The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-04
Montpelier and Vicinity.

H. S. GATES spent Sunday at his home in
Brandon.
CHARLES II. SHIPMAN was at Dsnville
over Sunday.
HENRY A. Com of Burlington was in
town over Sunday.
TIE Montpelier house is being painted
and papercd throughout.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HARRY CUTLER have been
i'll, but are now improving.
Mr.. AND MRs. HENRY d. HoPKINs were
at Montgomery Center last week.
THE United States Clothes Pin Company
has invented an improved clothes-dryer.
MISS GERTRUDE DREw went to New York
on last week Friday to visit her sister Mary.
Mr.. AND Mrs. w. A. BRIGGS have resigned
as members OF the choir of Bethany church.
ANGIE AND SUSIE LAWSON went last week
to the new home of their father at West
Dudley, Mass
MONTPELIER lodge of Good Templars is
to visit Granite City lodge of Barre next
Saturday evening.
Miss NELLIE l.. CANNING, who was 40 Sc
riously injured last Week, is improving and
is now able to sit up.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with Mrs.
G. II. Shipman next Friday afternoon at
quarter past two o'clock.
CALVIN DEwEL, recently of Lowell, Mass,
has taken the place of Merton Curtis in the
employ of l.. p. Gleason & Co.
REV. L. d. CoCHRANE of Littleten, n. H.,
is expected to preach in the Church of the
Messiah next Sunday morning.
IKE Montpelier orchestra has been en-
gagged to play at the Odd Fellows ball at
St. j Johnsbury on the 10th instant.
e. e. BLAKELy started West or Friday
to be gone about twenty days. His trip
for Il
The Bethany Topic Club met last night
with Miss Lizzie Stimson. General Sher-
man was the subject of the meeting.
A LETTER was received at the post office
from another place few days ago directed
to a CERTAIN number of " Halom street
Mrs. GRIswoLD, mother of Mrs. II. S.
Boardman, observed her birthday on Mon
day by entertaining few friends at tea.
II. w. Moss, who has had charge of the
barber shop at the Pavilion for some time
past, began work for Frank Pereau on Mon
day.
THE thermometers ranged from twelve to
twenty-three degrees below zero Monday
morning. The March lion came in with a
roar,
Mr., WHEELER, of the Union and Gram
mar schools, resumed his school duties on
Monday, after an illness of about three
weeks.
The first meeting of the Stone Shed Com
pany will he held next Friday afternoon at
two o'clock at the water commissioners
rooms.
A. ID. FARwELL, Willard G. Walker and
w. o. Standish went to Burlington last
week to serve as jurymen in the United
States court.
MEMBERS of the Bethany Reading Club
and their guests will meet with Mrs. Ii. Il.
Boardman on the 10th instant at two o'clock
in the afternoon.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union meets next week Wednesday, in
stead of Tuesday, at half-past three o'clock,
with Mrs Mariette King.
THE post-office officials wish us to say
that mail boxes at private residences are
not for public use. A number OF letters
have been dropped into such boxes recently.
The Non-partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union discussed Prison and
Jail Work " at the home Of Mrs. ID. l..
Fuller on last week Wednesday afternoon.
AS usual, the Vermont Mutual Fire In
surance company was the first to settle
losses at the Winoosh fire. The settle
ment was made to the satisfaction of all the
insured.
j. ID. Brown and wife of New York city,
who were at the Pavilion for about month";
have returned home. Mr.. Brown bought a
large nun Der of horses during the time he
was here.
NEARLY hundred persons went to Barre
on last week Tuesday evening to enjoy the
coasting carnival. They returned on
special train at eleven o'clock, after passing
pleasant evening
THE following pieces of mail matter were
delivered by the post'office in the month of
February: Registered letters, "a; letters,
20,562; cards, 2,611 papers, IA 449. The ool-
lections were as follows; Letters, 17,498;
local letters, 1904; cards, 1906; local