The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-15
Montpelier and Vicinity.

The new house OF George IL. Wilder on
Hubbard street is nearly completed
Miss MARION KENDALL of California is
visiting at the home of f. II. Bascom.
WALTER E. HARRIS of Glens Falls, n, Y,
is doing reportorial work for the ArgttS.,
MIR. AND MRs. A. G.. TRULAN are the
parents of a little daughter, born on Satur-
day.
GEORGE W. HARLOW and wife returned
from their wedding trip to Montreal Mon
day.
CAPTAIN ID. II. KELToN has gone to
Bridgeport, Conn, to remain two or three
weeks
JUDGE j. j. DEAvITT of st. Adams, an
uncle of T. j. Deavtt, Esq, was in town
Monday.
FRED G. INGALLS,, who recently lost
child. is i'll with typhoid fever at Lancas
ter, n. II.
Miss MAUD GRMsHAw of Minneapolis is
visiting Miss Mary Freeman, her college
friend and classmate.
THERE will be a sociable in the vestry of
the Church of the Messiah next Friday af-
ternoon and evening.
THE annual supper of ST. Jean Batiste
Society is to be held at Capital hall on the
evening of October %.
JUDGE DANA and family, who have been
at the Pavilion for few weeks, returned
to New York last Monday
KINNEY BROTHERS are preparing to open
a store in the building on Franklin street
owned by Theodore Fisher.
THE service of song at the Church of the
Messiah, Sunday evening, was well at
tended and very interesting
THE oyster supper at Bethany church
on Friday evening was pleasant affair.
There was large attendance.
MINNIE, the little daughter of j. f. Dut-
ton died early Tuesday morning The body
was taken to Hardwick for interment
ELSIE NJ. BRUCE has sold to Peter G.
Dewey the lot and house at the corner of
Court and Elm streets. Price, 81 800.
The state convention of the Young Mems
Christian Association will be held here in
Bethany church, December 4, 3, 6 and Z.
EDsoN CHENEY has finished working
for II G. Webster 81 Co. and is now at
work in the store of Marvin & Sherburne
THE marriage of Joseph Shorey and Mary
Slattery will take place at st. Augustine's
church tomorrow morning at nine O'Clock.
REV. G. T. RAYMOND went to Boston on
Saturday. Professor f, A. Bishop occupied
the pulpit in the Baptist church in his
absence.
REV. ID. j. O'SuLLIvAN of st. Joseph's
College, Burlington, has been spending a
few days with his brother, Rev. w. j.
O'Sulivan.
The drugstore of f. II. Bascom & Co.
has been sold to Lester II. Greene. who for
the last four years has been in the employ
of Collins Blakely.
7. j. DEAvITT has been appointed COM
missioner on the estate of the late Charles
H. Heath, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Asa Blanchard
ARTHUR l.. HEwETT of Berlin, while at
work ON a building on Tuesday, fell dis
tance of thirty feet, striking beam and re-
ceiving very serious injuries.
By the reduction of rates on the Central
Vermont road, the fare to Barre is fixed at
twenty cents, and the round-trip tickets
are sold for thirty-tive cents.
REV. T. p. FROST of Brooklyn, formerly of
Montpelier, is to make the address at the
annual meeting of the Vermont Bible So
ciety, to be held here to-day.
THE Chautauqua class meets with Mrs.
d. S. Wheatley ON Elm street next Friday
at quaIter-past two in the afternoon. Roll
call-some familiar proverb.
A STEAM shovel is making inroads on the
bank this side of Barre Junction, on the
Montpelier & Wells River road. A new
side track has been laid recently.
REV. j. j. HALL will deliver an address
ON Total Abstinence" in Bethany church
next SUNDAY afternoon at four O'Clock under
the auspices of the Woman 5 Christian lem
perance Union.
II. f. SLAYToN has sold his book and
stationery store to f. ii. Aller, who for
merly lived here but has recently been a
travelling salesman for Kendall & Co., of
Enosburgh Falls.
! ID, l.. FULLER has sold to n b. Cove lot
! of land on East Liberty street, and Albert
Johonnott, for the G. H. Heath estate, has
| sold to Charles II. Cross a piece of land off
East Highland street
The Woman's Christian Temperance
! Union will meet next week Tuesday after
noon at half-past three with Mrs. j. NJ.
Durant. Miss Harriet A. Ensign is to read
a paper on Scientific Temperance lnstruc-
ton"
WHEN the curb stones about the new
government building are laid, the broad
/ space between them will he COuCrtted, and
! the carriage-way will be paved several
rods. \ very substantial piece OF work is
being done
THIS was the legend that passers by read
on the dead body of "A seVenteen-pound
hedgehog suspended from the Main street
| billboard yesterday morning: Frank
Townes bear, killed by Frank himself,
after fearful struggle"
ALBERT G. HALL, wife and child, have re-
turned to their home in Woodsville, y. III.
after visit with Mrs. w. Arthur Jones
Mr.. Halls sister. Mr.. Hall lost his pocket
book containing $50, and he thinks il was
night,
JOHN G. JAMES, a well-known Texas
banker, was in town on Wednesday and
Thursday, "A guest of Il. E. Blakely. Mr.
James is connected with several national
banks in Texas in the vicii ity of Fort
Worth, and is also one of the large stock
holders of the Vermont Savings Investment
Company.
In county court, yesterday, Clark b. Rob
erts pleaded guilty TO three offences under
the prohibitory law and was fined $50 fo
each offense and costs, aggregating S235 90
The court heard the case of state agans
John Eddy, charged with selling liquor t,
one George j. Flanders in May last Yer
dict, guilty.
Mr. IRISH has used the brush and othe
means of regeneration to good effect on tn,
old Montpelier House. The appearance o
the property has been greatly improved, anC
its desrability as "A hotel site enhanced b,
the recent changes in that quarter Mr.
Irish means to keep abreast Of the marcl
OF Improvement"
Miss CUSHING, "A representative of th
Prang company of Boston, dealers in ar
supplies, etc, was at the Union school OF
Thursday with Supervisor Booth. She is I,