The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-30
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
ONE MORE CHAPTER IN THE CUR
RENT HISTORY OF THE
CAPITAL.
Mrs. w. e. LAIRD il i'll with tonsilitis.

| bnlS week,
A CHILD of II. w. washburn is i'll with
scarlet fever
A SON was born last Sunday to Mr.. and
Mrs. James Medler.
DEPUTY SHERIFF o. Il. COLLINS of Cabot
was in town last Saturday
ID. p. SHEEHAN and wife of Manchester.
N H., are visiting in town.
A DAUGHTER was born last Sunday to Mr..
and Mrs. III. W. Washburn.
A SON of Italy is soon to open a fruit
stand at the foot of Barre street
A DAUGHTER was born last Monday morn
ing to Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Corse.
RALPH SToDDABp and y. w. Sherman of
Rutland were in town last week.
Mrs. Lucy SHRoEDEe OF New York is at
the home OF James K. Langdon, her father.
A.C. NAY, a brother-in-law of the late Mrs.
Q. w. Willard, died recently at San Jose,
Cal.
Mr.. AND Mrs. o. G. BARRON were in
town from Fabyan's, N. H., over last Sum
day.
REV. A. H. WEBB will preach at East
Montpelier next Sunday afternoon at three
o'clock.
MRS. JOSEPHINE r. POLAND is visiting
Mrs. e. Henry Powell, her sister, in Bur-
lington.
not be resumed in the Church OF the Mes
siah till September
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet in Bethany chapel on
Thursday afternoon.
FRANK BERRY OF Newark, N. j., was
called to Montpelier last week by the death
OF Mrs. F. W. Morse.
IRA PIERCE, clerk for G. j. Gleason, is
laid up with dislocated knee, caused by
lifting barrel Of -four
MRS. L. W, SHEDD returned from Cor
ham, Me-, last Saturday, where she has
been for several weeks.
L. BART Cross was in Boston last week.
Miss Carrie, his daughter. returned with
him Thursday evening.
The Lords Supper will be celebrated in
the Church Of the Messiah next Sunday af-
ternoon at half past four.
THE Daughters of Rebekah held social
last evening with Mr. and Mrs Frank e.
Smith on Mechanic street.
REv. l.. K. TAYLOR preached for the Bap-
tsts last Sunday morning and in the after
noon at East Montpelier Center.
j. A. DEwING has sold his custom boot
and shoe business to William Milo, and
proposes to take much-needed rest.
JOHN W. NEWTON and Miss Grace Olms.
tead of Georgia visited Mrs. G. r. Ditty,
Mrs. Newton's sister, over last Sunday.
GENERAL W. w. HENRY and Deputy
United States Marshal Thomas Failey OF
Burlington were at the Pavilion on Tuesday.
THE Montpelier High School base. ball
nine defeated the West Randolph team at
West Randolph last Saturday by score Of
20 to 13.
PAST COLONEL e. 7. GRIswoLD of Ben
nington inspected General Stephen Thomas
camp, Sons OF Veterans, last Thursday
evening.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT has an ap-
pointnent to preach in the Morse school
house, East Montpelier, next Sunday at
2: 10 P. NJ.
NJ. s. STONE, state superintendent of edu-
cation, is to speak at Isle LaMotte on Thurs
day and at Alburgh on Friday evenings of
this week.
WASHINGTON county court will recon-
vene for its adjourned term tomorrow
morning for the trial of court cases, instead
of on June 8, the date to which the recess
was taken.
The marriage of Miss Anna Chandler and
Hon. +. A. Dwinell will occur next Tues
day at the residence OF DR.. G. E. Chandler
on School street.
A PARTY of eighteen, including nine or
ten from Montpelier, leave next Friday for
fishing grounds in Canada about 200 miles
north of Montreal.
June 6. of ID. f. Clark, assistant postmaster
at Montpelier, and Miss Josephine e.
Cochran OF Groton.
MISS ALICE FRINK gave party to num-
ber of her Montpelier and Barre friends last
Wednesday evening at the home of Frank
McWhorter in Barre.
MRS. GARDNER BoswoRTH died Monday
morning at her home on the west shore of
Berlin Pond. She was an only daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Strong.
HARVEY W. Brown the postman, starts
next Friday on his annual vacation of two
weeks, which will be spent driving through
the northern part of the state.
JACOB W. DECKER was called from st.
Al6ans this week by the alarming illness,
with membranous Group, of two of his
children at his home on Barre street.
THERE will be game of ball on the sem.
mary campus this afternoon between the
v M. S. and st. Albans High School nines
The game will be called at four o'clock.
WILLIE, son of Felix Hill, caught an eel
in the river last week near the home Of N.
q. Tabor that weighed nearly four pounds
and measured three and one-half feet in
length.
The HARPER's FERRY JUBILEE SINGERS
Will give sacred concert and present the
interests OF their college in Trinity Church
next Sunday evening at seven o'clock. A
collection will be taken.
EDITOR AND MRS. p. G. DODGE of Bur-
lngton spent Sunday last in Montpelier
the guests Of W. K. Lawson on Berlin side
Mr.. Dodge's mother celebrated her seventy
NTH birthday anniversary on that day.
THE Woman's Auxiliary to the Kelley
League will meet in Trinity Church vestry
next Friday afternoon at three o'clock. All !
are earnestly requested to be present, as
important business is to come before the
meeting.
WHILE working for G. w. Colby on the |
residence of Thomas Marvin, last Monday, |
George w. Blodgett fell from a window |
twenty feet to the ground, spraining one
ankle, cutting his head and receiving it is
feared, internal injuries.
Two students, OF the feminine gender, we
are informed, have recently been dropped |
from the rolls of the Vermont Methodist |
Seminary Whether these are the ones that
lately figured in an item in the Police Ga |
zette does not appear.
The service of song that was to have been |
held at the Church of the Messiah last Sun
day evening was omitted because OF the |
necessary absence of Rev. j. Edward |
Wright, who was called TO Waitsfeld that
afternoon to attend a funeral.
THE great New York and Boston success,
" Charley's Aunt" by Charles Frohman,
will hold the boards at the opera house to-