgh has come here to aid in main
has come here to live, works at the shops OF
tne Lane Mahuiacturlng company, ana
plays "a fine b fiat cornet in the band.
The Vermont Dairymen's Association will
hold its nineteenth annual meeting at City
Hall in Burlington. January Is, II and IS
1859. The appropriation by the legislature
of 81 600 for its use will enable it to make
this meeting more attractive and profitable
than any previous one. Full information
may be had by addressing e. l.. Bass, sec
retary, west Randolph.
w. II. EASTMAN of New York was an at.
tendant upon the reunion of cavalry. Mr.
Eastman was formerly a ST. Albans boy
| enlisted in the cavalry at that place with g
number of his schoolmates, came out of the
war with whole skin and has since ac-
! cumulated fortune in trade He comes
| up to Nermonts capital to renew old as
soclatlons with the boys.
Hon. JOHN ID. Long is to lecture at the
Barre opera-house this wednesday, even
| ing His subject is braham Lincoln
special train will leave this place and
return after the lecture. A section o
the house will be reserved for members o
the legislature and others of this place
An unusual opportunity of hearing one o
the finest orators in America is thus offered
THE complaint recently published in re
gard to accommodation of out-of-town pat
! rons of this post-office gives us occasion
after an examination of the facts, TO assure
them that the utmost care is taken in deliv
erinp their mail to responsible persons. |
thew do not get it. barring errors to which
the best of humanity is liable, we are con
vinced that the fault is not in the postmas
ter or his assistants.
THE ever-popular Mariana Opera Com
pany will give two performances at th,
capital. Friday and Saturday. November
% and "a. The Daughter of the Regimen
and La Sonnambula are the operas that vii
he presented The COMPANY consists of Alic
Nav Bates. soprano: Annie Belle Hinckley
alto. w. III. Fessenden. tenor: III. l.. Cor
nell base, Lon r Rrice. baritone. Mvro,
Clark. comedian; Leon Reach, musica
director.
THE sunerioritv of Montnelier sidewalk
over those of other large towns of the stat
has been generally Conceded, In wha
other town conld 50 LARGE a nrocession n
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