The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-02-15
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
4 WEEKLY CH1PTER IN THE
CURRENT HISTORY or
THE CIPIT4L.
To-Day is Ash-Wednesday.

mumDS.
Miss ALIcK LowE of New York is visiting
in town.
MISS WINNIE Brown visited last week in
Rutland.
r. NJ IRISH has entirely recovered from
his late illness.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HENRY ID. HOPKINS are
visiting in Franklin.
MISS LEILA Tony is working at the ceE-
trail telephone Office.
A SELECT dance was held al the Pavilion
last Friday evening.
HORACE MAYO is rapidly recovering
from his long Illness.
APPLICATION has been made for a post
office at Sodom, Calais.
Mr.. AND Mrs. NJ. A. KENT visited rela-
tives in Calais last week.
Miss GRACE CLARKE, daughter Of u. +.
Clarke, is i'll with quinsy.
MIR. AND Mrs. G. A. PRoUTY of Newport
were at the Pavilion, Monday.
EDWARD DEAvITT was at home from the
University of Vermont last week.
Mrs. A. w. BARNUM and daughter Kittie
of st. Albans are visiting in town.
THE members of the family of K. P. Rich
ardson are all i'll with severe colds
HENRY NJ DEAvITT was at home last Sun
day from the University of Vermont.
COLONEL FRFD F. SMITH expects to leave
for the South this week on a business trip.
PROFESSOR PORTER II. DALE and wife OF
Waterbury Center were in town last Thurs
day.
REV. II. f. REYNOLDS is conducting a Sc
ries OF holiness meetings this week at New
bury.
MR. AND MRs EDWIN DAVIS of Woodstock
are visiting ID. D. Davis, the brother of the
latter
j. l.. BATTLES, proprietor of the Red
Lion Inn, West Randolph, was in town last
Monday.
BETHANY church is to vote this evening
on accepting the resignation Of Rev. G. W.
Gallagher.
THE Montpelier orchestra played for the
masquerade ball at NOrthfeld last Wednes-
day evening.
l.. BART Cross. f. NJ. Cory, and Hon
and Mrs. Charles Dewey went to Boston last
Monday noon.
Miss AGNES DRURY Of Essex Junction
visited in town last week at the home of
Charles G. Field.
Mrs. c. A. LANG visited Mr.. and Mrs. w.
II. Davis, her parents in st. Albans the
first of this week.
Mas, FRED REED of Woodstock, the guest
for the week past of Mrs. ID. ID. Davis, re-
turned yesterday.
A HANDSOME new sign was put up last
Saturday morning over the entrance to
Longs book store.
How. w. II DUBOIS, j. p. Cleveland, Jr,
and n. l.. Boyden of West Randolph were
in town last Saturday.
FRANK Il CIRCUIT has leased the Jewett
farm, near Montpelier Junction, for pered
of ten years for SO, 600.
THE school in Marshfeld taught by Henry
Cate closed last Friday, and Mr. Cate has
returned to Montpelier.
THE monthly meeting OF Rob Morris chap
ter, order Of the Eastern Star, was held last
evening in Masonic hail.
GEORGE TRoMBLEY is visiting in New
| York state. 1t is currently reported that
| he will not return alone.
THE Bethany Reading Club will meet
with Mrs. r. Il, Skinner next Tuesday
| afternoon at two o'clock.
JOHN WOODBURY. is seriously i'll with
heart disease at the home of Mrs. Clarence
| a. Gale, on Barre street.
SEVERAL members of the Montpelier Mill
tary Band assisted the Granite City Band of
Barre at their fair last week.
SMITH WRIGHT of Williston was in town
Tuesday. He has a large lot of poultry
| in cold storage at Williston.
o. NJ. FISHER intends to tear down the s.
| p. Redfeld house on State street and erect
1
LEWIS GooDNATURE arrived from Rut-
land last Friday, where he has been labor
ing for the state since May l3 last.
| E. f. TowNER was in Rutland last week
| on business connected with the excursion
| to Chicago in which he is interested.
A JOLLY party of twenty couples drove
! to Waterbury last evening and enjoyed a
whist party at the Waterbury Hotel
| GEoRGE w. PRATT sold his live stock,
that was rescued from the flames, at auction
on the street, last Saturday afternoon.
PLEASANT afternoon whist parties were
| given last week by Mrs. George X Taplin,
Mrs. f. w. Morse and Mrs. l.. W. Shedd.
THE old folks supper and concert, to be
| gwen at Bethany chapel next Friday even
| ing, promises to be an entertaining affair.
BERNARD GREENWOOD left last Monday
evening for Chicago, where he proposes to
| locate in business If the outlook is favorable.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
| Mrs. George n. Gourley at No. l6 Winter
street next Friday afternoon at two o'clock.
The young ladies OF the Church OF the
Messiah will give socable and supper in
heir vestry on Friday evening OF next week.
THE infant child of Charles c. Page, en-
! gineer on the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad, died last week Of membranous
| Group.
MRS. -, III. RICHARDSON and daughter re-
turned from Wheelock last Saturday, where
they have been visiting a sister of the
former.
POSTAL CLERK SPAULDISG of the st. AL
bans and Boston railway post Office made a
brief visit TO his friends In Montpelier last
Monday.
Miss IDA PICKERING, head table-girl al
the Montpelier House, went to Laconia, N
H., Tuesday morning for a brief visit at her
old home
JOHN GAUTHIER and Miss Alice May OF
Barre We're married Tuesday morning at
st. Augustine's church by Rev. w. j.
O'Sullivan.
A MEETING of Mt. Zion Commandery for
the comforting OF degrees will be held in
Masonic hall next week Friday evening,
February a.
Mrs. ID. l.. FULLER has been appointed
local superintendent of rescue work by the
state Non. partisan Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union.
MRs A. j. HOWE In expected home from
Burlington this week, where she has been
since last August at the sanitarium OF DR.
G.. Il. Spsrhawk.
THE advance sale for the entertainment
this evening at the opera-hOuse by the vii
son minstrels has been large, and a crowded
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