The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-11-21
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.


York.
Mrs. BELLE FR1NK will spend the winter
in Florida.
Miss MAY HARRAN is seriously ill with
typhoid fever.
EUGENE JosLYN is building new house
ou Barre street.
LOOK out for the new time tables or you
may miss the train.
TEN jurymen were excused for the term
in county court yesterday
A.E NILES of Niles & Pratt, goes to
Boston on a business trip this week.
OFFICER WOOD escorted Milo Sullo-
way to the house OF correction on Thursday.
The Perry Manufacturing Company has
added a two ton radical drill to the works.
TaE local merchants have begun to add
to their stock of goods for the coming holi-
days.
rHE Consolidated Lighting Company sue
ceeds the Standard Light ami Power Com
pauy
THE young people are arranging for
Thanksgiving ball, to be held at the Pa
vilion.
THE Washington county Free Masons
will hold their district meeting Decem-
Der 81.
MRs f p. KINNEY is at Plainfield, caring
for Mrs. M. z. Kinney, who is ill with pneu
mona.
PECK BRorHERs have the contract for
plumbing the Kellogg Hubbard Library
building.
Mrs. JOSEPH POLAND has returned rom
five weeks visit in New Jersey and
Connecticut.
The store recently vacated by j. W.
Peck is being fitted up for the use OF Daniel
G. Field as billiard parloI.
.
Montpelier Center school house on Sunday,
December 2, at three o Jlock.
Mrs. WOOSTER SPRAGUE has sold her
house on Barre street and is going to
Chicago to reside with her daughter.
HARRY G. SHURTLEFF, by his efficiency in
drill, has been appointed captain OF Com
pany A of ths Vermont Battalion.
G. e. LArHRop of Brandon has entered
upon a temporary engagement as book
keeper in the First National Bank.
REV LESTER WARREN is expected to
preach in the Union church in Middlesex
next Sunday afternoon at one o'clock.
GENERAL STEPHEN THOMAS and G. w,
Scott were in North Haverhill. N. H., last
week attending to their granite business.
FRANK s. PRATT and Miss Bell Batchel-
der ~ere married by Rev. G. o. Webster at
the Baptist parse lage on Thursday even
ing.
MRS SUSAN WHITTIER went to Can.
bridgeport Mass, on Tuesday, and will
spend the winter in that city and Wollas-
| ton.
THE j. Z. Comerford Company, which
appears here this week, is now playing al
Barre and pronounced to be a strong com
pany.
~; n-g EDWARD WRIGHT gave very in,
Time at ,ba I1nitsr;sn Hbum1ch 'its,s R,pasn !" y
evening.
r. l.. HOWE & Co. of Northfield erected 9
fine Scotch granite monument on Monday
at Wright's Mills for the late William
Montague.
THE Epworth League will meet in the
parlors Of Trinity Church next Friday even
ing, when the proposed reading club will
be discussed.
PROFESSOR S. J. BLANPIED is one of The
executive committee of the State Teachers
Asso iation, which meets at Rutl md, De
cember 6. and 8.
MRS c. f. BRANCH, wife of Department
Commander Branch of the Grand Army
and well known in Montpelier, died a.
Newport last Monday.
THE term Of the Uni ed States cour
" hich is to open here December will be
an interesting session, as there are severa
important cases to be head.
AT the meeting of the First Congrega
tional Society last Thursday evening,
unanimous call was extended Rev Norman
Seaver to become pastor OF Bethany Church
G. r. BAGLEY has recently been awarded
diploma from the Chicago Worlds Fai
for being an expert artisan and for helping
to perfect the l.. P. g. d. Power Transmit
ter. ErE .
JUDGE MUNsoN has allowed no guilty
rumseller to escape, and the fines at th
| - 10, a.. 4,
that it may be a lesson for other would b.
violators of the law
JOSEPH CHASE, proprietor Of Kimbal mea
route between Northield and Montpelier
died at his home on the Northti I'D road
last W ednesday of blood poisoning. His fune
raj was held from his late home on Frida.
morning at ten o'clock.
REV. A. N. LEWIS will give his lecture OIL
manners before the students of tn
Union school on Friday at three o'clock
This is the first of a series of addresses u
be given by local clergymen
FREDERICK w. BANCROFT has complete,
his new song-lecture Scotch Songs an,
Their Singers" )" and will give it for the frs
time in public in Burlington, December 9Th
under the auspices of the Unity" society.
THE Kings Daughters obtained mucl
favor last winter through their popular en-
t tertainments, and are again TO solicit publ
, patronage. In February they will presen
Alexander Blacks picture play, mis-
, jerry" which is an interesting work.
Two clover blossoms were found in Mont
pelier on the day the state flower was Sc
iected Mrs. G. p. Arthur painted repre-
sentaton OF each and sent them to Mrs.
: p Russell at Burlington One is to be en-
graved as a proper representative of tn
state flower.
ID. w. DUDLEY has recently erected
, costly monument at his lot in G cen Noun
= cemetery. The handsome statue il tn
work Of II AIRY Batoll, while the rest of tn
monument was cut by Jones & Gale. Tn
stock is from the quarries of the Co-opers
tive Company at East Calais
, JOHN MANSON OF Barre, who has been /
Jail here several days. was brought befor
District Clerk G L. Johnson on Thursda
and placed under $500 bonds fo' violatin
/, the internal revenue laws. District A
. torney Senter appeared for the prosecutio
A and L. p. Slack of Barre for respondent.
= THE supreme court judges have appointe
the following bar examiners Tor next yeal
Hon. Alfred A. Hall of ST. Albans W.
Bliss of Burlington W. p. Stafford OF s.
7 Johnsbury. j. ID. Denison of West Rar
y dolph, j. III Senter OF Montpelier, Q. i
= Darling of Bennington
, AT the annual meeting OF Hose Compan
d, | No A bald November -, the following of