The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-30

raphy and the general unsteadiness of the
letters.
Hon. j. L. MARTIN OF Brattleboro spent
Sunday with Edward Dewey, going back
on Monday with his little daughter Margaret.
THE Boston Ideal Club Will give the
sixth entertainment of the Ladies' Guild
course at the Blanchard opera-house on Sat
urday, April 2.
FRED w. BANCROFT has arranged with
the Baptist society of st. Albans to enter
tain them April 6, with his Evening with
Old English Ballads"
THE Sunday evening whist club held an
entertaining meeting last Sunday evening.
The first prize was won by -; the
BOBBY prize by.
A. III. HEBER of Meade, Kan, is in town
on business for the American Mortgage and
Trust company, in which many in this
vicinity are Interested.
ABOUT seventy samples have thus far
been received at the sugar laboratory. Only
one scored over ninety per cent, and only
one went below eighty.
THE Montpelier building company has
sold its plant, consisting of land and the
stone sheds on the Heath property, to Stat
ford, McGlynn * Carey.
FRANK EsTERBRooK, solo alto in the mil
itary band committed matrimony last Sat-
urday with Miss Minnie Butterfly, and has
gone to Rutland to live.
hEV. ". w. GALLAGHER VIII speak next
Sunday morning on Miracles" and in the
evening will speak to the young people on
the danger of corrupt society"
"OUT OF sight, seel' ground out a much
intoxicated Montpelier young man one day
last week, as he stood on the street and
slowly tore his derby hat into shreds.
WEBSTER CATE, for two years clerk for
A. ID. Farwell, has rented the boarding
house of the Langdon granite company at
(Yrapitayillp and takes pOgSpssiOp a pril l
MRS. HARRIET WHELPLEY, of Barre
street, died last Saturday night, aged fifty
eight years, leaving family of eight chill
dren. Her husband was lost at sea some
years ago.
MARGIE AND BESSIE, daughters of II. W.
Kemp, entertained their little friends, last
Monday evening, from seven to nine, the
occasion being the seventh birthday of Mis-
tress Bessie.
JAMES X. FULLERTON of Waterbury,
special agent of the Vermont Mutual Fire
Insurance company, has accepted position
as agent in this section for the Mutual Life
of New York.
WILLIAM MOVES and Annette Noyes have
bought from Annette Loveland the house
they live in on st. Paul street. ID. r. Gray
has sold to Addison Minott a lot on Elm
| street, for S400
THE Kings Daughters, at their meeting
last week, voted unanimously to give Mrs.
NJ E. Bell subscription of S25 for the pro-
posed Vermont Home. Other new work
was also taken up.
THE Moloney faction of the democrats at
Rutland held a second caucus Monday even
ing, and elected solid ant-Atkins delega-
ton to the state democratic convention at
Montpelier, May 5.
MRS EDNA ROBINSON, aged seventy-nine
years, who has been i'll for years with can
Ger and confined to her bed since last Sep
tember, became unconscious last Monday,
and is slowly failing.
WILL II. HERRICK of Middlesex has
| bought OF the administrator OF the estate Of
n. X. Herrick, his father, the house on Lib
erty street occupied by the former when a
resident at the capital.
DON'T lose sight of the fact that the
Apollo minstrel show is scheduled for the
last week in April. Work has already be.
gun, and two weeks more will see things
| moving at rapid rate.
JOHN w. SMITH celebrated his seventy
third birthday last Sunday at his home on
Berlin street. His children and grand
children, numbering twenty-one, sat down
to the anniversary dinner.
FRED BoswoRTH, formerly clerk for j. V.
Babcock, and later of Bellows Falls and
Barre, has taken possession of the hotel at
West Lebanon, n. H. Mrs. Bosworth left
Barre last Saturday to join him.
Miss GRACE BRADrsH of West Randolph
is clerk for Mrs g. A. Best. and not trim
mer, as stated last week Miss Alena STEM
binger of New York holds that position,
and is expected next week.
ANN ELIZA BACON of Barre, for a nnm-
ber Of years an employe in the tailor shop
of s. g. Woolson, was married last Thurs
day to Henry S. Bannister of Potsdam N.
Y, Rev. j. Edward Wright officiating.
AN entertaining feature of county court,
last Friday, was the bouncing of Lewis
Goodnature. Lewis insisted on making his
presence manifest and Officer Tuttle
waltzed him out somewhat laboriously.
JAMES c. HoUGHroN returned last Thurs
day from a trip of three weeks to Denver
and other western points. Mr.. Houghton
shares, with nearly every one who has
visited Denver, warm admiration for that
city.
FRANK PIERCE, manager OF the Montpe-
lier Office of X. Q. Wilson granite dealer,
returned to the home Office at Boston last
evening Another man will soon take his
place here. Mr.. Pierce is held in much es-
TEEN by his employer.
f. F. BRADIsH of Burlington was in town
yesterday. He reports that the CONNER
eial Union telegraph company will begin
next month to extend its lines to Montpelier
and Barre, and will eventually run them
through to Concord, N. III.
THE Womans Christian Temperance
Union ~ 10 meet with Mrs. y. y. dudley
next Thursday afternoon at three o'clock.
A Bible reading will be given. All inter-
ested are cordially invited At the last
meeting a subscription of S25 was given for
the proposed Vermont Mercy Home.
THE case of Wheeler & Taft of Barre
against John G. Wing was tried at Barre
yesterday. The plaintiffs alleged that
Wing had fraudulently obtained money of
them by means of worthless check Wing
did not show up at the hearing, so, in de-
fault. judgment of $40 and costs was en-
tered against him and close Jail execution
issued.
THE WATCHMAN reporter is indebted to
Professor Ainsworth, our local Walt Whit.
man, for gratuitous copies OF two more of
his remarkable creations in verse, Z" New
England Ballad Song" and "Wonders OF
Electricity as a Light" Into each has been
brealhed "a powerful lyric spirit, but neither
is quite up to his previous effort, Women's
Writes"
REV. ELIAS, Chaldean priest has been
stopping at the Exchange His object in
this country is to solicit funds for the erec-
tion of an orphan asylum in Asia Minor
Rev. Elias is meeting with fair success
II H.. al.