The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Montpelier and Vicinity.

for TWO weeks,
THE salary of Postmaster Morse has been
increased 500.
G. E. WHITcoMB is visiting relatives at
Jericho Center.
T. j. DEAvITT, ESQ.,, was at Plattsburgh,
n Y, on Monday
Mrs. HEMAN CARPENTER of Mortified is
| the guest Of Mrs. G.. II. Wilder.
CANTON MONTPELIER installed its officers
on Friday evening of last week.
Miss EMMA CUTLER is in Burlington, the
| guest OF l.. G.. Burnham and wife,
SECRETARY OF STATE BRowNELL and Au-
ditor Powell were in town on Monday
Miss ELLA NJ. WAITE spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Luce at Waterbury.
Miss CARRIE FULLERTON of Minneapolis
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. j. V. Babcock.
REV. JOHN p. DEMERIrT of New Hamp-
shire is visiting his father, John Demerrtt
Mrs. WALLACE G. ANDREWS has so far re-
! covered from her illness as to be able to
ride out.
THE shed adjoining the large storehouse
OF E. M. Irish on Taylor street has been
| torn down.
STILLMAN CHASE has sold his house on
Park avenue to DIR. c. N. Hunt of Worces-
ter, for $500.
WILLIAM j. BAGLEY, engineer at the cleo
trio light works, and wife are in Connecti-
cut on vacation.
Miss MARY FREEMAN spent Saturday and
Sunday with her brother at the University
of Vermont, Burlington.
Mrs. G. S. BENNETT of Pierre, S. D., and
son were in town last week, guests of Mr..
and Mrs. ID. w. Dudley.
REV. G. w. GALLAGHER was one of the
| judges in rhetorical contest at Norwich
University last evening.
A HANDSOME triangular hower-bed has
| been laid out at the junction of Terrace
street and Bailey avenue.
TWELVE members of Montpelier lodge of
Good Templars attended the county union
meeting at Waitsfeld last week.
JAMES HALEY, secretary of the Foresters'
court, was presented a writiug-desk at the
last meeting, on Thursday evening.
DIR. c. E. CHANDLER has sold his house
on Barre street, at the head of Putnam
street, to John ONeil. Price S1,700
E. f. MURRAY returned yesterday from
Burlington, where he has been studying
medicine in the University of Vermont.
j. X FULLERTON of Waterbury, special
agent of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company, is in town for few days.
THE mantels and stair-cases of the new
house of Willis Blanchard on Barre street
are being put in by l.. ID. Sanborn of West
| Randolph.
Mrs. s. G. PRATT of North and East Mont
peier preached at the Church of the Mes
siah Sunday morning, in exchange with
Mr.. Wright.
MISSES ROSE AND EMILY LUCIA returned
home from their school at Newton, Mass,
last week. Their brother Dan had preceded
them a week or two.
HoE. WILLIAM CHAPIN has news of the
serious illness of his son Harry, at Selma,
Ala, and is arranging to 90 to that place
and bring him to Vermont.
REV. j. G. FLANDERS was made member
of the mission committe at the diocesan
convention at Rutland last week Hiram
Atkins declined reelection.
PROFESSOR j. w. BURGESS has an article
in the June number of the Political Science
Quarterly on Federal Government and
international Responsibility.
THE scholars of rooms No. and at
the Union School, of which Miss Blanchard
and Mrs. Billings are the teachers, had
picnic at Langdon pond on Saturday.
REV. c. w. LoNGREN of Barre is to preach
at Bethany church next Sunday evening.
Mr.. Gallagher will give a temperance lee
ture that evening in the opera. house in
Barre.
THE new track to Barre on the Wells
River road was disconnected from the old
track at the junction on Sunday, and the
Barre trains can now pass that point with
out switching.
l.. BART CROSS was at st. Adams yester-
day and completed arrangements for the
running of an extra train north, south and
to Barre on the night of July 4, after the
fireworks at ten o'clock.
SECRETARY PROCTOR was in town few
hours yesterday afternoon on his way to
Hanover, y. H., to attend the Dartmouth
College commencement exercises. His class
that of 81, has a reunion.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
L 81.
in the parlors of Bethany church. During
the summer, the meetings will be held
every other Tuesday afternoon at the same
place
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT spoke at the
meeting of the Champlain Association Of
Universalists at Richmond on Wednesday
of last week, his subject being The Mutual
Relation of the Sunday-school Teacher and
Scholar"
Mrs WAYNE BAILEY of Rutland and her
sister, who had been visiting her for several
months, arrived from Rutland on Monday,
and are with their father Rev. j. f. Stone.
Miss Stone has just recovered from an at
tack of the grip.
MRS. GEORGE w. REED went last week to
Cambridge, Mass, to be present at the
Harvard College commencement exercises
After these exercises she will go to Chester
field, Mass, her old home, and she will be
away in all two or three weeks.
ABOUT fifty members of the st. Jean Bap-
tiste Society, with the band started for
West Farnham, p. O., on the early morn
ing train yesterday. Organizations from
many of the larger places of New England
participated in the procession at Farnham.
COLONEL ID. X. Cross, son of the late Tim
othy Cross, formerly from Montpelier but
now of Denver, Col, and his niece, Mrs.
w. f. Cross, stopped over Sunday with
their cousin, l.. Bart Cross, en- route to Bos-
ton, from whence they sail for Europe the
9th instant.
Mr., II. l.. WALKER, teacher of vocal
music in the Union School, who is also the
music teacher in the Burlington schools,
was presented on last week Friday by the
graduates Of the grammar school of that
city a fine set Of five volumes on subjects
connected with music.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT and Chester
went to Boston on Monday. Chester will
probably remain at Swampscott for few
days in order to break up an attack of hay
fever Mr.. Wright will attend the Harvard
commencement exercises and return in the
latter part of the week.