The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-24
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North Branch. He will continue to blow
with the band.
NEArLY-PRrNTED invitations announce
the reception, Friday evening, at the rooms
| of the Apollo Club. Any club member who
| may have been omitted should speak at
once.
JOSEPH b. MORSE and Frank Pratt have
rented the house on Main street formerly
occupied by the late DR.. Chandler. The
house was made over into two tenements
| last fall.
WHILE Charles Miller and Sumner Kim
ball were out driving, last Saturday, the
horse kicked every thing it could reach, and
Mr.. Miller was badly cut and bruised about
the face.
THE store OF the late Peter Mitchell has
been filled with shoppers this week, as the
stock OF dry goods is being closed out. 1t
is understood that G. II. Shipman il to oc-
cupy the store.
| CAPTAIN o. d. CLARK, First Lieutenant
| Samuel A. Luke, and Second Lieutenant
| Arthur G. Eaton went to Bradford yester-
| day, to attend the officers school of the
| Vermont militia.
Mas CLARA HOLDEN has been elected
president of the local Woman's Relief Corps,
| in place of Mrs. Ellen NJ. Seaver, who re-
signed because of her election as depart
| ment commander.
THE Ten O'clock club moved last Monday
| from its rooms over the telephone exchange
| to the rooms in Union block vacated by K.
| c. Willison, who has moved his Office to the
| opera-house addition.
GEoRGE HARLOW finishes work next Sat
| urday night for Brooks x Berry, and goes
| to Burlington to clerk in furniture estab.
lishment. Wilbur Lowe, clerk for c. II.
Ferrin, takes his place.
ALBERT G. LULL, brother Of Ii. G. Lull of
| Montpelier. died in Chicago, last Saturday,
after four days illness, with pneumonia.
He was formerly a resident of Windsor,
and was sixty-fve years old.
TEAcHER in primary class at the Union
school: willie Jones may put the line,
There is pleasure in the painless woods
in language Of his own choice" Willie
Jones; " There's lots of fun in the bushes"
A BAsHFUL-LooKING young man sidled up
to the stamp window in the post-office, last
week, and asked for hundred one.cent
| stamps. Then he wanted to know where
Rev. j. Edward Wright lived Every one
smiled.
| GEORGE l.. CARLETON, expert adjuster of
fire losses, j. G. Brown and James T.
Sabin were in Barre, Tuesday adjusting the
loss of Mcdonald & Buchan. Contrary
to precedent, Mr.. Sabin did not board the
Barre stage.
AT Christ church. Montpelier, Sunday
evening, February %, Rev. A. N Lewis
| Subject, What reasons have we, outside
the Scriptures, for believing that there is
, life beyond the grave?"
! DAN LUCIA, "a, U. V. NJ, son of Colonel
j. II. Lucia, had his right foot amputated
last week at Burlington. He sprained the
| ankle some years ago, and, after recovering
| from the injury sprained it again, develop
ing consumption of the bone.
G. A. LANG has taken the agency Of the
Colin m hian SpciptV Of the I1pitpd StQtaa
After subscribers have paid in certain
| sum the company takes them to the Worlds
| Fair in 49, keeps them week, and sends
them home right side up with care.
THE republican state committee meets
| tomorrow evening at the Pavilion, to fix
vention and the convention to select dele
gates to the national convention. Other
important business will be brought up.
A SUIT in trover between Fred III. Hart
we'll and James Hooker, for the recovery of
some stone-cutters' tools, which Hartwell
| claimed had been taken from the Plainfeld
| depot by Hooker in October, 1890, was tried
in County Clerk SMILES Office last Monday,
and adjourned indefinitely.
THE commander of Brooks Post, G. A. R.,
denies the truth of the story printed in the
Argus and WATCHMAN last week, to the ef.
feet that Brooks post had sent S3S to a
feminine philanthropist in Boston. The
| WAlthmAN uOtS uOb ItIitniDtI WntIo lhc
| alleged information came from.
BY the death, last week, of George Fiield
and Leander Parker, only one pauper is
| left on the town of East Montpelier. Two
years ago Fifeld lived in one OF the Heath
houses on Barre street. His wife left him,
and he lived at East Montpelier with w. g.
Fiheld, being partially supported by the
town.
SoME men are born honest, some acquire
| hOpasty w Ubilp ntbnrQ do AMONG the
| first class is an ex-agent OF the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, who last
week rendered the company about $40
which he had owed it for twenty years +,
with interest enough to bring the amount
up to about 500.
THE biggest assemblsge that ever crowded
the Pavilion dining-room was there last
Monday evening, the occasion being the
annual ball of Court Ethan Allen, Order of
| Foresters About hundred couples were
! present, besides large concourse of specta-
tors. The grand march was led by Marshall
Laviolette and Miss Eliza Butterfly.
A YOUNG man from the Seminary carried
two young ladies to the Montpelier &
Wells River station last Saturday. The
horse became frightened by the Cars, cap
| sized the cutter, and threw out the young
ladies'. The driver held on awhile, but
finally let go, and the horse disappeared in
the perspective with what was left of the
sleigh.
JAMES c. HoUGHToN, executor of the es-
tate of the late Lavina Hargin, has paid to
the treasurer of the public library the 500
she bequeathed to it. 1t is understood that
the residuary egatees of the will, the Ver-
mont Methodist Seminary and Trinity
church, will receive about $1,000 apiece, in
addition to a special legacy of $500 each
which they have already received.
THB "chalk talk by Mr.. Beard at the
Opera house on Friday evening was ex-
ceedingly entertaining Mr.. Beard is
unique as lecturer as well as an artist.
His droll conceits and dry witticisms amused
quite as much as the deft creations of his
crayon. A "chalk talk " by one of Mr..
Boards or Mr.. French's capacity to amuse
and instruct makes an entertainment of a
very enjoyable character.
The policy-holders in the National Life
Insurance Company cannot help being
pleased with the contents of the company s
forty-second annual statement, which has
just been published. The gross assets, De-
cember 81, 1884, were 81, ,625, 1906. During
1891 there were issued and revived 5,6SS
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