The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18
Montpelier and Vicinity.

HARRY SLADE passed lew uayS IN kuu-
land last week.
CHARLES DAVIS was fined S10.35 on Sat
urday for intoXiCation.
GENERAL CIRCUIT sent S25 TO the Grand
Army fair in this village.
COLONEL f. E. SMITH returned from his
western trip on Saturday.
Mrs. J. II. BuRpEE and her son George
will be at Chester during this month.
FRED X. HASTINGS has bought house lot
on Winter street and will build at once.
JAMES r.. LANGDoN was elected president
of the National Car Company last week.
DIR. HOMER G. BRIGHAM of Grand Rapids
Mich. formerly of Montpelier, is in town.
CRUSHED stone has been laid on Main
street from School street to the Golden
Fleece.
IT will be gratifying to the friends of Rev
S. G. Hayford TO hear that his health is i'm
proving.
THE railroad commissioners have been in
spectng the roads in this vicinity within a
few days.
THE Chautauqua class meets on Friday
afternoon at the usual time with Mrs. G. H.
Shipman.
DAVID L. SANDERS and family went to
Moretown, Friday of last week, on a short
fishing trip.
MISS JULIA MEAD, now of Illinois, daugh-
| ter OF the late Captain A. A. Mead, has been
visiting in t.,vn.
SEVERAL young ladies met at Miss Jennie
| Phinney last Saturday evening. 1t is said
there were thirteen.
THE death of Mrs. Mary Armstrong of
the Berlin side occurred on Saturday last.
The funeral was on Sunday
LEONARD ID. LAWRENCE has secured
through Pension Agent Baker an original
pension of IS per month and S266 arrears.
MISSES LILLIAN AND KATE STowELL were
| at Warren, n H., last week. Miss Lillian
went afishng and caught seventy trout, or
| thereabouts.
Two streets, called Taplin and Blackwell,
were laid out on Monday on the land of the
| Mechanics Building and Construction Com
pany in Berlin.
Chicago on August ., with the New Hamp-
/ shire Patriarchs Militant, if the latter de-
eide to engage their services.
G. W. LoCKLIN, now of Trenton, Ga,
! arrived in Montpelier last week. He will
remain here during the summer in the in
terest of the Terminal City Land Company
THE rear part of the Sloan building is be-
ing torn down and the front portion will be
moved back. As soon as this is done the
land will be graded and and a lawn laid
| out.
IT is said that a ball team of young
ladies'" from Cincinnati is booked for a
game here on August g. Very likely the
team will have disbanded long before that
| time.
NEXT Sunday will be observed as Chill
dren's day at Bethany church. In the
evening there will be " children $ service -
and little Stella Crandall will assist in the
singing.
THE Womans Christian Temperance
! Union will meet in the parlors of Bethany
church to-day Wednesday at four o'clock
P. M. A full report of the county conven-
tion will be read.
Two new members have been added to
the band-one cornet player and the other
a clarionetist. The former is Leon Wiley,
recently of Dakota, and the latter Thomas
Wade of Westboro, Mass.
Hon. JOSEPH POLAND presided at the
state convention of COngregationalsts at
Rutland last week He was also elected
vice-presdent Rev. c. S. Smith was a
member Of the committee on business.
! ELMER +. SAUNDERS was in Boston last
week in conference with the owner of a
large stock farm near that city He has
been offered the position Of manager, and if
he accepts he will 90 there in October.
THE blacksmith-shop of Damien Mat
THEW, recently purchased by =. l.. Lyons,
is to be used by the latter as a plumbing
shop, with carriage-shop on the second
THE contract for the new National Life
Insurance Company building has been
awarded to Cutting x Bishop, contractors
at Worcester, Mass. The building will be
of brick, and is to he finished by August ,
1891.
FOSTER r. CLEMENT OF Minneapolis, the
donor of the fountain at the Seminary, made
| lying visit to the grounds on Monday
! morning. The fountain is about completed
and the grounds are being graded very
prettily.
BY general order of Governor Dilling-
ham, issued on the 1lth inst, the following
privates of Capital Guard were discharged
up to February s: Charles !. Davis, George
w. Krooner, II. E. Slayton, George ii.
Whitney.
WHAT the Barre street girls " can not
think of and carry out-in the way of fun
isn't of much account. A sort Of a mas
querade recently was good deal of " cir
GUS" and good deal of a strain on the
ribs of the observers.
THE proposition to form a village i'm
provement society is being favorably dis
cussed, and as soon as the political excite
| ment has abated a little a meeting will be
called. The idea of forming a society meets
much encouragement.
AT the conclave of the grand commandery
of the state at Burlington, last week, a reso-
luton OF sympathy for +. II. Bascom, who
was i'll at Munce Ind, was adopted, and
a copy was sent to him. Mr.. Bascom was
elected grand treasurer.
THE Champlain Universalist Association
has its annual meeting on Wednesday and
Thursday of this week at Williston, and on
Wednesday evening Rev. j. Edward
Wright will give a discourse on The Lib
eral Christians Vantage Ground for Bible
Study"
f. II. BAscoM, who was taken ill at
Muncie, Ind, some time ago, returned
home yesterday. A badly sprained ankle
was mistaken by his physicians for rheuma
tism. The sprain will cOn6ne him to the
house for some days at least.
AN unsightly spot on the Berlin hank Of
the river, opposite the entrance to the Gem.
etery, should be removed by the Berlin au.
thorites. If the Montpelier side of the
river is kept clear of rubbish there is little
gained in the way of beauty unless the op,
poste bank is also free from such deposits.
AT a meeting of the Montpelier Boat
Club, on last week Friday night it was
voted to improve the camp at Mirror lake
and to build boat and club house Money
will be raised for these purposes. The
steamer is being repaired and repainted II
will not he taken tn Grafton non1 thia suu,