The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-01
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
CONTRIB UTIONS TO THE CURRENT
HISTORY or MONTPELIER.

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Bellows Falls
Il. w. THOMPSON spent Sunday and Mon
day in st. Adams.
COLONEL A. A. FLETCHER Of Middlebury
was in town on Tuesday.
Mrs. WELLS mother OF Mrs. s. G. Shurt-
left, is quite seriously i'll.
HERBERT CHAPMAN is moving from the
Riverside to Park avenue
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOSEPH POLAND returned
from Chicago last Saturday.
REV. w. j. OSULLI N returned from
Chicago last Saturday noon.
A DAUGHTER was born iast Sunday to Mr..
and Mrs. Daniel E. Sweeney.
MRS KATE BARNuM of St. Albans is the
guest of Mrs. Fred K, Stevens
w. r. WESTON is putting steam heat into
his residence on Looms street.
A DAUGHTER was born last Saturday to
Mr. aud Mrs. Elmer f. Clogston
E. E. BLAKELY returned last Friday even
ing from an extended western trip.
Miss SYLVIA EDDY is employed in the
millinery parors of Mrs. l. q. Vail.
THE UNIVERSITY CLUE will meet this
evening with Hon. Charles Dewey.
ARTHUR A. EMERY has purchased the
trucking business of j. V. Morrow.
H. E. TUCKER, station agent at White
River Junction, was in town last week.
Mrs G. A. LANG went to Boston, Mon
day morning, for a stay OF several weeks.
FRED l.. ADAMS of Montreal, formerly
clerk at the Pavilion is visiting in town.
REV. EDWARD L. SMITH left on Monday
for his field Of labor in Walla Walla, Wash.
REV. EDWARD L. SMITH occupied the pul.
pit at Bethany church last Sunday evening.
Hon w. II. DUBOIS and j. e. Eldredge
of West Randolph were i'll town on Mon
day.
j. HALL RICHARDSON, editor of the Golden
NetDS, was the guest Of G. NJ. Foster last
week.
I. r. MERRILL, JR, is in Lowell, Mass,
for short time taking lessons in piano
tuning.
REV. DIR. SKAvRR OF Rutland was the
guest of Dr. and Mrs. d. G. Kemp over last
Sunday
COLONEL AND MRs c. II. JOYCE of Rut-
land were guests OF NJ. ID. Fowler over last
Sunday.
GEORGE w. BAKER is again on the road
in the interest of the Keeley Institutes of
Vermont.
CHARLES A. SMITH, of the firm of Weston
& Smith, is confined to the house with a Sc
we're cold.
REV. A. H. WEBB attended the State
Sunday school convention held last week
at Rutland.
MRS T. S. BRoPHY has returned from
New York and Boston, where she has been
for some time.
The Chautsuaua class will meet Friday
afternoon, at a quarter past two, with Mrs.
G. I'll. Shipman.
Mrs. A. N. LEWIS has returned to the
Riverside after visiting her children in
Hartford, Conn.
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Boston, is visiting Mrs. Catherine Pratt,
her grandmother
Mrs. j. S. STERLING returned on Tuesday
from Virginia City, New, where she has
been for the past year.
The Samuel Somerville house on Ridge
street was sold at auction last week. K. M.
Irish was the purchaser.
ADELDERT WALLEN has moved from the
Montpelier & Wells River station to his
I new house on Barre street.
THE Montpelier Military Band is to play
for he Catholic fair at the opera house in
Barre next Saturday evening.
CT CUMMINGS, of the White River Paper
| Company, White River Junction, was in
town last Saturday and Sunday.
THE local Epworth League will enter
! tain the Barre league in the parlors of
Trinity church next Friday evening.
JOEL FOSTER was at Haverhill, n. III.
last week, surveying the proposed site for a
system Of water works for that place.
CHARLES DEF. BANCROFT returned Mon
day from Boston aud New Bedford, Mass,
where he has been for the past two weeks.
| ALL ladies interested in the Kelley
| fair, to be held next week, are invited to
contribute some little article for the fancy
table.
MR.. AND Mrs. S. l.. HOWE returned from
| ha fa Last Ga In
where they have been for the past four
weeks.
WESTON & SMITH have lately received an
order from Denver, Col, for "A monument
to be placed in Elmwood Cemetery, North
field.
SO far as heard from, Halloween passed
very quietly in Montpelier last evening, the
observance being confined to few buyish
! pranks.
Mrs. LUTHER Cross is quite seriously i'll.
! At her advanced age of ninety five, grave
| apprehensions are entertained for her re-
covery.
REV j. E. WRIGHT expects to preach in
the brick church in Middlesex next Sunday
at two o'clock. Subject The People S
| Palace"
THE Ladies Guild of Christ Church is
| preparing 10 hold sale during the second
week in December. Further notice will be
| given later.
AN electric bell has been placed in the
Office Of ID. K. Mason, superintendent of the
fire alarm system. which rings every time
the test is made
f. w. BANCROFT sang at Woodstock last
Friday evening and at West Randolph on
Tuesday evening, at concert given by
Beedle's orchestra
Mrs. l.. Il. NICHOLS, who has been the
guest of Mrs. G, Nj. Foster at the Pavilion
for several days, returned to her home in
New York, Monday evening.
BATTALION SERGEANT MAJOR GEORGE G
CIRCUIT, IA member of Company III, has been
appointed adjutant OF the third battalion of
the First regiment Vermont National
| Guard,
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Thursday afternoon with
Miss Eliza Rublee, when tho " Hereditary
Effects Of the Alcohol Habit" will be dis
| Cussed.
HARRY COTTON gave an interesting re-
port of the state Christian Endeavor con
vention, recently held at Barre, at the
meeting in Bethany chapel last Sunday
evening,
The large mail box that has been placed
at the corner of Main and State streets for
the reception OF packages and newspapers
Is mnch-needed Improvement that Is ap-
preciated.