The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-12-14
NUMBER so.
Montpelier and Vicinity.

The WATCHMAN Pocket Edition, will be on
sale at the WATCHMAN counting room,
Thursday, December 10. Also at the Mont.
peler book stores
WELL, where's the sleighing2
G.. S. WHITTIER was in Boston last week.
SCHOOLS close December Is for the holi-
days.
Mrs. JOHN DEMERIrr is ill with lung
fever.
GEORGE c. ALDER is i'll with typhoid
fever.
THE stores are donning their Christmas
attire.
HARRY A. SLADE has hung up a dazzling
new sign.
JOHN II. SENrER was in Rutland most Of
E. p. STEVENS of St. Albans was in town
last Friday.
SENATOR j. o. SANFORD of Stamford was
in town yesterday.
MIR. AND Mrs. Il. w. THOMPSON spent
Sunday in st. Albans.
THE auction of the Hiram Atkins house
is to take place tomorrow.
Tom McDERMoTT is ill with typhoid fever,
| at the Montpelier house
COLONEL HARRY E. PARKER of Bradford
! graced the town Monday.
COLONEL F. f. SMITH went to Chicago
last Saturday for week
THERE is to be dance at East Mont
pelier on Friday evening.
Miss MARY MCCLURE is in ID. F. Longs
store during the holidays.
HIRAM b WEDGE suffered slight shock
of paralysis last Thursday.
=. d. AND p. F. BLoDGETr of St. Johns
bury were in town Monday.
DR.. Ed. f. MURRAY was in town from
Worcester, Mass, last Sunday.
l.. w. PORTER has opened a general mer-
chandise store at West Berlin.
e. f. PIPER spends his spare time teach
ing banjo to large and growing class.
PROFESSOR S. j. BLANPIED and family are
to board at the Pavilion for the present.
JOHN III. SENTER attended the swell
democratic feed at Rutland last evening.
ABOUT fifty from Montpelier attended the
Spencer Rifles fair at Barre last Saturday.
WASHINGTON county has the handsomest
set of deputy sheriffs of any county in the
state.
GEORGE E. HOLDEN ESQ, was called TO
Waitsfeld, last week, by the illness of his
father.
MISSIONARIES from India and China talked
to the people in Bethany church, last Sun
day evening.
JOHN BURNEY of Fitchburg, Mass, treas
urer of the Montpelier Slate company, was
in town yesterday.
THE Sunday-school is to have Christmas
! ii
be assisted by the choir.
Mr.. AND Mrs. A. G. TRULAN have been
visiting old friends in town, and returned
to New York on Monday.
THE Edith Ross concert last Friday even
| ing was an excellent entertainment. The
, house was beggarly one.
d. II. ROBINSON, ticket agent at the Cen
tral depot, is spending a days vacation
at Prince Edwards Island.
MrSc RAIruv aiatar NJ Dr 4
, Bailey, has returned from an extended
trip to Illinois and New York
. CHARLES LITCH, meat cook at the Ex-
: change during session, has gone TO the Pa
vilion. His place is taken by Miss York of
> Barre
J.. ID. BROWN returned to New York yes
/ terday. Eighteen valuable horses which
3 he purchased in this section will be shipped
g to-day.
BERT l.. TAYLOR goes to New York, about
5 January l, to take hold of the Observer at
: Hoboken, y. j., across the river from the
: metropolis.
! THE Ladies' Reading Club of Christ
Q church will meet with Mrs T. G. Phinney
' on Monday evening, December 19, at half
4 past seven.
u AT the Thanksgiving party, last Thurs
. day evening at Bethany chapel a number
u of gifts were collected for the poor at
= Christmastide.
Y !
!. ously ill the past week. The disease is
: pneumonia, and the critical point was
turned Monday.
A GOVERNOR FULLER has appointed George
r w. Wing trustee of the Vermont state asy-
r lum at Waterbury, vice Dr. w. H. Gid
r dings, resigned.
r Two blocks of granite, each weighing
Il $4,000 pounds, have been shipped in two
!. cars to Philadelphia by the Montpelier &;
8 Wells River railroad.
+ AMONG the society items of the past week
: may be mentioned the fact that Miss Smith,
i late boarder at Joslyn's, has returned to
y her home in Ludlow
Il THE Montpelier district donation social
!. was held with Mr.. and Mrs A. b. Truax
. last Thursday. Among the gifts was $50
- from the ladies to Mrs Truax.
/; LEON CADY of Barre has the honor of
II being the sole occupant of the Jail. He was
J., charged with the larceny of $71, and was
unable to procure bondsmen for 500.
PEOPLE intending to load the post-office
E. with Christmas goods should get them in as
- quickly as possible. A registry fee of ten
9 cents will practically insure delivery,
t The Non-partisan Womans Christian
y Temperance Union will hold its regular
: meeting this wednesday, afternoon at
i three o'clock in. Woman's Relief Corps hall.
e MRS. ERAsrUs CAMP has sold to William
It Jackson a house and lot on Elm street, for
v 81, 300. Henry Fullerton has sold to
a Frank j. George land on Barre street, for
t $780,
n THE Chautauqua class will meet with
n Miss Bailey, at ia elm street, next Friday
!: afternoon, at two o'clock sharp. Rev. G.
u w Gallagher will speak to the class on
!, Greek Philosophy"
! The Wetmore & Morse Granite Company
is building large tomb for j.. R. Case Of
Racine, Wis, and Stafford, McGlynn &
Co. are making $1,000 column die monu-
}. ment for New York parties.
a THERR will be areunion of Eagle campers
. at the vestry of the Unitarian church on
Friday evening. All who have ever been at
. the camp, as pupils or visitors, and the par
= !, ents of pupils are cordially invited to be
present
. RESOLUTIONS ndorsing the adminstra-
4 ton of Postmaster General Wanamaker are
on exhibition in the post-oiiice. The docu-
ment is a clever piece of pen and ink work,
| done for the committee by G, S. Wright Of
Burlington
NI..ga.s a.