The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-05
Montpelier and Vicinity.

THE lecture by Belle Boyd was not
largely attended.
THE Ten O'Clock club had dance at Cap
ital hall Thursday night
j. f. DUTToN and family have gone to
Hardwick for few weeks.
DANIEL E. SWEENEY has moved into the
Cross house on Ridge street.
WALTER f. WAsHBURN of Dartmouth
College Is at home for n day or two.
JOHN w. HILL has moved into the house
of Mrs NJ. f. Turner on Elm street.
Miss AMELIA BAILEY, a niece of Mrs. NJ
A. l.. Burbank, is visiting the latter.
THE Pavilion had by far the largest
crowd of the season at dinner last Wednes-
day.
MRS. FUTILE and daughter OF Fair Haven
are visiting at the home of Mr.. James ,
Langdon.
H. c. WEBSTER left Montpelier Mond,y
for Villa City, Fla, where he will speIl
the winter.
THE marriage of Miss Ida Ballou and MIR.
Clinton Weeks, the latter of Lyndon, will
occur to-day.
PROFESSOR o. X. HoLLIsTER of Goddard
Seminary spent Sunday at the home of DR..
IL. I. Whitney.
The household effects of Clark Alexander
were sold at auction on Main street Sat
urday afternoon.
Mrs A. o. MARSHALL, wife of the mem
Der from Brattleboro, is spending few
days at the capital
Ex-Governor STEWART of Middlebury
and President Buckham of the University
of Vermont are in town.
Miss MINNIE REED is visiting her mother,
Mrs Charles Reed She returned recently
from few months trip abroad.
A CONCRETE sidewalk has been laid on the
southerly side of East Liberty street and
the easterly side of Loomis street.
THE band fair began at Capital hall Mon
day night with large attendance. An in
teresting concert was given in the evening.
SERVICES commemorative of All Saints
Day, with communion, were observed at
Christ church Saturday at half past ten A. NJ
PROFESSOR Y. G. WHEELER spoke on
" Rhetoricals - at the Franklin county
teachers institute at st. Adams, Friday
afternoon.
BICYCLIsTs have been ordered off the
sidewalks, and failures to comply with the
order will subject the offenders to the liabil-
ity Of arrest.
y CALL has been issued for Woman's $
National Convention of the Non-partisan
Christian Temperance Union, at Cleveland,
o., January %. %, 24.
BURTON G.. French of Barre was arrested
Monday night while in an intoxicated con-
dtion, and before Justice Smile he was
found guilty and fined S100l.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Mrs. y. o. Cummins, on Seminary hill, next
Friday afternoon at quarter-past two o clock.
The quotations will be from Bryant.
REV. G. W. PERRY of Rutland, state
geologist, is to preach in the Church OF the
Messiah next sunday morning. Mr.. Wright
will occupy his pulpit in the evening.
\ LARGE number of members attended
the opening entertainment of the band fair
and of course had an opportunity to part
with some Of their hard-earned shekels.
,loN. Z. ID. PUTNAM is attendins- the
funeral OF his sister, Mrs. Abijah Jennison,
in Walden. OF his family only himself and
his brother Frank, of Malone, n. Y, remain.
REV. n. G.. AXTELL of Chicago is to give
a temperance lecture in Trinity church ON
! the evening of November 16, under the
auspices of Montpelier ledge of Good Ten
! plars.
JosEPH GREENE, who was formerly in
! the employ of ID. l.. Fuller a Son for about
! two years, died of consumption at East Ran
| dolph last Thursday. He leaves wife and
a little daughter.
COLONEL E. NJ. Brown of Bismarck Oak.
! formerly well-knOwn newspaper man OF
Montpelier, is visiting his old haunts and is
! cordially welcomed by his former friends
and acquaintancrS.
A NEW cellar under the old Montpelier
house is being dug, and boiler for heating
purposes will be placed in it,. The new pro.
| prietOcs, Mrssrs. KeltOn and Sparrow, w. Ii
take possession January |.
THE Village Improvement society will be
| Incorporated under the general law. 1t has
| been found lmpraCtlCdble to secure definite
powers, and the incorporation will have the
effect of simply giving stability to the so
ciety.
BY the slipping of guy, derrick at the
new insurance building fell Thursday after
noon while it was being raised, and, striking
tie rear wall of the buiding. the mast wa,
! broken off and stone was displaced
/ Fortunately no one was injured.
WILLIAM HORN, an Engishman who had
been resident here but a few months, died
! suddenly Friday morning at his home, No
634 Barre street, of typhoid pneumonia Mr.
| Horn was twenty-five years of age, and hal
been married only about two weeks.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, knowing the repu
| tatiOn of Vermont Morgan horses, wished
to purchase a pair for his own driving, anC
on Thursday Governor Proctor bought fo
him beautiful pair of bay Lambert Nor
gans Of Herbert Lane of Planield
Price, $500.
FRANK e. BARNES, who has been with ID
l.. Fuller x Son for some time, has closel
his labors with that firm. He will pass the
winter travelling ana NiSltlng, ana IN Int
spring he will take course in preparation
FOR becoming Young Mems Christian AS
sociation secretary
AT the meeting of the Vermont Homeop
athc Medical Society at Burlington OF
Thursday, a resolution offered by com
mittee of which DIR. H. S. Boardman wa
one, asking that the society be represented
on the medical board of the new asylum a
Waterbury, was adopted.
G. IL. Cross & SoN have shut off BerliI
water as motive power and are now usinl
steam. Their engine was used yesterda,
the first time for three years They CLAIM
that steam, particularly while they need i
for heating, is cheaper than water power a
the new rates fixed by the water board
Mr.. f. W. BANCROFT has kindly con
sented to sing at the lecture on the Passion
Play next week Wednesday evening. Tn
door receipts from the two entertainment
which have been given have been larg
enough to pay all expenses. 1t is probab
that the Library Guild will receive hand
some sum.
THE Central Vermont Poultry Association
met at the Union house Thursday after
noon, when it was voted TO unite the office
OF secretary and treasurer, and s. w. Corse
secretary, was chosen to the position. Com
mttees on the date of the snow and on by
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