The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-06-28
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
THE STORY or THE WEEK JUST
PAST.
Mrs. ID. p. CLARKE is ill.,.

noon.
CARL GLEASON is at home from Amherst
College.
H. c. ScoTT returned to Chicago last
Monday.
CARL GoURLEY is clerk in the bookstore
of ID. f. Long.
The exterior of the Montpelier House is
being painted.
Mrs. JOHN WOOD, living on Prospect
street, is quite ill.
JOEL FOSTER was in Sherbrooke, p. @.
last week on business.
Mrs. WEEKS of st. Johnsbury is the guest
of Miss Annette Upham.
G. DE f. BANCROFT is visiting in the
southern part of the state.
w. E. DUFUR visited at his home in West
Randolph over last Sunday.
ELIZA MAY WILLARD of Boston is the
guest of Hon. b. f. Fiheld.
S. G. SHURTLEFF attended Orange county
court at Chelsea last week.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE ATKINS returned
from Chicago last Thursday.
w. j. HOWE of Randolph, Mass, is visit
ing S. l.. Howe, his brother.
Mrs. CHARLES A. SMITH is convalescent
from an attack of tonsiltis.
c. NJ. WILDs and son Percival, Of Middle
bury, were in town on Monday.
Lucy HUTCHINs returned from Fort Ed
ward, N. Y, last Monday evening
Miss CHLOE STEELE finished work at the
Montpelier bindery last Thursday.
ORRIN AND BENJAMIN DALEY are repair
ing their coal scales on Barre street.
L. w. PORTER of Berlin has instituted
voluntary proceedings in insolvency.
The Northfield Juvenile Temple enjoyed
a ride to Montpelier last Wednesday.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GILMAN B. DODGE are soon
to move to New Hampshire to reside.
A FULL report of the Kelley celebration
last week, may be found on page eight.
j. G. HoUGHroN went to Amherst, Mass,
Monday, where Ned, his son, is in college.
STREET COMMISSIONER ROBERTS is laying
a new plank sidewalk on the Rialto bridge.
Mrs. j. EDWARD WRIGHT and children
returned to Montpelier last Thursday even
ing.
THE Baptist young people are to have a
social and supper in their vestry this even
ing
Mrs. A. d. BANCROFT and daughter Jan lie
returned from Chicago last Monday even
ing
BLANCHE, daughter of A. F. Humphrey
of Berlin, is seriously i'll with spinal menin-
gifts.
ROBERT MORSE and sister of Baltimore
Md, are guests of Miss Mary Brooks their
aunt.
Miss ALICE Low went last Thursday to
Manchester, n. H., TO visit Mrs. f. II.
Puffer.
Mrs. G. A. LANG returned from Boston
last evening, accompanied by Miss Josie
Pierce.
L. L.. NoRTTksJI of ne Bellows Falls
Farm Machine Company, was in town last
Saturday.
THE pupils at ST. Michae's school held a
picnic on the camp-ground at Northfield
last Thursday.
MRS. ELMIRA GORDON is recovering from
the shock of paralysis received by her about
two weeks ago.
ROBERT WHELAN is repairing the house
owned by him, recently vacated by Rev.
G. w. Gallagher,
Mr.. AND Mrs. E. f. RAND Misses Lillian
Stowell and Eta Hathaway left for Chi
cago, Monday evening.
MISSES BELLE AND NELLIE FIFIELD at.
tended the Billings Library reception al
Burlington, Monday evening.
DIR. II. S. BoARDMAN and two children
went to Middlebury, Tuesday morning, tc
attend the college commencement.
TILLIE WoLFER, the efficient stenogra.
pher at the Montpelier bindery, leaves next
week for her home in Webster, Mass.
REV. G. o. WEBSTER preached an inter,
esting sermon, last Sunday morning, on
"Service the Purpose of the Church"
A LARGE store-house is being erected in
the yard of the Central Vermont railroad
by the Montpelier Hardware Company.
JAMES f, SHIPMAN, farmer for the Yer
mont state asylum at Waterbury, spent last
Sunday with G. II. Shipman, his brother.
REV. NORMAN SEAvER, ID. D., of Rutland
will supply the pulpit of Bethany church
next Sunday, and also on July lG, % and 80
MRS G. r. SMITH, who with, her children
| have been visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. N G. Peck, has returned to her home
The Non-partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet at Woman'S
Relief Corps hall this afternoon at three
o'clock.
Hon. II. A. HusE, J. A. DeBoer and w.
A. Lord went to Hanover, y. H., on Tues
day 70 attend commencement at Dartmouth
| College
Mrs. w. ii. Stafford of Boston is visiting
in town. Both Mrs. Stafford and her hus-
band were teachers in Montpelier many
years ago.
GUsrAvUs FARLAND of Ticonderoga n
Y, formerly an employee OF the Lane Man
utacturing Company, was in town the first
of the week.
n Valuable yttIlilE tOll DtlOlHluH lO ID
p. Young had one hind leg crushed last
week, while in the pasture, by a kick from
another horse.
A PLEASANT dancing party was held in
Blanchard's hall, Monday evening for
which two travelling musicians furnished
excellent music.
Mrs. DANIEL HEATH and daughter Ada
who have been guests of Nir and Mrs. G. Nj
Foster for the past week, returned to Boston
on Tuesday morning.
T. S. BRoPHY and family expect to leave
for Chicago about July /. Mr., Brophy is in
Canada on fishing trip this week with a
party from Montreal,
CARDS are out announcing the marriage,
July t. of w. III. Holton, the courteous
assistant in the jewelry store of a. G.. Stone,
to Miss Mand NJ. Denks.
II. Il, FARRAR of Rutland, grand master
of the Odd Fellows of Vermont, visited
Vermont lodge last Wednesday evening.
He made brief address.
Miss MINNIE HIGGINs returned from Ger
many with Rev. and Mrs. j. Edwrad
Wright She is to remain for the present
at the home of George Reed
The first advance car of the great and
only" " Barnum's circus struck the town
Tuesday morning. The aggregation will be
in Montpelier, Wednesday, July 26.
The Central Vermont railroad will run a