The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-23
Montpelier and Vicinity.

Pavilion.
A LONG side-track is being built at the
junction.
II. A. BOWMAN has recovered from the
diphtheria
L. p. GLEASON and family returned from
Boston last week.
HARRY LOWE has received patent for
muzzle for horses.
THE house of John H. Senter is to be
lighted by electricity.
f. e. DoNAHUE is expected here from
Fort Payne, Ala, this week
n. w FRINK returned on Saturday from
two weeks trip in the West.
THE party of Montpelier campers at Morey
lake, Fairlee, returned yesterday,
THE band is practicing marching on the
state-house grounds and the streets
Mrs. w. r.. WESTON and her son Harry
went to Portland, Maine, yesterday.
Mrs e. f. SANDERS and children have
been visiting in Waterbury and Stowe.
Mrs. A. II. MORT is in Boston, having
been called there by her mothers illness.
II. w KEMP has returned from his fishing
trip with the st. Bernard Club in Canada.
w. p. REDFIELD and wife of Cambridge,
Mass, have been stopping at the Pavilion.
ELMER CLARK is away on a vacation, and
Elmer st. John is taking his place at the
Pavilion.
The right ankle of George d. Butler, Jr.,
was broken last week by being stepped on
by colt
FRED A. CARR has left the telephone office
and is now at work for the electric light
company.
L. S. GATES went to his home at Brandon
yesterday, to remain there during his con-
valescence.
f. II. BAsCoM is visiting at Bethel. He is
still unable to walk freely, on account of
sprained ankle.
FoREPAUGHs circus is due here August
%. Query Will a circus start another epi-
demic of diphtheria?
SUMNER KIMBALL broke ground yester-
day for tenement-house on Spring street,
adjoining his residence.
THE family of c. II. Fuller returned from
Barton on last week Saturday, after visit
there of about four weeks.
Miss A. T. MCEvoY, cashier at Hotel
Hungaria, New York city, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. G. G. Ramsdell.
FOSTER G. STEVENS, who has been with
G. j. b. Denny for some weeks, returned to
st. Johnsbury on Saturday last.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT and family
went to Kennebunkport, Me-, on Monday,
to remain there for three or four weeks.
JOHN KEMPToN and wife of Cambridge,
Mass, spent few days last week with MIR.
Kempton's uncle, Horace w. Kempton.
CAPITAL GUARD is working on the skir-
mish drill almost exclusively. Blank car
tridges were used last Thursday evening.
THE pension of Ira A. Washburn has been
increased from So to SO per month and
that of William j. Foster from $12 to SIG.
b. NJ. SHEPARD returned from two
weeks vacation on Saturday. His fishing
trips yielded round fifty pounds of trout
REV. SAMUEL JACKSON of Stanbridge, p
| O., formerly member of the Vermont Cow
| ference, has been visiting Rev. A. b. Truax
FRED HAYES pleaded guilty, last night
to charge of assault on Percy j. Sanford
on Monday evening, and was fined 81 and
| costs
A PARTY of about forty ladies and gentle
men made an excursion to the quarres on
Sunday, going and returning on special
| train
CHARLES A. SANDERS has sold his house
on Elm street to Joseph Lapont for 81 800
The latter will take possession on Septem-
| Der /.
| JAMES A. FoRBUsH, general agent of the
German-American Fire Insurance Com
| pany, and wife were at the Pavilion over
Sunday.
JOSEPH FITZGERALD ceased his connec-
| ton with the Pavilion as night watchman
on Saturday. He is succeeded by Oliver
! Patenode.
w. A. WHEATON of St. Paul, formerly a
popular resident of this village, has been
renewing old acquaintances here during the
past week.
REV. G. T. RAYMOND returned from his
vacation, spent at New Ipswich, n. H., last
week, and preached at the Baptist church
on Sunday.
l.. ID. TAYLOR of Brattleboro has been
spending his vacation at West Berlin. He
has made number of calls on friends in
Montpelier.
WILLIE BLANCHARD, son of Asa Blanch
ard, returned from Milwaukee, Wis, last
week. He will remain in Montpelier for
the present
The Non-partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet in Trinity
church parlors to-day Wednesday, at three
O'Clock p. NJ.
THE St. Augustine Mutual Benevolent
Society goes to Highgate Springs on an ex-
cursiOn Thursday. The band will accom-
pany the society
ID. l.. SANDERS and l.. A. Flint, past and
present captains of Canton Montpelier, WIS.,
tied Canton Albin at Woodsville, n. H., on
last Friday night.
THE granite steps about the capitol are
being cleaned. A canvas covering is used
to protect the stone from the sun while the
work is in progress.
! SEVERAL gentlemen connected with the
New London & Northern railroad came to
Montpelier on Saturday in a private car
They remained over Sunday.
FLOWER mission and young woman's work
| will be presented at the meeting of the
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union next
Tuesday, in Bethany parlors, at four p. NJ.
COLONEL r. r.. RIKER is spending a few
days of vacation at Glover Mr.. Riker is
still hard worker, although more than
fourscore years have rolled over his head.
THE case of Langdon j. Davis for assault
on Charles Miller was tried before a Jury at
the Office of f. l.. Laird, Esq, on Monday
afternoon. After long trial the defendant
was acquitted.
| MRS f. G. JONES' nee Miss Lila Slack
who was formerly clerk in the money order
department of the post-oflice, was in Mont
pelier yesterday. Mrs. Jones home is now
at Maiden, Mass.
PROFESSOR JOSEPH BANTER of Hiawatha
Kansas, and his bride, and Professor l.. ID.
Whittemore of Washburn College, Topeka,
Kansas, and his sister, visited at George b.
b. Denny's on Monday.
a TENT for religious meetings has been
erected al the corner OF Main and jaw
streets, and services will ha bald aaob