The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-20
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
WHIT DECEMBER BREEZES SLY
IN THE EARS or WITCHNIN
REPORTERS.

aU Ile Exchange, Monday.
SIX new patients were received at the
Kelley Institute last week.
G. A. BEST was confined to the bouse last
week with bilious attack.
MISS INEZ BLANCHARD returned from Bos.
ton last Thursday evening.
WALToN's Vermont Register for 1894 is on
sale at the WATCHMAN office.
Ex-GovERNoR SAMUEL e. P1NeREE of
Hartford was in town on Tuesday.
GEORGE, son of w. w. Noyes, is at home
from Sutton City, Wash. for the holidays.
EDITOR GEORGE T. CHrLDs of the st. AL
bans Messenger was in town last Thursday
Mrs MINNIE FRTNK was serious i'll last
week with peritonitis at the Exchange Hotel
A DAUGHTER was born last Sunday at
Pittsfield, Mass, to Mr.. and Mrs. George l..
West.
CHESTER PARKER of South Danbury,
Conn, was one of the visitors in town last
week.
w. A. LORD, ESQ, spoke on the Kelley
cure at Barton Landing last Wednesday
evening.
THE members of the local Epworth
League held services last Sunday at the
poor-farm.
F. l.. EATON started for the West last
Wednesday night, expecting to be absent
two weeks.
DEXTER MOODY attended the funeral of
Mrs. n. X. Brown, his cousin, at Burlington
last Monday.
Mrs Lucy HoLLIsTER has gone to Sioux
City to spend the holidays with Henry Hol-
lister her son.
THE Washington County Grammar and
Union schools closed last Friday for vaca-
tion of two weeks.
A BROTHER of Miss Lucy j. Bradshaw
and Mrs: w. F. Waterman, from Hydeville,
visited them last week.
A FINE bust of DR.. Leslie E. Kelley
adorns the new club rooms Of the Kelley
League in Hubbard block.
THE ladies of the Church of the Messiah
will hold social in their vestry next Fri
day afternoon and evening.
The switch boards at the central tele-
phone station have both been equipped
with long-distance telephones.
THE students at the Methodist Seminary
have flooded a portion of the campus, which
makes an excellent skating rink.
THE room in the Marsh building formerly
occupied by ID. d. Haley is to be fitted up
for the convenience of the truckmen.
THE usual holiday hours will be observed
at the post-office next Monday. Delivery
and collections as usual ON such days.
REV. L. o. SHERBURNE, presiding elder
of the St. Adams district of the Vermont
Conference, was in town Monday and Tues
day.
G, X. PUTNAM is employed in the Office
of the National Life Insurance Company
during the illness of some of the regular
force.
W. A. LORD, ESQ, has moved his Office
from the rooms formerly occupied bv Lord
Il Boynton, in Sabn block, to No. 10 State
street.
OSCAR SMALL returned to his home in
Richmond, Me, last Monday, having fin
ished course of treatment at the Kelley
Institute.
LANDLORD j. A. KELToN of the Exchange
Hotel was confined to his room last week
with the grip. Mrs. Kelton has also been
quite seriously ill.
A STATIONARY engine has been placed in
the repair shops of the Montpelier 81 Wells
River railroad to take the place of the
motor formerly in use.
A SUNDAY-sCHooL concert will be held at
the Church of the Messiah next Sunday
evening. The Christmas tree exercises will
occur Tuesday evening.
THE barber shop of Oughtney Jangraw
has been equipped with incandescent cleo
trio lights, an Improvement which is appre-
ciated by his customers.
AMONG those in town who are suffering
with the grip are E. p. Richardson and in.
d
Frederick Collins and child.
THE old board of directors of the Mont
peler & White River railroad was reelected
at the animal meeting held last Thursday
at the Montpelier National Bank.
WILLARD HOLDEN, postal clerk between
Montpelier and Lancaster, n. H.. was laid
up last week with the grip. Ralph Pearson
OF Manchester, n. H., took his run.
WHIrcoMB's laundry team ran up State
ats. A.,.l.,
of clip, but was stopped by Major j. L.
Elder before any damage was done
REV. j. e. WRIGHT is expected to speak
about some European monuments at the
Morse schoo-house, East Montpelier, to-
morrow evening, at half-past seven.
TRAINMAsTER E. d. NASH of the Central
Vermont railroad, DIR. f. q. Stevens of
Barton Landing, and General T. s. Peck of
Burlington, were in town last Monday.
The Argus speaks of the late Norman
Dudley" but that gentleman was seen on
the street last week very much alive and
cunning for the reporter who says his
abode is not on earth.
THE entertainment given in the Seminary
chapel, last Saturday evening, under the
auspices of the Seminary baseball club was
well patronized and tidy sum was added
to the fund in the treasury.
CHARLES f. SMITH of West Topsham, the
Sohlal shSilu VI orange county, was III
town last week ON his way to Vergennes,
where he was taking Edward l.. Staples of
Chelsea to the reform school.
A SERVICE of song is to be held in the
brick church in Middlesex this evening, at
I: 30 O'Clock. III connection with it, Rev.
j. E. Wright is expected to give some rem
iniscences of trip TO the Wartburg. Free
10 all.
" ID. j. DEEGAN, 166 Carroll avenue, was
made happy yesterday morning, by the APP
pearance of fatwelve-pound boy in his home"
-Bridgepor EUening Post, Dec H. Mrs.
Deegan will be remembered in Montpelier
as Miss Helen O'Neill
The oificers-elect of Thomas Wildey En-
campment of Odd Fellows for the year en-
suing are as follows: John III. Senter, G. F.
w. f. Waterman, III. p; A. q. Templeton,
S, W.. o. G. Harris, j. W.. d. W. Dudley,
treasurer; Frank e. Smith, scribe.
The sale held last week at the store of
Mrs. |. Q. Vail by the Ladies Guild of
Christ church, assisted by the Kings
Daughters, was even more of a success than
It's projectors anticipated. Nearly every
article was sold, and about S175 was real
zed.
The young people of East Montpelier
Center Will present the Christmas play,
' Santa Claus Home, or the Christmas Ex-
at the Center church, Monday
evening, December % EVerV one ia I'M.