The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-27
Montpelier and Vicinity.


IT is expected that the profits of the re-
cent band fair will exceed $1,000.
RED LETTER DAY" of Bethany Reading
Club occurs Tuesday, December Sd.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT gave temper
anCe address at Warren on Monday evening.
The " Ten O'Clock Club enjoyed dance
at Union Hall on Friday evening Of last
week.
JOHN MoR1ARTY has sold his farm at
Montpelier junction to jeremiah Dadie.
Price So 800
The young people of Bethany church are
to give a sociable in the chapel next Mon
day evening.
A PLANK walk has been laid across the
of Mr. Shanbo.
Mrs, PATRICK FARRELL of Moretown, who
died on Thursday of last week, was buried
here on Saturday.
"CAspAR THE YoDLER was presented at
the Opera-house last night to the satislac-
ton Of the audience.
THERE will be preaching every Sunday
evening at the Baptist church through De-
cember and January.
THE Chautauqua Circle meets with Miss
Macomber Friday afternoon at ;i5 O'Clock.
Notice change of time.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union meets next Thursday with Il. NJ.
Denny at three o'clock.
THE house of H. II. Scribner, off Main
street, was sold to j. p. Donovan yesterday.
The price was about $1,000.
On Friday of last week Officer Tuttle went
to Rutland with Fred BergerOn, who was
placed in the house of correction.
THE public schools closed on Thursday Of
last week for the Thanksgiving recess.
They will begin again on Monday.
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special train on Friday evening of last week
to attend the revival services there.
The two new signs of A. c.. Brown & Son
are very handsome They are the handi-
work of that expert sign-writer, ID. A.
Gupul.
THE union Thanksgiving service will be
held this year at Trinity church, beginning
at half-past ten o'clock. Rev. A. j. Hough
will preach the sermon.
REV. G. I. RAYMOND will repeat, by re-
quest, his sermon on Regeneration from
| Scientific Standpoint next Sunday even
ing. The sermon will be illustrated
JOHNNIE GRAvELIN, who sang so enter
! tainingly at the recent band fair, has met with
much success in soliciting contributions to
enable him to pursue his musical education
EIGHTEEN veterans were examined at the
regular meeting of the board of pension sur
! geons on Wednesday of last week. Special
Examiner j. Ii. Davis from Pennsylvania
was present.
The post-offce will be open on Thanks
| giving morning from eight to ten o'clock
and in the afternoon from four to six. The
only street delivery will be at half-past nine
| in the morning.
THERE will be a service of song at the
| Church of the Messiah on next Sunday
evening. Miss Mary A. Phinney formerly
the contralto of the choir, and II. w. Kemp,
bass, will assist the choir.
THE new chimney at the works of the
| Lane Manufacturing Company was finished
in the early part of last week. The boiler
| will be set this week, and the roof of the
| boiler-house is now being built.
EDWARD BIxBY of Chelsea, a carpenter
employed on the house of Edward Dewey
| on State street, fell from the second story
| of the building on Thursday of last week
| and broke the bones in his left wrist.
BEN. DALEY's mules became detached
from the cart on Monday morning and ran
wild about the streets for a half hour or so.
Every one respected their heels sufficiently
to keep proper distance from them.
THE administrators of the estate of Dennis
Lane have sold to George l.. Lane the lot of
! land between his house and the one occu-
pied by Captain Robinson, on Summer
street. A sidewalk has been laid in front OF
the lot.
MT. SINAI TEMPLE, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, will have grand ball at the Pavil-
ion on January 10. There will be meet
ing in the afternoon of the same day, at
which orders will be conferred on several
candidates.
The Thanksgiving ball this evening will
probably be the most elaborate event of the
kind that has taken place in Montpelier for
a long time. The floor managers will be
A. ID. Farwell, c. f. Lowe, A. G. Raton
and h. w. Hyde.
S. q. WooLsoN has been appointed by the
president of the Custom Tailors' Associa-
ton to represent Vermont at the annual
convention at Chicago in the third week OF
January. He has also been placed on the
executive committee.
THERE was a pleasant socable in the
vestry of the Church of the Messiah on
Friday evening Of last week. Supper was
served as usual, and a short programme OF
music was presented, the Apollo quartette
singing several selections.
CAPITAL GUARD VIII engage in esmory
target practice twice each seek daring the
winter, Tuesday and Thursday evenings
being selected as practice nights. The size
of the squads into which the company had
been divided will be changed.
REV G.. c. CREEGAN, field secretary OF
the American Board of Foreign Missions
was the guest of A, j, Howe ON Sunday
In the morning, at Bethany church, he
spoke on Z" The Progress of Christian Civili.
zation in Other Lands than Ours
On Friday afternoon the ladies of Bethany
church will meet in the vestry to receive
any articles of wearing apparel or of a
miscellaneous nature that members of the
parish may see fit to give to send to a
Sunday-school class in Dakota town.
PROFESSOR X. c. WHEELER and Miss
Harriet Ensign, principal and preceptress
at the Union School, are passing the Thanks
giving recess at their homes. Professor
Wheeler lives at Fairfax, this state, and
Miss Ensign's home is Mechanicsville, n. Y.
THE marriage of Fred w. Moulton, head
waiter at the Pavilion, and Miss Minnie l..
Morse occurred at the home of the bride 's
parents at Lebanon, N H., on Wednesday
OF last week. Mr.. Moulton's Montpelier
friends congratulate him on the happy event
CHARLOTTE X. SHIPMAN, eldest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs Charles ii. Shipman, was
nine years old on Monday, and to celebrate
the event she invited between thirty and
forty of her young friends to her home in
the afternoon, OF course they had a merry
time.
WILLIAM MCCUE of White River Junction
was arrested at Barre for drunkenness a
week ago Sunday. He disclosed on G. Il
Of nlta rl,D tod ,..l