The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-23
Montpelier and Vicinity.

j. s. VILEs went to Boston last Monday.
Mrs. III. A. BOWMAN has been seriously ill.
HARRY LOWE has returned from New
York.
Miss MARY NEsToR is suffering from lung
fever.
Mrs. HARVEY W. BROWN is i'll with pneu-
monia.
ARTHUR G. EATON has been quite sick the
past week.
Mrs. SAMUEL WALTON and Mrs. L. d.
Taft are ILL.,
The little daughter OF Fred IL. Perry is
convalescing.
WMFRED, son of n. w. Frink is ill with
typhoid fever.
THERE will be no meeting of the Chautau-
qua Circle this week.
III. e. SLAYToN is clerking for Q. NJ. Skin
ner during the holidays.
HARLAN w. KEMP has returned from his
trip through New York state.
I. j. DEAvITT is attending Caledonia
county court at st. Johns bury.
w. e. HARLOW severely burned two of
his digital appendages last week
Mrs. w. A. BRIGGS was absent from the
Bethany choir last Sunday. Grip.
HARRY SoMERs of Oneonta, N Y, sue
ceeds N. b. Minor on the ArJus staff
THE Bethany Topic Club met yesterday
with Mrs Bosworth, on Loomis street.
EX-SENATOR SLAYToN of Stowe and Rev.
J. ID. Beeman were in town yesterday.
Miss HENRIETTA DEWEY has gone to
| West Farnham, z. G., to visit her sister.
ED. F. MURRAY is at home from his medi-
cal studies at New York for the holidays.
Miss DAISY LOWE went to New York, yes.
terday, tospend Christmas with her mother
CHRISTMAS will be observed tomorrow at
..lt
The post-office will be open Christmas
| day from eight to ten A. NJ, and four to six
r..
COLONEL FRED E. SMITH has been con-
fined to the house for several days with the
| grip.
THE Bethany Reading Club will meet at
Mrs. George A. Peck's next Tuesday after
noon
CHARLES II. FULLER has been struggling
with pneumonia the past week, but is out
again
NJ. J. CLARK of St. Albans is firing on the
" Middlesex," as Hosea Colby is nursing
the grip.
THE Montpelier orchestra is to furnish
music for dance at South Ryegate, Thurs
day evening
FRED LANG, thin and husky is once
more at his desk in the Central Vermont
freight Office.
THE annual conclave of Mount Zion Com
mandery is to be December go, with ban
quet as usual.
The Methodists are to have tree Christ
mas eve, with music and literary exercises
by the children.
The Wetmore & Morse Granite Company
shut down might until the first Monday
after New Years.
The force of help on the Montpelier &
Wells River railroad is being cut down for
the winter service.
Mr.. S. S. TowNER, who has been crti.
cally ill for some time was reported much
worse last evening.
HENRY F. FIELD of Rntland, G.. w.
Brownell Jr. and ii. S. Peck of Burlington
| were in town yesterday.
JOSEPH S. SHoREy is running beef-and-
beanery in Boston, corner of Shawmut
avenue and fremont street.
p. II. MCCORMICK and Mss Josephine
Bellimeur were married last Wednesday
by Justice G. Def, Bancroft.
Miss MARY WILSON, Miss Grace Hough.
ton and Miss Bessie Farwell are at home
from school for the holidays.
G. II. PAINE, the St. Johnsbury phonog-
raphist, recorded several of the selections
that Reeves band discoursed
The remains of Mrs. w. H. Cooper ar
rived from st. Adams last Monday, and
were taken to Worcester for burial.
WILL X. GEORGE, who has been working
for Janus Crossett during the summer, has
gone to Rutland to spend the holidays.
THE Apollo Banjo Club is to furnish mu
sic for the graduating exercises at the Ran.
dolph Normal school, January and 8.
THE boarders at Hotel Kempton are tc
have Christmas tree, Friday evening, and
many hosiery surprises are anticipated.
BERT II. TYLER of Springfield, Mass, was
l,at Il
X. Putnam to the ball at East Montpelier.
THE engagement is privately announced
of well-known young shoeman at the
capital and charming Barre young lady.
THE Non partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet with Mrs. r
r. Bunnell this afternoon at three o'clock.
B. b. SLOAN, for a long time clerk fol
Lester III. Greene, is on January l to go tc
Pennington, n. H., to work in drug store
j. A. DEBoER returned last Saturday
night from New York, where he had beer
during the illness and death of his mother
Miss EVA ROBINSON of st. Albans spent
Sunday with Mrs. G. A. Lang. Miss Robin
son and her mother have gone to Boston tC
live.
The operetta Caught Mapping" which
was to have been produced at the Unitarian
vestry tomorrow evening, has been post
poned a week.
ALONZO L. JONES, elgnty-fOur years old
fell on the ice on the Shady Rill road while
walking to neighbours house, and put
shoulder out Of joint
BENHAM, little son of George b. Walton
was better yesterday. The little fellow ha.
made gallant fight for life, but at on,
time nearly all hope was lost.
CONDUCTOR S. r. Colby has been of
duty for few days, his place being filled b,
Charles Grandheld. Robert Hargin con
tinues quite i'll with lung fever.
The school taught by Mary G. Herrick
in district No. 8, Middlesex, closed De
cember II, 1891, showing aremarkably larg
number without marks of any kind
MRS. e. G. PIKE of Pike Station, n II.
is visiting George Tromblee, her father
Miss Addie Tromblee, her sister, is Il
spend the winter at Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs. j. w. SMITH of Berlin street fell il
the house, last week, and struck her lef
: side against the wood-box, sustaining pain
full bruises. She is sixty-four years old.
, Mrs. CALVIN BULLOCK is very i'll wit
erysipelas and lung fever. Mr.. Bullock ha
been sick for several days past with pneu
monia and grip, and is not expected to re