The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-27
Montpelier and Vicinity.
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r. A. DwINELL went to Boston last Thurs
day for a short trip.
CHARLES II. HASTINGS of St. Johnsbury
spent Sunday in town.
LEVI PEARsoNs, who lives on the Mutt
farm, is i'll with pneumonia.
A MEETING Of the Ministers Union was
held yesterday in Rev. j. E. Wrights
study.
BETHANY READING CLUB met yesterday
with Mrs. III. G. Cotton.
The father and brother Of Mrs. j. v. Dut-
ton are visiting her from Hardwick
THE Central Vermont station is receiving
a much needed washing and ironing.
II. M. wH1TcoHB has been struggling
with an extra severe attack OF la cinch.
KARL s. HARBAUGH, from the Boston In
stitute of Technology is visiting at E. ID.
Hyde's.
W. p. HUNTINGTON can relate an interest
ing. yarn concerning g. the mystery OF a
tablecloth."
THE Chautauqua Circle will meet with
Mrs. II. B. Cross next Friday afternoon, at
two o'clock.
II. w. KEMPToN cleared his ice field last
Friday, preparatory to harvesting a crop Of
excellent ice.
THE Bethany Reading Club will meet at
Mrs j. V. Babcock's on Tuesday afternoon
at two o'clock.
+. J. O'NEL OF White River Junction
spent Sunday with his brother.in-law, Rev.
w. J. O'Sullivan.
HENRY BUTTERFLY and Miss Emma
DesAulnier are to be married to-day in st.
Augustiue's church.
MISS EVA EVANS of Waterbury sang So
prano in Bethany church last Sunday, in
place of Mrs. Briggs.
Mr.. WRIGHT expects to preach in the
Morse schoo-house, East Montpelier, next
Sunday, at 2:15 P. NJ.
REV. A. b. TRUAx will preach at Trinity
church Sunday evening next and will ad-
minister the sacrament.
GEORGE w. WING and j. Eli Goodenough
attended the Masonic convention at Bur-
lington last Friday night.
GEORGE w. McALLIsTER is ill, and
George G.. Whitney is filling his place as
janitor at the Union school.
THE blizzard OF yesterday delayed the
noon express a couple of hours, and the
afternoon mail was also late.
Miss KATE f. ROBBINS of Northfeld,
te cher in the Union school, is at Mary
Fletcher hospital, Burlington.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE BRANERD and
Colonel and Mrs. Fred e. Smith left yester-
day for visit in St. Johnsbury.
THE post-office force is in receipt of a
basket of dne oranges from E. ID. Black
wells Sunset Hill grove, Florida.
The ladies' reading club of Christ church
will meet with Mrs Il. ID. Blackwell next
Saturday evening, at seven o'clock.
Mrs. RIVERS of Franklin street, ninety
eight years old, has weathered the grip, and
bids fair to round out an even century.
FRED CAMP returned last Friday to Bos-
ton, after visit with his mother, Mrs. Sa-
rah A. Camp, who has been critically ill.
ID. w. TEMPLE returned last Monday from
Burlington. Mrs. Temple and Alfred are
still there visiting Mrs. Mead her mother.
DIR. CHARLES A. GALE of Rutland was in
town yesterday, on his way to Williams
town, to attend the last hours of his mother.
ONLY four scholars in Miss Macomber's 8
school appeared for recitations last Monday
morning, reports Bobby Best. Whooping-
cough.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE G. ALBER are to
occupy the rooms in the Poland tenement
on East State street to be vacated by Charles
III. Baldwin.
The Apollo club. through its furnishing
committee, have come into the possession
of a Miller parlor-grand piano, to be set up
in the new quarters.
Hon. II. A. HUsE has been trying for a
week to persuade himself that he is not i'll ,
but abandoned the argument and remained
at home "A number of days.
| MRS JAMES II. SAGE of Troy, N. Y,
whose husband is a nephew and heir of
millionaire Russell Sage, is visiting Mrs.
William a. Lord, her mother.
AT the annual convention of the fifth
Masonic district, held at Burlington last
Friday, an elegant past grand masters $
jewel was presented to George w. Wing.
A. G.. TRULAN, the former well-known
and popular telegraph operator at the Cen
HprmAnt rpppnflV took
and last child to Whitefeld N H., for burial.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Thursday afternoon at
three O'Clock with Miss Rublee. Subject:
Temperance teaching in the Sunday
schools"
Mr. AND MRS ALBERT SPARROW arrived
last Saturday night from a weeks stay at
Calais where they had gone to care for Mr..
Sparrow's mother. The latter is much i'm
proved.
THR dance at East Montpelier last Satur-
day evening attracted seventy-three couples,
eighteen of whom were from this village
The Montpelier orchestra furnished the
tuneful music
E. w. BAILEY of Chicago was up from
Boston last Friday evening where he had
been 10 attend as a delegate the board of
commerce banquet He left for the West
Saturday night.
MRS BARNEY OF St. AlDanS, VINO has Tor
some weeks officiated as nurse to Mrs. III. N.
Taplin, left last Monday to assume "a SINH
lar situation in the family of Postmaster
Wheeler OF Burlington.
THURSDAY will be observed as the day for
prayers for colleges At the Seminary
services will be held Wednesday evening at
half past seven and Thursday morning at
half past ten in the chapel.
AN itinerant raiment emporium has rented
the rooms in Howes' block recently vacated
by the Capital Savings Bank, and is en-
gagged in the time-honored practice of giving
gold dollars for eighty-tive cents.
THE fourth entertainment in the lecture
course Of the Ladies' Library Guild is a lee
ture by Rev. A. A. Willis, DID. Subject,
"Sunshine." To be given at the Blanchard
Opera-house, Thursday, January 28
JUDoE ABBL WARREN and wife cele-
brated their golden wedding at their home
in Berlin last Monday evening. Their son
from Kansas City, Mo, and their son-in-
law, Dwight Hobart of Texas, were p. es-
ent.
The directors Of the Capital Savings Bank
and Trust Company last Wednesday re-
elected as president, L. j. Deavitt; first vice