The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-31
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
THE C1PIT1L'S RECORD FOR THE
PAST SETEN Days.

Haverhill, N. II.
SENATOR REDF1ELD PROCTOR was at the
Pavilion last Friday.
G. BRANHALL of Boston is working in the
Montpelier bindery.
Hon r. NJ. HARVEY of Topsham was in
town the first of the week.
Mrs. f. A. BISHOP was ill with tonsilitis
last week, but is much better.
E. e. TowNER has moved to the Fred
Stevens cottage on Terrace street.
p. g. DEWEY put handsome new deliv-
cry wagon on the street last week.
G. II. BENNETT is confined to his house
with inflammation of the knee joint
MISS MARY GILL of Brookline, Mass, is
visiting Mrs. f. A. Sherburne, her sister.
DIR. LUTHER NEwCoMB of Lynn, Mass,
visiting Mrs. Amanda Newcomb, his mother.
EDWARD II. DEAvITT was at home from
the University of Vermont over last Sun
day.
THE postponed Bethany Topic Club met
last Friday evening with Mrs. A. o. Cum
Minis.
NJ. w. GOULD is making extensive i'm
provements on his property on Berlin
street
The jewery stores are to close Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday evenings until
further notice.
WI. CAsHwAY of the Montpelier bindery
visited his family in Sherbrooke, p. O., the
first of the week
CHARLES e. WHITCoMB of Jericho, for
mer well-to-do farmer of Montpelier, visited
in town last week.
PRESIDING ELDER L. o. SHERBURNE of
Enosburgh Falls was the guest of Dr. ID. G.
Kemp last Friday.
S. p HUNT of the experiment station goes
back to Dartmouth College this week to
take the examination.
T. q. PHINNEY and Collins Blakely at
tended the funeral of John f. Henry at
Waterbury last Monday.
T. w. DoNAHUE has severed his connec-
tion with the Montpelier military band, and
has gone to Manchester y. II.
FRANK CARPENTER, express messenger
between Boston and Burlington, has been
spending a short vacation in town.
DIR. S b. WIGGINs of the testing station
spent last Sunday at his home in Sandwich,
y. H., and c. w Minott at Colchester.
THE ladies of the Relief Corps served din
ner in their hall yesterday to the members
of the Grand Army and Sons of Veterans.
PAUL TERIAULr went to Quebec, Monday
evening, in response to "a telegram an
nouncing the death of his father near that
place.
w. H. HoLToN has rented the L. L.
Durant house on Clay Hill. Mrs Durant
has gone to Columbus, Ohio, to visit a
sister.
GEORGE e. WHITE and Mrs. George II.
| Wilder were married in Boston last Thurs
| day. They returned TO Montpelier Sunday
morning.
MAJOR j. f. CURRAN went to North
! Chelmsford, Mass. Monday evening TO at
| tend the wedding of "a sister of Mrs. Curran
! last evening.
MDS rattt .lat
evening from Boston and Cambridge, Mass.
where she has been visiting for the past
three weeks.
The officials of the Montpelier & Wells
| River railroad are tearing down one of the
old Cross stone-sheds, and are to put coal
shed in its place.
The annual meeting of the Mechanics
Building and Construction Company will
| be held next Monday morning at the Office
of Dr. ID. G.. Kemp.
Mrs! STnLMAN CHASE and Mrs. G. II
Bailey of Nashua, n H., her sister wen
to Au Sable, n. Y, Tuesday morning, for q
visit of several weeks
Mrs. KELLEY, an aged lady living in the
p. G.. Dewey house on Elm street, was
stricken with paralysis last Friday and has
since been in a critical condition.
Brooks Posi- went to Barre yesterday
afternoon and took part in the parade
there. A cordial invitation for them so tc
do was sent from Craudall Post.
The body of Mrs. Olive Miles, who died
about two months ago, was taken from the
tomb of Green Mount cemetery last Satur
day to Craftsbury Common for burial.
e. E. TowNER was in Montreal last weel
making arrangements for the Vermont ex
cursion to the National Christian Endeavol
Convention, which meets in that city il
July.
brio
Union will meet Thursday afternoon at hall
past three with Miss Lucy Guernsey. 3;
LoomiS street. A full attendance is re
! quested.
Two mausoeums were shipped TO Mil
! waukee, Wis, last week, by the Wetmort
& Morse Granite Company, that required
twenty-nine cars to transport them. Their
cost was about $500
FELIx SEGUIN and Frank Lang rode tc
West Randolph on their bicycles last Sun
day. They returned through Williamstown
distance of seventy miles making the time
in four hours each way.
REV. G. o. WEBSTER will preach at the
Morse school-house in East Montpelier next
| Sunday afternoon at half-past two, aud on
alternate Sundays thereafter at the same
hour until further notice.
THE young son of Frank Felt was severely
bitten in the face Monday, by dog be-
longing to W. +. Mcclure. DIR. MacombeI
cauterzed the wounds, which il is hoped
will not prove dangerous.
THE annual inspection of Company II
will occur Thursday, June s. Captain III
E. Tutherly, United States assistant in.
spector, Quartermaster-general w. w. Gil
more and others will be present.
IT is expected that the residents on Pros
pect street, Berlin will soon be supplied
with Berlin water, enough already having
signihed their desire to become consumers
to warrant putting it through that thorough
fare
MRS SAMUEL LAWRENCE died of heart
failure at the town farm last Wednesday
aged about eighty years. Rev A, n, Lewis
otliciated at her funeral Friday after
noon. and the burial was in Green Mount
cemetery.
j. ELI GooDENOUGH and George h
Fletcher of the experiment station were in
Woodbury. last Monday on a fishing excur
sion. They brought back twenty-five trout
that weighed five pounds-surely, all over
six inches in length.
A CHILDRENs choir of forty voices, under
the direction of Mrs. G.. o. Webster, fur
nished excellent music at the Baptist churct
last Sunday. 1t is proposed 10 make this
choir permanent feature OF the Sunday
morning service there.
HIRAM ODFLL has been quite ill at the
Exchange Hotel for several days. He in