The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-10-17
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.

THE Nicholas property Is to be sold a
public auction October y.
THE Chautauqua class will meet Frida
at q 10 with Miss Ella Bailey.
Mrs. G. G. AINswoRTH is in Coos, n. II
visiting her mother and sisters
f. L EATON returned from the West OF
! Monday, where he has been for the past tw
weeks.
WINTERS picket line was seen on the
snow-covered hills around Montpelier Mon
day morning.
T. l.. CAssA ANT has sold his house o,
CLIFF street to Charles Litch, meat cook a
the Pavilion.
GEORGE MOORE has returned from an ex
tended western trip in the interests of c. II
Moore & Co.
MRs. f. w. RoBINsoN has returned from
a visit of six weeks with her mother at An
sable Forks, N. Y.
II. ID. GATES arrived in town Sunda,
morning with another large stock of hand
solne western horses.
WILLIAM FOSTER, a Central Vermont
brakeman, was slightly injured on Tuesday
| morning while coupling cars.
Mrs II. F. HAMMOND and daughter re.
turned, on Friday, from n visit to her par.
ents in the state of New York.
Mrs HARVEY w. CoLLrRR and daughter
I
Frank E Grout, brother Of Mrs. Collier
REV. S. DoNALDsoN of Northfeld
preached at the Methodist church on Sun
day in exchange with Rev. A. II. Webb
A. c. BLANCHARD, of the Montpelier Beef
| Company, has sold five acres of land near
the Pioneer Mills to James Coty for S700
THE Bethany Sunday-school delegates TO
the state cony ention, in ses sion at st. AL
bans, are G. H. Moore and Mrs. S. j. Blan.
pied.
THERE is marked change in street-corner
| lOating since the order of the trustees was
enforced It is to be hoped it may con
tinue.
The Laiies' Reading Club of Christ
Church will meet with Mrs. Edward Dewey,
Monday evening, October %, at half past
seven.
THE officers of Canton Montpelier were
installed at Odd Fellows hall on Friday
evening. A delegation from Canton Vim
ton OF Barre was present.
The V. NJ. S foot ball team has returned
from its St. Johnsbury Waterloo. The bows
are not discouraged, and still think they
can regain their lost laures.
The Womans Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Mrs. Laura Durham
next week Tuesday afternoon at half past
two o'clock, instead of thh week.
The supreme court has decided that, in
the celebrated Bradley murder case, the re-
spondent gained nothing ~ his exceptions,
and remanded him to stats prison.
The Francis BatcheldeI Creamery Com
pany is building piggerya short distance
from the creamery Themilk is pumped
from the creamery to the lome of the pigs.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT has an appoint
ment to preach in the Mrse school-house
IN East Montpelier, next sunday at 2:l5 P
M. Subject, THE Genius of Christianity"
A SERVICE of sacred s0sg will be held in
the Church of the Messiah next Sunday
| Wenlng. Tne selections and remarks will
ntVe special reference torennyson's poems
n q. MISARD is seriouly i'll with conges-
M YIN OF the brain. He vas suffering with
elSipelas and applied preparation to his
rag Uhat is thought TO have caused his
praent illness.
BROOKS Posi-, No. 49, G. A. r., will hold
camp fire at its hall in Blanchard opera
holse on the evening of October 23 All G
comrades and Sons of Veterans are
cordially invited.
q. A. SMITH, 81, and wife left for
Seek's trip to Richmond, p, O., on Tues
ddy They were accompanied by NJ Smiths
Drother.in law, A. l.. Lance, publisher of
the Richmond Times.
IHE ladies' of Bethany Reading Club will
meet at Mrs. j. V Babcock's, Tuesday af-
t1eihooh, OcNber %, at two o'clock Anec-
es uotes ana ssylsgs of Benjamin Franklin
are requested from he members.
AT the supreme cour. on Friday, Daniel
tence of ninety days at the hQG,a of correc.
ton, and fined $500. Reshonde.. wos
charged with violating the liquor law.
A SPECIAL train is to return from Barre at
the close of the dedication EXERCISES of the
Spencer Rifles armory on Friday evening.
IL is expected that Governor Woodbury.
! ~ Dc
A MEETING of the young people will be
held next Saturday evening al seven o'clock
| in the Methodist vestry fJr the purpose of
reorganizng the Young Peoples Society
Let all that are interested in the work be
present.
A REUNION of the members OF the Twelfth
Vermont Regiment is TO be held al Grand
Army hall on tn" evening Of October 30,
The exercises will consist of a banquet and
an address by Lieutenant Colonel Roswell
Farnham.
REV. NORMAN SEAvER, d. D., will de-
liver the address before the Vermont Bible
Society at its anniversary in the hall OF rep
resentatives, Tuesday evening, October 80
Subject, "The Bible the Educator Of the
People"
THE officers aud members of Thomas
Wildey Eucampment 90 to Waterbury on
Thursday evening to organize an encamp'
ment there The Montpelier Odd Fellows
will do the work. Grand locge ofhcers are
expected to be present
Mrs. HELEN G.. RICE of toston, Mass, a
national officer in tht won an Cnrlstlai
Temperance MON, Will give an address in
Bethany Church next Sunday at 3; 20 p. NJ
Mrs. Rice is an eloquent speaker, ant the
public should hear her.
CHARLES T.. WHITCoNB WHO resided here
for twenty six years, and moved TO Jerlcht
three wears ago, died st thai Place on sun
dav, Mr.. Whitcomb was seventy-tvt
here to. day for burial in the Cltler cemetery
THE friends of city charter have a copy
of the ono now used in Vergnnes and sug
gest that if one could be scared for Mont.
!, pelier containing some Of tl3 excellent pro-
= visions used in the CITY un ne Otter Creek
, the expense of city goernment would
n be small.
A THE large coal shed wAu the Montpelier
, and Wells River Company is erecting is to
be equipped with all modem appliances for
@ loading engines An eleated track takes
# the car OF coal into the she'd and the en-.
l. gines are supplied from e rear side of the
& building.
IS THE Ladies' Guild" of Christ Church
u have elected the following officers for the
Is year: President ex-oflico Rev. A. n. Lewis
~ vice. Dresident Mrs & II Haatop aecra