The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-02
Montpelier and Vicinity.

WHY don't you take off your screen doors?
Miss EVA BANCROFT is a clerk in Longs
bookstore.
f. A. DwINELL sang tenor in Bethany
choir last Sunday.
THE annual meeting of the Apollo Club is
to be held Thursday evening.
q. A. Rowland attended the production
=" Robin Hood ''at Burlington last Satur-
uay evening.
CHARLES SHEPARD REED, son of Charles
A. REED, formerly of Montpelier, is at the
Riverside.
LETTER CARRIER JOHN MILLER sprained
an ankle, last week. while coming out of the
argus office.
Miss POTTER of Maine will lecture at the
Methodist church, Wednesday evening"
November 9.
"THE SHADOWS OF A GREAT CITY" drew
a fair-sized audience at the opera-house,
Saturday evening.
WHAT won't the aesthetic Montpelerite
do next? Rnbbers with tan-colored sum
mer shoes is the latest.
FRED w. BANCROFT gave his Evening
with Old English Ballads" at Rutland last
week Wednesday evening.
A BRooM.DRILL is to be held at the Sem
mary chapel Friday evening, in the inter-
ests of the Esthetic Society
Mrs OLIVER MILES, eighty-eight years
old, hemmed a napkin, the other day, with
out the assistance of eye glasses.
THE Central Vermont railroad is filling
and grading strip of land between Main
street and the clothes-pin factory.
H. E. LAWRENCE, freight conductor, lost
| the end of one finger and jammed another
while coupling cars last Thursday.
The Chautauqua class will meet with
| Mrs Harmon Sberhurne No k Elm street
on Friday afternoon at two o'clock.
Hon. E. NJ. SLAYToN, formerly of Mont
pelier, has been chosen president of the
Board of Trade of Manchester, n. III.
LAURA E., wife of Louis Girard, died on
Sunday at her late home. Her funeral was
held yesterday at st. Augustine church.
L. o. CHURCHILL of Lowell Mass, for
merly Montpelier photographer, has made
fine crayon of the late Janus Crossett.
L. S. DREW, ex-manager of the Van Ness
house, Burlington, wasithe guest, last week
Wednesday, of Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. b. Denny.
THE Ladies Reading Club of Christ Church
will meet with Mrs. /. X. Moulton on Mon
day evening, November 7, at half-past
seven.
REV. DONALD S. MAcKAY ofSt. Albans ex-
changed, Sunday, with Rev. G. w. Gala
CHER. In the evening he spoke on Sin
cerity."
j. S. WHEELocK, j. NJ. Willard, Alex
ander Jarvis and Clark Sibley have pur-
chased a granite quarry in Calais of II. II.
McCloud, for $4,000.
The big seven-ton Damon safe for the
Capital Savings Bank and Trust Company
has been put in. In the safe are 100 safe
deposit compartments.
ERAsTUs p GRAY has sold to l. A. Reed
a house on Clay Hill, for 5000, and K. G.
Collins to Fred Emmons a dwelling in the
same section for similar amount.
THE United States Clothes pin Company
has received an order from New York
for three thousand gross of clothes pins
1t is the largest order they ever received.
PRESIDENT II. n TAPLIN and George
Brainerd went to St. Johnsbury, Monday, TO
see how badly the Vermont Mutual was hit
in the confiagration there Sunday evening.
HENRY MCLoUD of Calais has sold an
other chunk of the granite property on his
farm to W. A, Whitcomb Of Barre and w.
W Whitcomb and John Opie of Lebanon,
N H.
The annual state convention of the Non
partisan Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held at the Woman's Relief
Corps hall, Tuesday and Wednesday, No
| vember and 9.
FIELDING SMITH, assistant postmaster at
| route between Lancaster and Montpelier,
finished his labors Saturday night, and re-
turned home Monday morning.
MRS T, S. BRoPHY, who has been spend
ing the past six weeks in New York and
Boston, taking lessons in Royal Worcester
art has returned home. She has some
beautiful specimens of her work.
POSTMASTER GooDENoUGH has been agi-
tating conference Of the county seat post
masters in Vermont, for the purpose of
comparing notes and improving the service.
IL is likely that such meeting will be held
in the near future,
Miss EMMA LANIER and Edward Sweeney
were married at the chapel of st. Michaels
school, last week Tuesday morning, by Rev,
w. j. OSullivan. Mr.. aud Mrs. Sweeney at
once began housekeeping in the tenement
in Lanier's block on Elm street recently va.
Gated by Henry Hunt.
The twenty ninth annual reunion OF the
Vermont Officers Association is to be
held at the state house tomorrow at -four
P. M. In the evening Colonel j. II. Gould.
ing OF Rutland will deliver the Grafton in
representatives hall and a banquet at the
Pavilion, at nine o'clock, will follow.
DIR. G. N. HUNT was called upon, the
other evening, to relieve young lady suf-
fering from peculiar accident. In some
manner an earring worn by the young lady
and made after the pattern OF a small gold
shot, had been broken and the little ball
drawn into the lobe Of her ear. A slight