The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-01
Montpelier and Vicinity.

Montpelier and Vicinity.
Mrs. WILLIAM WOODBURY. is sick at the
Pavilion.
HENRY YATTA, the barber, took vaca-
ton last week.
WILL HATHAWAY and George Scribner
have the mumps.
THE local members of the bar are organ
izing a baseball team
CARL BANCROFT began work in the First
National Bank Monday.
THE stores were closed yesterday after
noon by mutual agreement.
l.. BART Cross was confined to the house
by sickness the first of the week.
REV. j. o. SHERBURN moved his family
last week to his new charge at Cabot.
AN offering for the missions of the diocese
will be taken next Sunday at Christ church.
FRED E. SPALD1NG has gone to Fon-du-
Lac, Wis, to accept position in land
office.
FLORENCE MORROW, daughter of j. v
Morrow, is dangerously sick with gastric
fever.
THE Sunday-school board of Trinity
church meets Thursday evening in the
vestry.
REV. L. NJ. HARDY, principal of Bishop
Hopkins Hall, Burlington, was in town
Friday.
f. A. STANDIsH went to Niggerhead
pond" Monday for two days fishing ex-
cursion.
Mr.. AND Mrs. SAMUEL YOUNG of Toledo,
Ohio, have been visiting Mr.. Young's sis
ter, Mrs. N S. Spraaue.
A. w. FERRIN's boat has been launched
on Berlin pond, and the season auspiciously
opened at that summer resort.
HARVEY WEIGH has new bicycle and is
working the animal so hard that the tires
are already getting threadbare.
MOUNT ZION CoMMANDERY Knights
Templar, has voted to unite with Brooks
Post in the observance of Memorial day.
THERE will be religious services in the
schoO-house in the Benjamin district, Ber-
lin, next Sunday afternoon at three o'clock.
EIGHTEEN of the young men celebrated
yesterday by ball game on the Hill, in the
presence of an enraptured throng of specta-
! tors.
THERE will be business meeting of the
| Ladies' Sewing Society of Christ church at
! the rectory Wednesday afternoon at two
o'clock.
II. w. KEMP will sing in Herbert Glea-
| sons place in the male quartet at the
| Church of the Messiah next Sunday and
! thereafter.
RIGHT REV. w. II. A. BIssELL, bishop of
Burlington from his winter sojourn at Pass
| Christian Miss.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
connected with Trinity church meets Fri
day evening, at half-past seven o'clock, with
Miss l.. W. Guernsey.
TRINITY society will give reception to
Rev. A. j. Hough, the newly-appointed
pastor, this evening at half-past seven
o'clock in the church parlors.
FRANK BARNES has returned from his
canvassing tour and has begun work again
in the hardware store of Fuller & Son. He
left his father in Philadelphia.
C.E. WILSON and Horace Marvin returned
Friday from their spring vacation trip tc
Muncie, Ind, where they are reported tC
have invested all their surplus.
THE majority of the members of the band
and militia were insured before starting for
New York by c. w Locklin in the Stand
ard Accident Insurance Company.
REV. II. HOLDEN of Amherst, Mass, 8
native of Middlesex, occupied the pulpit al
the Church of the Messiah last Sunday
preaching two brilliant discourses.
REV. CHARLES A. ALLEN of New Orleans
twenty years ago the pastor of the Churcf
of the Messiah, is to preach in that churcl
next Sunday morning and evening.
MRS. NANCY TRow, who has been stop
ping during the winter with Mrs. II. IL
Deming on State street, is to reopen hel
Baldwin street residence this week.
j. G.. WING has recently been devotinl
his architectural talent to the construction
of boat which he will endeavor to navi
gate on Greensboro Pond this summer.
MRS. JOHN Snow died Saturday morning
at the home of her sister, Mrs. e. II. Skin
ner, on State street, Funeral services wer,
conducted Monday afternoon by Rev. G
w. Gallagher.
THERE were interesting literary and mu
steal exercises by the pupils of the gramma
school at the Union school-house, yesterda.
forenoon, in commemoration of Washing
tons inauguration.
The band gave an excellent concert a
the opera-house, Saturday evening, to fai
house. The proceeds amounted to abou
$50. The concert at Barre, Friday even
ing, was poorly attended.
A UNION service of thanksgiving was he'll
at Trinity church yesterday morning at min
o'clock, in accordance with the governor
proclamation calling for the observance G
the Washington centennial
Mrs. j. MONROE POLAND from Chicago
stopping at the Riverside. She is remoVn
her goods from her house, which was pun
chased recently by j. q. Houghton. Charlie
S. Reed, her nephew, came with her.
: REV. GEORGE #. TEwKsBURY of Cam
bridgeport, who occupied Bethany pulp
several weeks since, has accepted the ca
/, of the Plymouth church in Seattle, w.
His intention is to leave about the 1st {
June.
A STATED conclave of Mt. Zion Con
, mandery will be held Friday evening, Ma
81, to act on the invitation from the gran
commander to attend the annual conclav
8 of the grand commandery at Burlingto
4 June IL.
!. MOUNT ZION CoMMANDERy will attend
special service at Christ church Sunday
June 2, at three o'clock in the afternoon
8 The sermon will be preached by Rev How