The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09


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CRUSHED stone is being laid on School
street.
MISS JOSIE ROBINSON gave pleasant
whist party last night.
j. V. MoRRow's pension has been in
creased from SO TO S12 per month.
f. f. TowNER spent Sunday at Tunbridge,
where Mrs. Towner has been visiting.
FRED II. BoswoRTH of Bellows Falls,
formerly of Montpelier, spent the Fourth in
town.
b. NJ. SHEPARD is taking a week of his va
cation, spending the time at his home in
Marshtield.
SIDNEY w. CURTIS and family Of Brook
lyn and Mrs. NJ. b. Adams of Boston are at
the Pavilion.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE II. WILDER, accom-
panied by Mrs A. Ii. Mott, went to Mon
treal ON Monday.
NJ. A. PRATT, who has been at Fort
Payne, Ala, and vicinity for six or seven
months, is in town.
THERE was a dance at the Pavilion on
Wednesday evening of last week. The at
tendance was small.
CHARLES SANBoRN of the Union Trust
Company of Boston, with his wife and child,
is visiting l.. b. Cross.
The Sunday-school of the Church Of the
Messiah will have vacation until the first
Sunday in September.
A MEETING Of the Apollo Club was called
for Thursday evening of last week. but
quorum was not present.
Mrs. LYDIA B. DARLING died on Monday
morning at her home on First avenue. She
had been i'll but few days.
A NUMBER of hot-air balloons were sent up
by A. ID. Farwell on Thursday night, with
the compliments of the firm.
DANIEL G. FIELD had a serious attack of
erysipelas in the foot last week, but he is
now considerably improved
II. ID. HOPKINS, JR., and wife went to
Highgate Springs on last week Thursday,
remaining there until yesterday.
JOHN MACK, who had been visiting his
brother-in-law, NJ. G. Powers, at Burling-
ton, returned to Montpelier last week.
LEROY WAsHBURN, who died at Barre on
last week Thursday was buried in Mont
pelier on Saturday. He leaves wife and
child.
The clothing stores will close at seven
O'Clock on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day evenings OF each week during July and
August.
EDWARD L. SMITH who returned home
recently from Worcester, Mass, where he
attends the Polytechnic School, is visiting
at Roxbury.
THE band will hereafter give two outdoor
concerts each week if the weather permits.
These will be on Tuesday and Friday
evenings usually.
NJ. E. SMILE and Judge II. w. Lyford of
Warren started on Monday for Peak s
Island, Maine, where they will spend va
cation of a few weeks.
LEON II. Lombard formerly proprietor
Of the Montpelier Steam Laundry, arrived
from Fort Payne, Ala, last week His
father is very i'll at Plainfeld.
THE Womans Christian Temperance
Union meets next week Tuesday in Bethany
parlors at four P. NJ. A full attendance is
desired, as the Alabastine Circular is to be
read.
A NEW floor is being laid on the piazza of
St. Augustine church, and a new sidewalk
has been built in front of the building
Some other improvements also have been
made.
CARDS are out announcing the marriage
of Miss Edith e, daughter of j. q. Adams,
and Samuel A. Moss of New Berlin, n. Y,
on the evening of the 10th instant at Christ
church.
A. G. FAY, ESQ, is the delegate of Gen
eral Thomas Camp, Sons of Veterans, to
the state convention at st. Adams yester-
day and to-day. A number of other mem
bers OF the camp are in attendance.
Miss ROGERS, daughter of Captain John
Rogers of Baltimore, who had been visiting
at the home of Abraham Long has returned
TO Baltimore. Miss Carrie Rogers, also of
Baltimore, is now visiting Mr. Longs
family.
A SMALL collision occurred on the Wells
River road at East Montpelier on the morn
ing of the 4th. The freight train was back
ing on the side-track, when the passen-
ger train ran into IL. The cow-catchers of
both engines were badly smashed.
CHARLES II, DAVIS, who has been at work
in Washington Orleans and Windsor
counties since last fall as special pension
examiner has been transferred to Pttsburg,
Penn. His eldest daughter was married at
Washington, ID. c., on the 30th ult.
SEVERAL panes of glass in the window of
the Chinese laundry on Elm street were
broken out Thursday night by the explosion
of large fire-cracker. The perpetrators of
the outrage would grace a cell in the Jail
better than any other place at present.
ROBERT DEWEY, with Bradford, Thomas
x Co. OF Boston, is stopping with his father,
Hon. Charles Dewey, for a few days of va
cation. George p, Dewey, general agent of
the National Life Insurance Company for
Maine, with headquarters at Portland, was
also in town on Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. CHARLES BAILEY and her son met
An unfortunate accident at Gilmore on last
Saturday. They were driving, when dog
frightened the horse, which SHE'D and threw
them out. Neither was seriously hurt, but
the carriage was badly smashed and the
horse was cut by running into barbed-
wire fence.
THE st. Bernard Fishing Club started on
Monday for its annual outing in Canada.
The members from Montpelier who are
with the club are Harlan w. Kemp, f. A.
Standish, j. w. Dillon, Charles Ii. Ferrin
and DR.. George f. Hunt. @. T. L. Sted-
man, of the firm Of Stedman & Kellogg,
brokers, of Boston, is also member of the
party.
CENSUS returns from a few Of the larger
places in the state have been made public.
Burlington has a population of IA 800,
which is gain OF over 5000 Brattleboro has
$40, st. Johusbury $3.50 and Bennington
$3.50. Both Brattleboro and ST. Johnsbury
show gains of several hundred, while Ben
nington stands about where il did ten years
ago. Incomplete returns from Barre give
that town population OF 600, gain of
over 4, 600 since 1880.
RKv. j. EDWARD WRIGHT will be away on
his vacation on the last Sunday in this
month and the first two in August. Rev,