The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-08-20
MONTPELIER and Vicinity.

w. II. PHILLIPS OF Bennington is visiting
III. II. Scribner.
Mrs. HARRY LOWE returned from Rye
beach yesterday.
ARTHUR WHITCoMB is in Boston on a
two weeks visit.
Mrs. G. A. REED and Mrs j. NJ. Poland
are visitors in town.
AUGHrNEY ALLARD is clerk at the Ameri-
can house, SwantOn.
SUMNER KENDALL is building a dwelling
house on Spring street.
PROFESSOR JOHN j. LONG of Jackson,
Fla, is visiting relatives in town.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ASA BLANCHARD have gone
to Rye beach for "a two weeks stay.
Miss MARTHA HOLDEN, daughter of Will
lard Holden, is visiting her parents.
Mrs. EMILY T. SABIN and Miss Sabin re-
turned from Cottage City on Monday.
MR.. AND Mrs f. II. PUFFER and little
daughter are spending week at Putney.
| Mrs NJ. w. WHEELoCK returned on
Monday from short visit at Lynn, Mass.
SOME forty Gresham" " pigs returned
from the country to one stable in town last
week.
T. c. BARRows and George W. Reed ar
rived Tuesday evening from their fishing
trip to Maine.
EDITH, the eight-year-old daughter of
Herbert Wheelock, broke her left arm by
fall on Monday.
MRS. CHAFFEE and daughter Mary are
visiting Mrs. Wooster Sprague, the mother
of Mrs. Chaffee.
THOMAS CAREY, who died in the Brad
shaw block, Berlin side, last week, was
buried on Friday.
MAY U. GRIFFIN, who has been visiting at
the home of E. p Walton, has returned to
Somerville, Mass.
BENJAMIN DALEY has received the con-
| tract for grading the grounds about the gov
ernment building.
JOHN G. WILSON of Brighton, Mass, is
making ten days visit with his brother,
Charles E. Wilson.
Mrs. GEORGE II. PECK and Miss Lizzie
return this week from Cottage City,
Martha's Vineyard.
HENRY LIBBEN, clerk of the Union house,
lost his pocket book, containing about $50,
on last week Thursday.
A. T. KEITH went Monday to the home of
his son at Maiden, Mass. He will also visit
his daughter at Walpole.
S. G. SHURTLEFF, ESQ, went to Saratoga,
n. Y, yesterday to attend the annual meet
ing of the American Bar Association.
A NUMBER of Montpelier people are inter-
ested in the company which has been formed
to boom the town of Enterprise, Miss.
H. II. ScRIBNER returned on last week
Friday from a two weeks vacation spent at
IlN w., 4NdubuChtJ anu DOSlOH
Mrs. NJ. s. G. TURNER of La Cynge, Kan
sas, arrived on Friday and is warmly well
coined by her old friends and former neigh
bors.
NJ. w. BREWER of Chicago has been visit
ing his mother, Mrs. M. w. Brewer. 1t is
nearly eight years since he was in Mont
pelier.
EDWARD E. TowNER made an address at
the convention of the White River Chris
tian EuIeaVOr Union at Iprhal la ast weak
Wednesday.
The Colby Wringer Company has re-
ceived, by assignment from Charles X.
Stinson of Boston, Mass, a patent for a
clothes-wringer.
REV. G.. L. RAYMOND and Edward E.
Towner assisted in forming a Christian En-
deavor Society at the Baptist church at
Barre last night.
7. j. MARsToN, only son of the late Mr..
Marston of Madison, Wis, was in Mont
pelier last week, the guest of his cousin,
Mr. E. ID. Hyde.
E. E. BLAKELY went to Manchester, n.
H., last week Thursday, on a business
visit, and Collins Blakely went to Rye
beach on the same day.
A PARTY consisting of Thomas Osborne,
Joseph .Almon, James Cullen and Joseph
Wood returned Monday from fishing trip
in the vicinity of Highgate Springs.
SOME handsome marble work, done by a
, Burlington firm, is being put in at the
Pavilion. John w. Peck is doing the plumb
; ing in connection with the improvements.
u. NJ. CAMP, who is a conductor on a Pull
man car between Kansas City, Mo-. and
, san Antonio, Tex, was in town a few days
last week, visiting his father, Erastus Camp.
OUR genial and accomplished townsman,
Mr.. L. w. Wood, the artist, was recently
, elected president of the Aldine Club of
authors, artists and publishers, in New
York.
SERGEANT ALARMS T. G. PHINNEY has re-
, Gently improved the ventilation of the
t lower rooms of the state-house and has
, made other needed improvements about the
! building.
, BINGHAM MARVIN has gone to Barre to
work in the store Of Marvin & Wilson at
that place. George Gates, who had been
= with the firm at Barre, takes his place in
$ the Montpelier store.
q THE band had outdoor drills on the state.
house grounds on Saturday morning and
d Monday afternoon. Drum-major Fred T
: Austin was present and conducted the
marching movements.
, f. X. DELoTTINvILLE has been visiting
at Lawrence, Lowell and Boston. He will
: go to New York before returning to Mont
i peler. Mr.. DeLottinville intends to follow
4 the insurance business.
= FOUR mounted cowboys, with bugles
woke the echoes early Monday morning
= announcing that Forepaughs circus is OF
,. the way to Barre They were picturesque
$ characters, but no musicians,
e A soCIABLE was given in the vestry o
), Bethany church by the Christian Endeavol
Society last week Friday evening. f. l.
u Smith gave an interesting historical lecture
S illustrated by the stereopticon.
i PROFESSOR CHASE and wife, who have
@ been boarding at Morton Marvin's, went tt
II Bar Harbor, Maine, on Monday. They viii
u remain there about two weeks, after which
= they are to return to Montpelier,
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE LHEREUx ant
: children of Brooklyn, n. Y, who have beer
- visiting Mrs. ID. w. Temple, Mrs. Lhereux
4 sister, have returned to Burlington, wher,
y :, they had been before coming to Montpelier
y MANY members and attendants at Trinit,
church are at the Central Vermont camp
meeting at Northfield this week. Their,
IS will be no service at the church next Sun
o day, as the camp-meeting continues unit
:, Monday.
:, EDWARD w. THOMPSON of Boston, form