The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-18

about month, during which time he trav-
eled some 5000 miles and saw considerable
earth.
III. G. GLEASON of the firm of Gleason &
20, is in New York buying goods for the
holidays.
SUMNER KIMBALL has bought the interest
OF Il. X. Markham in the Ascutney Granite
Company.
II. E. SLAYToN started yesterday for st.
Johnsbury, in the interest Of "Gold Medal
Sarsaparilla."
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOHN w. PAGE left Tues
day for the West, accompanying the Ray
mond excursion.
MARY, daughter of d. X. Johnson, was
married last week Monday to a Mr.. Currier
OF New Hampshire.
MOUNT SINAI TEMPLE, Mystic Shrine,
has meeting next Monday evening, with
banquet at 6:30 P. NJ.
Rev. j. E. LOCKE of Boston preached at
the Baptist church, last Sunday, and is to
oficiate next Sunday.
STEPHEN r.. Colby is back in his old ca
pacity as day conductor on the local branch
OF the Central Vermont.
Miss GENEvIEvE LYNCH, mentioned last
week as i'll with consumption, died at More
town yesterday morning.
MRS. j. WARREN BAILEY and Miss Ella,
York for an extended stay.
l.. H. HUTCHINSON has purchased of Sib-
ley ~ Kemp lot, corner of Sibley avenue
apd Sabin street, for $1,000.
MRS. WoLCoTT, mother of Mrs. Theodore
Dewey, and her daughter Cora, returned
last evening to Philadelphia
COLONEL CHARLES s. FORBES of st. AL
bans was in town last Monday. The colonel
| looks quite impressive in whiskers.
REV. A. j. HoUGH went to Hinesburgh
| yesterday, and in the evening delivered his
noted poem, The Country Parson."
A. w. BARNUM, stenographer in the
Montpelier & Wells River railroad offices,
spent Sunday at his home in Milton.
AN extra express freight between Mont
| pelier and Barre leaves at 3: 40 P. NJ. over
the Montpelier & Wells River railroad.
THE ceiling in the freight office of the
Central Vermont has been sheathed, and
other improvements are contemplated
THE Non-Partisan Woman's Christian
temperance Union will meet with Mrs. D.
l.. Fuller this afternoon at three o'clock.
The woodshed of the Montpelier & Wells
River railroad has been moved from Sabin' s
crossing to point near the engine house.
FRANCIS BUTTERFLY has furnished the
necessary $3.50 bonds to secure the liberty
OF his son, George. charged with conspiracy.
E. K. ROBINSON of Clarenceville, P. O.,
has been visiting Frank Robinson, his
cousin, leaving for Boston on Monday morn
ing.
MRS. G. e. LIHDsLEY of Oneida, n. Y,
who was called here by the death of her
father, Richard Bailey, returns home to-
day.
THE new road leading to "Edgecliff
Cottage" the residence Of S. w. Corse, is
nearly completed, and is to be called Cliff
street.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JAMES W. BROCK will receive
their friends Monday evening, November
%, the twenty-tifth anniversary of their
marriage.
arrived last Saturday for the grading about
the new National Life Insurance Company s
building.
KosCUIsKo BISHOP, younger brother of
Professor Bishop died at Trenton, n. j, d.,
| Sunday, of typhoid fever, after an illness of
| five weeks.
EDWARD DEWEY and his son, Thomas,
went to Burlington last evening, to attend
the organization of a state commandery of
the Loyal Legion.
IT took eight horses to draw to East
Calais last week big Barre granite monu-
ment made by Weston & Smith, for the
family of Caleb Bliss.
Ed. HARRINGTON, well known in Mont
pelier several years ago, when he worked
| LOT flSner " cotton, uleu at Rutland, week
before last, of typhoid fever.
The Montpelier & Wells River railroad
begin, next month, to heat their passenger
cars by steam from the locomotive. The
" deadly car stove" is going.
JOHN w. EMERY has put into his store the
biggest heating stove in this vicinity. 1t is
a monster. The stove taken out has been
in the store twenty-five years.
Mr.. AND MRS. ALBERT SPARROW went to
Calais, last Monday, to attend the celebra-
tion of the seventy first birthday anniversary
of Mrs A. M. Sparrow, his mother.
ct j. BoYNToN of Montpelier, postofice
inspector" is the way the Free Press insists
on representing our esteemed townsman.
VIII the Free Press ever come out of the
past?
Mrs. FRED BLANCHARD returned Monday
from Stowe, where she had been during the
| illness of her aunt, Mrs. w. III. III. Bing.
ham. Mr.. Blanchard attends her funeral
| to-day.
K. w. THOMPSON, staton-agent-elect, was
in town Monday, still house hunting. The
| trade for the Shepard house fell through, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson may conclude to
board this winter.
Hon. Q. NJ. SPAULDING, president of the
Howard National Bank; Henry Green, a
trustee OF the Burlington Savings Bank
and Ex-Governor Roswell Farnham of Brad
ford, were in town yesterday.
III. q. WEBSTER squandered three days,
last week, in going to and returning from
Arlington, all on account of the shiftless-
ness of the telegraph operator there who
delayed for two days, sending dispatch.
A. l.. MEADER, former resident of Mont
pelier, was in town Monday for the first
time in seven years. Mr.. Meader has since
his departure from Montpelier lived in
Massachusetts, New York and North Caro-
! lima.
WHEN letter-carrier John Miller returned
home, last Thursday night, he found his
mother and sister awaiting him with a
handsomely framed crayon of himself a
present from them and from his brother
William.
A SPECIAL train will be run from Mont
peler on Thursday evening to carry menu
bers OF Aurora Lodge and uniting brethren
to Plainheld, where Wyoming Lodge is to
work the third degree. The train leaves at
q: 45 p. NJ.
THE poultry train over the Montpelier &
Wells River railroad leaves Barre for Bos-
ton at twenty minutes past two, and Mont
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