The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23
Montpelier and Vicinity.


A NEW carpet for the chapel of Bethany
church has been purchased.
Miss HELEN KEMPToN and Mrs. George
NJ. Goss ere i'll with slow fever.
THE choir of the Baptist church will give
a sociable next Monday evening.
Miss OLA BUXTON of Plainfeld is visiting
her aunt, Mrs. Harvey w. Brown.
S. l.. HOWE and wife, who are in Chicago,
are expected home on the 29th instant.
Mrs. GEORGE II, BENNETT has returned
from Montreal much improved in health.
THE roof of the residence of James II.
Langdon on Main street is being reslated.
IL. e. SLAYToN was confined to the house
two or three days last week by severe cold
NJ. l.. HAMBLETT, a well-known lawyer of
Lowell Mass. was in Montpelier last
week
OSCAR SILVER, formerly with w. w. Park
is now in the grocery store of George d.
Butler.
ALBERT WILEY was arrested for drunken
ness on Friday of last week. and was fined
So and costs
Miss NELLIE HARVEY, teacher in the
Union school, was at her home in Barnet
over Sunday.
The quarterly conference of Trinity
church was held at the parsonage on Mon
day evening.
THERE was an interesting service of song
at the Church of the Messiah on Sunday
evening last
GEORGE HAYWARD has received a pen
sion of SIG month and $1,000 as back
pension money.
A NEW sewer is being laid from the
Hutchins house on Barre street to the
Winooski river.
ID. l.. SANDERS and Ned Bailey were in
Wolcott last week spending few days
with Alva Foster.
l.. o. GREEN of Woodstock editor Of the
Standdrd and state inspector of finance, was
in town yesterday.
THE dance at the Pavilion, which it was
purpOsed to have this week has been post
poned till next week.
REV. j. c. FLANDERS of Manchester
n. H., conducted the services at Christ.
Church on Sunday last.
l.. f. SLACK, law student in S. C. Shurt
leH's Office, will teach the school in Marsh
field village this winter.
c. w, SELINAs has moved from Elm street
to what was recently the store of Cotton &
johnson on Main street.
7. E. CALLAHAN was appointed, on Fri
day of last week, a letter carrier in place of
j. w. Moone", discharged.
THE Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
of Trinity church meets on Friday evening
at the home Of Mrs. A. B. TruaX.
REV. p. MCMILLAN of Barre preached at
Bethany church last Sunday morning in
exchange with Rev. G. W. Gallagher
FRED A. CARR of the telephone exchange,
is experimenting the erection of new tele-
phone line from Johnson to Waterville.
CLARK ROBERTS has purchased the George
Wheeler house, occupied by A. F. Pratte,
on Elm street, adjoining the county Jail
The fair in aid of the new Catholic church
began at Capital Hall on Monday evening.
There has been large attendance so far.
The marriage of Arthur Allen, Jr. of
Montpelier, and Miss Lizzie Ladam of Bur-
lington, occurred at Burlington, Monday
night.
JAMES f. Bolton left Montpelier for
Middlebury Monday morning. and yester-
day he started for his home in Washington,
ID. G.
REV. G. w. GALLAGHER and Miss Fannie
Fisk have been elected delegates by the
Bethany Sunday y-school to the state con-
vention at Middlebury.
REV. j. II. HINCKs went to Atlanta, Ga,
on the 10Th inst, TO temporarily fill pro-
fessorship during the absence of the regu-
lar instructor in Europe.
The chevaiers of the Patriarchs Militant
at Burlington passed resolutions of respect
last week for the memory of the late w. H.
Hanaford of Montpelier
The Chautauqua society will meet with
Mrs. j. G. Brown at the residence of S. G.
Woolson on Friday afternoon at fifteen
minutes past two o'clock.
b. b. SLOAN and c. L. Roleau started in
nt.riar nflu for
They will return in the same way, taking
about a week for the trip.
Mrs ARMINDA WHITE, who had lived in
Mon pelier for many years, died Monday
morning at her home on East State street.
She was seventy-one years of age.
| THE passenger car of the Q; 45 train 10 the
Junction Sunday morning had its rear steps
torn off by striking truck. 1t was repaired
at the shop of the Wells River road.
THE subject of Rev. G.. W. Gallaghers
| Sunday morning sermon will be " Selling
| Our Birthright." The evening subject will
| be " The Need of Conscience in All Things"
A CONCRETE sidewalk is being laid in
! front of the residences of l.. b. Cross and
Frank ID. Dewey on School street. Some
of the paths in Mr.. Cross's yard are also be-
| ing cOncreted.
REV. G. w. GALLAGHER gave an address
at the state Sunday-school convention at
]
" How to Interest the Children in the
! Sunday school"
The ladies' society of the Church of the
Messiah will hold a sociable in the vestry
Thursday afternoon and evening Supper
will be served, and musical entertainment
| given i'll the evening.
Mr. AND MRS e. LAME from New York
state are visiting Warren Kibbey brother
of the latter. Mrs. Lamb will be remem
bered here as Miss Hayward. Mr.. Lamb is
proprietor of an extensive apary.
EDWARD r. HoUGHToN, who is a student
at Phillips-AndoveT Academy, has beer
seriously i'll with cold. His father and
mother have been to Andoyer TO see hin
during his illness. He is now out of danger
THE literary society of Bethany churcl
meets Thursday evening. Rev. Mr. Gala
CHER will then give an address in his series
on language. The subject at this meeting
will be "The Rise of the English Ian
guage,"
II. w. DREW, the express agent has beer
confined to his home by illness for about
week, His place is taken by B. II. Tylel
OF Greenfield, Mass, who is regularly EN-
ployed in going from place to place in case'
of sickness
MRS. o. T. DODGE and her two daughters
who have been visiting in Montpelier for TIVE