The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
WHEAT SEPARATED From CH1EE
IN RECENT LOC1L EVENTS.

the selectmen of Montpelier for the recovery
of the body of Robbie Best.
I. r. GORDON was in Boston last week.
j. w. BROCK went to Boston last Monday.
Mrs. S. S. TowNER has gone to Boston to
reside.
e. e. TowNER is visiting his family at
Manchester, n. II.
w. A. LORD spoke on the Kelley cure at
Roxbury last evening.
"Gov." w. II. II. BINGHAM of Stowe was
ip town last Saturday.
MARTIN HENLEY spent last Sunday at
his home in Richmond.
THE boarders at Hotel Kempton dined at
the Exchange last Sunday.
j. ID. Brown, the New York horse-buyer,
has been in town the past week
LEVIN BROTHERS are to open a branch
clothing store at West Randolph.
ELMER CLARK has gone to Williamstown
| to learn the tool-sharpeners' trade.
DANIEL f. LONG is confined to the house
with painful abscess on his hand.
THE listers have established their head
quarters at the Office of Il. l.. Laird.
f. RYDER, a Chicago grain dealer, has
| been at the Exchange for several days.
Mr.. AND Mrs. E. B. PIKE of Pike Station
! n. H., were in town over last Sunday.
Miss MAMIE MoULToN of West Randolph
visited her brother in town last Friday.
A CHILD of Mark Lynch was seriously i'll
with the grip last week, but is improving.
p. G. DEWEY was in Concord and Man
CHESTER n. H., last week on business trip.
THE Methodist ladies aid society will
! hold sugar party in their vestry this even
ing
Hon. DANIEL ROBERTS of Burlington at
| tended the funeral of j. A. Wing last Thurs
day.
DIR. o. l.. WATSON, Mrs. Charles Robin
| son and Mrs. Harvey L. Gallison are i'll with
the grip.
The quartette whist club will meet with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Cowell Thursday
evening.
REV. A. B. TRUAx ofiiciated at the funeral
of Mrs. John Allen at Gouldsville last
Thursday.
THE annual meeting of the Epworth
League for the election of officers was held
last evening
E. l.. HERsEY, who purchased the milk
route of w. 9. Walker, has moved to East
State street.
| PATRICK CALLAHAN has purchased, for
| $3.50, building lot on Barre street near the
stone crusher.
| A. G. BROWN & Son have sold to George
| F. Badger their branch insurance Office and
business at Barre.
THE Bethany Reading Club will meet
| with Mrs. George Atkins next Tuesday
afternoon at two o'clock.
G. M. STOLE, agent at San Francisco for
the National Life Insurance Company, was
in town last Wednesday.
The next meeting of the Library Guild
will be held on Thursday evening of next
week at the Unitarian vestry.
III. Nj. DUFUR and wife and daughter of
| West Randolph were guests of w, K. Du-
| fur last week at the Exchange.
THE oyster supper given last Thursday
evening by the Ladies' Guild of Bethany
church was pleasant success.
The ladies will read with interest the
announcement of Mrs. Leland's millinery
opening in the business column.
PROFESSOR d. G. GARDNER OF Lebanon,
n. H., was at the Exchange, Tuesday. He
lectured at Barre in the evening.
MARVIN & SHERBURNE have purchased
! the house and lot on Kent street belonging
to the estate of the late Lydia j. Hall.
The ladies' auxiliary to the Keeley League
served the first new sugar of the season in
the Relief Corps hall last Saturday evening.
JERRY DEADY, station agent at Montpelier
Junction, has resigned and gone to his farm.
John McNally of Swanton takes his place.
THE genial face of the assistant door-k keeper
vi lut Studlt, ltNl H. Alltu VI Cduddu, was
seen around the Exchange Hotel last week.
UNION Fast-day services will be held at
the Methodist church next Friday morning
at eleven o'clock. Rev A. j. Hough will
preach.
THE Easter offering from the Sunday
school of the Church of the Messiah for the
Children's Home in Boston amounted to
over $15.
CAPTAIN II. S. FOSTER, U. S. A.. was in
town last Thursday on his way to his old
home in Calais, where he is stopping for a
few days.
THE Worlds Fair operate Minstrels OF
St. Johnsbury will give an entertainment
in this village if satisfactory arrangements
can be made.
The boot and shoe stores and the dry goods
stores will close Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday evenings of each week until further
notice
e. w. BAILEY of Chicago was in town last
week. The recent drop in Chicago OF seven
cents in wheat in as many minutes did not
affect his CHEEKY manners.
MRS III. r. BIXBY and Mrs. Camp, heI
mother, have rented the tenement in the
Bradley Clark house ON Barre street, lately
occupied by e. L. Putney.
CHARLES MILLER of New York, the ex
pert horse-trainer and driver in the employ
of j. ID. Brown, is taking course of treat
ment at the Kelley Institute.
CONSTABLE Il. NJ. IRISH has moved his of.
flee from the Exchange Hotel to the build
/ ing at the rear of Christ church, occupied
by George Holden as a law office.
REV T. p FROST pastor of the Summer
field Methodist church, Brooklyn, n. Y.
was in town last Monday night. He re-
turned to that city yesterday morning.
THREE monuments comprising part OF
the exhibit the r. @. Bowers Granite Com
pany is to make at the Worlds Fair were
forwarded from Barre last Wednesday.
The effect of the rubber combine is fell
in Montpelier as we'll as elsewhere in the
sharp rise in prices since April l. The ad-
vance is at least thirty per cent on former
prices.
CALVIN b. MARBLE reports the grasshop
pers thick ON the farm of Morton Marvin
last Sunday. Mr.. Marble is man of truth
and veracity, or this item would never see
daylight.
G. j. GLEASON has purchased of Franz
III. McGill all his interest in the grocery
store of Chapman & McGill on State street
Mr.. Chapman will be the managing partner
of the concern.
MRS. ADALINE ALEXANDER has purchased
of the administrator of the estate of the late
Hbarlaa nn1ua tha honda fornarly ncounia.