The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-04-13
Montpelier and Vicinity.

Montpelier and Vicinity.
A DISPATCH received yesterday announces
the illness of Bishop Foss, who was to pre-
side over the Methodist conference. Bishop
e. G. Andrews of New York will preside in
his place.
How's your cold?
THREE cheers for Tom Reed
WILLIAM MILLER is in Boston on business.
Politics and religion have the floor to-
day.
Miss ANNIE ALLEN is i'll with severe
cold.
JOHN w. EMERY is away on trip to Bos-
ton and New York.
Miss EDNA TAFT is assisting in the Tap
lin dry-goods store.
GEORGE A. KNAPP is singing tenor in the
Congregational choir.
SCHOOL in district No. 3, Berlin, COM
mences next Monday.
AMOS KINsoN of Essex is visiting his sis
ter Mrs. j. w. Smith.
Mrs. ARTHUR LANE was in town from
West Randolph yesterday.
ALEX DUNNETT, ESQ, of st. Johnsbury
was in town last Saturday.
THREE Stewart children in the Reed
block have been seriously i'll.
o. G. BARRON and family went to the
White Mountains last week.
Miss LOUISE PORTER of Quechee is the
guest of Miss Bessie Farwell.
GENERAL THEODORE S. PECK of Burling-
ton was in town last Monday.
Mr.. AND MRS. GEORGE w. WILDER are
confined to the house by illness.
REV. A. j. HoUGH is to deliver the Me-
mortal day address at Montpelier.
WILLIAM LoUBY, living on the Levi Pear
sons farm, is the papa OF daughter.
Miss GRACE BRADIsH of West Randolph
is again at work for Mrs G. A. Best.
Mrs. CoNNoR, living in the Hazen block,
is mother to baby girl, born yesterday.
T. r. MERRILL, SR., has been housed for
several days with an attack OF influenza.
Holy WEEK services at st. Augustne's
church at A. NJ. the remainder Of the week.
BARNEY NUTTING was fined $1001, last
Wednesday, for plain unvarnished drunk.
Mrs. IDA PALLoU WEEKS of Lyndonville
is visiting her aunt, Miss Upham, at the
Pavilion.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ALBERT JoHoNNoTT are
visiting relatives of Mrs. Johonnott in
Maryland.
BENJAMIN DALEY has bought the coal
business of II. NJ. Pierce, and takes possess
sion May l.
THE post-office will be open for business
| A.
p. M, on Fast day.
THE Methodist quarterly conference last
Friday voted to invite Rev. A. j. Hough to
remain another year.
A. c. BROWN has placed telephone in
the vestry of the Methodist church, to re-
main through conference.
If you have any bills against the Mont
pelier Building Association you had better
present them within week
HI. e. SLAYToN has opened an auction
store in the building on Main street formerly
occupied by Fisher & Cotton.
If parties having quantities of coal ashes
| will deliver them on the level, g. B. Roberts
will cart them away free of charge.
MARY HowE-LAvIN, vermont's peerless
soprano will sing in Montpelier on May 2l.
| This will be good news to our people,
MISS FANNIE BILLINGS and Miss Jessie
| Ormsbee of Lebanon, n. H., visited at W.
r. Weston's last Wednesday and Thurs
day.
THE Fast day service in Bethany chapel
| given out to be held at eleven o'clock A. NJ.
will be held at three o'clock in the after
| noon.
THE regular Sunday evening prayer
meeting at the Baptist church has been
changed to preaching service in the audience
room.
A SPECIAL train is to be run next Sunday
| over the Montpelier & Wells River road, for
the accommodation of people attending the
Methodist Conference.
THE Granite Construction Company has
been organized, with George II. Guernsey
as president, A. Shambo as vice-president,
and n. Dubuc as superintendent.
THE Congregational sociable at DR.. Board
mans, last Friday evening, was an en-
phatic success. Persihage and sandwiches
make an excellent combination.
CHARLES p. PHELPS, son of ex-Minister E.
j. Phelps of Burlington, and Miss Graves,
daughter of Rev. Gemont Graves of Burling-
ton, spent last Saturday in town.
ID. e. MASON has been spending few
days in Swanton, and Mrs. ID. ID. Davis has
been pressing the button at the Western
| Union telegraph company's office.
AT the quarterly meeting of the directors
! of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
! Company, James T. Sabin was elected a
director in place of j. w. Ellis, deceased.
HARRY LOWE has returned from New
York, in restored health. He went to the
metropolis three or four weeks ago, was at
tackled by illness, and had quite a serious
siege
THE remains of Nellie. daughter of Charles
A. Reed, who died in Chicago two months
ago, were brought to Montpelier yester-
day noon and placed in Green Mount Gem
etery.
| The social season at the Berlin town hall
is waning a little, but large attendance Is
expected for the dance the evening of April
20, 1t will be one of the events of rather
dull season.
HANDS Across THE SEA" drew a big
audience at the Opera house, last week
Tuesday night. The play is an excellent
melodrama, was staged WELL and fairly pre-
sented. The heroine was somewhat OF an
intiiction. The audience wept with her.
A COUPLE of hen-hawks in the window Of
the Babcock drugstore have attracted con-
siderable attention. They are very much
alive, and resist any attempts to scrape &C
quaintance with strangers. They were cap
tured alive by farmer, into whose barn
yard they had swooped to corral chicken