The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-21
Montpelier and Vicinity.

Miss NINA DEWEY has been engaged as
contralto at Bethany church for the remain
der OF the year.
THE Franklin Hoyt place on Ridge street
was sold at auction ON Saturday to Charles
III. Cross for 1875.
MRS. JOHN VooDRY is visiting, for a
month, her daughters in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts.
NEXT Sunday evening there will be a
Sunday-school harvest concert" at the
Church of the Messiah.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Miss Nellie Tromblee, Friday afternoon at
quarter-past two o'clock.
EDWIN b. RICE and George B. Peck made
the round trip to and from West Randolph
on their bicycles on Sunday.
THE marriage OF Mrs. Clara G. Brainerd
and Pearl #. Blodgett will occur at Christ
church this evening at eight o'clock
JUDGE UPTON is improving quite rapidly,
and 1t is hoped that he will be we'll in a
short time. He is now able to sit up.
MRS. KATE WILSON and Mrs. ID. B. Har-
baugh are at the Pavilion, and will prob
ably remain there through the winter
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Miss Eliza Rublee
next Thursday afternoon at three o'clock
EDGAR A. PORTER has received an original
and Richard Dodge has received an in
creSse from IS to $12.
The Young Peoples Society of Bethany
church will hold "mental photograph
sociable in the chapel Friday evening" at
half-past seven. All are invited.
AURORA lodge of Masons enjoyed BAN
quet Monday evening, when number of
visiting Masons were entertained. Justin
Blaisdell of Barre gave very interesting
lecture.
IT is reported that Nathan Boyce, treas
urer of the town of Fayston, indicted by
the grand jury on complaint of Illegally
selling cider, has departed from these
regions.
AT the meeting of the Vermont Bible
Society at Enosburgh Falls, on Wednesday
of last week, Rev. A. B. Truax was elected
one of the vice. presidents and Rev. g. S.
Smith director.
MRS. H. r. B1xBY received $4,000 from
the New England Mutual Life Insurance
Company, through the agency of j. e.
Curran, within two weeks from the time of
her husbands death.
THE United States Clothes Pin Company
is TO build two sheds in the rear of its works,
to be used for storing lumber. One will be
twenty by fifty feet in dimensions, and the
other twenty-eight by forty feet.
COLONEL JACOB MCCLURE, who is now
living in Nashua, is in town for day or
two. The so-called conspiracy case" in
which he is the plaintiff, is to be reviewed
at this session of the supreme court.
REV. JOHN H. HINcKs, formerly pastor OF
Bethany church and now connected with
Atlanta University, gave lecture recently
at Brattleboro, on The Work of the Uni
versity in Solving the Southern Problem"
7. j. DEAvIrT, ESQ, is to read paper on
the late Ex-Governor Paul Dillingham; be-
| fore the Washington county court and bar,
| November 16. j. A. Wing, Esq, is prepar-
| ing resolutions to be presented at the same
time.
The supreme court met in general ses.
| siGs yesterday morning. The case OF Ag-
new Us. Dumas was heard, and one argu-
ment made in the case of the town OF
Underhill Us. the towns of Essex, Jericho
and Wiliston.
CHARLES A. SPAULDING was taken to the
house of correction at Rutland by Sheriff
Howe on last week Wednesday. His sen
tence was imprisonment for sixty days and
| fne of $500, it will be remembered. His
friends raised the money before he left fol
| Rutland.
Mrs. SPRAGUE and her niece, Mrs. Fer
guson have returned from their summer:
visit in the West, and are very warmly
welcomed by friends and neighbors. Mrs
Sprague is in the enjoyment of good health
and has greatly enjoyed her sojourn will
THE examination of post-offices in this
county has been completed, and with two
or three exceptions all the offices have
been found in good condition and the post
masters well informed. Two offices were
in such excellent shape that they wer,
given perfect mark
DELL SANDERS spent Sunday with hi.
parents in Morrisville. He shows us som,
fine specimens of copper ore from find IL
Wolcott, that is being developed by Boston
parties The opening is directly into tn,
side of the hill in which the vein is being
worked. Its extent and richness are yet Il
be ascertained.
AT the recent meeting of the State Med
cal Society at Burlington, DR.. ID. G. KemI
was elected treasurer OF the society, ant
Dr. G. E. Chandler, auditor. The latte
was also elected a delegate to the meeting
of the White River Medical Association
and the former to the meeting of the Ameri
can Medical Association.
e. f. STEVENS of East Montpelier has
sold his four-year-od colt to Charles San
born, treasurer of the Boston Safe Deposi
Company, for $780, The colt is a fin,
animal, and has trotted half mile in /: III
without training. He took the first prize 70
four-y ear. olds at the state fair, and also tn,
first prize in the gentlemen's driving race
The colts sire was the well-known Nordick
RANSOM WALLING died on Friday of las
Wtth du HIS nOLlc vi WI SllcCt, db Iii'
age of sixty-three years. He had been il
with rheumatism for several months, anC
his son Kimball had taken care of hin
throughout his sickness. The funeral tool
place Sunday afternoon, the Grand Arm!
attending in body, and the interment wa
at Green Mount cemetery. Rev. A. j
Hough otficiated.
A CORRESPONDENT writes: 81 see by tn,
Argus that its editor is getting to be quite
potato-grower. This must be one of the di
rect results of Mckinley tariff. The, Argu
editor has been one of the most persisten
critics of the bill, but now that he has fur
nshed a practical example of the beneficen
working of the law in its splendid encour
agement of home industries, think he will
become one of its warmest friends"
A MEETING of the division council of tn,
Vermont division of the Sons of Veteran
was held at Burlington, on Tuesday of las
week, to fill the vacancy caused by th'
resignation of X. W. Morse of West Ran
dolph as colonel. Lieutenant-colonel III. S
Foster of Burlington was elected to tn,
office and Chaplain A. G. Fay OF Mont
pelier was elected lieutenant colonel. Tn,
new officers were installed the same day.