The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-23
Montpelier and Vicinity.

SCHOOL closed Saturday for week.
JAMES T. SABIN returned Saturday from
the Adirondacks.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE II. RoLFE left for
Boston Monday noon.
Mrs. c. A. LANG goes to Boston to-
morrow for weeks visit.
F. NJ. CORY is thoroughly overhauling
and brushing up his store.
PRAISE service was held at the Uuita.
rian church Sunday evening.
Miss MOLLY BINGHAM of St Albans has
been the guest of Mrs g. A. Lang for sew
eral days
Mr. AND Mrs. j. w. BURGESS and family
leave next week for their winter home III
New York.
The train that has left for Barre at 10: 30
P. NJ, after to-day "wednesday will leave
at s: 80 p. NJ.
The Legislature has passed an act hoist
ing the salary of State Librarian Wood to
81 600 year.
The Bethany Christian Endeavor So
ciety is to hold a " Pi - sociable at the ves-
try next Friday evening.
The Chautauqua class will meet with Miss
Troublee, Is Summer street, next Friday
afternoon at two o'clock.
UNION Thanksgiving service will be held
in the Baptist church Thursday morning
at 10: 30 o'clock, the sermon to be by Rev.
G. O. Webster
THE non-partisan Womans Christian
Temperance Union will meet in Woman's
Relief Corps hall, this "wednesday after
noon at three o'clock.
THE members and guests of Bethany
Reading club will observe red-letter day
at Mrs. Morton MarYin's, next Tuesday az
ternoon at two o'clock.
e. II. LADD has been appointed acting
agent in the National Express Office at New
port, and E. H. Putnam takes the vacant
place in the local office.
MRS. n. C. MERRITT, formerly of East
Montpelier, has returned to her home in
northampton, Mass, after pheasant visit
among old friends in this county.
Mr.. AND Mrs. j. EDWARD WRIGHT and
family are now in Berlin, all enjoying excel
lent health and spirits They have recently
visited Naples, Florence, Venice, Inns
bruck, Munich, Nuremburg and Dresden.
COLONEL BEADLE of Chicago. the we'll.
known bon UiUdnt and rdcOnteur, has been in
town for few days The colonel says he
would rather be a lamppost in the city of
chicago than millionaire in the state of
Vermont.
GEORGE W. TILDEN of Barre was stricken
with what is supposed to be a paralytic
shock at little after midnight, and yes
terday remained unconscious. This being
his second shock. grave fears are enter
tanned as TO his recovery.
The post Office will be open on Thanks.
giving day from eight to ten o'clock A. NJ.
and four TO six P. NJ. General delivery will
be made on Carriers Miller and Browns
routes, leaving the post-office at eight
A, NJ. Collection as usual
THE Washington County Good Templars
held their annual meeting in this village last
Wednesday. Following the election of
oihcers, the subordinate degree was exem-
plihed by Montpelier lodge, and during the
afternoon there was music and literary ex-
ercises.
THE subject of Rev. G. W. Galaghers
morning discourse at Bethany church, next
Sunday, will be "The Peace We Need"
In the evening Mr.. Gallagher will deliver
the fourth in his series of discourses on the
Prodigal Son, his theme being Riotous
Living"
THE Vermont Humane Society held a
meeting Thursday afternoon in Capital hall,
President III. b. Williams OF Bristol presid-
ing. Not large attendance was present.
The next meeting is to be held at Queen
City Park, Burlington, next fall, when
officers will be elected,
In Is very seldom that Correspondent Jones
OF the Free PreSs betohies humorous. Natu-
rally he is a seriously inclined young man.
Hence the following item in Fridays paper
Is all the more humorous on account OF its
entire Inconsistencies: All the Mont
pelier democrats who could, assisted in the
celebration at Barre, Thursday evening"
UNION service by the Baptists, Methodists
and Congregationalists was held at Bethany
church, Sunday evening, and A. W. Mill.
bury, secretary OF the Industrial Christian
Alliance OF New York city, delivered an ad-
dress on the work of rescue among the
dives and slums of that city, holding his
audience until nearly nine o'clock
"KITEY MARCoTT eniOyed a wheel.