The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-20
Montpelier and Vicinity.

II
his western trip.
EX-GovERNoR ROSWELL FARNHAM was in
town Monday night
REV. HENRY FAIRBANKS of st. Johnsbury
was in town last Thursday.
G. II. SHIPMAN will attend the musical
festival at Lisbon this week.
COLONEL ALBERT CLARKE of Rutland
was in town last Wednesday.
TRINITY society meets this evening for a
social gathering at Mrs. Rand's.
Mr.. AND MRS. s. G. SHURTLEFF gave a
large drive-whist party last evening.
j. G.. WING went to Fayston yesterday on
business. He will return this evening.
STATE TREASURER w. H. DUBOIS of West
Randolph was in town last Wednesday,
e. d. BLACKWELL has gone to Chicago to
attend national meeting of electricians.
COLONEL j. II. LUCIA has been engaged
to deliver the Memorial day address at Barre.
MURRY KENT has moved from Calais into
the Harvey Freeman house on Barre street.
PROFESSOR CAMPBELL of Dartmouth Col
lege preached at Bethany church on sun
day.
HENRY STEVENS of Hardwick salesman
for g. II. Cross Il Son, was in town over
Sunday.
SENATOR AND Mrs. II. G. BATES of St.
Johnsbury are the. guests of Hon. S. G.
Shurtlelf.
Miss GRACE w. HILL entertained some
fifty little friends last Friday evening with
a whist party.
REV. j. E. WRIGHT expects to preach in
the Morse school-house, East Montpelier,
next Sunday afternoon.
THE board of civil authority meets this
morning at ten o'clock in the grand jury
room at the courthouse.
MRS. MARCIA BEACH of Essex junction is
seriously i'll at the residence of her mother,
Mrs. Madison Guernsey.
Miss HATTIE ID. TRoMBLEE is employed
as stenographer at the office of the National
Life Insurance Company.
Mrs. EDWARD HAYES daughter of Mrs.
Homer &. Hopkins) of Springfe eld Mass,
returned to her home last Friday.
MIR. SETH HOPKINS, proprietor Of the Sun
set Hill house, White Mountains, and wife,
spent Sunday with A braham Long.
SIX new members were admitted to
Trinity church last Sunday at the morning
service and one person was baptized
ISAAC MoULToN, who has been i'll with
hemorrhage of the lungs, has recovered
sufficiently to go on to the road again.
JOEL FOSTER, the water commissioner,
was at Richford last week surveying for the
new system of water-works to be put in
there.
NJ. A. PRATT, principal of the Stowe High
School, has returned to Montpelier and re-
sumed his law studies at the Office OF j. A.
Wing
j. G. WING and Professor Morey from the
Hill were two of the judges al the prize
speaking of the Stowe High School last
week.
The ladies' sewing society of Christ
church will meet with Mrs. b. f. Fifeld
Thursday afternoon at two o'clock. Tea
at five.
ARTHUR, son of George o. Stratton, has a
first-class tOboggan slide of his own con-
struction upon his fathers premises on
Summer street.
REV II. f. HILL was absent two days last
week, assisting Rev. DIR. SWEET in a series
of religious meetings held in Holy Trinity
church, Swanton.
MEssRs JESSE AND GEORGE VILEs have
issued invitations to a fancy dress party to
be given by them at the Pavilion Friday
evening, March l.
THE entertainment by the Trinity Chris
tian Endeavor Society, which was to have
been given this wednesday, evening, has
been postponed to next week.
AT the regular meeting of the Thomas
Wildey Encampment, last Friday night,
the patriarchal and golden rule degrees
were conferred on one candidate,
COLONEL AND Mrs. f. Il. SMITH and Mrs.
l.. p Gleason were in Brattleboro several
days last week visiting friends and attend
ing the Grand Army encampment
II. ID. HOPKINS, the third is moving
his household goods from Montgomery to
this place, presumably with the intention of
making this his permanent residence.
Mr.. AND Mrs. C. S. WHITTIER gave
pleasant drive-whist parties at their resi-
dence Monday and Tuesday evenings.
There were eleven tables in the drive.
THAT Acrid Nepenthe " is the subject of
the lecture to be given by Rev. j. e. Wright
in the Universalist church in Washington
next Monday evening at half-past seven
Miss LENA SHEPARD of Marshfield, who
sang very acceptably in the Bethany choir
for several weeks, has been obliged to can
Gel her engagement on account of illness.
Mr.. JAMES r. LANGDoN gives evidence of
his appreciation of the value of a snow-roller
by the frequent use Of the Montpelier roller
between this village and his farm in Berlin.
Mr.. AND MRS. G.. II. WILDER have moved
into their elegant new residence at the cor
ner of Barre and Hubbard streets. They
are taking their meals at Hotel Fullerton
for the present
THE largest shaft that ever came off from
Granite Hill in Barre was taken down by
the new Wetmore & Morse Granite Com
pany of Montpelier. 1t was thirty-four feet
long and three feet square.
Mr. II. G. GLEASON has rented the lower
part of j. p. Flanders house on Liberty
street and will move into it at an early day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gleason go to Boston this
week TO get their furnishings.
AN effort to engage Rev. Mr.. Gallagher,
who preached at Bethany church February
10, TO preach there again next Sunday was
unsuccessful, by reason of his prior engage
ment to preach in Lynn, Mass.
THE closing concert of the North Mont
peler musical convention, under the direc-
tion of @. f. Dudley, will occur this even
ing. Mrs. f. l. Pitkin f. w, Bancroft and
ii. ID. Hopkins, Jr., will assist
g. f. RoLEAU went to Schenectady, n. Y,
last Thursday, to take the part of Gren-
chieuX in the "Chimes Of Normandy" to
be given there for two evenings under the
direction of the Sherlock sisters.
THE Shrine ball. advertised for tomorrow
evening, has been indefinitely postponed
on account of the sickness of several mem
bers and the fact that numerous other at
fractions were TO come in the same week.
A LEVER on the Bethany church organ
bellows gave out during the singing of the
opening selection by the choir, Sunday
morning, and the remainder of the singing
at that sprVipa WAS without instrumental "a