The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30
Montpelier and Vicinity.
SANTA CLAUS did not have the grip.
GET ready to turn over that new leaf

SANTA CLAUS did not have the grip.
GET ready to turn over that new leaf.
ANNUAL election of Odd Fellows to-day.
Miss MARY PHINNEY is at home from Rut-
land.
W. f. VAIL is to be clerk for 7. II.
Brophy.
CHARLES II. BALDWIN was in Rutland
yesterday.
GENERAL w. w. CIRCUIT was in town
yesterday.
W. II. HoRNBRooK has gone to st. AL
bans to work.
A CHILD of Thomas Corbett was buried
last Saturday.
GRIP temporarily closed up the Pitkin
laundry this week.
S. l.. HOWE has been confined to his
house for several days.
II. G. COTTON left last Monday on bust
ness trip of four weeks.
CHARLES e. BRICK was in town from Bos-
ton to spend Christmas.
STATION AGENT f. w. THOMPSON spent
ristmas in st. Albans.
,dRs. LESTER II. GREENE, and Willie. lit
tlc son OF F. M. Cory, are ill.
ANNUAL meeting OF the Volunteer hose
company comes Friday evening.
J. f. SHIPMAN and family of Waterbury
spent Christmas with G. III. Shipman.
GRIP and pneumonia caused Miss S. s.
Slade to close her store last Saturday.
ROBERT HARGIN is recovering very slowly.
W. w. Foster has joined the grippers.
Miss GERTRUDE GREELEY is clerk in
Il harness store Of Flanders & Pierce.
Ed. MURRAY fell while skating, last Mon
,tsty, and put his left shoulder out of joint.
MRS. c. J. SHRINER of Boston is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Blanchard, her parents.
A CHILD of j. r. Rock, living in the Ursus
Horribilis Swamp district, died last Wednes-
day.
NED HoUGHToN is home from Amherst
College and Ned Smith from Worcester
Mass.
JOHN f. HOLDEN assisted the clerical force
in the post-oflice during the rush of last
week.
Miss FANNIE MORROW, from Laconia, n
H., is visiting Captain j. V. Morrow, her
father.
CALVIN BULLOCK remains in a dying con.
dition. Mrs. Bullock is somewhat i'm
proved.
o. G. BARRON and family spent Christ
mas with Mrs. Dennis Lane, mother of Mrs
Barron.
w. c. COTTON was up from Springfield
Mass, to spend Christmas, returning las
| Monday.
THE post-office is to be open New Year,
day from eight to ten A. NJ. and from four tt
! six p NJ.
HARRY, four-year old son of Thomas Cor
win, died last Thursday, and was burieC
! Saturday.
THE annual church meeting of Bethany
church will be held Wednesday evening al
seven o'clock.
THE Bethany Reading Club will NEE
next week Tuesday evening with Mrs
George Howes.
HENRY G. SCOTT of Chicago is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Ellis, parents of tn,
| late Mrs. Scott.
EDWARD NELSON from Newton, Mass, il
visiting his foster parents, Mr.. and Mrs
George w. Reed.
MISSES ROSE AND EMILY LUCIA are hom,
from school at Newton, Mass, and DAME
from Burlington.
AT Christ church, Sunday evening, Jan
uary 3, Rev. A. n. Lewis will preach upon
" Profane Swearing"
STATE AUDITOR e. HENRY POWELL wa
at County Clerk Smiles office last Wednes
day, settling accounts.
HARRY w. RoBERTs of Baldwin street i
slowly failing with consumption. The C as
is one of peculiar sadness.
MRS. ALBERT SPARROW was called I,
Waterbury last Friday by the illness o
Mrs. Thomas Ring, her mother.
DIR. G. f. HUNT has added to his denta
office the latest apparatus for administering
gas, that is simply " out of sight"
E. A. SMITH of Burlington, an interna
decorator, was in town yesterday viewing
the new rooms of the Apollo Club.
ARTHUR f. LANE and wife have returne'
from South Ashburnham, Mass. Mrs
Lane is at present in West Randolph.
CHARLES CARROLL KING is home from
Campello, Mass, to spend the holidays witt
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clark King.
Miss EVA BANCROFT has been clerk 70
George w. Wilder during the holidays, an,
E. o. Cheney for Marvin & Sherburne.
The annual meeting of the Congregations
Society will occur Thursday evening, De
cember 81, at half past seven at the chapel.
AFTER Tuesday, January 3, the clothing
stores will be closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday, and Friday evenings until April
THE First National Bank and the Mont
pelier National Bank will be closed 70
business January /, after twelve o'clocl
noon.
Mr.. AND MRS. FRANK W. CARVER NOV
next week from the Poland house on Eas
State street to a tenement over the Cros
bakery.
A DAUGHTER was born last Saturda
week to Mr.. and Mrs. William Dix, and
son last Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. p.
Ledden.
The membership in the "Order of tn
Mystic Grip" swelled largely the pas
week. A large number took the severa
degrees.
FRED W. BANCROFT is to repeat at Mont
pelier his " Evening with English Ballads,
which he lately gave with great success a
Burlington. 1t IL to be for the benefit @