The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-11
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Florida for his health, sailing next Satur-
day from Boston. w. @. Hawley takes his
place.
JOHN w. PAGE and wife are visiting in
Haverhill, n. H., and are expected back
this week. They are stopping at the Mont.
pelier house previous to their start for the
South.
DAVID l.. SANDERS and l.. A. Flint have
received life commissions, with the rank of
captain, in the army of Patriarch Militants,
l. o. o. F., from General j. @. Underwood,
Chicago.
THERE will be a special train leaving
Montpelier at six p. NJ, for the evening ses-
sion Of the Christian Endeavor convention
at Marshfield, this evening, returning after
the session.
THE draping of the old "Middesex"
locomotive, on the local branch of the Cen
trail Vermont, was the artistic work of En-
gineer Robert M. Whelan and Fireman
Hosea B. Colby
FRANK LYMAN, engineer on the Mont
pelier Wells River railroad is to be mar
ried next Wednesday to a Berlin young
lady, and take short wedding trip to
Springfield, Mass.
IT is rumored that bachelor conductor
on the Montpelier & Wells River railroad
took the opportunity while on his vacation,
from which he returned last Saturday, to
enter married state.
THE new freight service from Boston, via
the Concord & Montreal and Montpelier &
| Wells River railroads, went into effect
| Monday, and the first train arrived yester-
day on schedule time.
2. G.. SMITH, piccolo player in the Mont
pelier Military. Band, who has been i'll with
| typhoid fever for several weeks past at his
home in Wells River, has returned to town,
looking gay and healthy.
Mr.. AND Mrs. G. N. ARMS and Mrs. A.
H. Baker and daughter of Waterbury will
| spend the winter at the Exchange hotel in
this village. Montpelier will give these
people cordial welcome.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH B. MORSE, superinten-
dent of the Cotton Manufacturing Com
pany's works, caught his right thumb in
the elevator, last week, tearing out the nail
and jamming the digit generally.
CHARLES McGILL was married last week
Tuesday to Miss Mary Callahan of More
town, and the couple took wedding trip to
New York, returning Saturday night. They
are now living at the Union house.
CHILLY" was one of the Boston excur.
sionists. He took side trip to Lynn, and
managed to become engaged to fair daugh-
ter of the Shoe city before his return to
Montpelier. Pretty rapid courtship.
THE rather well-known Richardson fam
| lily, who formerly resided near Berlin
Corner and in whom the Free Press repor
ter interested himself, in his official capac
ity, now hold the fort at 10 Franklin street.
A MOST vile scent of petroleum has per
vaded the town during the past week, anC
consumers OF gas are kicking over the quail
ity. The company means well, but the pa
tience of users of gas is sometimes severely
tried.
ED MORAN had a narrow escape from
cold and wet fate, last Sunday. Will,
skating on the mill-pond at the Lane Manu-
featuring Company's shops, he wen
oh tba ina nd na1 xxifb al
difficulty.
JAMES F. MAHoNEY, who will be remem
bered as law student in the Office of tn
late G. w. Porter, and politician of grea
agility and fiuctuability, is to be welded to
day at Troy, n. Y, to Miss Mollie Mehan
They will reside in St. Albans.
ANDREW j. RUSSELL, with his wife AM
daughter, of Rochester, Wis, is visiting hi
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Putnam
Mr. Russell is native of Cabot, and is nov
revisitng the scenes of his early youth afte
an absence of nearly forty years.
THE last of the Boston excursionists hav
been struggling in the past week, John L
Tuttle and II. d. Hopkins, Jr., beinI
among the number. Seventy-two arrive
, Saturday night on parlor car over tn
Montpelier & Wells River railroad.
HEBER AND ARTHUR HULL, employees @
, the Concord & Montreal railroad, were il
town over Sunday. A number of the off
cials of the Montpelier & Wells River roa'
escorted the visitors to Barre by carriage
and showed them over the granite town.
HARRY A. SLADE and George H. Rolf
} have taken up their residence at thu
Pavilion. The firm of Slade & Rolfe is des
tined to be one of the most successful in tn
drug business of the state. Each is Nc
/ druggist, and together they make stron
team.
SUPERINTENDENT OAKEs of the stat
prison was in town yesterday with Sylveste
Bell, the Fairfax murderer, whose case
being heard by the supreme court. Be
was sentenced to six months at hard labo
) before being hanged, and half of that tim
has expired
|, THE WATcHMAN will shortly be at libert
/, to give the details of large wood-workin
industry that proposes to locate here If
site can be obtained. Brains and abilit
7 out of town, and plenty of capital in towI
/ have joined issues, and await only the ma
ter of location.
The funeral of Ex-Governor Smith at S
= Albans yesterday, was attended by b. L
1 Fifield and wife, Colonel Fred K. Smith, 4
! w. Morse and wife, Charles Dewey, L.
Phinney, JOSEPH, Poland, L. Bart Cross
: John Daley, Robert Whelan, S. L. How
9 and w. w. Foster.
: Both of the fine stores in the opera-hous
annex are being finished in white ash, an
| the Apollo Club rooms overhead in qua
( tered oak. 1t was reported that T.
3 Brophy was to occupy the end store, BIT
Messrs. Blanchard report that no trade wit
them has yet been made.
8 f. A. DwINELL, Hiram Atkins, John 1
3 Senter, George w. Wing, j. w. Brocl
John K. Hubbard and b. p. White
I Calais attended the meeting and banquet {
r the Vermont Fish and Game League at Blu
8 lington, last Wednesday evening. Mr.. A
kins has been confined to the house sine
, his return.
!, A. G. STONE had an old watch in hi
{ store for repair, yesterday, that was th
only one of its kind he had CHANGED upoI
1t belonged to l.. ID. Hill of East Montpelie
1t is handsome gold timepiece, with th
. legend inscribed ON the back Harrison an
Reform" referring to the Harrison of Til
pecanoe fame.
: LOCAL investors in Muncie, Ind, ma
> take lazy interest in knowing that th
citizens of +" that enterprising little village
which is about the size of Burlington "a
!, the Free Press puts it-have raised aboJ
Il $500, 900 by subscription to get enterprise
s to locate there. They expect a populatio