The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-21
Montpelier and Vicinity.


1t is a fine entertainment, in good cause.
| See item below.
THE items of several correspondents are
| unavoidably omitted this week. Others
are necessarily cut down. The report of
the meeting of the Dairymen and the League
| at St. Alhans, and some other occurrences,
have required an unusual amount OF space.
WILLARD EMERY is sick with the measles.
Mrs. r.. NJ HUTCHINSON is reported as
quite ill.,
A HORSE owned by Hon. b. f. Fifeld
died on Monday.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ID. w. DUDLEY are visiting
friends in St. Albans,
Mr.. AND Mrs. j. p. FLANDERS are visit
ing relatives in Malone, N. Y.
e. d. BLACKWELL has been elected treas
urer of the Vermont Electric Company.
BoTH Mr.. and Mrs II. NJ Fales are sick
with the measles, and their store is closed.
TEN additional rooms are being finished
off in the upper story of the Montpelier
house.
BETHANY Reading Club will meet with
Mrs. J. V. Babcock on January q at two
o'clock.
CLARK B. ROBERTS and Fred Standish
were so unfortunate as to each lose horse
| by death on Saturday.
Mrs. ID. X. STEVENS of Tacoma, Wash,
sister of Mrs. j. 7. Sabn, is visiting the
! latter for a few weeks.
f. w. BANCROFT is i'll with severe cold,
which seems to be somewhat Of the nature of
| the grip. He is improving.
BYRON GOODWIN of North Montpelier
has sold his farm and offers his personal
property at auction February 3.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Miss Belle Fitield on State street next Fri
| day, at two o'clock in the afternoon.
ARTHUR e. WHITE went to the home of
his parents in East Calais on Saturday with
the intention of remaining several weeks
REV. A. b. TRUAX is to preach the sermon
at the dedicatory exercises at the new
Methodist church at East Orange, on the
29th instant,
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet next Tuesday afternoon at
three O'Clock, with Mrs. Curtis, No. 139
| State street.
REV, j. EDWARD WRIGHT expects to
| preach in the Morse school-house, East
! Montpelier, next Sunday afternoon at
| quarter past two o'clock.
COLONEL JACOB MCCLURE has returned
from Nashua, n. H., where he has been
making long visit He intends to remain
here and engage in business
THE snowshoeing club was reorganized
! on Saturday, and an outing was taken Mon
day evening. There will be another Friday
evening if the weather permits.
COURT ETHAN ALLEN installed its officers
on Thursday evening last, three New Hamp-
shire officers assisting in the ceremony.
The court now has about eighty members.
OUR venerable friend, Colonel r.. II.
Riker, was eighty-five years old on last Fri
| day. He wears this weight of years lightly,
and would easily be taken for man of
sixty.
On Sunday next Rev. G.. w. Gallagher is
to preach in the morning on the subject OF
| Christ. In the evening his subject will be
| " Some Things to Think About" The pub
lie is cordially invited.
COLONEL c. A. MILES of Brattleboro
" raised " the chiefs of Wabun tribe of Red
Men on last week Tuesday evening. At
the conclusion of the exercises a collation.
was served at the VendOme restaurant
The Hook and Ladder Company has
elected the following officers: Foreman H.
S. Goodwin; assistant foreman, A. e. Smith; ;
secretary and treasurer, p. Morrison; stew
ard, Peter Fountain; captain, George Felt.
MONTPELIER lodge of Good Templars was
visited on last week Friday evening by a
delegation from Granite City lodge of Barre
| A meeting of unusual interest was held.
The lodge is to hold a sociable this week
Thursday evening.
THE agent in Baltimore of the National
Life Insurance Company, William v.
| Harper, is under arrest for embeZZlement
from the company, but it is not expected
that the latter will lose more than 81, 800 in
any event, and it may not lose cent.
Mr.. Harper was discharged by the company
about three weeks ago.
a PORTION of the room on the upper floor
of the addition to the Union school build
ing is being fitted mp for use as chemical
laboratory The new prim Try room was
opened on Monday, with Miss Tarbel as
teacher. Miss Kate E. Robbins of North
field is the new teacher.
Miss ELvIRA KELToN died at the residence
of j. Monroe Gould in Calais, last Saturday
morning, at the advanced age of seventy
nine years. For many years she lived in
Wrghtsville and vicinity, and was much
respected. Her brother, Pomeroy Kelton,
now quite intrm, is the only survivor of
the immediate family.
REV. A. j. HoUGH gave a temperance lee
ture to large audience at Bethany church
on Sunday evening. 1t was the first of a
series of meetings under the auspices of
the Good Templars and the Non-partisan
Womans Christian Temperance Union.
Mr.. Hough was assisted in the services by
Messrs. Gallagher and Wright
THE owners of the Blanchard Opera
house are considering the matter of extend
ing the building in the spring, and George
II. Guernsey is making estimates as to the
cost, etc In case it is decided to build, the
Apollo Club will have a number of rooms
planned to suit its wishes and convenience.
They will undoubtedly be as attractive and
commodous as any club rooms in the state.
Mr.. AND Mrs. LOUIS BARNEY celebrated
the twenty fifth anniversary of their mar
riage on last week Thursday evening, about
sixty friends making them pleasant call at
their home on Clay Hill. A number OF
presents including $40 in cash. were left as
evidence OF esteem and friendship. The
company enjoyed dance during the even
ing
MISS BATES who was formerly with SEN
ter & Kemp az a stenographer, is now work
ing at the bindery of M. w. Wheelock. Mr..
Wheelock has recently made a number
of improvements about his establishment,
having purchased a new power stitching
machine and perfected novel arrangement
for warming parts of the room by driving
heat from the stove through pipes by means
Of a fan.
MRS, w. II. STowELL, Miss Lillian and
Miss Kate, her daughters, and Mrs f. w.
Morse, started for Hot Springs, Ark, Tues
day morning. They accompany the SUI
perintendent of the Boston, Concord &
Montreal railway, Mr.. e. f. Mann, and his
wife and child with Dr Piazza and otharS