The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-27
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
ITEMS OF INTEREST GLEINED IN
THE HUNTS or MEN.

Mrs. G. @. FIELD is visiting Mrs. George
B. Drury at Essex Junction.
G. p. STEARNs has moved from 4S East
State street to the Dudley block
THE sugar-testing station in the federal
building is closed for the season.
MRS F. H. EMERY visited Mrs. D. b.
Bishop at Williston on Monday.
Hon. L. NJ. HAMMOND of Chicago was the
guest of d. w. Dudley last week.
THE band will give concert at the School
street stand next Friday evening.
f. w. BANCROFT sang with the Unitarian
choir at Barre last Sunday afternoon
The KING's DAUGHTERS are to held
basket picnic at Barre quarries next Friday.
MANAGER c. NJ. FOSTER, of the Kelley
Institute, was in st, Johnsbury on Tuesday.
Hon. j. j. DEAvIrT of st. Albans is in
town, the guest Of his nephew, I. j. Deavitt.
Mrs. CAPTAIN WILDER of Waitsfield is
visiting Mrs. o. H. Richardson, her daugh-
ter
j. A. DEBoER is attending commence
ment exercises at Dartmouth College this
week.
Mr.. AND Mrs. w. o. Snow of West Ran
dolph are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Wood.
w. A. LORD, ESQ, was one of the judges
at the prize speaking at Northfield last
evening.
A SERVICE of dedication is to be held in
the Church of the Messiah next Sunday
morning
Mrs. NJ. J, Goss and Miss Mary Goss, her
granddaughter, Of vergennes are at the
Riverside.
A FULL report of the Kelley reunion, held
at Montpelier last Friday, may be found on
page eight.
Dr. MARY E. EMERY of New York is in
town to spend few weeks with her mother,
Mrs j. G. Emery
A. G. BLANCHARD has purchased lot
near the head of Park Avenue, on which he
is to erect a house.
Mr.. AND Mrs. D. F. CLARK returned from
their wedding trip on Tuesday, and are at
the Pavilion at present.
REV. J. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
the Morse school-house, East Montpelier
next Sunday at 2:15 P. NJ.
HARRY LOWE returned last week from a
four-weeks' trip through Iowa, Nebraska,
Colorado, Utah and Minnesota.
Miss GRACE HoUGHToN and Miss Mary
Poland returned from Smith College,
Northampton, Mass, last week.
EDWARD P. STONE who has been en-
ployed at the sugar-testing station, has
gone to his home in Durham, n. FL.
JOEL FOSTER went, last Monday, to
Springfield, Mass, where Mrs. Foster has
been visiting for the past two weeks.
A DETAILED report Of the republican state
convention, held at Montpelier last Wednes-
day, may be found on the second page.
MISS BERTHA NJ. CARPENTER is taking a
weeks vacation, at her home in Goulds-
vile, from her duties in the Long book store.
MRS. NJ. l.. WELLS is expected home this
week from Wellesley, Mass, where she has
been for the past year with her daughter
Emma.
THE Non-partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet in Trinity
Church parlors, Wednesday afternoon, at
three o'clock.
L. NJ. HAMMOND OF Chicago and Mrs. D.
B. Bishop Of Williston have been guests Of
d. w. Dudley and Mrs. Fannie Emery dur
ing the past week.
Mr.. AND MRS. F. L. HUTcHINs, Miss Mary
Bard and Miss Mary Smalley have been
the past few days.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT delivered the
baccalaureate sermon before the graduating
class of Goddard Seminary at Barre last
Sunday afternoon.
THE Loyal Temperance Legion will meet
next Sunday afternoon at three o'clock in
the vestry Of the Unitarian church. Let
every member be present.
THE st. John de Baptist Society is to eel.
organization in Montpelier with straw
berry festival this evening.
THE Young Ladies' Sodality of St. Angus
tines Church gave a strawberry festival in
Capital Hall, last Thursday evening, which
was very literally patronized.
MRS. L L. BEEMAN is to deliver an ad-
dress in the Congregational church at Bar
ton next Friday evening before the Vermont
Woman's Suffrage Association.
THE Montpelier Military Band goes to-
day to Morrisville, where the state en-
campment of Sons Of Veterans is held, and
is engaged to play at Barre, July A.
H. I. CUsHMAN and wife of Bennington
are guests OF j. A. Kelton at the Exchange
Hotel. Mr.. Cushman was formerly quarter
master Of the Fourth Vermont regiment.
MRS. EMILY T. THuRsroN, widow OF the
late David Thurston, United States consul
at Ontario, p. o., has heen the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. s. III. o. Bosworth for the past
week.
T. w. WooD left Montpelier last Monday
noon and will sail from New York on
Thursday on the steamer Rotterdam" :" for
Antwerp and Rotterdam, stopping en- route
at BoulOgne
THE bill for holding one or more of the
stated terms OF the United States circuit and
district courts of Vermont at Montpelier
has passed the senate. 1t was introduced
by Senator Morrill,.
NJ. +. CHASE goes TO Hartford, Conn, to-
morrow to attend the dinner given Friday
evening, at Hotel Hartford, to Thomas w
Russell, president of the Connecticut Gen.
eral Life Insurance Company.
p. NELSON of Fayston was arrested by
Policeman Demeritt last week for intoxica-
tion. He pleaded guilty before Justice j.
II. Lucia, disclosed on the jockey yard and
was fined Sl0.51, which he paid.
REINDEER" owned by Captain II. @.
Lull, made some excellent time on the
track at Barre last Saturday, and will un-
doubtedly justify the expectations of his
owner before the summer is over.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet in Bethany chapel on
Thursday afternoon at halfpast two O'clock
A Bible reading, prepared by Mrs. j. X
Barney, will be given. All are cordially
| invited.
BEFORE leaving for New York last Mon.
day morning, T. W. Wood presented Major
| o. ID. Clark, chief of the Montpelier fire de.
partment, with his check for $50 in recogni.
ton of their services in protecting his prop
erty last Sunday.
The winners at the prize-speaking con.
test, held in Seminary chapel last week
were as follows Ladies-Miss Gertrude V,
! Cutler first: Miss Winona l.. Brigham Sec