The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-03

| llt COMPANY III Hlhtt VI II. ID. muuReLb re-
signed. - w. II. Kelley and family and
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Canton have gone to
| Manitoba, where they intend to purchase
farms from the Canadian government
| 80 Mr.. and Mrs. l.. e. Wiley returned
last week to their home in Humboldt Iowa
- j. a. X. Glidden is critically i'll with
heart trouble 60 Frank McWhorter was
| in Boston last week. 60 Miss Nellie
Krelnger visited relatives in Boston last
week. == Jacob Orcuttlis recovering from
serious illness from pneumonia. 80 M.
l.. Chandler and O. G.. Stickney are the
latest additions to the medical fraternity in
Barre. There are now fourteen practicing
physicians in town. - Frank Cove of
West Fairlee is book-keeper for w. M. East
man. - Editor and Mrs. w. f. Scott are
to accompany the press excursion to Chi
cago, leaving next Saturday afternoon.
- w. l.. Stoddard has moved to Mont
peler. 80 daughter, weighing nine
pounds, was born last Friday to Mr.. and
Mrs. John j. Mckenzie - X. A. Hoar.
of Barney & Hoar, was in st. Albans last
week on legal business.
South Barre.
Alonzo Slayton is slowly recovering.
Albert Duphy has moved to webstervile
A new school-house will be built here the
coming summer
1t is expected that stone-shed will be
built here this summer which will employ
fifty men.
Mortified.
Fred Wilder is at home from Boston.
Miss Josie Farrar has gone TO Hancock to
teach.
f. n. Carpenter is visiting friends in
Massachusetts.
Miss Jennie Morse visited in Lebanon. n.
H., over Sunday.
Marshall, son OF Elkanah Smith, is very i'll
with pneumonia
Miss Nellie Brown begins school in Waits
field next Monday.
Miss Sarah Clancy returned to Hartford,
Conn, last Saturday.
A side-traclk has been laid TO the granite
sheds of Thomas Edwards.
o. p Winch was at home from West
Randolph over last Sunday.
Station Agent Graham has moved to the
Episcopal rectory on Central street.
Hon. Frank Plumley was confined to the
house by illness part of last week.
Miss Alice Reed presided at the organ in
the Congregational church last Sunday.
Cadet Frank Holbrook was seriously i'll
last week at the home of j. T. Austin.
Miss Maud Burns of Montpelier was the
guest of Miss Florence Gould last week,
The undertaking business of L. C. Fletcher
has been moved to his house on Pleasant
street.
Charles Allen has moved to the north
tenement in the Emmons Howe house on
Central street.
Mrs. Richard Kennedy was seriously i'll
last week with threatened pneumonia, but
is convalescent.
Amasa Pearsons is i'll with severe cold.
Dan McCarty takes his place as switchman
in the railroad yard
A daughter was born last Friday to Mr..
aud T,I,,,
Mrs. James II. Cone.
j. H. Talbot returned to Athol Mass,
last Wednesday to care for his aged father,
who is still dangerously i'll.
f. L. Howe & Co. received a carload of
finished marble tablets and monuments
from Rutland last Saturday.
Miss M. p. Jones and Mrs. M. ID. Jones
of Bellows Falls are expected in Mortified
soon to remain during the summer.
Carl Richmond and family. Mrs. Sophia
Richmond and Miss Lizzie Knapp arrived
from Orange Park, Fla, last evening.
A creamery is to be put into the old town
house at the Center. William Mullen of
Massachusetts, will have charge of it.
f. l.. Howe & Co. set large Scotch gran
lite monument last Saturday over the grave
OF Amos Howes in the cemetery at the
Center.
e. o. Thurston will finish work this week
at the Central Vermont freight depot, and
Is to work in the clothing store of NJ. j.
Clough.
Chauncey Denny and wife left Winter
Park, Fla, last Monday, where they have
been since last November, for their home in
Mortified.
The annual meeting of the Ladies' Society
of the Congregational church will be held
this afternoon and evening at the home of
Rev W. S. Hazen, to which all are cordially
invited.
Hon. Frank Plumley was elected chief
temPiar, Mrs: NJ. s. Gilchrst vice templar,
ana Rev. |. p. Booth, chaplain of the Good
Iemplar lodge for the ensuing quarter, at
the meeting held last Friday evening.
Albert Chase took four pounds of trout
from Dog river last Monday. Henry Cor
ten caught three pounds from the same
stream, and several fishermen who left
home before daylight that morning are vet
to be heard from.
The young ladies' guild of St. Mary's
church, and the "Princes" visited the
home OF William Garvey last Saturday
evening, Maple sugar was served, and the
presence of Rev Mr.. Hopkins, the acting
rector, made the occasion all the more en-
joyable.
The officers OF Dewitt Clinton lodge Of
Masons are to be installed this evening.
The appointed officers not already men
Ioned IN this column, are W. j. FORSYTH
5. D.; Il. N. Carpenter, j. D.; j. 7. Ceiley
s. s.; III. ID. Phillips, j. s.. w. B. Worth,
ing, chaplain; r. w. Clark, marshal; VIII
liam Bean, tyler.
At the late reunion of the alumni of Nor
witch University, held in New York, General
Granville M. Dodge gave assurance that he
Will be present at the June commencement
this year, and that he will read letters from
General Sherman and General Grant that
have never been published, in which they
refer in complimentary terms to Norwich
University.
The annual village meeting was held last
evening. The proximity Of the hour of 90
ing TO press prevented the WATcHMAN from
getting report for this week. The article
IN the warning that has caused the most
discussion is "to see if the village will vote
to put in system of electric lights" An
agent for reliable company has been in
town for several days. and made PROPOSE
tons to the village authorities which il was
thought on Monday the voters would accept.
The presentation of the military comedy.
The Scout of the Rappahannock," for the
beneht OF Col. William G. Holbrook camp of
Sons Of Veterans, last week "Wednesday.
thursday and Friday evenings, was wit
messed by large audiences. The play is
strong war drama, spiced with fun and