The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-08
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
HAPPENINGS or THE WEEK TOLD
INSUCCINCT PARAGRAPHS.
Miss NELLIE Colby is i'll with the grip.


ELMER BLISS is at his home, ill with
German measles.
ELMER WARREN of Stowe is night clerk
at the Exchange Hotel.
CHARLES f. RoBINsoN Is off duty, confined
to the house with the grip.
THE "Aristoi" Club met with Harry
Taplin on Monday evening.
" CHICK" STEELE spent last Sunday at
his home in West Randolph
A FULL chorus choir will furnish music
at Bethany church next Sunday.
DoRMAN b. KENT is spending his vaca-
ton with his relatives in Calais.
REV. w. j. O'SULLvAS is at Winooski,
assisting at a forty-hours devotion.
A HORSE belonging to Arthur Whitcomb
died last Friday night Of distemper.
Miss LIZZIE SrIMsoN soes to New York
this week, to be absent several weeks.
Mr.. AND MRS WILLIAM Ii. LONG of
Farlee are guests OF Miss Martha Long.
JOHN E. LELAND has gone to Manchester
N. H., to work in a Photographic gallery.
o. n Cross was able to ride out last
week, after painful illness of ten weeks.
PRESIDING ELDER A. b. TRUAx conducted
quarterly meeting at East Warren last Sun
day.
Miss MoLLIE BRIGHAM of St. Albans was
the guest last week of Mr.. and Mrs. G. A.
Lang.
Mrs. c. NJ. FOSTER is again at the Pa
vilion, after a visit OF several weeks in
Maine.
Mrs. f. w. MORSE gave whist party of
six tables at Hotel Kempton last Monday
evening.
RUFUS NJ. HUTCHINSON and John p.
Adams visited in Rutland a couple of days
| last week
THE sociable for the benefit of the Ladies'
Library Guild has been postponed until af-
ter Easter.
DAN NELSON has opened a meat market
in the rooms in the Cory block vacated by
! Stearns Il Son.
THE Apollo Banjo Club furnished excel
lent music for the Jed Prouty show last
! Thursday evening.
The Bethany Reading Club will meet
with Mrs. S. II. o. Bosworth next Tuesday
afternoon at two o'clock.
THE Reading Club of Christ church will
meet with Mrs. l. r. Moulton next Monday
evening at half-past seven
BRUCE MCDONALD entertained the MEM
| bers of the Good Templars' lodge at his
home last Thursday evening
THE Ladies' Guild of Christ Church will
meet with Mrs. Edward Dewey on Thurs
day afternoon at two o'clock
GILMAN LUCE went to Lowell, Mass, last
Saturday evening for vacation of two
weeks in that city and Boston,
THE Methodist foreign missionary society
met last Saturday afternoon with Mrs.
Grace Gushing on Barre street.
Mrs. w. A. LORD has been quite low for
| the past few days. and an early fatal ter
mination Of her disease i, feared.
REV. LEONARD TESNEY of Waterbury
will supply the pulpit of Bethany church
next Sunday morning and evening.
WILLIAM MCDONALD has recently re-
ceived an increase of pension from $40 to
$12 month"; with 1858 arrearages.
The non-partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet this afternoon
at half-past two O'Clock at Relief Corps hall
A. A. SrIMsoN shipped fourteen horses tc
to j, ID. Brown, New York, early last Mon.
day morning. Frank e. Felt went with
them.
THE sacrament of the Lords Supper wa.
administered at Bethany church last Sun
day afternoon. The evening service was
omitted.
ERAsTUs NJ. LocKLIN entered as surety
for Arthur w. Locklin, last Friday, in the
sum of $500, and he was released from the
county jail
DR.. P. II. MURPHY, a prominent dentist
of New York city, was in town last week tC
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Labershire.
Mrs. f. A. BISHOP returned from Water
bury, last Saturday, where she has been criti
cally i'll for several weeks. She is still un
able to sit up.
r. III. SHELTON, general secretary for Yer
mont, New Hampshire and Maine of tn,
Young Mems Christian Association, was II
town last week.
REV. W. j. OSULLIvAN lectured on " Tn,
Papacy" at st. Mary's church, St. Albans
last Wednesday before large and appre
ciative audience.
REV. A. b. TRUAx will conduct quarterl,
conference at Cabot next Saturday, preacl
at Marshfield Sunday morning and at Plain
field in the evening.
AN average of sos passengers per da,
were carried to and from Barre on the sub
urban trains of the " People line" durin,
the month Of February.
ATTENTION is called to the Educationa
Cards" of the Kings Daughters" adver
tised in the business mere mention column
by Miss Olive b. Stout.
JAMES DEWEY, son of w. L. Dewey, cele
brated the tenth anniversary of his birth
day last evening by giving party to
number of his schoolmates.
l.. P. THAYER, editor OF the West Ran
dolph Herald and Nelcs, was in town yester
day talking volubly on the editors excur
, sion 10 tne Worlds FAR In May.
THE members of St. Augustine's societ
are to celebrate st. Patrick's day with
supper in Capital hall Good music an
other exercises will be interspersed.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT and famil
have engaged passage from Liverpool to Bo.
ton on the Pavonia, of the Cunard line, whic
sails from that port on Thursday, June l.
JAMES K. FRENCH, collector of custom
, for Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
! whose headquarters are at Portsmouth,
H., was at the federal building on Tuesday
|. EIGHTY-FIvE from Montpelier attende
the presentation of Living Whist" at tn
Barre opera house last Thursday evening
, The Montpelier orchestra furnished the mi
sic.
THE purchase of the southerly half OF th
, Bruce block on South Main street by Ere
J r. Stevens is off" G. p. Stearns & So
moved their meat market there last MOI
day.
MANAGER G. NJ. FOSTER of the Keele
, Institute has fitted up the office in the res
7 OF the reception room in an attractive mar
. ner for the use of himself and his stenol
I rapher.
: The MOUNTAIN WAIB " was repeated q
y Capital hall last Saturday evening, unde
: the auspices OF the Montpelier Militar
| uyitn IN Qal