The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20
Montpelier and Vicinity.

JOE LYONS, the oldest son OF =. S. Lyons,
has gone to Boston to work.
Mrs r. w. HYDE of ST. Paul, Mimi, is
visiting her son, e. ID. Hyde.
j. G. BROWN and wife went to Boston last
week aud returned yesterday.
THE annual meeting of the grand lodge
of Odd Fellows will be held here June 2.
e. f. HUTcHINs has sold his house ON
Barre street to Dennis Ryle. Price, 1900.
Mr.. AND Mrs. FRED CHASE Of Manches-
ter, N H., are visiting relatives in Mont
pelier.
S. S. TowNER and wife leave this week
for Saratoga, N. Y. to remain there few
weeks.
GEORGE TRoMBLEE went to Hartford,
Conn. Saturday, to visit his father-in-law,
who is quite ill.,
COLONEL FRED e. SMITH has been re-
elected president of the Munce Ind, street
railway company.
CARL j. GLEASON, who is at school at the
Rock Point Institute, Burlington, was at
home over Sunday.
j. w. f. WAsHBURN has been off duty at
the Vermont Mutual office, on account of
| illness, since Sunday.
| HARVEY FREEMAN has sold his double
| tenement house on Barre street to T. W.
Eagan. Price, SO, 200.
COLONEL FRED f. SMITH is expected to
return to Montpelier some time during the
first week of June.
HENRY HoLLIsTER, who has been a resi-
dent OF Sioux City, Ia, for about year, is
in town for a week or two.
EUGENE F. RAND, recently yard-master of
the Wells River railroad, is now a con-
ductor on the suburban trains.
The ladies of Trinity church had pleas
ant sociable at the home of Mrs. ID. l.. Full
Ter last week Wednesday evening.
THE United States Clothes Pin 6smpany
is after the worlds market. Last week it
sent 200 gross of pins to Germany.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Mrs. A. G.. Fay on Barre street next Friday
afternoon at quarter-past two o'clock.
THE boarders at the Hotel Kempton gave
Mr.. Kempton's family a complimentary
dinner at the Exchange Hotel on Sunday.
SEVERAL members of the Montpelier fire
department will probably attend the tour
nament at Rutland, but no company will go
in body.
THE meeting OF the state farmers league
will be held on June 3, at Red Mems hall.
Hon George T. Powell is to be the priu.
cipal speaker.
REV. A. j. HoUGH is to give lecture al
Bradford next week Wednesday evening
Mr.. Hough is also to give the Memorial day
address at Cabot.
REV. j. j. LEWIS of South Boston is tC
preach in the Church of the Messiah next
Sunday morning and evening, exchanging
with Mr. Wright
REV. A. b. TRUAx has been invited tC
preach before the comrades OF the Grand
Army post at Rochester on the Sunday be
fore Memorial day.
j. w. CAUsTIC, formerly of the WATCH
MAN office and now living at Cambridge
port, Mass, was in town on Monday an(
is now in Marshfield.
A. c. RAYMOND and wife of Stowe wer
in town yesterday. Mr. Raymond is post
master at Stowe, and represented that tow
: in the legislature in 1886
THE staging about the National Life In
surance building has been removed, and
| better idea of the architectural beauty o
3 the building can now be obtained
2 THE Goddard Seminary ball team de
l feated the Montpelier high school boys a
Barre, yesterday afternoon, nineteen t
d, eighteen. Eleven innings were played
MASTERS CHESTER WRIGHT AND LoUI
BROOKS are expecting to spend few week
in July with Rev. George w. Perry, stat
geologist, at his camp for boys on Crane
Isle.
1 THE graduating exercises of the higl
school will take place on the last Friday il
June. There will be but two graduate
this year, Miss Mabel Goodwin and Harr,
Shurtletf.
THE new granite shed of the Wells Rive
railroad company is about completed, an,
a few men are already at work. A full
force can not be employed until derricl
has been erected.
FRED REED was arrested at his hom
Sunday evening for intoXication, and wa
fined S10.0l. He disclosed on man nance
Frazer of Barre, but it is believed tha
Frazer is a myth.
THE lecture of Rev j. j. Lewis of Bosto
on the Passion Play" at the Church c
the Messiah next Friday evening, should nc
be forgotten. 1t will be one of the bes
things OF the season
IT is expected that the new flag will b
raised above the Union school building il
about two weeks. Appropriate exercise
will be held, and these will probably includ
a speech by General Thomas.
THE $50 reward offered by the selectme
;. To any one finding the body of Charles y
e Galaise has not been paid to Mrs. Pierc
It Welch as yet, hut she will receive it as 500
4 as the selectmen can take formal action.
G GEORGE RIPLEY, president of the Hid
u and Leather Bank of Boston, recent
: bought horse of Albert Loyejoy OF More
s town and another of a Middesex man
l. They were taken to Mr. Rpley's home i
l. Andover, Mass.
n j. e. CURRAN was one OF the represent
a atives of Vermont at the annual conver
, ton of the supreme lodge of the New Eng
=, q land Order OF Protection at Boston las
y week. He was elected member of tn
n executive committee.
h CHARLES II. FERRIN went to Mar
> Fletcher hospital at Burlington last week t
n have surgical operation performed
IS was found best, however, not to attemI
d the operation then, and he will be oblige
q to go again to the hospital soon.
' Mr.. AND MRS. II. G. WEBSTER, who wen
y to Villa City, Fla, in November, returne
IL on Friday OF last week Mr.. Webster ha
T, been engaged in trade during the winter
u but has closed out his business there. II
II returns much improved in health.
a. A SERIOUS forest fire threatened the Edwi
.s Lane mills at Lanesboro, last week Thurs
n day and Friday, and a force of men wa
v sent from Montpelier each evening to pre-
4 tect the mills aud the railroad property
\. The rain of Saturday put the fire out
Is THE twenty-sixth annual meeting of tn
e Vermont State Eclectic Medical Societ
will be held at the state house, June an
d 4. 1t is expected that this will be tn
d largest and best meeting the society ha
8, held for several years. Dr. Fl. n. Wait
II will give the annual address,