The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-24
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lHK incoming mail Train over the Mont
pelier & Wells River railroad, Monday
evening, killed several cows that had wan
dered upon the track, near Muddy Brook
crossing.
RUFUS ROBINSON is on a short vacation
from his duties in the Office of the Yer.
mont Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He
went to his home in Noyan, p. O., last
evening.
ABOUT thirty from Montpelier attended
the presentation of "Neighbor Lakewood" "
by the students of Goddard Seminary at
the Barre opera house on last Thursday
evening.
The side-track Of the Central Vermont
railroad near the electric light station is to
be extended to accommodate the largely
increased business of the Excelsior Granite
Company.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ALBERT JoHoNNoTr, Mrs
Albert Bliss OF Calais, and Mrs. III. E. Buz-
zell and daughter Hattie joined the Barre
excursionists to Chicago at Montpelier Sat
urday afternoon.
The case of State V. Fred jerome for an
assault on Arthur Whitcomb was heard be.
fore Justice NJ. e. Smile last Friday morn
ing. The respondent was found not guilty
and was discharged
Hon. CHARLES DEWEY and family re-
turned last evening. Mr.. and Mrs Dewey
have been travelling in the West since
Easter. The Misses Dewey joined them in
Chicago about two weeks ago.
S. II. o. BoswoRTB is circulating a petit
tion that is receiving very many signatures,
requesting Rev. G.. w. Gallagher TO with
draw his resignation and remain as the pas
tor OF Bethany church.
THE l.. L. Tanner house on the extension
OF Winter street, formerly occupied by II.
d. hopkins, has been purchased by Curtis
9. Abbott, prominent Boston attorney
His daughter is to occupy it this summer.
MR.. AND Mrs. ABRAHAM LONG have been
elected delegates from the Church of the
Messiah to the meeting of the American
Unitarian Association, to be held at the
Arlington street church. Boston, next Tues.
day.
A FULL attendance is desired of the mem
bers of Brooks Woman's Relief Corps at its
next meeting, Friday evening" May 26 at
eight o'clock, to make arrangements for
the observance of Memorial and Decoration
days.
II. H. JONES, superintendent of buildings
of the Central Vermont railroad. was at
Montpelier Junction, Tuesday looking over
the ruins of the buildings there. A trim
passenger station will be built there at
once.
f. E. WARD sold his house on Clay hill,
Tuesday, to Lewis Smith for S 100. Since
Mr.. Ward purchased the property of the w.
w. Weeks estate, he has greatly improved it
and added to the thrifty appearance of that
locality
FRANK NJ. THAYER, proprietor of Thayer's
Hotel, Litteton. n. H.. was the guest of
George II. Wilder last week. He attended
the soiree musicale Wednesday evening and
accompanied Mr. Wilder on the piano in
one of his flute solos.
GEORGE X. PUTNAM will sever his connec-
ton with the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad where he has long been the eff
/ Irinn altt fpia OH Inn T;o
friends are glad to know that he is to re-
main in Montpelier.
AARON BANCROFT shot huge porcupine
/ last Monday. The animal was in one of the
trees in front of the residence OF Oliver
Wheelock on Berlin street, and how it
wandered out from the forest without being
/ discovered is a mystery.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES A. SMITH GO to
/ Taunton, Mass, Thursday, where Mr..
Smith is to set a monument over the grave
OF Charles b. Brown, a former division
roadmaster on the Old Colony railroad who
was killed last summer.
Miss OLIVE GUERNSEY, for the past four
years the efficient private secretary for Prof.
K. A. Bishop, is to sever her connection
with the seminary at the close of the pres
ent school year. She expects to go to
Massachusetts to reside.
The post-otfice will be closed next Tues
day-Decoration day-from ten o'clock in
the morning till five in the evening. The
carriers will make one delivery, leaving the
Office at eight o'clock in the morni.. Col,
lections will be made as usual.
THE members of Brooks Post and Brooks
Relief Corps will attend service in body
at Christ church next Sunday afternoon al
| three o'clock, when the memorial sermon
| will be preached by Rev. A. n. Lewis
The public is cordially invited to this ser
| vice.
UNDER the caption of - A Chicago Adven.
ture." the Middlebury Register last week
published the falsehood sent to the Free
Press regarding G.. l.. Lawrence, but did
not have the grace to publish the denials OF
the same that appeared last week in the
Montpelier papers,
A HORSE owned by I. X. Gordon had fl
of blind staggers last Sunday afternoon
while it was being driven up Barre street
and fell in heap beside the road The
ISLANDERS and no great damage was done
except to the drivers feelings
THE sunshiny face of Conductor +. w
Flint of the Central Vermont railroad, was
seen in town last Thursday. He was on his
way to Williamstown to tell his venerable
father all about his trip to the Worlds Fair
even to his experience with the man il
charge of the California exhibit
G. F. MOORE OF Shoreham is to have
charge of the retail department of the
Montpelier Hardware Company. Mr., Moore
arrived in town Tuesday, He is brigh
young man, recent graduate of tht
Kelley Institute, and his friends are glad tt
see him return to Montpelier TO remain.
1T has already been stated in these col
umus that ID. r. Sortwell, president of tn,
Montpelier x Wells River railroad, has en-
gagged rooms at the Pavilion for year, bu
it may not be generally known that he ha'
become a resident of Montpelier. He il
listed for about $4,000, and has taken uI
his legal residence here. Montpelier is glaC
TO welcome new residents like Mr.. Sortwell
MEMORIAL exercises will be held in tn,
rooms of the Union and Grammar school.
next Monday afternoon, to which the pa
rents and friends of the pupils are cordial,
invited 1t will be the regular Friday after
noon rhetoricals. with programme o
music and recitations prepared with es
pecial reference to Decoration day. This i
a new departure in the public schools o
Montpelier, and one that is sure to NEE
with cordial approval
WHILE young son OF Rev j o. Sher
burne of Cabot was driving up Barre stree
last Friday evening the horse became
frightened by passing locomotive and go
beyond the control of the lad. 1t whirlel
in the road and ran down Barre street. A
the corner of Barre and South Main street