The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-04
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL LIFE MIRRORED IN BRIEF
P4R4GR4PHS.


annual vacation.
II. G. COTTON and wife visited last week
in Gardner, Mass.
Mr.. AND Mrs. e. w. LHEREUx are visit
ing in Morrisville
OSCAR n. Cross was confined to the house
last week by Illness.
Miss CLARA l.. PURPLE Of Woodstock is
the guest of w. A. Lord.
ROME G. Brown of Minneapolis, Mimi,
has been visiting in town.
A LARGE party of young people will pic
mic at Berlin Pond to-day
Miss MARY POLAND is at home from Smith
College, Northampton, Mass.
THE Kings Daughters visited the Barre
quarries last Friday afternoon.
Mrs. HARRY G. DEwING and daughter
Bertha are visiting in Duxbury.
j. w GoocH of Waco, Tex, has been
visiting in town for the past week.
Mrs. j. w. BROCK and daughter Helen
returned last week from California.
Mrs. ATKINS and daughter Ruth of Bos-
ton are at the Pavilion for the summer.
CHESTER B. Fox of San Bernardino, Cal,
is visiting Mrs. w. n. Peck, his sister.
Mr. AND Mrs. FRED X. HASTINGS and
Mrs. s. N. Bliss are visiting in Swanton.
CHARLES B. GALLIsoN christened his new
barn with dancing party last evening.
LEWIS RoLEAU is at home from West
Lebanon and is working for G. G. Pierce.
THE Lane Manufacturing Company will
shut down this week for the annual stock
taking.
JOHN W. T1TcoMB, fish commissioner, of
st. Johnsbury was at the Pavilion last
Sunday.
F. III. MCCLURE is to occupy the tenement
in the Shepard house at the rear of the pub
lie library.
REV. j. HARRY HOLDEN of Amherst
Mass, was the guest of j. Eli Goodenough
last week.
G. FREDERICK WARD, son of c. H. Ward
of Winter Park, Fla, is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Orrin Daley.
STEPHEN FREEMAN has gone to North
Corwa N. H., where he has position in
the Kearsarge House.
oh. ROBINSON, of the Central Vermont
| ticket office, returned from the Thousand
Islands last Thursday.
FROM Barre 230 tickets and rs from Mont
pelier were sold for the excursion to Au-
sable Chasm on Tuesday
Mr.. AND Mrs. 9. r. BAGLEY left last
Monday for Windsor, expecting to be alb
sent three or four weeks
j. ID. BROWN, the New York horse-buyer,
has been in town the past week picking up
a carload OF fancy horses.
A sEMI-ANNuAL dividend of three per
| cent payable July /, has been declared by
the Capital Savings Bank.
| JOHN MILLER, the postfnan, was laid up
last week with severe cold and is not yet
able to attend to his duties.
FIVE persons were admitted to Bethany
Church on confession Of faith and three by
letter last Sunday afternoon.
THERE will be no band concert this week
because of out-of.town engagements There
will be two concerts next week.
WALLACE G. ANDREWS attended the
| commencement exercises OF the State Nor
NAL School at Johnson last week.
Mr.. AND MRS. B. F. CLARK and Mrs.
Alex. Cochran of Groton were guests Of Mr.
and Mrs. D. F. Clark on Tuesday.
BENJAMIN WALKER and wife and Mrs
Arthur E. Lane and daughter of Chicago
are at the Pavilion for the season.
The subject of Rev. DR.. Norman Seaver's
sermon last Sunday morning was The
Terrific Element in Government"
Miss ELIZA WILLARD is in town for visit
of several weeks. She has opened the
Willard homestead on State street.
Mr.. AND MRS. JAMES T. LOCKE and Miss
Little of Merrimack, Mass, are guests o.
Charles E. Graffum at the Exchange Hotel
FRED w. BANCROFT has been engaged at
tenor soloist for the evening service a
Bethany Church during July and August
CHARLES A. SANDERS of Morrisville
formerly Of Montpelier has been granted
an increase of pension from S25 to $50 pei
month.
CHARLES FARNHAM Of Buffalo, n. Y. SOL
OF Ex-Governor Roswell Farnham of Brad
ford, was the guest of b. NJ. Shepard OF
Monday.
S. c. SHURTLEFF was at Brattleboro las
week as special master in the chancery cast
of thirteen stockholders of the Chestnu
Hill Water Company against that cor
poration.
No mail from points west of Chicago ha
been received at the Montpelier post ic,
for several days, owing 10 the strike Oh
western roads.
AN interesting lecture on Japanese Gus
toms was delivered in Trinity Church las
Monday evening by Rev. T. Oklamoto o
Toxic, Japan.
o. E. CLAY, travelling agent for Cutler &
Burnham, granite dealers, Barre. leaves to
day for western trip, expecting to be alb
sent several weeks.
Mrs. THOMAS BoUDREN OF Bridgeport
Conn, and her daughter Nettie of Milledge
vile, Ga, are spending the summer at th
home Of Dan Worcester.
A SPECIAL train for Burlington will eav
Montpelier at 7;0 05 this morning; returning
will leave Burlington at ten o'clock in tn
evening after the fireworks.
THE Adaline Alexander place, at the to
Of Clay Hill, has been sold TO George W
Scott, through the real-estate agency of A
j. Howe. Consideration, $500.
!, HENRY CHAMBERLAIN. the veteran Cen
trail Vermont conductor, has charge of tn
White Mountain express now running dali
between Burlington and Montpelier.
j. G. CHURCH, travelling freight agent o
the Central Vermont railroad, has been ap
pointed general freight and passenger agen
OF the Northern Adirondack railroad,
, Mr.. AND MRS. PETER b. MEDLER Of 81
Albans visited last week at the home OF th'
| former They were enlroute to St. Alban
on the return from their wedding trip
ISRAEL, son of Ferd LaCroix, who has
position in the Office of the Wagner Ca
Company in New York, has recently ha
: several hemorrhages of the right lung.
PROFESSOR MORRILL,, OF the Vernon
Methodist Seminary, and Miss Efie j
r Woodwork Of South Tunbridge were maj
: ried last week at the home of the bride.
THE Womans Auxiliary Keeley Leagu
/, will meet in Kelley League rooms Frida.
evening at half past seven. Members OF tn
Kelley League are invited to be present.
Mrs. FOSTER r. CLEMENT, well remem