The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-17

CedSnOTb, or our m1rrOr Lake,
Will the New Yorks or the Bostons
That dear, precious pennant take?
VIII the Muncie boom continue?
VIII the granite boom increase?
viii the trustees of the Union
Our fine principal release?-
Mid these queries of the hour
One comes floating on the air,
We have heard it in all quarters:
" Are you going to the fair?" r..
j. j. DEAvITT of st. Albans was in town
last week.
Mrs. FRED W. MORSE has been very ill
for week.
Miss IDA BALLoU is confined to the hon. @
by the mumps.
Mrs. G. A. SMITH is reported i'll with
nervous prostration.
HENRY LOWE and family have removed
to No. 96 Elm street
A. A. HADLEY left for Burlington to-day
for two weeks stay.
NJ. j. COBB of Jamaica Plains. Mass .
was in town over Sunday
CONDUCTOR FRED WELLS has charge of
the White Mountain express.
b. b. BAILEY had telephone put in his
office at West Berlin yesterday.
THE Crescent baseball club will play the
Plainfelds at Plainied next Saturday
CHARLEY, son of j. V. Morrow, is seri-
ously ill with Inflammation of the bowels.
PROFESSOR BISHOP occupied the Methodist
pulpits at Marshfed and Cabot last Sabbath
Mr.. AND Mrs. BALDWIN and daughter
Mamie are visiting Il. IL. Whitney on Ridge
street.
ALL the Montpelier gentlemen who went
to Mnncie last week have returned except
Mr.. Bascom
Mpo II NJ DE-, s.1 +,
Paterson, n. j., are guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Poland.
ORRIN DALEY has purchased of Mrs.
Amanda Vail the Rublee house on Main
street for S2,40G.
CARL BANCROFT returned Saturday from
the Highgate camp and Dick Hyde is now
having his outing
PROFESSOR BLANPIED and family and
their guest, Miss Award pickncked yester-
day at Berlin pond,
Mr.. FRED BANCROFT and mother leave
to-day for Falmouth, Maine, for a stay of
two or three weeks.
1T is reported that Mr.. Edward Dewey is
soon to erect a fine house on State street on
posite the state-house
SOME forty houses are in process of erec-
ton in Montpelier, and the demand is far in
advance of the supply.
MR.. r. j. HARGIN spent last Sunday at
Calais. Mr.. B. f. Bailey takes his place as
janitor of Trinity church.
Mrs. F. B. EMERY and sons left for Bos
ton last Friday. Mr. Emery will ioin them
the latter part of this week.
Mr.. II. A. BOWMAN has recovered from
an attack of the mumps and fever and is
again attending to business.
MISSES JOSIE AND LorTIE TRUAx are
camping at Berlin pond, in company with
some friends from Northfeld.
Miss LAURA WHITE, book keeper for Mar
vim q Sherburne, left for her home yester-
day on vacation of two weeks.
REV. G. w. GALLAGHER has moved into
the Russell house on Baldwin street re-
Gently purchased by L. j. Deavitt.
Mrs. E. L, SQUIRE of Omaha, Nebraska,
arrived last Saturday night on visit to her
parents, Hon. and Mrs. Charles Dewey.
q. w. PAUL is closing up his business
affalrs here, preparatory to his moving to
Lawrence, Mass. He hopes to move this
week.
The Crescent ball club is arranging two
games with the Bethel club, one to be
played in Montpelier and the other at
Bethel.
Mrs. ELLA LUCE of Chicago, who has
been visiting Janus Crossett her uncle, on
Berlin street, will go to st. Johnsbury on
Friday.
JOHN Cook of Berlin took one and one
fourth ounces of laudanum last Saturday
night He is still alive and will probably
recover.
The ladies of Trinity church will hold a
sociable at the residence of Presiding Elder
TruaX, Seminary Hill, this afternoon and
evening.
THE Seminary dining-room is being en-
larged by the addition of wing twelve
aAf Wi yt.ta lt,,..
the south side.
Kennebunk Beach, Maine, last Wednesday,
expecting to be gone two weeks, but re-
turned Monday night
III. G. WEBSTER has so far recovered his
health as to be out again at business. He
attended church last Sunday for the first
time since last November.
The Charles Foster house is being moved
from the corner of Cross and Franklin
streets to North Franklin street between
Cross and Mechanic streets.
In the account of the Calais celebration.
given last week, the statement was made
that a meeting was held at Charlestown.
etc. 1t should have read Charlton.
THE following are in camp at Camp Look
out Mirror Lake. Colonel II. e. Smith and
wife, Mrs. l.. p. Gleason and sons. Miss
Ann Smith and Miss Julia Robinson.
GEORGE SCRIBNER has received the hull of
steam yacht from the yard of ID. j. Free
man, Watertown, n. Y. He will launch
the boat, when completed, on Mirror Lake.
FOUNDATIONS are ing laid for six of the
ten new cottages TO be erected near the cleo
tric light works. Four carloads of lumber
arrived Monday night from Richford for
that purpose.
The new buildings of the Wetmore &
Morse Granite Company are being rapidly
pushed to completion. The main building,
which is two hundred sixteen feet by forty
feet, is already covered.
CONDUCTOR MCCARTY of the Barre freight
has so far recovered from his recent in
juries that he will be able TO resume his
duties next week. Conductor Rowell has
filled his place during his enforced absence.
THE query is, What does that carpenter
take in his soda-water who went to bed
Sunday afternoon and, after good nap ate
his supper, put on his work-clothes, took
his tools and started up Barre street, under
the impression that II was Monday morning?
The Odd Fellows lodge is in very
prosperous condition. Tonight Vermont
Lodge will initiate four new members, and
Friday evening the Encampment will also
initiate the same number A canton of
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