The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-26
Montpelier and Vicinity.


THE members of the Capital Tippecanoe
Club of 1888 " are requested by the COM
mittee to assemble at the rooms of the
Apollo Club, on South Main street, this
forenoon at half-past ten, sharp, with their
badges, prepared to take the position
assigned them in doing honors to President
Harrison
G. II. SH1PMAN spent Sunday in Water
bury.
Mrs. w. II. CowELL is very much inn
proved.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOSEPH POLAND spent Sun
day in Cabot
DANIEL McALL1srER of Colorado is visit
irg D. L. Sanders.
MR.. AND Mrs. T. r.. GORDON spent last
Sunday in Bolton.
THE band is to give concert at the Pa
vilion stand this evening.
f. l. LAIRD, ESQ, went to st. Johnsbury
yesterday on law business.
PRINCIPAL S. j. BLANPIED and family will
arrive in town next Saturday.
THE post office will be closed from eleven
O'clock till one o'clock, to-day.
lMRs. c. II. SHIPMAN and children returned
from Walpole, Mass, yesterday.
REV. j. c. FLANDERS and family will re-
turn from st. Adams Bay next week.
w. NJ. NEWTON preached in the Congrega-
tional church in Waterbury last Sunday.
REV. G.. T. RAYMOND closes his services
as pastor of the Baptist church next Sunday.
The manuscript of the new catalogue of
the Public Library is nearly ready for the
press.
Mrs. GEORGE B. REED of Cambridge,
Mass, is visiting her sister, Mrs. j. W.
.ilis.
-. L.. FULLER and daughter Mabel, of
Ludlow, Mass, are visiting at G. Def. Ban
crofts
MORTON MARVIN recently sold piece of
land on East Liberty street to E. e. Graham
for $3.50.
CHARLES HUBBARD, who has been East
for a few weeks, returned to Kansas City
last week,
w. II. LOMBARD is building residence
just above G.. w. Parmenter's house on
Elm street.
BERT NILES has returned from a two
weeks vacation, spent in camping at Lake
Sunapee, y. IL.
Mrs JAMES S. PECK spent last week at
Camp Vermont, the guest of General T. S.
Peck OF Burlington.
| Miss Lucy TAPLN returned from South
! Newbury yesterday, where she has been at
| tending a sick aunt.
Mr.. AND Mrs. A. j. SIBLEY and Mr. and
Mrs. f, w. Morse returned from York
Beach last Saturday.
NJ. A. PRATT and Henry Daley made
| fishing trip 10 Hardwick Flats, last week
| with tiattering success.
EVA RUSSELL, daughter of Lewis ID. Rus
sell residing on Barre street died on the 18th
at the age of seven years.
Mss ALICE f. KINNEY returns next Sat
urday to her duties as teacher in the George
town, Mass, High School.
Mrs. FRED CHAPMAN is at the hospital in
St. Albans, where she was some time ago
being treated by DIR. Waugh.
A PLEASANT whist party was given by the
guests of the Pavilion last Saturday even
ing. There were five tables.
:. Mrs. NJ. \. L. BURBANK has been at Sar-
atoga Springs for some time. She is stop
ping at the American House.
Miss NErTIE j. NORRIS returns for the
fall term in the state normal school at
Bridgewater, Mass, next week.
j. w. Brock has appealed from the de
cision of the trustees on his petition asking
for an extension of Bailey avenue.
CHARLES HEBRON and ID. H. Dodge ar,
building new house on East Liberty stree
to be occupied jointly by the builders.
Miss ALLIE DEWEY will go to Manches
! II
and will 60 to Boston before returning.
PROFESSOR II. l.. WALKER sails fol
Europe about September |, and will spenC
a year or more in Paris in vocal culture.
THE Good Templars' picnic to Benjamin I
Falls last Friday was slimly attended, ow
ing to the weather and outside attractions
j. b. MARSH of Barre, the veteran hulled
corn dealer, has bought and taken posses
sion of the Vendome restaurant on Stat,
street.
Miss LAURA NJ. WHITE, for the past thre,
years bOokkeeper for Marvin x Sherburne
is to fit herself for the duties of a stenog
rapher.
CAPTAIN e. n. WRIGHT arrived from Ben
nington yesterday, with the camping
paraphernalia, and is moving the same Il
the arsenal.
Miss INKz HAYFoRD and Leslie Hayford
who have been spending three weeks in
Huntington and Hinesburg, returned home
last Saturday.
REV j. HARRY HOLDEN of Amherst Mass
preached in the Church of the Messiah last
Sunday, and Rev, j. Edward Wright in tn,
Morse school-house.
THE selectmen are doing good work OF
Prospect street, Berlin side. Over 800 loads
of dirt will be used in grading some 60t
yards of the highway.
THE regular meeting of the non.partisar
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
which would have met this afternoon, is de
ferred until next week.
On the camp.ground in Northfeld, last
Sunday, Rev, A. l.. Cooper of Newport
preached in the forenoon and Rev. A. j
Hough in the afternoon.
f. ii. DoNAHuE is one Of several who
own $50 acres of land in Windsor and Wes'
Windsor abounding in dark granite. Ac
cording to analysis, this granite contains
twelve or fifteen per cent more silica thar