The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-12-05
md Thursday afternoons .and evenings

her home, 10 Winter street.
The flyer on the Ru land division of the
Central Vermont railroad is to be discon-
tinued after next Saturday.
"a MOTHER GOOSE" socable is an.
nounced to be held at Bethany Church on
the evening OF December IA.
a SERVICE OF SACRED SoNG will be held
in the Church of the Messiah next Sunday
afternoon at half past ssven.
THE Bethany Junior Christian Endeavor
Society held sale of fan ~ articles at the
church on Tuesday evening.
Mrs. II. j. CURTIS has gone to Denver
Col, for the winter, accompanied by Mrs
Holbrook of Barre, her niece.
REV. A. II. WEBB spoke on Herosm
from Contact with Jesus" at Trinity
Church last Sunday morning.
JOHN h. SEAvER slipped on the icy walk
near his residence one day last week,
nearly fracturiny several ribs.
NELLIE G. DALEY and her mother, Mrs
S. A. Ray of Burlington, left on Tuesday
for trip to Winter Park, Fla.
HERBERT MARBLE and Katherine Fla
horJy were married on Thursday at North
field by Rev. Father Donahue.
AMONG the new deputy s1eriff, is Henry
E. Hunt, who, it is seen, returns to the
ranks of guardians of the peace.
GOVERNOR WOODBURY. has presented Su-
perintendent NJ. s. Stone with the pen ed
in signing the free text book bill.
HENRY LEBBEN, Major j. L. Elder and
the table-girls at the Exchange are to re-
main under the new management.
SECRETARY OF STATE BRowNELL and
force of clerks are busy at the state house
preparing the laws for publica ion.
e. f. AVERY and wife left for II Hsllowell,
Maine, Tuesday night, called there by the
serious illness of Mr.. Avery's mother.
Apruup n MArsrp nf ctona'a
jewelry store spent Thanksgiving as the
guest of Willard Moore at st. Albans.
A LARGE amount of maple sugar and tur-
keys has been shipped from here to the
Boston markets during the past week.
The marriage of Minnie Noyes and He
man Campbell occurred at the home of the
bride on st. Paul street I lesday night.
CHARLES STEVENS of Barre attend 9d the
local Knights of Pythias lodge meeting on
Friday night to install vice chancellor
w. W. LAPoINT finishes his work at the
WATCHMAN Office to-day and returns to the
study of law with j. w, Gordon at Barre.
E. w. LOOMS, who went to the Vernon
Soldiers Home, was at last admitted as a
hospital pat ent by Superintendent Coffey.
THE term of United States court is an ad
journed session, and ii is hoped that in the
future one term will be held here each year.
Four carriage makers occupied seats at
the sa ne table a one of the local hotels on
Monday, and they represented four states.
A REPRESENTATIVE of the New York fire
underwriters s has been in town preparing a
map of all buildings now covered by insur-
anc.
CBARLEs AIM is the new meat cook at
the Exchange and his wife the landlady
Mary O'Brien has the position Of pastry
cook.
o. P. CHAPMAN of Westerly, r. l., who
came here TO set the Hu bbard and Kellogg
monument, is still seriously i'll at the Ex.
change.
DENNIsoN DEWEY, desiring to escape
Vermont's cold winter weather. will spend
the next few months in the sunny cline of
Florida
The Co. operative Granite Manufacturing
Company is making arrangements is for a we'll
equipped plant at Waddington on the St
Lawrence,
THE presents secured by the children at
the Bethany Church Thanksgiving party
are to be distributed among the poor during
the holidays.
The hotels have seemed deserted for the
| past few days, but are once more resuming
their normal condition and ready for busy
winter season.
FRED ARBUCKLE, the we'll known ham.
mel. and-saw artist, is to bid his friends
adieu this week and make his home in
Bridgeport, Conn.
THE Western Union Telegraph Company
has es -ablished a branch office at the Wells
| River station to accommodate the business
men on Main street.
THE game of foot ball to have been
played here to-day between the elevens
! from the Burlington and st. Albans High
Schools is Cancelled.
GEORGE w. WILDER was drawn as a
juryman for the United States court, but
was busy on Monday looking for the proper
officer to excuse him.
F. f. HOWE spent last week at his home
| in Brattleboro, and enters on his new duties
as one of the owners of a Greenbush, n.
Y, weekly this week.
SUNDAY afternoon the jingle of the sleigh
| bells was welcome sound and the owners
of fast steppers improved the first oppor'
tunity for sleigh-ride.
BERT W. TRUAx will work in Bellows
Falls this winter, returning to the seminary
in time to knock out two baggers when the
base ball season op ans.
WILLIAM ii. DAVIS, father of Mrs. q. A
Lang. died at S Albans on Friday at the
age of seventy four, and his renal as were
brought here for burial.
The funds for the local Young Mems
Christian Association are nearly all sub
scribed, and the organization will be per
fected within a few days.
lHE vermont mutual flre insurance
Company lost between five and six thou.
sand dollars in the Lyndonville fire, and
the Union Mutual $3.50.
ARTHUR G. MANsUR, of A. G.. Stones
jewelry store, has been elected camp coun
ell of Colonel George T. Childs Camp, Sons
Of Veterans, at st. Albans.
GOVERNOR WOODBURY. could have made
no better selection for city Judge than NJ
K. Smile, and the choice meets with favor
among all the local lawyers.
THE Kings Daughters have already re.
ceived an addition to their hospital fund
from a former resident of Montpelier May
such additions be multiplied.
The st ate house seems like "banquet
hall deserted" 1t is estimated that more
people attended the closing sessions of the
Legislature than for many years.
THE supreme court has sustained the de.
fendants demurrer in the cases of Dicker
man against the Vermont and Union Mu
tual Fire Insurance Companies.
GEORGE SAKERs was arrested by Officer
Wood on Monday night, charged with as
saultng one Simmons. He was brought
before Judge Smile and fined So.
LOCAL horsemen will, it is understood
make an effort this winter to ORGANIZE a