The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-16
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
TOWN TOPJCS---PERSON IND
GENER1L.
o. M. FISHER is in Boston this week
e. L. PUTNEY was in Boston last week.
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j. NJ. SToDDARD of Rutland was in town
the first of the week.
M. A. KENT Is building an addition to his
house on Kent street.
JEFFERSON BRUCE is dangerously i'll al
his home in Bruce block.
ARTHUR STRATToN was at home from Bur-
lington over last Sunday.
A DAUGHTER was born last Friday to Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Il. Grout.
GEORGE w. BAKER of johnson was in
town several days last week
e. II. MOORE of Shoreham visited Charles
Il. Moore, his brother last week.
HARVEY WEIGH has been i'll during the
past week, threatened with pneumonia.
HARVEY L. GALLIsoN has purchased of A.
A Emery his general trucking business.
Mrs. WILL DAVIDSON of Essex Junction
was the guest of Mrs. F. l. Pitkin last week
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Mrs. George G. Alber next Friday afternoon.
Mrs. S. S. KELToN has gone to East
Montpelier to spend the summer with her
son.
MAJOR HOMER RIGGS of Middlebury, a
former pension examiner, was in town last
week.
A DAUGHTER was born last week to Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert M. Paine of East Mont
pelier.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JAMES SHIPMAN of Water
bury were guests of G. III. Shipman over
last Sunday.
CHARLES e. WHITcoMB OF Jericho, a
former reliable farmer Of Montpelier, is WIS.,
iting in town.
Mrs. GEORGE H. SMILE OF Hardwick
visited Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Fisher, her par
ents, last week.
Hon. ALDER 7 DwINELL and wife of
Calais were uests of Mr.. and Mrs. n. G..
Tabor last week.
ABOUT a dozen local sportsmen start for
Greensboro, the last of this week, in search
OF five-pound trout.
SPEAKER w. w. STIcKNEY of Ludlow
and G. NJ. Wilds of Middlebury were in
town last Saturday.
FRED ADAMS was in town from New
York last week, visiting Mr.. and Mrs. j. O.
Adams, his parents.
REV. S. G. HAYFoRD conducted service
and preached at East Montpelier Center
last Sunday afternoon.
A. r. TEwKsBURY and wife of Morrisville
visited Mr.. and Mrs j. A. Kelton at the
Exchange last Saturday
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is expected to
preach in the brick church in Middlesex
next Sunday at two o'clock.
The venerable Hiram S. Huse left for Ma
lone, n. Y, last Wednesday, for a visit of
several weeks with relatives.
w. j. BAGLEY, dynamo engineer at the
electric light station, has been i'll during
the past w elk with mu8culr rheumatism.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHr's ubiect at the
Church of the Messiah next Sunday even
ing will be Church and State in Germany"
A SON was born last Friday to Professor
and Mrs. d. S. Blanpied, and a daughter
the same day to Mr. and Mrs. NJ. j. Gibbons
W. S. COLEMAN of Boston, a graduate of
the Kelley Institute at Montpelier, was in
town on Tuesday, the guest of Manager
Foster.
The members of Mt. Sinai Temple Mobiles
OF the Mystic Shrine, go on a pilgrimage to
81. Johnsbury for work on Thursday,
May "A.
f. w. BANCROFT is to deliver his lecture
on Irish Songs and Song Writers " before
the students at the seminary next Friday
evening
MRS [. H. REED, state president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
was the guest of Mrs G. b. b. Denny last
Monday.
t. j. BoYNToN was in town from Boston
last week to attend the meeting of the
democratic state committee, of which he is
chairman.
CHARLES F. MOORE, of the Montpelier
Hardware Company, was called TO Shore.
ham last Saturday by the death of his
grandmother.
WESTON & SMITH have this week set
handsome Scotch granite monument over
the grave of the late Andrew j. Burnham in
Green Mount cemetery.
OWING to the illness of Mrs. Richard Dill
Ion, the summer vacation of the Industrial
School began earlier than was intended.
The last meeting of the school was last Mon.
day.
Mrs. NJ. c. CHAPLAIN and daughter
Louise left for Union City, Mich, last We'd
nesday evening after visit of six months
with Mrs. l.. Bart Cross, daughter of the
former.
THE Daughters of Rebekah will hold
social ON Thursday evening with Mrs.
Charles F. Robinson on Barre street, to
which all Odd Fellows and their wives are
invited.
THOMAS w. WooD, Montpeliers honored
townsman, was unanimously reelected
president of the National Academy of De-
sign at the annual election held last week
in New York.
j. III. SENTER went to Burlington on Mon
day to investigate the charges of smuggling
themselves into this country, preferred
against two Cinnamon by Immigrant In
spector Dodge.
BY invitation of the Spencer Rifles, the
nenOerS OF company III visited Barre last
evening and were entertained in the armory
there. A special train carried the men to
and from Barre.
Mr.. AND MRS. G. w. NORRIS of Cam
bridge, Mass, were at the Pavilion over
last Sunday. They spent nearly all of last
summer in Montpelier, and are planning to
return this season.
REV. ADDISON p, FOSTER of Boston has
been IN town during the past week with a
view to conducting religious services in the
district school houses in the rural COM
munltles near Montpelier.
The members of Rob Morris Chapter,
Eastern Star, have in preparation play
ana musical entertainment that will prob.
ably be given in the vestry of the Church of
the Messiah next Tuesday evening.
GEORGE II. KEHoE, who was recently
taken to the Soldiers Home at Bennington,
Ill with consumption, stood the journey
well, and writes that he Is much pleased
with the care that is given him there.
A MAIL-RoUTE has been established be-
tween Sodom and Montpelier. The mail
VIII be carried Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays by NJ. L. Templeton, the con.
tractor, the service to go into effect June /.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
y mon will meet with Miss Eliza Rublee on
Ihnrsday afternoon at half past two o'clock.
Delegates are to be elected to the county
convention, TO be held in Northfeld on