The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-09
Montpelier and Vicinity.

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JESSIE WATSON, daughter of DIR. Watson,
is ill.,
PETER MITCHELL went to New York on
Monday.
e. d. REED of Buffalo is visiting relatives
in town.
Mrs. w. E. VAIL went to New York on
Saturday last.
T. e. CALLAHAN is at East Constable, N.
Y, near Malone.
AMOS ROBINSON returned from his vaca-
ton on Saturday.
MISS EMMA WELLS went yesterday to
Wellesley College.
A CHILD of p Chenette, five months old,
died Saturday night.
THERE will he band concert at the Pa
vilion stand Friday evening.
Mrs. j. II. BURPEE is i'll, though not crit
ically so, with typhoid fever
Mrs. w. II. CowELL is improving and is
able to sit up while each day.
PROFESSOR S. j. BLANPIED and family
will board at the Pavilion for the present.
HARRY LOWE was one of the judges of
the races at the state fair at Burlington last
week.
HARRY SHURrLEFF has returned from his
vacation trip in the northern part of the
state.
Mr.. AND MRS NATHAN MCFARLAND of
Johnson are visiting their daughter, Mrs.
Emily NJ. Sabn.
THE Excelsior Granite company is to
make $1,000 granite tomb for A. f. Pike
of Haverhill, n. II.
A YOUNG child of John Daley died Mon
day of cholera infantum. The funeral SER
vice was yesterday
AN extension of the e. w. Bailey grain
building on South Main street is to be built
along the river bank.
LANGDoN j. DAVIS was arrested last week
for breach of the peace, but on Saturday
the case was nolle pressed.
Mr.. AND Mrs. A. w. FERRIN started yes
terday for Grand Rapids, Mich, where they
will remain about two weeks.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES Brown, who are
at the Pavilion permanently, returned last
week from short visit at Portland, Me.
WINoosKI VALLEY FAIR opened at Wa
terbury yesterday, with prospect of one of
the best fairs the association has ever held.
L. p. RICHARDSON and family returned on
Monday from a short vacation spent at the
home of Mrs. Richardson's father in Mid
dleseX.
II. w. SEAvER letter carrier in Boston,
is visiting his father, j. r. Seaver. He
came last week Thursday and will remain
a week
Miss ELLA WAITE and Miss Margaret Sa-
bin, who have been spending a ten days
vacation in Cambridge, returned home on
Monday.
EVENING services will be resumed in the
Church of the Messiah, next Sunday, at
half past seven o'clock, with service of
sacred song.
REV. f. l.. WALBRIDGE, the state evan
gelist of the Congregational church, is to
conduct services at Bethany church next
Sunday and Monday.
THE Topic Club held its first meeting of
the season last night at Mrs. Warren Bal
leys, on Elm street. The subject was
James Russell Lowell.
Mrs. NJ. A. L. BURBANK and Mrs. S. Orms-
bee returned from Saratoga, n. Y, on last
Saturday. They were in Boston a few days
after leaving Saratoga.
THE Good Templars of Montpelier will
visit Granite City lodge of Barre on We'd
nesday of next week, when masquerade
promenade is to be given.
GOVERNOR PAGE has appointed Hon. F.
A. Dwinell of Montpelier and Hon. G. W.
King of Lunenburgh to represent the state
at the opening Of the Sioux City Corn Pal
ace.
MISSES MARY AND NELLIE TRoMBLEE
gave a very pleasant " heart " party in
honor of their guest, Miss Jennie Smith of
Troy, y. Y, on Thursday evening of last
week.
The case of the state against j. A.
Kelton, charged with keeping a nuisance,
was tried on Wednesday evening of last
week. and the defendant was found not
guilty
THE Wetmore & Morse Granite Company
has the contract TO build a vault for family
at Milwaukee, Wis, which will cost $50, 000
The company was never buster than at
present.
WILLIAM NJ. MALLORY, who married Ann
Peck, daughter of the late Lucius b, Peck,
ESQ, well remembered in Montpelier, died
at Towanda, Pa, August 80, at the age of
nearly seventy-four years.
VERY little liquor was sold on Labor day,
and the reason was obvious: the saloon
keepers expected to be raided. The amount
of drunkenness that day was very small,
and not an arrest was made.
REV. I. II. CUsHMAN and family, who had
been spending the summer at the home of
Mrs. Nj. NJ. Gilman, returned to Providence,
II. l., last week. Mrs. Gilman returned
from Queen City Park on Monday.
GEORGE w. Wing, ESQ, and wife and
Miss Sadie, and G. H. Heaton and wife, go
to Boston next Saturday, to attend Ma
sonic banquet Miss Wing is to remain in
the vicinity of that city for several weeks.
ABOUT nineteen pounds of water were
taken from the chest of S. S. Towner on
Friday of last week. Mr.. Towner has been
since the operation he has been more COM
Portable.
The Wells River Railroad Company is
putting in wall of stone at the Barre end
of its bridge near the Dodge bridge, and the
town is putting one under the after bridge.
The two will connect and make solid en-
bankment.
ONE of the tracks of the Wells River road
just west of South Main street. is being
taken up in order to relay it a few feet
nearer the river. This change of position
has made it necessary to tear down the fence
at that point.
THE ell of the old Dewey house, which
has been standing in the rear of the new
insurance building, has been purchased by
I. j. Deavitt, Esq, and is being moved to
Terrace street, where it will be remodeled
into stable.
JOSEPH PEcoR was arrested yesterday
morning at his home at No. 10 Court
street for drunkenness. He was smashing
furniture and making things pretty lively
when Officer Hunt appeared on the scene
and stopped the fun.
THE Good Templars will hereafter hold
their meetings in the parlors of Trinity
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