The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-12-31

night instead of Monday night, as the vestry
was in use on the latter evening.
THE marriage of Miss Ivis b. Blanchard,
daughter of A. N. Blanchard and Charles
j. Shriner, is announced to occur at Beth
any church on next week Tuesday evening.
THE holders of Fort Payne stock have been
asked to pay 50 share to provide funds for
continuing the work of the company. There
is a meeting of parties interested in Boston
to-day.
Mrs. CYNTHIA STIcKNEY died on last
week Thursday, at the age of eighty-one
years. She was the mother of Mrs. Jona-
than Perkins. The funeral took place on
Saturday.
DURING the months of January, February
and March Rev. j. Edward Wright will
conduct meetings at the Morse school-house
but once a month, probably on the last Sun
day of each month.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with Mrs.
G.. b. b. Denny on State street, next Fri
day afternoon at two O'Clock. The extra
questions are to be on the reading for the
last week in December.
AT the Christmas exercises at Trinity
church, Thursday evening, Rev. A. j. Hough
was presented a solid gold chain, which he
will wear with the watch presented him by
the house of representatives.
The selectmen and town treasurer have
sold $4,000 of the towns four per cent re-
funding bonds at par to the Montpelier
Savings Bank and Trust Company and the
National Life Insurance Company.
THE marriage of Edward N. Camp, son of
j. Newton Camp of the firm of Estey Il
Camp, Chicago and Miss Bernice III. Addi-
son is announced to occur at Chicago, Jan
uary g.. Mr.. Camp is well known in this
vicinity.
LAURA WAsHBURN, daughter of Colonel
Ashael Washburn of Montpelier, died at
Franklin, N. Y, on the 9th inst. Her
father is said to have established the first
Sunday-scbool in Vermont, if not in New
England.
GOVERNOR PAGE, acknowledgement
Fletcher and Speaker Mann met here on
last week Friday to examine and sign the
engrossed laws. Secretary Brownell and
Engrossng- clerk Coolidge were also in at
tendance.
THE shoe-stores will go into winter even
| ing quarters Thursday, January l. On and
after that date they will close at six O'Clock
p. M, except on Monday and Saturday
evenings, when the working force will be
on deck for business.
A PLEASANT family gathering occurred at
the home of Charles H. Fuller on Christmas
! day. Three generations were present A
| Christmas tree was one of the interesting
features, and the house was beautifully
decorated with evergreen, etc.
TRAINS were pretty generally delayed
| throughout the laNer Galf OF last week,
| quite number being three or four hours
behind time. The longest delay was in the
case of the train due here at 1920 P. NJ.
| Thursday, which arrived at about nine
| o'clock the next morning
SEVERAL members of Montpelier lodge OF
Good Templars went to Barre, Saturday
evening, to assist Granite City lodg" in its
| degree work. Montpelier lodge conferred
the degree on several candidates on Friday
evening, and an interesting programme ol
literary exercises followed.
I GEORGE MEADE and AFRO Levenway were
arrested on Wednesday for drunkenness
and on Thursday they were before Justice
Smi'ia Meade was fNed SI001 and was
discharged. Levenway coula nOl pay III,
fine at that time, but on Saturday he settled
for Sl5.35, and breathed The free air again.
The Union and Grammar schools will
open on Monday, and one of the new rooms
in the addition will be occupied by schol
ars. Miss Kate Robbins, who has taught
three terms on the Berlin side, has been
engaged as the new teacher. The addition
is finished and the seats and blackboard.
will be put in place before Monday
THE annual meeting of the Comrades o.
Brooks Post was held Monday evening, ant
these officers were elected President
Willard Holden; vice-pre sidents G. II. Bag
ley and w. w. Noyes; secretary, Edward
Baker; assistant secretary, W. F. Water
man; treasurer, John A. Newton; execu
tive board, John f. Phelps, w. n. Dudley
Charles Harran.
Mrs. e. p. JEwETT passed away Tuesda!
afternoon, after a painful illness of severa
weeks. Mrs. Jewett had long been a con
spicuous figure in the social life of Mont
pelier. She was the daughter of Hon
Charles X Field of Brattleboro, a woman
of bright mind and great strength and fore
of character. A sketch of her life will ap
Al,
MOUNT ZION CoMMANDERY elected the fol
lowing officers last Friday evening: Emi
nent commander, N. w. Frink; general
issimo, f. l.. Eaton; captain-general j. L
Curran; preate, Il. o, Hibbard; senior war
den ID. S Wheatey; junior warden, Charlie
H. Fuller; treasurer, +. A. Dwinell; re
corder, G. ii. Heaton; standard bearer, Il
l.. White; sword bearer, George NJ Goss
warden, S. r. Colby The officers will b
installed January 80.
A LETTER recently received by Mr.. r. NJ
Hutchinson from Miss Josephine Page q
Columbus, Ohio, brings the first intelligenc
received from the family for long period
Her father, Hon. w. II. b. Page, died
year ago to-day, at the age of Seventy-eil h
years. Mr.. Page was a son of the Rev. Ben
jamin Page, who, with his family, move
from Calais to Ohio about fifty years age
driving his own team and accompanied b,
his wife and daughter, his son having pre-
CbNtu MN.
MEETINGS of the Montpelier Independent
Meeting house Society and of the Church c
the Messiah were held Monday evening
when the church elected these officers
Senior warden A. Johonnott junior wal
den, l.. b. Huntington; treasurer, j. G
Brown; clerk, Nj. A. Kent; auditors, A.
Fav, George Banchard collector, G. W
McAllster; executive committee, A.
Brown, A. o. Cummins, ID. f. Long, f. W
Morse, Mrs. Sarah Heath, Mrs o. H. Ricl
ardson, Mrs. A. G.. Fay; pew agent, A. L
Farwell; committee to confer with the pa'
tor, II. X Peck, e. ID. Hyde committee o
subscriptions, III. NJ. Cutler, George Blancl
ard, Mrs j. g. Brown. The treasurer +,
{ ported that there was a surplus in the treal
ury. The meeting adjourned to January /;
at seven o'clock in the evening.
, The new post.office will be opened fC
, use tomorrow Thursday morning, and a
it is New Years day, the same hours will b
followed as on Chrstmas-that is, from eigh
, to ten in the morning and from four to 81
in the afternoon. Messrs. Brown an
Miller will make one general delivery in tn
morning, and collections will be as usua
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