The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30

necessary arrangements.
A. G. BROWN has removed the telephone
from Worcester, alleging that no one there
had sufficient interest to attend to the in
strument.
On Friday evening the parish of Bethany
church hold a reception, to which every
one who attends or has attended the church
is invited.
WITH the permission of the Argus, Mrs.
Abraham Long will remain a few days
longer with her parents in Boston. She has
not returned.
DIR. BoARDMAN has resumed his practice.
During his long illness he cultivated a lux
uriant beard, which prevents instantaneous
identification.
Mr.. WRIGHT is to preach in the Union
church in Middlesex next Sunday at half
past one in the afternoon. Subject, Gath
ering Life's Fragments"
Miss NELLIE KELLEHER, organist at st.
Augustne's church, was taken suddenly i'll
at midnight mass on Christmas eve, and
was obliged to go home.
Mrs. FRED CHAPMAN came home from
the st. Albans hospital to spend Christmas,
returning Saturday. Mr.. Chapman is con-
fined to the bed with grip.
Mrs. w. III. BEDELL Of Hardwick died of
pneumonia, December 27, at the age of
sixty-seven. She was the mother of Mrs.
j. f. Dutton Of this village.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE W. WING have
been afflicted with an extra savage attack
of the grip, and Charles u. Jones is con-
valescing from typhoid fever.
THE Chautauqua Circle will meet with
Mrs. Arthur Farwell, Thursday, December
81 instead of Friday. 1t will be Christ
mas meeting, observed in the usual way.
Mrs. NJ. ID. GILMAN is i'll, threatened with
pneumonia. Mrs. Rev. II. l. Cushman of
Providence, r. l., her daughter was sum
moned, and arrived last Monday evening.
Mrs. HASKELL of st Johnsbury visited
her sister, Mrs. W. w. Park, last week, con-
tracted the grip, recovered from it, and
has returned home. Quite an enterprising
lady!
A REGULAR communication of Aurora
Lodge will be held Monday evening, Janu-
ary 4. District Deputy Grand Master E. G..
Hooker will be present. Work on the first
degree.
THE members of the Central Vermont
Poultry Association are requested to meet
at the Exchange Hotel in this village next
Saturday afternoon, January 2, at two
| o'clock.
GEORGE p. DEWEY, from Portland, Maine,
and Charles Robert Dewey, from New York,
were among the eighteen who sat down to
dinner Christmas day at the home of Hon.
Charles Dewey.
WELL, how do you feel today" asked
last Saturday. "Oh," she replied with a
sunny smile, 81 think l am convalcing
quite rapidly"
The beer and liquor recently seized al
the Montpelier & Wells River freight depot
was consigned to the sewer last Wednesday
and Thursday, and strong-smelling con
signment it was.
THE Cotton Manufacturing Company has
been trying its hand at manufacturing jour
nal boxes, and last week turned out a lo
for the Montpelier & Wells River railroad
that were very satisfactory.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet next Thursday at three
P. NJ. with Mrs. G.. b. B. Denny. The sub
iect of " Narcotics" will be discussed, pre-
ceded by the Bible reading given in the las
Union Signal
Mrs. DUDLEY of Middlebury, Mrs. F. But
terfy Mrs John Girard Mrs. Peter Rivers
Mrs. Loren Friend, Mrs. Daniel Brown, an'
Mrs. James Campbell all sisters, held a re
union last Wednesday evening at the hom
of John Girard
THE business done at the post-office th
past week far exceeded that of former years
1t began earlier and held out later, ant
Thursday witnessed big crush. The eX
change of Christmas presents seems t.
grow more extensive every year.
Mr. AND Mrs. JOHN l.. PIERCE went t.
Burlington last Saturday. Mr.. Pierce goe
on the road for his former employers, FeI
guson & Adsit. His place in the store O
d. L. Fuller & Son is taken by B. A. Flint
for the past two years employed by j. X
Lynde of Williamstown.
DOROTHY, widow of the late Curtis Har
ran, died last Friday, aged eighty eigh
years. She had been resident of Montpelie
for many years. She leaves two sons
Charles and James, with the latter of whom
she had made her home. The intermen
was in Green Mount cemetery,
FRED A. Rowland, ESQ, will not retur
to Minneapolis. Considerations relating t
his parents, who live at Lisbon, n. H., hav
induced him to accept fiattering offer fror
Ossian Ray, Esq, of Lancaster, to form
law partnership. Mr.. Howland's friends il
the East will be pleased to know that he
to develop and grow up with the new orde
, of things in this section.
CHRISTMAS passed merrily at the Ex
=, change. Mr.. and Mrs. Kelton and Mis-
Blanche, and Mr.. and Mrs. Sparrow, eacl
received a silver cup and saucer, the gift O
the hotel employees. Major Elder, the POI
, ter, familiarly known as Maze" was give
handsome ring by number of the board
ers. E. NJ. Irish was remembered with
small handbook on How to Play Pede.
A CORRESPONDENT at Lowell, VT, writes
"a recent issue of the WATCHMAN indi
Gates that the adjutant general wants tn
address of soldiers who served under com
tions. There are several such officers in thi
, section who do not know who the adjutan
general is or where his Office is, and ask
for information, His name and address are
, General I. S. Peck, Burlington, Vt.
j. e ALMoN has left the employ of tn
Lane Manufacturing Company and has
position setting up machinery and acting a
salesman for the Berlin Machine Works
with headquarters at No. l2l Liberty street
| New York. He leaves many warm friend
: among the boys whom he has worked wit
the past twelve years, and all join in wish
ing him success in his new undertaking
Mrs. Almon will remain here for year o
more.
SAMUEL SoMERvILLE was taken to the in
! sane asylum at Waterbury last Saturday b
Il. NJ. Irish and Charles Def. Bancroft
Somerville has been resident of Montpe
ier for twenty-five years. and served thre
years in Co. G, Second Vermont. He is
stone-cutter by trade. About six week
| ago he developed symptoms of insanity, an
grew worse at an alarming rate, so that tn
safety of the inmates ef his household wa
: imperiled.
, The officers elected last Monday night a