The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
WHAT APRIL BREEZES WAFTED
TO THE EARS OF W1TCHMAN
REPORTERS.
MRS. e. e. GRAHAM is i'll with erysipelas

GEORGE BRAINERD was lald up WIN Jne
grip last week.
Mrs. j. w BURGESS has arrived in town
for the summer.
Mrs. ID. A. GUPTIL is visiting her mother
at Bellows Falls.
The venerable Alexander Campbell, Sr.,
is still seriously i'll.
NYE L. SMITH has been sick with the grip
for the past few days.
A DAUGHTER was born last week to Mr..
and Mrs. George Scott.
A DAUGHTER was born last Monday to Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Mackie.
ADELBBRT STEARNs has engaged with G.
S. Whittier for the season.
Mrs. G. o. WEBSTER went last Monday to
Berlin, N. H., for brief stay.
PETER ROSE was taken to the Soldiers
Home at Bennington last week.
w. 1. JONES, local manager of the Rut-
land Keeley Institute, is in town.
Mrs. f. 8. MCKENZIE of Woodstock Wis.,
tied Miss Mary Cleaves last week.
MR.. AND Mrs. G. j. GLEASON and G. F.
Buswell were in Boston last week.
e. ID. HYDE has sold his fine horse
"1rinket" " to James M. Boutwell,
THE Daughters of Rebekah held social
last evening with Mrs IL. o. Kent.
A DAUGHTER was born last Thursday
night to Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Yatter.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Mrs. Clark King next Friday afternoon.
Mrs. w. p. HUNTINGTON has moved to
the ID. d. Nelson house on Bailey Avenue.
Miss H. NJ RICE of Westford was the
guest of Mrs. George b. Walton last week.
ERR s. GUNNIsoN is laying the foundation
for a house on the road leading to Berlin
Pond.
THE aged father of Eugene Carr is i'll with
lung fever at the home of his son near
Wrghtsville.
Mrs. FANNIE EMERY attended the we'd
ding of Miss Ida NJ. Estey, at Manchester,
| n. H., last week.
Mrs E B. PIKE of Pike station, n. H.,
visited Misses Mamie and Nellie Tromblee,
her sisters, last week.
Mrs. w. H. WILLIAMS of Brooklyn, N.
| Y, visited her parents at the Exchange
! Hotel over last Sunday
A HANDSOME new flag floats over the fed
eral building, the third since the building
was opened for business.
REV. E. p. STONE of Michigan has been
visiting the venerable Rev. j. +. Stone, his
father, for the past week.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
the Morse school-house, East Montpelier,
next Sunday at 2:15 P. NJ.
FRANK O'NEIL of White River Junction
was the guest of Rev. w. j. O'Sullivan, his
brother-n-law, over last Sunday.
The members of the Epworth League
will give supper and entertainment in
Trinity vestry next Friday evening.
Mrs. ALBERT III. BROWN entertained the
Methodist Ladies' Home Missionary So
ciety at tea last Thursday evening.
GEORGE o. STRATToN was at Mallett's
Bay last week to settle a loss for the Yer
mont Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
L. W. SHEDD is to move back to the River
side, and there is talk of renting the house
now occupied by him for DR.. Seaver's use
The Humpty Dumpty troupe was at the
Exchange over last Sunday, coming dowr
from Barre Saturday evening after the per
formance there.
WILLIAM G. DANYEER of MiddleburN
graduated from the Keeley Institute las
week and went home to be happy with hi
rejoicing friends.
MRS. L. S. BRoPHY has returned from
New York and Boston, where she has beel
the past two weeks taking lessons in face
and figures in china.
d, f. CLARK has purchased of Mrs. NJ L
Watson, for $4,000, the house on corner o
School and Loomis streets Possession is t
be given about July l.
REV. A. A. BLAIR will preach at Eas
Montpelier on Sunday, May g. at eleve
, o'clock, and at North Montpelier the sam
udy az udl petSI OhC " Ciobh'
SEVERAL friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Perc
w. Bailey gave them surprise visit las
evening at their home on Court street,
being the fifth anniversary OF their marriage
THE annual meeting Of the Ladies' L
+ brary Guild will be held at the vestry {
! the Unitarian church Monday afternoon
. May 6, at three o'clock. A full attendane
is desired.
THE intercollegiate league season opene
Il n ~. NJ
l. defeated at Barre by the Goddards. Score
! TO 10. Batteries, Ralph and Sias; Stands
= . and Standish.
: THE practice of keeping the barber shop
a in town open Sunday forenoons has bee
q discontinued, all the propretors of shop
: having signed an agreement to keep close
o all day on Sundays.
t THE rooms over the First National Banl
r in Langdon's block, have been rented b
j w. p. Day, superintendent of the Hinsdal
i & Sons Granite Company. His headqua
d ters have formerly been in Barre.
Q THE body of Will j. Preston arrived
u town from Pawtucket, r. l., last Sunda
morning, and was buried in the Cathol
cemetery. He died last Friday of quic
consumption, aged thirty-two years.
THE announcement that Mary How
n LAWN will appear at the opera house O
Q Monday evening, May 21, under the auspict
j. Of the Apollo Club, will be received wit
n the liveliest satisfaction by all our citizen
n The Woman's Auxiliary to the Keee
!, League will hold a meeting next Frida
u evening in the league rooms, to whic
!. members of that organization and all inte
i ested in the work are cordially invited
), be present.
"a AT the close of the prayermeeting
y Bethany Church, this evening, paris
:. meeting will be held to consider the que
y tion of extending call TO Rev. DIR. Norma
~ Seaver to become the permanent pastor
"a that society.
d SEVERAL Montpelier friends of Mr., an
a Mrs. Van Hill, of Waterbury, attended IL
h celebration of the eighth anniversary
d their marriage last evening, taking wit
3, them handsome easy chair as a souvenir
n the occasion.
l. Miss MATTE j. SHAW of Waterbur,
20 who with her sister May, has spent IL
A. past winter in Montpelier, was married r
'r Gently to Charles L. Harwood of Bosto
a. They are to be at home at 290 Columbl
1t Avenue, that city, after June l.
u A SPAN of gray horses, owned and drive
y by Samuel Smith, became frightened at u
,' whistle of locomotive near the Sab