The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13


MRS. PRISCILLA HOLMES, sister of the
late Rufus Il. Rker and George Howes
have been critically i'll at their home on
Elm street.
REV. j. @. FLANDERS and wife have re-
turned from their long stay at st. Albans,
and Mr.. Flanders assisted in the service
last Sunday.
LAURA WING FLETCHER died at Barton
Landing, January 7, aged eighty-three
years. She was sister of Joseph A. Wing
of Montpelier.
"N1oBE by the Abbott & Teal company
with Maggie Mitchell as the leading lady, is
booked for the Opera.house, Wednesday,
January 27.
M. II, HEATING, clerk and head-waiter at
the Pavilion, left last evening for his home
in Malone, N. Y, to spend a vacation of
two weeks.
L. r. MERRILL, Sr., is in Winchendon,
Mass, where he was called last week by
the illness and death of his brother, Edwin
s. Merrill.
The Womans Christian Temperance
Union will meet next Thursday afternoon
at three o'clock with Mrs. Laura Dunhan,
on School street.
PROFESSOR Il. G.. HIBBARD of Welsyan
University will give reading at the chapel
on the hill Thursday evening Admission
thirty-five cents.
SHIP AHoY!" " booked here for the 22d,
has Cancelled its date, owing to circum-
stances over which the company has no
perceptible control.
The partitions dividing the front from
the rear of the shoe store of Marvin q Will
son have been torn down, in order to make
one large apartment.
The election of officers of Rob Morris
Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, which was to
have been held tonight, has been post
poned until February.
Miss MAY SCovILLE is critically ill with
typhoid fever at the Berlin home of her
aunt, Mrs. Campbell Martin, who is also
very low with pneumonia.
ESQUIRE HARLAN w. KEMP has been
quite i'll the past week. He recovered sufli-
ciently to start for Worcester, Monday, to
see his parents, who are ill.
G.. A. FERGUSON, master mechanic of the
Concord 4 Montreal railroad, was in town
last Monday, inspecting the engines of the
Montpelier & Wells River road
MIR. AND MRS. HARRY M. CUTLER last
Sunday became parents of a son. Richard
Hyde Cutler is the name which we under
stand the little stranger will bear
III. A. PENNIMAN, engineer on the Mont
pelier * Wells River railroad, fell between
the engine and tender, in the railroad yard,
and was badly hurt about the back.
MRS ANDREW tUMMlNGS, nOUHeT OF MTS.
Sylvester Cummings, died yesterday morn
ing. The daughter is confined to her bed,
and Mr.. Cummings is unable to be out.
What was that racket in front of the
Exchange hotel yesterday?' :" Oh, only a
dlscord between those pea-green storm
doors and the Venetian red of the hotel"
CONDUCTOR JOHN BRENNAN of the local
freight on the Central Vermont is taking
the place of George Buzzell, baggage-mas-
far hafxu ,al; "A
ill.
A. S. EMMoNs has finished work in the
drug store of Lester Ii. Greene and re-
turned to Woodstock. His place is taken
by Edwin Rice, lately at work for Rolfe &
Slade.
THE twenty fifth annual encampment of
the Vermont Grand Army of the Republic
is to be held here February 2 and 3. Com.
mander-in chief Palmer and Past Comman-
der Neazey are expected to be present.
THE Apollo Banjo Club were made more
than comfortable by Landlord Stone of the
Maplewood, at Randolph, last Thursday
evening. The sweet girl graduates of the
normal school were delighted with the
banjo music.
Miss FOSTER of Cheyenne, Oak, tele-
graphed on Friday her compliments to her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Foster
She is the first and youngest child of Mr..
and Mrs. j. Ware Foster and the day was
the day of her birth.
ALoNzo BARNES, who recently came to
Montpelier from Woodstock, died last Sun
day evening at his home on Hillside street.
The remains were taken to Woodstock for
interment. Mr.. Barnes was a brother of
Mrs f. +. McGorie.
SELDOM are the columns of a country
newspaper burdened with the announcement
of the death,of so many aged persons as are
ours this week. The demise of no less than
eleven octogenarians and half-a-dozen sep
tuagenarians is noted by our cores
pondents.
The sunshine Of last Friday, the day on
which Mrs. Lawrence OF Berlin died, bright
ened the last hours of her townswoman
MRS. Keith, who came to Berlin from
fomiret about ten years ago, to live with
her son Charles. The funeral was Satur-
day, and the burial at Pomfret. Mrs.
Keith was sixty five years old.
A. G, BROWN was observed, Monday
morning, gazing pensively at his telephone
pole on the southwest corner of Main street,
the succulent wood of which was gnawed
fearfully by hungry horses. AT noon big
sheet of tin covered that part of the pole
ana the horse which gnaws that can have
II. On that same pole Colonel Brown has
Just put call box, by which truckmen, each
OF whom has a telephone number, can be
summoned.
IHE annual election of the Apollo Club
was held last Thursday evening. w. G.
Berry was elected president; Hiram A.
Huse, vice-president; James T. Sabin, secre-
tary; Charles f. Lowe, treasurer; managers.
president and vice-president, j. W. Brock,
ii. q. Gleason and Ralph b. Denny. Sew
eral amendments to the present bylaws
were suggested. The club has purchased a
large album, in which the photos of the
clubs members are TO be kept. The COM
mittee on furnishings were authorized to
purchase piano for the new rooms.
A STRIKING instance of the persistence of
the destroying angel was the family of
Charles X. Dodge of Calais, whose entire
family has been carried off by the grip and
pneumonia within a fortnight. The first to
die was Samuel Dodge, uncle OF Charles,
at whose house he was stopping. The wife
OF Charles soon followed, then his sister
Eliza on Saturday night, and he himself on
Monday noon Two sisters are the remain
ing relatives-Mrs. Eben Scribner aud Mrs.
Lydia Kinsman of Montpelier. Mr.. Dodge's
age was ifty-sx, his sisters seventy.
WHEN we stated that f. o. Cheney
worked for Marvin & Sherburne during the
holidays, we stated concrete fact suscep.
tible of no disproof. That the item was
superiiuous, inasmuch as Mr.. Cheney had
been there for some time previous, is also
a l.. L.. A