The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-06
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.


town on Monday.
GENERAL w. II. GILMORE of Farlee was
in town last Friday.
REV. SIMON B. BLUNT of Middlebury was
in town on Tuesday.
AUGUSTUS NEE Of Boston is visiting his
mother Mrs. John Nee.
CAPTAIN II. G. LULL is in town from Bris-
tol, Conn, for few days.
Mrs. G. B. B. DENNY was confined to the
house by illness last week.
A DAUGHTER was born on Tuesday to
Mr. and Mrs. Lucius 9. Stone.
Mr.. AND Mrs. J. w. SEVERANCE visited
relatives in franklin last week.
F.B. FOWLER of West Lebanon, N. H., is
stopping in town for a few weeks.
S. D. HoBsoN and NJ. d. Pearsons Of
Island Pond were in town last Friday.
MRS GEORGE B. WALTON entertained the
Kings Daughters last Monday evening.
DIR. A. G. BAILEY was dangerously i'll last
week with peritontis, but is improving.
MRS G. r. DIrrY is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Newton, in Georgia.
ERNEST JOHNSON of Hartford visited his
friends at the Keeley Institute last week.
PROFESSOR j. w. BURGESS and family
have arrived at Redstone for the summer.
HARVEY L. WEIGH is able to be on the
street after serious illness of four weeks.
REV. A. II. WEBB will preach at East
Montpelier Center next Sunday afternoon
REV. w. E. DOUGLASS, the Methodist pas
tor at Wakefield, visited in town last week.
j. A. KELToN of the Exchange Hotel is
building an extensive addition to his livery
barn.
MRS. GEORGE E. MORSE and Mrs. c. Fl.
Ferrin visited their sister in Boston last
week.
THE first open-ar band concert of the
season will be given this evening on Elm
street.
BY actual measurement, the team that
| collects the mail travels seventeen and one
half miles daily.
THE issue OF the new form Of money Or
pelier postoffice.
REV. d. j. O'SULLIvAN of St. Albans was
the guest Of Rev. w. j. OSullivan, his
| brother, last week.
NJ. F. ATKINS went to Poughkeepsie,
! n. Y. last Monday evening to attend the
wedding of a friend.
HARRY McALLIsTER takes the place of
| Harvey w. Brown as postman during the
latter's absence on vacation.
A MAJORITY of the creditors of Oughtney
Shambo have consented to his discharge
from the court Of insolvency.
THE Montpelier High School baseball
nine was defeated by the Goddards at Barre
last Saturday by score of 81 to s.
MISS BESSIE FARwELL has returned from
Ashley Hail. Montvale, Mass, and Miss
Laura Ropes from Miss Clagetts school,
Boston.
NJ. s. DAVIS, proprietor of Pease's Hotel
Hartford, was at the Exchange last Mon
day on his way TO Plaintield to attend the
funeral of relative.
MRS GEORGE E CAMP and son of West
New Brighton, n. Y, are visiting Mrs
Erastus Camp Mr.. Camp is expected the
latter part of this week.
PREPARATIONS for laying the foundations
of the Kellogg Hubbard library have neces
STATED the removal of several of the fine
naples on the Shepard place.
EDGAR H. Brown of the sugar-testine
station has been engaged as one of the
faculty of Newark Academy at Newark
n. j., for the next school year.
MANAGER G. NJ. FOSTER of the Kelley In
J sttute is in Pennington, Me-, this week, t,
attend the annual meeting of the director
of the Green Mountain Kelley Institute.
CHILDREN's DAY will be observed at Trim
ity and Bethany churches next SUNDAY b.
} sermons to the children by the pastors il
the morning and concerts in the evening.
THE Ladies' Library Guild will give
3 straw berry tea some evening next week
) The date will be announced by flyers il i
1 occurs before the next issue of the WATCH
MAN.
THE annual inspection of Company Fl
n. G. ", will take place next Tuesday.
will be conducted by Captain HI. K. Tutt
: erly, Major o. ID. Clark and General w. II
g.; Gilmore.
THE marriage of Albert f. Niles, of Nile
& Pratt and Miss Marion E. Marvin is I
: occur next Wednesday evening, June 13, q
r the home Of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Marvin
parents of the bride.
MRS JOHN SIMPSON and daughter, Mrs
; Briggs of Peekskill N. Y, and Mrs. Robert
of Philadelphia were among the out-of-tow
l guests who attended the Chandler-Dwinel
wedding last evening.
a THE Vermont Central Association
| Universalsts holds its sessions in the Churc
; of the Messiah to-day and tomorrow, clio
ing with service of communion and col
4, secration tomorrow afternoon
! THE stockholders of the First Nations
: : Bank, representing 1901 out of a total I
= $500 shares of stock, met in the director
i room last Friday and voted to reduce ii
y, capital stock from S250,00O to $500 ,00O
y MORE than $1,000 has already been 8
y cured for the support of the Montpeli'
;, Military Band for the coming year,-a veI
gratifying outcome of the labors of the gel
a u tlemen who have had the matter in charg
- THE executive committee of the Vernon
:, High School Baseball League met in Mon
y pelier last Saturday and refused to allo
=, the protest made against the V. Nj s. tea
. . by the manager of the st. Johnsbury Aca'
- emy nine.
r THE athletic team from Vermont Met
odist Seminary went to Hanover, n. H., c
q Tuesday to take part to-day in the inte
a scholastic meet of athletic clubs from IL
=. preparatory schools of Vermont and Ne
r Hampshire.
= A DELEGATION from Vermont lodge
+. Odd Fellows attended the funeral of DR.. A
t, n. Pearsons at Berlin Corner last Thursds
r afternoon. They took with them, in beha
of the lodge, beautiful and appropria
9, floral offering.
a a Mr.. AND MRS, w. j. BAGLEY leave me-
~ Friday for Suffolk, Conn. They will Wis
~ there and in Rutland for three weeks whi
~ Mr.. Bagley is on his annual vacation fro
= his duties as dynamo engineer at the ele
4 tric light station.
4, THE Harper's Ferry Jubilee Singers gay
;, sacred concert and presented the claims
Storer College, with which they are co
nected, in Trinity Church last Sunday eve
., ing. An immense audience filed aisle
pews and gallery. A collection of S35 W,
70 taken
20 20 PIERCE WEIGH died Tuesday morning
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