The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-28
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
THE WEEKLY BUDGET or LIFE
IND DEATH.

Mrs. +. l.. LAIRD is ill.
e. w. BAILEY of Chicago was in town
last week.
N. M. CLARK of Plattsburg, N. Y, was in
town last week.
Miss HELEN GOODWIN visited in Tun-
bridge last week.
j. A. DEBoER and Fred Long were in
Boston last week.
NJ. f. ATKINS returned from Brooklyn,
N. Y, last Saturday.
Miss ALICE Il. TAFT has returned from
West Medford, Mass.
THOMAS MARVIN visited, last week, at his
old home in Alburgh.
ROBERT EMERY was confined to the house
last week with tonsilitis.
Mrs PEARL BLoDGETT of st. Johnsbury
visited in town last week.
Miss ALICE WEBSTER of Cabot is visiting
Mr. and Mrs. g. Il. Ditty.
GEORGE w. S. IDE of Orange, Mass, was in
town the first of the week.
II. G. GLEASON took II. ID. Hopkins place
in Bethany choir last Sunday.
MRS. T. j. BoYNToN and daughter left
last week for Boston to reside.
Miss LENA SUTCL1FFE returned to college
at Toronto, Ont, last Monday.
TIE junior exhibition in Seminary chapel
will occur next Friday evening.
MRS. E. +. RAND gives five o'clock teas
this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon.
HIRAM MoFFATT of Montgomery visited
friends at the Kelley Institute last week.
HARRY MCALL1sTER is driving the mail
wagon during the illness of Henry Wedge.
NEARLY all the local granite cutters were
idle last Saturday because of the intense
cold.
MANAGER G. NJ. FOSTER, of the Kelley
Institute, was in Rutland nearly all of last
week.
THE Barre street whist club met last
Friday evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Tabor.
II. ID. HOPKINS and wife were the guests
of Mrs. Minnie Marsh at Plainfield over last
Sunday.
f. w. SAULT, foreman in the Herald and
Neps office at West Randolph, was in town
last Monday.
MRS. Il. II. HARRINGTON OF Bethel and E.
s. Harrington of Philadelphia, her son, Wis.
tied in town last week.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
the Morse scbool-house, East Montpelier,
next Sunday at 2.l5 P. M.
o. M. MARSHALL, of the Montpelier Mil.
itary band and orchestra, is quite ill at
his home on Main street.
a MlD-WEkk service Will be held In the
vestry of the Church of the Messiah this
evening at half past seven.
The KINGS DAUGHTERS held their regular
meeting on last Monday evening. Thirty
five members were present.
MARTIN FIELD Of Alameda, Cal, son of III,
X. Field, has been the guest of Colonel e.
7. Jewett for the past week.
BETHANY CHURCH will commemorate the
sacrament of the Lords Supper next Sun
day afternoon at three o'clock.
The communion service in the Church of
the Messiah next Sunday afternoon is ap-
pointed for half past four o'clock.
JOHN LELAND, a prominent photographer
OF Manchester, n. H., visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Jerome Leland, his parents, last week.
SUPREME COURT will convene at Mont
peller on Thursday to render its opinion on
the cases heard by it at the January term.
GENERAL w. III. GILMORE of Fairlee was
IN town last Monday, ON his way to Bur-
hngton to attend the annual officers school
A. j. HOWE accompanied A. E. Niles to
Boston on Tuesday to assist Niles & Pratt
In purchasing stock of goods for their new
store.
HENRY W. TEwKsBURY came up from
West Randolph last Saturday evening to
hear John Temple Graves at the opera
house.
FRED w. ALEXANDER, minor, has re.
Gently received Sl69 So the balance of the
pension due the late c. w. Alexander, his
father.
THE great and only John L. Sullivan will
positively appear at Blanchard opera house
next Monday evening in the Man from
Boston,"
CHARLES H. MORE of the granite firm of
y. ii. More * Co., has been appointed re-
ceiver of the insolvent Excelsior Granite
Company.
MRS. CHARLES A. SMITH, stenographer at
the office of the National Life Insurance
Company, and Mrs. Lamphere are ill with
severe colds.
AN extra meeting of the Kings Daughters
will be held AT Holel Kempton Immediately
after the service i'll Christ church ON Thurs
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley o. Taplin, and a
daughter on Tuesday morning TO Mr.. and
Mrs George G. Alber.
CHARLES CATTANEo and Miss Matilde
Sassi, both natives of sunny Italy, were
married, last Thursday, by Justice M. w.
Wheelock at his office.
MARION, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. w.
Thompson, celebrated her seventh birthday
last Friday by inviting a number of her
little friends to her home.
THE Montpelier and Wells River railroad
ran special train to the home of N c.
Tabor last Friday evening to accommodate
the Barre street whist club
A HEARING was held at the Pavilion ON
tuesday evening before Chief Justice Ross
on the petition for receiver for the insol-
vent Excelsior Granite Company.
MAJOR .. ID CLARK Captain A. G. Eaton,
and Lieutenants j. W. Peck and c. A.
Smith of Company II are attending the an.
nual officers school at Burlington.
III. ID. GATES arrived from Chicago last
Monday with carload of western horses,
which can be seen for few days at e. l..
Putney's stables on East State street.
MISSES LAURA SMITH and Ida Osborne
are delegates from Bethany Christian En-
deavor Society TO the semi-annual county
to be held March at Northfeld.
HARRY G. DEwING, the newly-appointed
deputy collector and inspector OF customs,
Will be stationed at Toronto, Ont, and will
enter upon the duties of his office March 1.
LEE BADGER was arrested, last Thursday.
charged with an assault on A. Il. Clark sew
eral days ago Before Justice NJ. E Smile.
he pleaded guilty and was fined So and
costs.
CHARLES III. MORE & Co have secured
the contract for the soldiers monument TO
be erected ON the state grounds at Des
Moines, La. Its cost is to be upwards of