The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-05-11
Montpelier and Vicinity.

MOutpe1IeT anu NIClnltys
THE record of court proceedings and of
the doings of the democratic convention
occupy so much space, this week, much town
correspondence is unavodably omitted.
THE shoe factory scheme is defunct.
Mrs. CIRCUIT of Liberty street is quite ill.
G. B. B. DENNY spent last Sunday in Bur
lington.
H. G. MARVIN is in town from Jackson,
Michigan.
Mr.. AND Mrs. FRANK NJ. CORY are par
ents of a son.
DIR. c. n. HUNT is building an addition to
his house on Park avenue.
w. II. BEST is packing his household eff
fects, preparatory to moving to Boston.
ELIAS LYMAN and General T. S. Peck of
Burlington were in town last Saturday.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT exchanges next
Sunday with Rev. g. S. Nickerson of Barre.
GEORGE LATHRoP, son-in-law of the late
Campbell Martin, is to purchase the Berlin
! farm
MERTON A. CURTIS is still confined to the
house with 1Skarat grip, but is rapidly
mending
BAILEY AVENUE is being improved by
general cleaning up and the setting of
| divers trees
DELL SANDERS has been commissioned
| American Cadets.
RUFUS HUTCHINSON is gaining slowly, but
it will be fully month before he will be
able to get out again.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ABRAHAM LONG were called
to Boston, last Saturday, by the critical i'll
ness of the father of Mrs. Long.
PROFESSOR E. A. BISHOP will give a talk
to the teachers and pupils of the Union
school, Friday afternoon at three o'clock.
electric fire-alarm which the bailtfs were
instructed to put in couple of years ago?
THE next rehearsal for the musical con-
venton is to be Tuesday evening, May II,
at the vestry of the Church of the Messiah.
KATIE HANABERRY, young miss of Barre
street. secured the neckte offered by b.
Greenwood, last week, in his advertisement.
CANTON MONTPELIER, with the other can
tons of the state, has been invited to grand
field day at Springfield, Mass, June 9
and 10.
NJ. e. SMILE has bought building lot in
Barre, opposite Whitcomb Bros. MILL and,
it is understood, purposes to put up bunch
of city flats.
CHILLY" LAMB was not exactly lamb
like last week Tuesday night. He went
into the " cooler like lion, but came out
like lamb-price, Sl001.
PORTER II. DALE, formerly a resident of
Montpelier, and son of Hon. George n Dale
of Island Pond, is to be the Memorial day
orator at Whtefeld N. IL.
Mrs. CHARLES A. FOSTER of Middlesex
died of pneumonia at the home of her
daughter. Mrs Frank NJ McEllory, May 7,
1892, aged sixty-seven years.
THE Montpelier Military band gave the
last of its series of weekly promenade con-
certs last Saturday evening, music for dane
ing being furnished by the orchestra.
JABEz BAKER died Saturday from the af-
ter-effects of the grip. He had been
moulder at the Lane Manufacturing Com
pany shops. His age was seventy-six.
FRED w. BANCROFT is to repeat his lee.
ture, " Evening with Old English Ballads"
in Capital hall, next week Thursday even
ing, for the benefit of the Kings Daugh-
ters."
HIRAM ATKINS. Miss Kate Atkins, and
Alfred Atkins and Miss Lille Atkins of
Roselle, Nj, with Master Dewitt Clark,
went to Camp Watson yesterday, to spend
a few days.
The excellent appearance of the village
streets has suggested the idea that it would
be good plan to keep couple of men en-
ployed all through the summer Sticking
up " the thoroughfares.
THE Bethany Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor held chestnut So
ciable in the vestry, last Monday evening
Everything on the programme was sup
posed to be appropriate.
FRED w. BANCROFT returned, last Mon
day night from New London, Conn. where
he gave, with great success, his evening
with old English ballads, or, as he calls it,
his "great moral show"
THE Jed Prouty baggage was little
too much for George BuzZell, local baggage
master on the Central Vermont railroad,
and he was laid up four or five days, last
week, with a strained back
THE fire department was called to the
residence of j. III. Burpee on Winter street,
last Thursday evening, bnt was not needed.
A lamp had exploded in the dining-room,
but the flames were soon suppressed
f. w BALDWIN, general superintendent,
and l.. A. Emerson, freight traffic manager
of the Central Vermont railroad, came to
town yesterday, and with Station Agent
Thompson visited the Barre quarries.
DAZZLING creation in trousers and
spring overcoat ornamented the Pavilion
piazza during large part of last Sunday.
He was suspender drummer and at
tracted more attention than W. III. Hunts
fire.
REV. HOWARD f. HILL of Concord, n. H.,
formerly rector of Christ church, was in
town last Sunday to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Hiram Atkins, and also preached an
eloquent sermon to the Episcopalians of
Barre.
EMERSON DEMERITT died last Sunday at
the home OF his nephew, Charles E. De-
merritt, with whom he has lived for the past
twelve years. The funeral was from the
house on Vine street, yesterday afternoon,