The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-09
Montpelier and Vicinity.


next Friday evening
Mas. DIR. BoARDMAN was seriously i'll on
Sunday, but is better.
ID. r. SoRTwELL arrived last Monday
from Cambridge, Mass.
w. Q. HAwLEY and Mrs Eta V. Lennett
are 10 be married to-day.
AN old-fashioned Christmas eve service
will be held at Christ church.
MR.. AND MRS. FRANK III. PUFFER have
returned to Manchester, N II.
FRANK LYMAN fell into the river while
walking on the ice last Sunday.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE BLISS became
parents of son last Thursday.
MISS M. e. LELAND has been i'll since Sat
urday, threatened with lung fever.
MICHAEL MCMAHON last Thursday paid
S9.5l for assaulting Fred st. Rogue.
Mr.. AND MRS. JOSEPH E. ALMoN went to
New York. last Monday, for a visit.
Mhs. Is. r. SKINNER is in Barre, caring
for her niece, Mrs. e. w. Bsbee, who is i'll.
THE Samuel L. Town place on Clay hill
has been sold to Henry g. Holmes for
1920.
Mr.. WEIGHTS next appointments at the
Morse school-house are for December 20
and q.
The ten-year-old child OF Mrs. William
Silver and another child OF Louis Norman
din are i'll.
w. r. WESTON of Weston & Smith went
to Woodstock last Monday, to set up monu-
mental work.
T. l.. WooD has presented to the Montpe-
lier Military band the banjo which he cap
tured at the fair.
AN enjoyable recital by the students of
Fred w. Bancroft was held at his home last
Monday evening
LEE TEwKsBURY has been summoned to
his home in Worcester by the dangerous
illness of his sister.
The articles that were left from the fair
have been taken from Capital hall to the
town clerks Office.
The Montpelier Military band went to
Barre yesterday, to assist in the dedication
of Odd Fellows hall.
RUBY, little daughter of Charles II.
Heaton, is seriously i'll, having been at
tackled by hemorrhage.
THE celebrated Reeves band of Proyi-
dence, r. l., is to give a concert at Mont
pelier on December 16.
F. W. BANCROFT and his mother Mrs.
Carlos Bancroft, have taken quarters at the
Pavilion for the winter.
MISS JEANNE G. WALKER is spending a
two weeks vacation in Springfield, Mass,
Brooklyn and New York.
Mss JENNIE DEvINE is i'll at Manchester,
n. + and Mrs. Carroll p. Pitkin, her Sis
ter, there caring for her.
RGg. w. j. OSULLIvAN was called to
WinJoski last week, by the death Of his
youngest brother, Joseph.
HIRAM ATKINS was in Washington yes
terday, attending a meeting of the demo-
cratic national committee.
K. A. CHITTENDEN, superintendent of the
local traffic of the Central Vermont rail-
road, was in town last Friday.
THE Chautauqua circle is to meet with
Mrs. George Gourley, at No. Ii Winter
street, at 2; % P. NJ. on Friday.
r. B. DENNY, G. c. Bancroft, and j. p.
Ada us attended the presentation of q" Pris-
GILL; . at Burlington last week.
LIE Apollo Banjo Club, last Sunday.
twanged a couple of selections into the pho
nograph at the Montpelier house.
o. II. RICHARDSON and Sidney Allen of
Barre have leased the Medal Wright mills,
and are to run a lumber business.
MRS. s. F. CoLBURN and daughter Miss
Jessie Whitaker of Bradford, n. H., visited
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Stowell last week.
Mr.. AND MRS. CHARLES j. Skinner of
Boston have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A.
n. Blanchard, parents of Mrs. Shriner.
Miss ELLA NJ. WAITE sang soprano in the
Unitarian choir last Sunday, in place of
Mrs. f. l. Pitkin, and is to sing next Sun
day.
JAMES, young son of p. l.. Lyons, ran
into tree while coasting last Thursday.
and was badly bruised about the head and
body.
G.. HERBERT IDE of the Home and
Colonel Amos Sherman of the Sun insur-
ance companies were. in town from Boston
last Friday.
AN admirable oil painting of f. r. Morse.
q ~ Mra
been on exhibition in the Montpelier &
Wells River railroad offices.
THE Sunday-school children of Christ
Church will meet with Mrs. G. b. B. Denny
this "wednesday evening, at seven o'clock,
to rehearse Christmas carols.
THE Sunday evening meeting at Trinity
church was the best held for long time,
and two young people signified their pur-
pose to begin Christian life.
The liquor and beer lately seized at the
freight depot OF the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad was last Saturday adjudged
and ordered spilled.
LESTER II. GREENE was pretty mad. Mon
day.. when he read in the Free Press that
the jury on his case had returned verdict
Of guilty. 1t was just the other way.
REV. G. o. WEBSTER, the new Baptist
pastor, has moved into the II. ID. Hopkins
house, corner st. Paul and Liberty streets.
Mrs. webster is expected in a few weeks.
REV. j. BRADLEY GILMAN of Concord. n
IT,, is to preach in the Church of the Mes
'iah next Sunday. His subject in the even
ng will be, The Old Faith and the New"
THE regular meeting of the non-partisan
Woman's Christian Temperance Union will
De held this afternoon at three O'Clock, with
Mrs. r. M. Seaver. A full att enhance is
desired.
AT Christ church, Sunday evening, De
'ember Is, Rev. A. n. Lewis will preach to
,oung persons upon GOOD Manners"
services at seven O'Clock. Non-church- |
,oers invited
The committee on furnishings, at special
Meeting of the Apollo Club last evening.
eported that they had purchased the furni |
ure and fixtures for the new rooms.
ome $1,000 worth
AFTER the auction of his paintings and
Irt paraphernalia, which he values at over
II 600, j. f. Gilman is to change his voca.
ion, and leaves Montpelier about January
, going first to Boston.
FRED w. BANCROFT did himself Justice
" his Interpretation of John Alden !" i'm
he opera of Priscilla" which was pre-
ented at Burlington last week Tuesday