The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-03-14

uhu OudIloS Wbllb VI w went to
Boston last Monday, where they are to Join
q Raymond and Whitcomb excursion to
California.
BROOKS PosT is to give a sugar party on
Thursday evening in the Grand Army and
Relief Corps halls. The proceeds will be
devoted to charity, and the public is cor
daily invited.
The rapidly-increasing business OF the
Montpelier Hardware Company has neces-
STATED the employment of a stenographer,
and Miss Mae Ballard has been employed
in that capacity.
Mrs. d. L. FULLER goes to st. Albans,
Thursday morning, to organize Non-parti-
san Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
and Is to speak before the Reform Club
there next Sunday evening.
CHIPMUNKs and bluebirds pussywillows,
crows and robins have all put In an ap-
pearance during the past week, and the
weather has seemed more like the last OF
April than the first of March.
A MOST reprehensble act OF vandalism
was committed at the stone sheds of Stat
ford McGlynn last Saturday night, when
damage OF S40O or more was done with
hammers to some finished stone.
COLONEL AND Mrs. A. G. Brown enter
tanned the young married people connected
with the Church Of the Messiah at their
home last Friday evening Mrs. G. NJ Ben
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T. S. BRoPHY leaves for New York and
Boston on Thursday to purchase spring and
summer goods and will have an interesting
story to tell the readers of the WATCHMAH
in its advertising columns on his return.
Mrs. RICE, an aged lady living near
Browns mills, died of pneumonia last Fri
day. She was sister of Martin Reed. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed are also dangerously i'll
with the disease that caused the death of
Mrs. Rice.
THE comedy CDR. Bill" which is TO be
presented at Blanchard opera house next
wednesday evening, has been laughing
success wherever it has been seen. The
kangaroo dance alone is said to be worth the
price of admission.
M. D. E. LULL, brother of Captain II. C.
Lull, died recently at Elgin, Ill. He had
held a prominent position with the Elgin
Watch Company since its incorporation.
Captain Lull is the sole heir.
THE Lenten lecture in Christ church. on
Thursday evening, on the example of the
Savior in the treatment of his enemies, will
be the last OF the intensely interesting series
that have been delivered by Bishop Hall on
Thursday evenings during Lent.
THE last quarterly meeting OF the confer
ence year will be held next Sunday morn
ing at Trinity church. Presiding Elder L.
preach. The quarterly conference will be
held IN the vestry Saturday evening"
f. W. BANCROFT is to give his song
lecture " Irish Songs and Song Writers "
under the auspices OF the Ladies' Guild of
Christ church the second week after Easter.
he Is also to repeat this lecture in Albany,
N. Y, Wednesday evening, March %.
FREIGHT car attached to the suburban
train on the Montpelier & Wells River rail-
road 1a1 lop WaJn 10
and went down steep embankment. The
passenger and baggage cars kept the track,
out IL was narrow escape from serious
accident.
GEORGE A. VILEs was on the wrecked
express train last Monday morning. He
was in the rear sleeper, and when the shock
came was just putting on his overcoat pre-
paratory to getting off at Montpelier juno
ton. He was thrown to the floor. but was
not injured.
Miss HANNAH DANA, whose serious ill
ness was chronicled last week. died last
Sunday afternoon. Her funeral was held on
tuesday morning, Rev. j. Edward Wright
officiating. She was very highly esteemed
by many of our people for her excellencies
OF character.
The bill to place the name of Mary Brown
OF Berlin on the pension roll has passed the
senate, and it is thought the friends of the
measure will be able to carry it through the
house; Mrs. Brown is the dependent mother
OF William +: Brown, private of Company
Z, Fifteenth Vermont regiment.
JAMES A. MORSE was arraigned in the
the office of j. II. Lucia last Friday on
charge OF attempted incendiarism at the
" Coffee House," occupied by his father and
owned by ID. w. Dudley. The evidence in
troduced was not considered sufficient to
hold him, and he was discharged.
THE sale to be held next Friday afternoon
and evening by the Junior Society of Chris
tian Endeavor Of Bethany church will be
well deserving OF patronage. The young
ladies are putting lots of hard work into the
affalr, and will have on sale large collec-
tion of useful and fancy articles at moder-
ate prices.
The committee of young men from the
various evangelical churches, appointed to
look up the matter OF starting Young
Mems Christian Association in town, met
In Trinity vestry last Thursday afternoon.
Aside from the appointment OF two sub
committees. no business of importance was
The great prohibition worker, Neal Dow,
Is nearing his ninetieth birthday. In honor
OF him and his work in the temperance
cause, it is proposed to hold union SER
vice In Bethany church next Sunday even
ing at seven o'clock. The several pastors
and others will speak upon some phase of
In United States district court at Burling-
ton, Z. w. Selinas pleaded guilty of an in
fraction of the contract labor law in hiring
a servant girl in Montreal to work in his
bakery at Montpelier, and was fined S25
without costs. The court was asked to
show leniency because of Mr.. Selinas' iR-
norance OF the law, and because he had not
violated it.
LEE ENG, the almond.eyed celestial who
runs the laundry on Elm street, was the
1rst Chinaman in the state to apply to
Deputy Collector Weeks for a certificate of
residence. Charley" informed the col.
ector that he could write his name in Eng.
ish and that he attended church and Sun
1ay-school, all of which will count in his
avor II he intends to become "Melican"
,itizen.
THE Free Press last week spoke of the tele-
ohone pay station that has recently been
put into the Van Ness House as something
'ecently introduced into the state,-a new
INVENTION, as 1t were. Colonel A. G. Brown
has had seven pay stations on his circuit for
more than atyear, and the Free Press was
nightly in error when it said that the one at
he Van Ness House was the only one in
ne state with one or two exceptions.
As A. III. Cole OF West Berlin was driving
Up South Main street, Tuesday afternoon, his
lorses became frightened and in attempting
o control them the lines broke. The ami
nails dashed up the street at a high rate of