The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-10-03
past week, owing to the severe illness of
Mrs Henry Randall

are delegates from Bethany society to the
State Christian Endeavor convention, now
in session at Newport.
The excursion to the White Mountains,
which was to have been run for a select
party OF Barre and Montpelier people last
| Saturday, was cancelled.
THE ladies of the Church OF the Messiah
held their annual meeting recently and
voted to hold their annual Christmas sale
the first week in December.
THE October number of the Chautauqudn
contains an exhaustive and scholarly arti-
| Gle on " The British Parliament" written
by Professor John w. Burgess
The marriage of Miss Mtte p. Skinner,
sieter of Mrs. Minnie Marsh, to Edison NJ
Peck of Bristol, Conn., is announced to
take place at Barre, October II.
The examination Of candidates for adj
mission as attorneys of the courts of Yer
mont will be held at the court house next
week Tuesday and Wednesday.
REV G. o. WEBSTER and Mrs. w. w.
Adams are delegates from the Baptist
church to the State Christian Endeavor
Convention at Newport this week.
MANAGER GRANT of the V. NJ. S. football
team is trying to arrange d game with Nor
| wich University, to be played on the sem.
| mary campus Thursday afternoon.
THERE was a marriage at the Catholic
church on Tuesday morning with Della
Haley of Montpelier and James Pembroke
of Middlesex as the contracting parties.
NJ. s. STONE, state superintendent of edu-
| cation, addressed meeting of county school
! superintendents at Essex Junction last Fri
day on Incorporated Graded School Dis
tricts,"
! Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will be
| held at the Masonic hall next Tuesday
evening, October 8, at half past seven
| o'clock. Work.
NJ. s. STONE, state superintendent of edu-
cation, will deliver an address before the
state convention of Christian Endeavorers
at Newport today "wednesday on What
Are You Doing?"
The Womans Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Miss Eliza Rublee on
Thursday afternoon at half past two o'clock.
Subjects" Foods" and i" Nutritives." All
are cordially invited.
THE timetables Of the suburban service
on the Central Vermont and Montpelier
and Wells River railroads which appear
on page seven are incorrect. The corrected
table will appear next week.
Mr.. AND Mrs CHARLES BRADY and niece
of Newport are guests of Mrs. Fannie
Emery. The handsome span of English
thoroughbreds which Mr.. Brady drove over
are the object of much admiration.
e. w. COLBY of Mortified fell dead in
the street opposite Whittiers meat market
| on Tuesday noon. His death was caused
by heart failure A more complete account
! will be found in the Northfeld correspond
ence.
f. w. BANCROFT delivered his song
lecture on Irish Songs and Song Writers "
| at Bennington last week, and is to give it
before the young lady pupils at Mt. Hol-
yoke Seminary, South Hadley Mass, Oc-
tober 30.
SUPER INTENDENT E. w. THOMPSON took
General Manager ST. John of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad to Bur
lngton on the observation engine st. Law
renee, one day last week, while the latter
was his guest.
THE local delegates to the state conven-
ton of the Kings Daughters to be held at
Burlington next Monday and Tuesday, are
Mrs. Frank A Adams, Mrs. George G.. AL
ber, Mrs. G. Gourley, Mrs. l.. FL: Greene,
Mrs. S. NJ Walton.
THE trestle near the Coffee House, on the
Barre branch Of the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad, caught fire on Tuesday noon
and had reached smart blaze, when it was
extinguished by the crew of the II: 40 sub
ur ban train from Barre.
COMMENCING Monday, October l. an extra
business delivery is made, the carriers leav-
ing the post office at 6: 80 P. NJ. This i'm
provement in the service at the Montpelier
post-office is one that will be appreciated,
especially by business men.
THE annual meeting of the Montpelier
Benevolent and Educational Association
will occur on Friday afternoon, October 8,
at four o'clock, at the residence of Mrs.
Richard Dillon on Barre street. Let all in
terested as all should be, bear it in mind.
ELMER e. PATTEE and Miss Clara f.
Miller were married at St. Augustine's
church last Wednesday morning by Rev.
w. j. O'Sullivan. They left for Boston on
the noon train amid showers of rice from
the friends who accompanied them to the
station.
THE woman's Auxiliary Kelley League
will meet Thursday evening with the
Keeley League at their rooms instead Of
Friday evening, because of the lecture at
the opera house. The ladies are requested
to be present, as important business is to
come before the meeting.
CLoTHE,-LINE thieves are again getting
in their work on Barre street. Mrs. Way
colt was recent victim OF their depreda-
tions. II the thing is kept up, no one need
be surprised TO see physician hurriedly
driving TO that locality to extract buck shot
from the anatomy OF some thieving rascal.
FRANK p. BLAIsDELL, the faithful and ac-
cOmmodating Western Union messenger for
the past two years, has been promoted aud
placed in charge of the telegraph office at
Montpelier Junction His place is taken by
Dan Conley, who delivers messages on his
wheel with commendable promptness aud
rapdity.
THE reception, mentioned elsewhere, to
be rendered Rev. and Mrs. j. Edward
Wright at the vestry of the Church Of the
Messiah on Thursday evening also cele-
brates the eighteenth anniversary of their
marriage. To it the pastors of all the
churches in town, with the members of
their churches and congregations, are most
cordially invited.
LAST Sunday was the twenty-ffth ami
versary of Rev. J. Edward Wright's assum-
ing the pastorate OF the Church Of the Mes
siah, and the event is to be celebrated by a
reception held in the vestry of the church on
Thursday evening OF this week, to which
the friends of the pastor and his wife are
cordially invited
MEMBERS Of schools and the seminary can
obtain course tickets to the Lewis lectures,
Through Holland up the Storied Rhine, to
the Vale of Lauterbrunnen," Through
the Canadian Rockies, the Wonderland Of
America" and From the Heart of Swift
zerland to the Tiber" for thirty-fve cents,
by carrying card with name of their
teacher to Longs bookstore.
#. W. BANCROFT has very generously Of
fered to give his song. lecture on the "Old
English Ballads" at the opera house some
evening during ladies' week for the benefit
Of the Ladies Library Guild The offer has