The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06
Montpelier and Vicinity.


hall the latter part of the month.
NAPOLEON MAYO has opened a cobbler's
shop in the coal Office of Orrin Daley.
CHARLES p. MCGILL is out, after being i'll
with typhoid fever for about ten weeks.
MIR. AND Mrs. A. e. LANE of West Dan
vile were in town the first of the week.
Mr.. AND MRS. ELMER e. SANDERS are the
parents of a daughter, born on Saturday.
Mrs. e. p. WALTON, who was in town
last week, has gone to Somervile, Mass
JOHN II. SENrER and Frank Winter
caught string of 1856 trout on Friday last.
j. A. DEBoER was in New York last
week in attendance at an insurance meeting.
REV. A. j. HoUGH is to read his poem on
The Country ParsOn" at Waterbury this
evening.
Miss GERTRUDE GREELEY of Plainfed is
working at the furniture store Of S. s.
| Towner.
THE young child Of Joseph Wark, stone
cutter living near the Pioneer mills, died on
/ sunday.
A. j. SIBLEY was in Lowell and Boston
last week on business of the electric light
company.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT preached in the
Universalst church in Barre Sunday morn
ing,
Rev. G. I. Raymond gave an interesting
temperance lecture in the opera house Sun
day evening.
WALLACE G. ANDREWS has purchased the
William Fisher house on East Liberty street.
Price, $1,000.
DIR. A. b. BIsBEE is building a new ell to
his residence, at the corner of Main and
Liberty streets.
F. w. BANCROFT returned last week from
Portland, Me-, where he had been visiting
for about two weeks.
/ A JUVENILE temple of the Good Templars
is to be formed at the lodge hall next Friday
afternoon at four o'clock.
CURTIS E. RoLEAU, who went to Chicago
some time ago, is now foreman of a job
| printing-office in that city.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Mrs John Peck on Vine street next Friday
afternoon at quarter-past two o'clock.
! MAYNARD Brown has moved from the
| house of the late Mrs. Hatch on Court street
to the Freeman house on Barre street.
/ REV. A. j. HoUGH attended the iustitu-
! ton of new lodge of Odd Fellows at
| Woodstock last week Wednesday evening.
| Club will hold their annual meeting in the
chapel next Tuesday afternoon at two
| o'clock.
Miss ETA MAxHAM of Shady Rill is
teacher in district No. 6, Montpeier-erro-
| neously reported last week as teacher at
| Shady Rill.
KELToN & SPARROW, proprietors of the
Exchange hotel, have purchased of e. NJ.
Irish the livery stable formerly owned by
Clark b. Roberts.
X. NJ. WALLING of Putnamsville has
| bought the Erastus Hubbard house on Win
| ter street, recently vacated by w. M. Ord
way, and moved in last week.
ARBoR day was not very generally OBJ
served in Montpelier, but few trees were
planted. The schools kept as usual, but on
+ Ehe Berlin side they closed.
THE mystery of the Disappearance of
Charles X. Galaise remains complete as
ever. The body has not been found, and
not single clue has been discovered.
SEVENTEEN residents of Barre received
their final naturalization papers from the
county court on Wednesday evening of last
week, and eight received their first papers.
THE CRESCENT club had a pleasant dance
at Capital hall last week Friday night, the
Montpelier orchestra furnishing music.
There were about thirty-five couples pres
ent.
Mr.. WRIGHT expects to preach in the
Morse schoolhouse, East Montpelier, May
10, II, and 81, and tortnightly meetings
may be expected thereafter during the sum-
mer and fall
Don III. DODGE has moved from No. 40
College street to No. Is Vine street. and
N. j. Glass from No. AZ College street to one
of the new houses of Sibley and Kemp off
Barre street.
A FLAG will be purchased and placed on
the Union school building in few days.
1t will be remembered that the money for
this object was raised by an entertainment
over year ago.
GEORGE III. WILDER, with several other
musical artists, made last week Friday
night melodious in the vicinity of the Pa
vlion. Sitting on the piazza, they dis
coursed some very pleasing music.
GEORGE b. PUTNAM and Charles e. Will
son drove to West Randolph on Sunday,
and returned to Montpelier on Monday morn
ing by train, the horse and carriage having
been left with MIR. Putnam's father.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union expects Miss Elizabeth Yates of
| Maine to deliver temperance address in
the Baptist church, May TO- Miss Yates is
a speaker OF rare talent and culture.
PERRY Il DEMERTT have finished a
| polishing machine for Lynch & Mcmahon,
the firm which is TO occupy half Of the new
granite shed which the Montpelier & Wells
River railroad company is putting up
A MEETING OF the state farmers league is
to be held at Capital hall, on Friday, June
8, beginning at ten O'Clock in the morning
and continuing through the afternoon.
George 7. Powell, president of the national
league, will speak.
DWlGHI mASONi INC SuCCtSSOI VI ~.
G. Trulan at the telegraph office, has rented
the house on Summer street recently occu-
pied by Captain George S. Robinson. The
| latter has moved into the house OF T. j..
Deavitt on Terrace street.
JOSEPH PEREAU, who has been resident
OF Montpelier for the past twenty years, died
on Saturday morning of pneumonia, at the
age of seventy nine years. Three sons and
four daughters survive him. The funeral
took place on Monday morning.
THE lecture by Rev. j. j. Lewis Of South
Boston on the Passion Play will be given
two weeks from Friday evening next, and
it is expected that he will preach at the
Church OF the Messiah on the following
Sunday in exchange with Mr.. Wright
HON. f. A. DwNELL Of Plainfeld, one Of
Washington county's senators, has pur-
chased the Il. N. Scovill house on Seminary
Hill and become resident OF Montpelier.
| What is Plainield's loss Is Montpelier 3
gain. We are glad to welcome the senator
TO the capitals cont fines.