The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16
MOntpelier and Vicinity.

Mrs. WHITTIER has gone to Boston to
| spend the winter
MR.. AND Mrs, GEORGE WILSON are par
| ents of a daughter
JOHN Il. SHIPMA S. in charge of the asylum
farm at Waterbury, is in town.
GEORGE II. WILDER has been in town
from Littleton, N. H., for few days.
GOVERNOR FuLLERs Thanksgiving proc
lamation will be found in another column.
Mrs. IDA LANE has been visiting in Plain
field, and is now in town for short while.
j. G. ULLERY has returned from Brattle-
boro, and is at the Pavilion for short
! time.
! b. b. BAILEY, after a weeks illness, is
able to return to his West Berlin granite
works.
Miss ROSE O'SuLL1vAN is again at the
parochial residence Of her brother, Rev. w.
j. O'Sullivan.
Miss HATTIE WHELPLEY fell while de-
scending 1.-THE post-office steps, Monday, and
| sprained an ankle.
E. r. MORSE, seriously injured in the
Richmond accident, was out on election
day for the first time.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Miss Burpee, 10 Winter street, next Friday
afternoon at two o'clock.
Mrs, PATRICK KANE, who for some days
| has been dangerously i'll at her residence on
! Court street, is improving.
| A. G.. FAY took flying trip to Lancaster
| n. H., last week, and contemplates locat-
ing there in the near future.
THE boiler at the Cotton Manufacturing
! Company sprang a leak Monday night nee
| essitating a shutdown for repairs.
THERON F. Cotton gave a pleasant six
o'clock dinner, last Friday evening, to a
number of his gentlemen friends.
Tur 1aliaS, raa1iuu pluh of Cbrist Church
will meet with Mrs K. d. Blackwell, Sat-
urday evening, November 10, at quarter
| past seven.
RUFUS G. ROBINSON, recently connected
with the j. w. Emery store, has entered
the office of the Vermont Mutual Fire In
! surance Company.
HENRY NJ. STEVENS, travelling man for C.
II. Cross & Son, is laying over for a time on
account of poor health, and f. NJ. Winslow
is covering his route.
Mrs. THEODORE G. DEWEY goes to New
York next week, to meet her husband. The
| flagship Chicago" on which Mr.. Dewey is
ensign, arrived at New York last Friday.
FRANK RoBINsoE, for long time clerk
for f. NJ. Cory, goes to Boston about De-
cember 1. Robinson denies the report that
he has recently taken unto himself a wife
FRED BEALs of Bakersfield, the morphine
slave whom the Kelley Institute declined
to tackle, is dead. When he was brought
here ii was seen that he was beyond medi-
cal aid
In the case of Peter q. Dewey, convicted
at the March term of illegal sale of liquor,
and appealed to the supreme court, a new
trial was granted by reason of the exclusion
of certain evidence.
E. j. HATCH of this village has recently.
mounted the head of big cariboo, killed at
Moosehead Lake, Me, by the guide, Lewis
| Smith. The head was sold to DR.. G. II.
Martin of Franklin, Mass.
A SPECIAL meeting of Aurora lodge of
Masons is to he held this "wednesday even
ing, at seven o'clock. Work will be done
on the first degree, and brothers stopping
in town are cordially invited.
THE reporter glanced into Limoges bar
ber-shop, recently, and watched the agile
Charles shave customer, even though the
latter was reading a paper and smoking a
short stemmed briar pipe
THE Montpelier orchestra is to furnish
music next Friday evening for a sheet and
pillow-case bal masque at Northfeld. Part
of the orchestra will assist the orchestra of
the Mapleson opera company, Thursday
evening.
THE national grange holds its annual
meeting this year at Concord, n H., be-
beginning to-day and continuingI ten
days. The state grange will hold its an
nual meeting at Brattleboro, December 49,
IA and 10.
WHETHER the Kelley institute or the re-
cent excursion of a number of citizens to
Rutland is the cause, is an open question
but it is fact that the size of a School
street grocery door is being cut down tC
about one-half its former size.
THE peoples party had two votes in
Montpelier, and the suggestion is advanced
that Populist Holden repeated. Georgius
says that if he had had charge of the local
l..N
had at least twenty-five votes in Montpelier
THE Kelley League Club expect to go tC
Burlington, the first of next month, to hold
a public meeting there. The club is bearing
the expense of treatment of three persons
now in the institute, and will put Others
through as fast as funds at command will
permit
AT the vesper service at the Church OF
the Messiah, next Sunday evening, the fol
lowing programme by Gounod will be given
Vorspiel; Praise ye the Father; The Lord
of glory; adore and be STILL" tenor solo
selections from "T The Redemption ~ Fes
tival march
So rare chance to hear good music and
see fine acting as the Mapleson Company
will afford at Blanchard's on Thursday
evening, November II, is not often pre-
sented to Montpelier people. Mind the
date A large chorus and leading perform.
ers all artists OF merit.
AT the regular meeting OF Canton Mont
pelier. last Friday night, the resignation OF
Captain Z. K. Sanders was accepted, and
Lieutenant W. A Taylor was elected to fl
the vacancy. Ensign NJ. ID. Drew was pro
NOTED to the lieutenancy, and CheYalier @
r. Bagley was elected ensign.
A PLEASANT society event was the dinner
given by Mr.. and Mrs. b. +. Fifeld las
Friday evening, in honor Of Governor anC
Mrs. Fuller. Among those present were
Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Stranahan
Professor Burgess and wife, Adjutant Gen
eral Peck, Mrs. James S. Peck, Farrant
Stranahan and Miss Fifeld.
AT the late meeting of the state non
partisan Woman's Christian Temperate,
Union, these officers were elected. Presi
dent, Mrs. H. b. Hagar, Weybridge; vice
president, Mrs. ID. l.. Fuller, Montpelier
secretary, Miss Nina Morgan, Bennington
treasurer, Mrs E. NJ. Seaver, Montpelier
auditor, Mrs. A. N. Cross, Montpelier.
ONE of the election bets was paid Satur
day evening, when Frank Cameron pushed
Moses Terriault up and down State stree
in wheelbarrow Terriault carried
transparency, upon which was the picture
of the stuffed prophet and four Japanese