The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-03
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
THE WEEK'S Events TOLD IN
TERSE P1RIGRAPHS.
f. e. DoNAHuE is in town from Boston.

town on Tuesday.
Mrs. FRANK II. BAsCoM of Bethel visited
in town last week.
Mr., AND MRs. HARLOW NJ. SMITH visited
in Swanton last week.
Mrs. SUSAN G. WHITTIER has gone to Bos-
ton to remain till spring.
MEADER MARTIN, porter at the Pavilion,
visited last week in Bristol
MERTON T.. GRAY of Lynn, Mass, is visit
ing Fred l.. Gray, his brother.
Mrs. f. L. PUrNEY was quite seriously i'll
last week, but is convaesceut.
A DAUGHTER was born last Wednesday to
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Lee Templeton
AMOS ROBINSON has been reinstated as
fireman at the government building.
Miss FLORA TERRILL of st. Johnsbury is
the guest of DIR. and Mrs. d. G.. Kemp.
THE Montpelier orchestra played for
dance at Hyde Park last Monday night.
MARSHALL WooD was the guest of the
Misses Fugere in Burlington last week.
BETHANY Sunday-schoo will elect of
ficers after the prayer meeting this evening.
Miss HELEN DEWEY is visiting Mrs.
James l.. Martin, her sister, in Brattleboro.
Miss MARY CARLETON gave a whist party
to few Of her friends last Saturday even
ing.
Miss MAUD NEWTON of Georgia is spend
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sister.
Hon H. A. HUsE entertained the Univers-
ity Club with supper at the Pavilion last
evening.
THE assembly at the Pavilion last Thurs
day evening was attended by about fifty
couples.
Mrs. ALICE NJ. BERRY of Burlington was
the guest last week of Mrs. d. W. Temple,
her sister.
Mrs. GEORGE o. DAVIS of Springfield
Mass, il the guest of Mrs. B. f. Merrill on
Berlin side,
THh Chautauqua class will meet Friday
afternoon, at quarter past two, with Mrs. ii.
| g. Gleason
THE winter term of Washington County
Grammar and Union schools commenced
on Tuesday.
CHARLES f. MOORE of the Montpelier
Hardware Company is visiting at his home
in Shoreham.
Mr.. AND Mrs. d. p. RING have been en-
gagged as meat and pastry cooks at the Ex-
change Hotel,
THE first term of the supreme court under
the new law will convene at Montpelier
next Tuesday.
THE Queen Esther Girls will meet Thurs.
day afternoon at half-past two with Miss
Marian Marvin.
THE Bethany Ladies' Reading Club will
meet next Tuesday afternoon with Mrs,
Judge Carleton.
THE first official board meeting of the
| year was held at Trinity church vestry
Tuesday evening.
THE meat markets in town will close
| Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday even
ings until April 1.
COLONEL FRED e. SMITH returned last
week from Minnesota where he has been
for several weeks.
A DIVIDEND of three per cent, payable
January l, has been declared by the Cap.
ital Savings Bank.
Miss Lou ELLIS went to Concord n. H :.
on Tuesday, and will go from there to Bos.
ton for a brief visit.
DIR. j. E. MACoMBER is quite seriously ill
DR.. j. Henry Jackson of Barre was down
last Saturday to see him.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
the Morse school-house East Montpelier
next Sunday at q 10 P. NJ.
The position of chief clerk in the post.
office at Montpelier has been exempted
from the civil service rules.
p. w. HOLDEN has been appointed a di.
! vision aid to Commander Sargent of the
| Vermont Sons of Veterans.
THE Womau's Auxiliary Keeley League
will meet on Friday at three o'clock p. N
at Mrs. Bagley's on Elm street.
A SEMI ANNUAL dividend of four per cent
payable January /, has been declared by
the Montpelier National Bank.
- CHARLES WELLS of Barre, a student at
Tufts College, preached at the Church OF
the Messiah last Sunday morning.
MRS. ELSIE M. BRUCE of New York visited
Lawson q. Cummings, her brother, at the
Exchange Hotel over last Sunday.
MR. AND Mrs, EDWARD MCLEAN went to
laxY ,ft, -
several weeks at the Exchange Hotel.
II. G. Cotton left on Tuesday for busi-
ness trip through the South and West, ex-
pectng to be absent about four weeks.
MIR AND MRS. e. w. L'HEUREUx were in
Morrisville last week to attend the funeral
of George Story, father of Mira. L'Heureux.
Miss ETHEL, daughter of Hon. NJ. A. Bing-
ham of Essex Junction, has been visiting
Misses May and Ellie Grout for the past
week.
Mrs. N. w. FRINK, Miss Jessie Crandall
and Miss Inez Hayford accompanied Mr..
and Mrs. b. S. Currier to Philadelphia last
Friday.
Miss FLORENCE NJ SMELL, who has been
visiting Mrs e. p. Walton, her sister, re.
turned to her home in Malone, n. Y, last
Monday.
DUDLEY G. DENIsoN of Royalton, Hon.
George Briggs of Brandon, and Hon. w. Ii
Tuesday.
Mrs. G. A. LANG is expected home from
Boston in about two weeks, where she has
been since October studying banjo, mando.
lin and guitar.
Mrs. SHATNEY, an aged lady living on
| North Franklin street, was knocked down
| last week by children cOasting and suffered
a fracture of two ribs.
III, o, KENT, book-keeper for the Revere
Rubber Company OF Boston, was in town
last Monday on his way to Calais to visit
his aged mother, who is ill.
MRS. JOSEPHINE II. POLAND and daughter
Mary are visiting Mrs. Il. Henry Powell in
Burlington. Mrs Poland will remain in
Burlington during the winter
PATRICK QUINN of Swanton and Miss
Mary j. Turney of Montpelier were mar
ried at st. Augustine's church on Tuesday
morning by Rev. w. =. OSulivan.
MISSES BELLE AND NELLIE FIFIELD gave
a delightful dancing party at their home on
State street last Wednesday evening The
| Montpelier orchestra furnished music.
SEVERAL candidates were baptized by
immersion at the Baptist church last Sun
day evening. A short sermon by Rev. G..
o. Webster, the pastor, preceded the solemn
rite.