The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-24
Montpelier and Vicinity.


CHARLES DEWEY is in New York.
FAByAN GBoRoE has gone to st. Albans
to work.
Miss ELLA WAITE spent last Thursday in
Cambridge.
WILLIE CowING returned to Boston last
Saturday night.
FRED II. BRADIsH was up from Burlington
to spend Sunday.
Mr.. AND Mrs. s. l.. HOWE went to Chi
cago last Thursday.
FRED A. Rowland was in town Monday
from Lancaster, N. II.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HIRAM ATKINS spent Sun
day in Bellows Falls.
DENIsoN /. DEWEY is at work in the Jew
elry store of A. G.. Stone.
Hon. w. G. FRENCH OF Woodstock was
at the capital last Friday.
MRS. J. ELI GooDENouGH is at Middle
sex, suffering from quinsy.
Mr.. AND MRS. II. G. COTTON arrived last
evening from Springfield, Mass
THE fifteen-months-old child OF Peter
Crapo died of fever last Sunday.
MRS. DENIsoN DEWEY is critically i'll,
with only slight hopes OF recovery.
Mr. AND MRS. HENRY w. WAsHBURN last
Thursday became parents OF a boy.
COLONEL j. III. LUCIA is to deliver the ad-
dress, Memorial day, at Waitsfeld.
E M. IRISH. Aughtney Shambo and L.
w. Sparrow went to Boston last night.
MISS josie ROBINSON arrived from Boston,
last Saturday, and returned yesterday.
CHARLES BERRY, order clerk for Brooks
Il Berry, is off duty on account Of illness.
MRS. LESTER H. GREENE went last Thurs
day to the St. Albans hospital for treatment.
ID. ID. RANDLETT, treasurer Of the Central
Vermont railroad, was in town last Friday.
T. w. DoNAHUE went to Manchester,
n H., last Monday, to play drum engage
ment.
A SERVICE of sacred song is to be held in
the Church Of the Messiah next Sunday
evening.
The Kings Daughters met Monday even
ing with Miss Mary and Miss Gertrude
Dewey.
WAS the flag hoisted on the state house on
Washington's birthday? 1t is stated that it
was not.
THR Chautauqua Circle will meet with
Mrs. Clark King on Friday afternoon at
two o'clock
MRS. EuGENE F. RAND and Miss Lillian
Stowell attend the military ball at Barre
this evening.
THE meeting of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union is postponed until next
week lnurSuay.
HORACE w. KEMPToS has sued Barre
village for $4,000, for damaging his ice-crop
by its sewerage.
MAJOR J. E. ELDER Of the Exchange fell
upstairs last Saturday, and disfgured the
rear of his cdput.
Mr.. WRIGHT expects to preach in the
Morse school-house, East Montpelier, next
Sunday at q Is P. M.
F. N. FIELD, postal clerk on the New
port and Springfield run, visited at j. r.
Seaver's over Sunday.
DR.. LUTHER NEwCoMB OF Lynn, Mass ;,
with his wife, is visiting Mrs Amanda Il.
Newcomb, his mother.
AHa engine Barre Of the Montpelier a.
Wells River railroad is being rebuilt, and
fitted with new boiler.
GEORGE A. PARMENTKR has finished fill
ing the Central Vermont railroad ice-houses
at Barre and Montpelier.
THE Ladies' Guild of Christ church will
meet with Mrs. I. G. Phinney on Thursday
afternoon at two o'clock.
H. N. TAPL1N was in Rutland Castleton
and Dandy, last week, on business connected
with the Vermont Mutual.
MRS. j. V. BABCoCK has been invited to a
reunion OF past graduates of young ladies'
seminary at Hartford, Conn.
Miss NELLIE SLOAN, clerk for G. II Bus
well, was surprised " last Saturday even
ing by big party of friends.
THE children of the Catholic school had
jolly ride around town last Monday in half
dozen sleighs, big and little.
THE new gas company is engaged on Elm
street in the cheerful occupation of its
predecessor-digging for leaks.
Now doth the local snow-shoer take noe
turnal tramps over the snow-clad hills, and
think it more fun than saving wood.
G. X. PUTNAM left last Friday night for a
vacation Of ten days. he was headed for
Jackson, Mich, when he left Montpelier.
THE officers descended upon the saloons
OF j. A. Locklin, Thomas Lynch, and w. p.
Reed, last Saturday, but did not ind drop.
Mrs. DELoRME HARBAUGH and Mrs. G.
B. Wilson expect to leave next week for
Seattle, Wash, to remain several months.
THB Non partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet with Mrs. r.
X. Bunnell this afternoon at three o'clock
CHARLES o. HURLBUT, quartermaster-
general on the staff OF Governor Tuttle of
New Hampshire, was in town last Wednes-
day.
THE Ladies' Reading Club of Christ
church will meet with Mrs. J. c. Houghton
on Monday evening, February 20, at a quar-
ter past seven.
BERNARD GREENWOOD returned Monday
from a stay at Groton, where he has opened
branch clothing store. He goes back to
Groton oday.
J. d. Brown, the New York horse buyer,
is at the Pavilion. He has corraled large
number of Washington county equines in
the past ten days.
DURING the year ending February 20,
there were fourteen burials at the expense
of the town, but not more than half Of these
were town charges.
Mrs. NJ. f. BELL has been i'll the past
few days at Miss Rublee's. She will resume
her work for the Mercy Home soon, as she
is now much better.
THE Good Templars will meet hereafter
in the rooms formerly occupied by the
Apollo Club, which have been leased by the
Woman's Relief Corps.
MISS HELRN BURPRE has been chosen as
delegate from the Baptist Christian En-
deavor society to the county convention at
Williamstown on Friday.
THE Barre-street friends of Mrs. Alice
Berry rendered her a surprise party last
evening at the residence of Mrs. ID. w.
Temple, sister Of Mrs. Berry.