The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-09

The residences OF j. G.. Brown and H. G.,
Gleason and the Methodist parsonage have
been equipped with incandescent electric
lights
H.. HAMMOND, foreman in the WATCH
MAN Job rooms, spent last Sunday at Forest,
N. Y, where his family has been for several
weeks.
The Christian Endeavor Society at East
Montpelier Center will hold a box social in
the school-house at that place on Thursday
evening.
j. X. DARLING and G. III. Powers of
Chelsea, and G.. w. Brownell and G. p.
Phelps of Burlington were at the Pavilion
last Monday.
DIR. A. Ii. WARD Of Boston has charge of
the dental parlors OF DIR. X. Longfelow
Cleaves during the latter's absence in Cher
ryfeld, Maine.
Miss MAGGIE THOMPSON is taking a vaca-
ton from her duties in the tailoring estab-
lishment of s. G. Woolson, and is at her
home in Canada.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. +. EDDY and daughter
Sylvia went to Coventry last Friday to at
tend the funeral of tLe mother of Mrs
Eddy.
Mrs. MARY WALTON DEWEY of Cam
bridge, Mass, sister of the late Hon. L. p.
Walton, is spending the month of August
with Mrs. Walton.
w. f. VAIL, head clerk for r. s. Brophy
& Co.. leaves this morning for a vacation Of
two weeks, during which he will visit Bos-
ton and New York
MISS MINNIE WILBUR returned last Mon.
day to her home in Granville, n. Y. after
several weeks visit with friends and rela-
tives in Montpelier.
IT was Rev c. 5. Smith and not Rev. A.
n Lewis, as stated last week, who admin
istered the holy communion to N. w. Frink
last Sunday week.
REV. G. II. BALL of Toronto, Ontario
preached at the Bethany church last Sun
day and will supply that pulpit the remain
ing three Sundays in August.
Mrs. f. II. PuFFER and children of Man
chester, n. f., are with Mr.. and Mrs Sum-
ner Kimball, her parents. Mrs. Puffer will
take her old place in Bethany choir during
the month of August
MANAGER G. NJ. FOSTER took the patients
at the Kelley Institute to the bicycle races
at Barre last Thursday. They went in the
band-wagon of j. Q. Adams.
THE night express SOUTH due at Mont
peler at one o'clock, did not get along till
ten o'clock Monday morning, owing to the
freight wreck near Waterbury.
REV. j. E. WRIGHT is expected to preach
next Sunday morning in East Montpelier at
| eleven o'clock, and in North Montpelier at
half-past one in the afternoon.
The School street bridge has been newly
planked by Street Commissioner Roberts
| new plank sidewalk has also been laid
on the southerly side of Liberty street.
THE annual state convention of the
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union will
be held in Montpelier, September IS and IA,
probably in the Church of the Messiah.
L. S. WAGGoNER of Chicago, manager of
the Eureka Collection Agency, is at the En-
change Hotel, looking after the work of the
agents of that company in this vicinity.
SYLVESTER McGINN of ST. Adams, who
has charge of one of the large farms at st.
Adams Bay of President f. G. Smith, of the
| Central Vermont railroad, was in town on
Monday.
Mr.. II. l.. BUzzELL of Meadville, Penn,
is expected to preach in the Union church
in Middlesex next Sunday afternoon at two
o'clock. Subject, "The Corner Stone of
the Liberal Faith"
AMONG the arrivals of summer boarders at
the Pavilion during the past week were Mrs
E. ID. Bolton and son Harold of Boston, and
Mrs. Hutchinson, Miss NJ. A. Hutchinson
and Miss Alleen Mclean of Cambridge,
Mass.
PREPARATIONS are IN progress for public
union temperance meeting to be held under
| the joint auspices of the Kelley League, the
! Woman's Auxiliary, the Good Templars
J and the Woman's Christian Temperance
+ Union.
Mrs. G. PROCTOR, with her sons Charles
and Frank, and Matthew Steadman, all of
Boston, were at the Exchange last week, on
their way to the Lake View House, South
| woodbury., where they are to remain until
! September
E. r. HoUGHToN went to Boston last Mon
| day to enter upon the duties of his position
with the publishing house of Houghton,
Mitfiin u Co. He was accompanied by Miss
Grace, his sister, and Walter Houghton, of
Stamford, Conn.
PUPILS from the Indian industrial school
at Hampton Roads, Va, will give an enter
| tainment in the Church OF the Messiah on
Monday evening, August 81. There will be
addresses by native Indians and singing by
olored boys and girls.
Miss OLIVE STOUT stenographer at the
office of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company, and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Brainerd visited last week in Danvlle.
| Miss Stout returned Monday but Mr.. and
Mrs Brainerd are now in st. Johnsbury.
ID. F. LONG visited his old haunts in Fair
lee last week. He obtained additional in
| formation which convinced him beyond any
doubt that the original Morey steamboat il
at the bottom of Fairlee pond and he is
ready to help raise fund to bring it to
the surface.
THOSE who have enjoyed so much the
eloquent and polished discourses of Rev.
DR.. Norman Seaver of Rutland, in Bethany
church during the past few weeks, will be
glad to know that he has been engaged to
supply that pulpit from September / to the
middle OF January next.
FRANK f. PRESCOTT, city editor of the
quincy Daily Ledger, who accompanied the
granite manufacturers from that city to
Montpelier last week, made the WATCHMAN
office pleasant call. Mr.. Prescott is a
genial and wide-awake newspaper man
whom it is pleasure to meet.
WILL Brown and party from Water
bury engaged in lively scrapping match
last Saturday evening in front of the Bacon
| block on South Main street. The alleged
cause of the fracas was bottle of whiskey,
and the pugilists were hustled away by their
friends before the arrival of the police.
Mrs. n. AUGUSTA WHITNEY died quite
suddenly of pneumonia last Thursday night
at the home of Mrs. w. A. Briggs, her
daughter, aged seventy-two years. Brief
services We're held at the home of Mr. Briggs
last Saturday morning by Rev. A. n. Lewis
ana the body was taken to Winchendon,
Mass, for burial.
WALTER f. HoUGHToN of Stamford
Conn, assisted the choir at the Church of
the Messiah last Sunday. His cultivated
tenor voice was heard with fine effect in
solos and in duet with F. w. Bancroft, in