The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-27
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l.. A. KENIsToN has been at his home in
Calais during the shutdown of the Lane
Manufacturing Company.
Mr.. AND Mrs. G. E. BRICK and children
are visiting Mrs. Bricks mother, Mrs.
Kinsman of Barre street.
ID. d. HALEY, recently of Barre has
opened tailoring and cleaning shop in the
Marsh house on Main street.
The Sunday-school of Bethany church
went to the quarries yes terday on picnic.
A special train was utilized.
JOHN L. TUTTLE returned from Peake's
Island on Friday of last week. NJ. e.
Smile is to return on Saturday.
FRANK PRATT proposes to rusticate for
two or three weeks on a farm, as soon as he
can find just the farm he wants.
THE Central Vermont railroad will run
an excursion from Barre and Montpelier to
Providence Island on August II.
L. j.. DEAvITT, ESQ, is tearing down the
ell of his house on Baldwin street and will
erect in its place two-story ell.
AT meeting of the directors of the Ver-
mont Electric Company at Burlington, on
Monday, E. ID. Blanchard was elected treas
urer
THE party of veteran soldiers and their
wives, who had been at Peake's Island on
short outing, returned on Friday of last
week.
Mrs. WARE and daughter and Miss Law
renee of Newark, n j., and Miss Anslow of
Boston, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel
G. Tabor.
THE family of Edward Dewey is boarding
at the Pavilion, and will remain there for a
few weeks. Thomas Dewey is at Hotel
Kempton.
JOHN B. KNOX, assistant secretary of the
Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford,
Conn, was in town on Friday Of last week
on business,
Mrs. A. o. CUMMINs and Flora and Bert
Cummns and wife go to York Beach on
Monday. Mr.. Cummins and wife will not
return to Montpelier.
Col, who had been visiting Mrs. NJ. A. l..
Burbank at the Paw ilion, returned to Little.
ton, N. H., yesterday.
FRANK OSBORNE, son of Thomas Gis-
borne, had birthday party at his home on
Bailey avenue, on Wednesday of last week.
He was eight years old.
THE Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
of Trinity church will meet with Mrs. w,
o. Chapman, No. II st. Paul street, Satur-
day at three o'clock p. NJ.
REV. G. o. WEBSTER is at Hydeville on
three weeks vacation. State Missionary
MacGeorge will supply the pulpit of the
Baptist church, next Sunday.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Thursday afternoon at
bulcO " ClOCh, III Unb C0dDel OF BetnanY
church. Subject, Narcotics"
PROFESSOR L. D. WHIrTEMoRE of Wash
burn College, who has been visiting at G.
b. b. Dennys the past two weeks, started
last night for his home in Topeka, Kansas.
Miss LULU K. ELLIS returned from Con-
cord, n. H., on last week Wednesday, and
Mrs. Charles F. Conn accompanied her. Mrs.
Conn remained in Montpelier until Satur-
day
xra11 lyn ;1n,x
OF Montpelier for many years, died Monday
night, after an illness of over year and a
half. He was painter by trade. He leaves
wife and children.
Mrs. HETTIE GREEN of New York, well
known throughout the country for her
wealth and eccentricities, is at the Pavilion
for few days. She travels without COM
panion, although over eighty years of age.
E. E.. TowNER, state secretary of the
| Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor, has been appointed agent for this
state for receiving applications for member
ship in the Columbian Endeavor Associa-
! tion.
REV. A. II. BALL, ID, of Elgin, Ill.
preached at Bethany church ON Sunday
last, morning and evening. Those who
were present were greatly pleased with DR..
Balls discourse. He will occupy the pull
pit next Sunday.
GEORGE K. TOWER was overcome by the
heat while at work on the roof of one of
| the Lane Manufacturing Company's build
ings, Monday forenoon, and was uncon-
scious for about an hour. He returned to
work in the afternoon.
Mr.. o. G. WILEY and Miss Abbe M.
Ramsdell were united in marriage, last
Thursday, by Rev. G. S. Smith. The
presents were numerous and useful. They
departed for Montreal in the afternoon, and
will return the last of this week.
THE Sundav-school of the Eburcb of tba
Messiah enjoyed a pleasant picnic at Lang
don's grove, last week Thursday afternoon
The weather was perfect for picnic and
there was good attendance, the greater
number returning on the six o'clock train.
The war department has just awarded
General Stephen Thomas medal of honor
:" for distinguished conduct at the battle of
Cedar Creek October 10, 1864" Every
Vermont soldier knows that General
Thomas richly deserves this recognition of
his great service.
A BABY was making tracks rapidly toward
the track OF the Wells River road at Sabin's
crossing as the 800 Barre train was ap-
preaching, Monday afternoon. She had
reached the sleepers, but the engineer saw
her and stopped the train. The mother ap-
peared on the scene after the danger was
over
THE officers of the Peerless Manufacture
ing Company, who were in town recently
looking at Montpelier's facilities for doing
their business, also visited St. Johnsbury
for the same purpose. The st. Johnsbury
board of trade is looking into the matter
with view to making good proposition
to the company
A LETTER was recently deposited in the
| Montpelier post-office bearing in a fairly
legible hand this inscription e. =,
kieliish, New Orek." The interpreters ac-
customed to untangling the meshes igno-
rance or stupidity often weaves about its
epistolary affairs, sent the missve to Fish.
Kill, n. Y, and it - got there"
CHARLES f, PUTNAM of Terre Haute,
Ind, has been visiting his uncle, E. ID. Put
nam, during the past week. He is a native
of Marshfield, For several years he was in
the employ of E. r. Skinner. Afterward
he was connected with leading dry goods
houses in Boston, Chicago and other cities,
and is now broker in Terre Haute.
The Messenger of st. Albans, which had
been cultivating what our classic contem-
porary up street would style an "entente
cordtdle with the Argus and Patriot, has
caught the latter in one of its characteristic
misstatements-lies euphemism aside
and the relations between the contemnor-