The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-18
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY,
THE WEEKS DOINGS CHRONICLED
IN LANG UAGE PLAIN.

Mr.. AND Mrs. G. NJ. FOSTER were in Rut.
land several days last week.
JESSE V1LEs and A.. ID. Farwell went tC
New York last Monday night.
JAMES Il. LANGDoN and Levi H. Bixby
were in Fair Haven last week.
Mrs. MARY EAGAN and William Eagan
moved to Northheld last week
Mrs. GEORGE w. McALLIsTER visited
her father in Burlington last weeK.
j. f. CLARK of Groton visited Assistant
Postmaster ID. f. Clark, his son, on Tuesday.
MRS. F. |. PITKIN was i'll last s 4nday and
unable to sing at the Church of the Messiah.
A. A. FLETCHER, president of the Middle.
bury National Bank, was in town last Mon
day.
Mrs. c. f. CHANDLER and Miss Anna
Chandler visited last week in Peekskill,
| New York.
The Chautauqua class will meet Friday
afternoon with Mrs. Ii. X. Sherburne on
Elm street.
FRED FRINK has purchased the barber
shop in Blanchard block formerly run by
Felix Pratte.
II. CARL SMITH, for the past year en-
ployed in Barre, is now at work for Blanch.
ard Brothers.
Mrs. o. ID. CLARK gave an attic party
last Thursday evening to large number of
young people.
Mrs. A. N. LEWIS went to New Haven,
Conn, last Friday, expecting to be absent
several weeks.
HENRY HALL of Moorhead, Mimi, was
in town last Saturday on his way to his
home in Worcester.
WAITE SABIN goes to Sanbornton, N. H.,
on Thursday TO spend the summer with f.
ID. Gilman, his uncle.
MRS. MINNIE MARSH sang soprano at
Christ church last Sunday, and is to fill that
position next Sunday.
THE Methodist Junior League will meet
at Trinity church vestry at four o clock on
Thursday of this week.
HARVEY w. Brown, the postman, re-
sumed his labors last Sunday morning after
an illness of two weeks.
RI REV. BISHOP HALL will visit Christ
church on Sunday, April 30, and administer
the rite of confirmation.
GRATTAN II. WHEELER, cashier of the
Bank of Tacoma, at Tacoma, Wash, was at
the Exchange last week.
THE exterior of the Montpelier House re-
ceived fresh coat of paint last week, much
improving its appearance.
Roy w. TURNER, who has been in town
for a few weeks, is to return to his home in
Lacona, n. H., tomorrow.
MRS. HARVEY BURNHAM entertained the
Baptist Young Peoples Society at her home
on State street last evening.
MISSES JESSIE GIBSON and Helen Rood of
Jericho have been guests of Mr.. and Mrs
f. l.. Gray for the past week.
f.. n. SANCTUARY, catcher for the U. V.
NJ. Varsity nine last year, is on Seminary
Hill coaching the baseball team.
JOHN KANE, engineer on the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad, was laid up last
week with badly liberated face.
Mrs. NATHAN w. MCFARLAND of John
son IS stopping for a few weeks with Mrs
A. w. Ferrin, her granddaughter.
FELIX PRATTE is to occupy the Pavilion
barber shop about May |, and is in Boston
this week purchasing new furniture.
Rox 10 was pulled last evening for a
brush fire on East State street. The serv-
ices OF the firemen were not required.
JOEL FOSTER goes to Barton Landing to-
day, and TO Manchester, VT, next Monday,
to survey for system of water works.
j. Il. SEAvER brought to the editors
table, on Tuesday, grass picked that day
that measured eleven inches in length.
MRs. PHILLIPS has returned to her home
III Brooklyn, N Y, after a visit of several
weeks with Mrs. Alfred Bailey, her sister.
CHARLES TEMPLEToN of Fargo, So. OAK,
was in town last Sunday on his way to
Worcester to see Horatio Templeton his
father.
REV. FRANCIS w. HOLDEN of Burnards.
ton, Mass, is 10 preach in the Union church
in Middlesex next Sunday afternoon at two
O'Clock.
ARTHUR ALLEN, JR., has moved from the
Rialto block to the tenement on East State
street formerly occupied by Harry G.
Dewing.
The patients at the Kelley Institute and
picked team from the graduates will play
nslr "a Got Jn.,
afternoon.
Miss ALICE JENKINS, who has been the
guest of Mrs. A. o. Cummins for several
days past, leaves Thursday evening for Spo-
kane, Wash.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is announced to
give some account OF " A Sunday in Lon
don," at the Church of the Messiah next
Sunday evening.
DEACON GEORGE GOODWIN entertained
the members of his Sunday-school class
with sugar party at the Baptist vestry last
Saturday evening
REV. A N. LEWIS will preach the sermon
at the opening day OF the diocesan conven-
ZION, TO be held in st. Luke's church, st. |
Albans, June and 7.
A COLLISION between DR.. G. e. Hunts
buggy and Harry Oviatt's bicycle, on Elm |
street last Friday evening, resulted in a
badly wrecked wheel.
hhN' "a H. w EBB, ReV. Ill, A. Spencer |
and Rev. DIR. E. NJ, Smith are at Bradford |
TINS week, attending the annual session of |
the Vermont Conference.
MISS MARGARET E. SHANKs returned TO
Vermont Methodist Seminary last Monday,
ana Will remain through the term giving
Instructions in elocuton.
The sum of S115 has been contributed by
the business men of Montpelier for the ben
ett OF the V. M s. base ball team, for which
the boys feel deeply grateful.
GEORGE SAWYER and l.. L. Park OF Ches-
ter and Robert Thompson of Augusta, Me,
recent graduates of the Montpelier Keeley
Institute, were in town this week.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be held
with Mrs. G. b. b. Denny ON Thursday
afternoon at half pas two o'clock.
REV. AND MRS. II. A. SPENCER attended
Ihe sessions OF The New Hampshire confer
ence at Claremont last week, where Rev
9. H. Spencer, their son, was ordained an
elder.
Hon. CHARLES DEWEY and wife and
Colonel Fred E. Smith left last Monday
afternoon for western trip that will in.
,lude Omaha and Hastings, Neb., and st.
Paul and Faribault, MINI. Mrs. Smith is