The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-05-18
Montpelier and Vicinity.

ELIAS LYMAN of Burlington was in town
last Sunday.
JAMES e. CURRAN has returned from
Washington, ID. G.
FRANK SMITH was fined $1001, last Fri
day, for intoxication.
MOUNT SINAI TEMPLE propose a pilgrim
age to Rutland, May "a or 81.
DAUGHTER was born to Rev. G. o. Web.
ster, at st. Johnsbury on Monday.
A CHILD of Frank Daniels fell down stairs
last Monday and smashed its nose.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows holds its
annual session at Montpelier to-day.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES DEWEY are ex-
pected back this week from the West.
THE grounds around the public library
have been graded, and gravel walks laid.
LATE reports from Providence, r. l., are
that Mrs. NJ. d. Gilman is sinking rapidly.
CLARENCE H. PITKIN has been granted a
patent on saw-mill dog. Not Watchdog.
HARRY A. SLADE, of Rolfe & Slade, is
visiting in Claremont, n. H., and Spring
field.
Mrs. GEORGE III. SMILE of Hardwick is
in town for medical advice as to disabled
hand.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with Mrs.
Shipman, next Friday afternoon at two
o'clock.
ASHLEY HUBBARD has broken ground for
his new house on the eminence in the rear
of the Hillside.
A DAUGHTER was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
B. B. Bailey on Monday and a son to Mr..
and Mrs. G. f. Lowe.
THE funeral of Jabez Baker was held last
Thursday, the remains being placed in
Green Mount cemetery.
G. II. MOORE has bought the residence of
takes possession June /.
HERBERT r. WHEELocK has a very much
demOraized eye and vicinity, caused by
falling down in his barn.
JOHN " BROOKS, DIR. Kemp and G. w.
Skinner went to Niggerhead ,ond last Mon
day, but didn't get clam.
Mrs. j. V. BABCoCK and Miss Carrie Full
lerton 90 to Montreal today. Miss Fuller
ton goes on to Minneapolis.
CLARENCE S. PIERCE and Levi H. Bixby
started for Greensboro yesterday. They
heard they were biting pretty fast"
CONTRARY to previous announcement,
Rev. G. o. Webster will occupy his own
pulpit at the Baptist church, next Sunday.
AT the annual meeting of the Vermont
Loyal Legion, held at Burlington last week,
General Stephen Thomas was elected COM
mander.
HIRAM PIERCE will soon enter the service
of baking powder company in Boston as
salesman His family will remain in town
for the present.
JOSEPH LABEL fell off the roof of the
new barn of II. W. Kemp, on which he was
at work, cut his lip and probably cracked a
bone in his wrist
AN excitable individual started the rumor,
last Saturday, that seizure had just been
made at Lester H. Greenes. 1t was, how
ever, a gross mistake.
THE Montpelier Military Band orchestra
furnish music for the graduating exercises
at Waterbury Center, June 2, and also at
Randolph and North6eld.
Don SANDERS of Morrisville visited Gen.
eral Sanders his brother, last week. Don
was formerly wideawake Montpelier boy
and has many friends here
Mr.. T. W. Wood was reelected president
of the National Academy of Design in New
York at the annual meeting of that society
on Wednesday of last week
BERT GREENE, formerly local dry-goods
clerk, has taken up new profession, hav-
ing gone into the bakery business at st. AL
bans with Fred N. Trombley,
Mr.. AND MRS ABRAHAM LONG returned,
last Saturday, from Boston, where they
were called by the illness and death of
Henry Sou;her, father of Mrs Long.
Mrs. III. M. INGHAM of Cleveland, o.,
delivered strong address on Temper
ance " in Trinity church, last Sunday even
ing, and brought out many new ideas.
AT the sugar laboratory some 1900 sam
pies have been received, representing a
product of 10000 pounds. The season
will close with product of about 1,750, 600,
A PLEASANT instance of nerve was ex-
hibited last week, when a man living near
the late house of w. III. Hunt asked the
trustees for $25 for damage done his garden
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