The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-12-12
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.

DIR. p. l.. TEMPLEToN has had telephone
put int his Office.
The winter term of the Montpelier Sem
mary opened on Tuesday.
The new city Is certainly booming 1t is
to have stock exchange.
PECK BROTHERS have the contract for
plumbing the new depot at Groton.
GRANT WIswELL Of Sherbrooke, 2. O., is
at work in George ID. Buffers store.
j. ELI GooDENoUGH has position in the
office of the National Life Insurance Com.
pany.
The marriage of George T. Archer and
Miss Nellie G.. Colby is to take place next
month.
PROFESSOR AND Mrs. MORRILL, are visit
ing at the old home of Mrs. Morrill, in South
Tunbridge.
Mrs. j. F. WATERMAN was very i'll last
week with quinsy sore throat, but is now
convalescent.
BERT SrEARNs has closed his engagement
in the Whittier meat market and is teach
ing in Warren.
The Chautauqua class will meet with
Mrs. George Brainerd, on Liber y street,
Friday afternoon.
CHARLES ID. SwAsEY of Barre has asso-
ciated himself with j. f. Goodenough in the
granite business.
The B. lyceum will resolve itself into
house OF representatives on Thursday even
ing at the school-house hall.
The ladies Of Bethany Reading Club will
meet at Mrs. G. G. Fields on Tuesday, De-
cember 1S, at TWO o'clock P. NJ.
M. S. STONE, state superintendent of edu-
cation, will lecture before the pupils of the
Union School next Friday afternoon.
CLARENCE d. WELLS read paper before
the Washington County Good Templars
Union, held last week at Northfeld.
The question of the desirablity of free
textbooks was discussed at the Union
School lyceum last Thursday evening.
JAMES ALBIN was escorted to the house
of correction at Rutland last week by Officer
Hunt to serve sentence of two months.
DIR. l. II. FISK is again able to be at his
office in Bacon block, after confinement
to the house of four months with broken
leg.
WE give, on page three, a little poem en-.
titled "Giving Thanks" by Mrs. Agnes
LIE Sis Mitchell, a daughter of Rev. A. N.
Lewis.
THE annual meeting of the Nom partisan
Woman's Christian Temperance Union will
be held this afternoon with Mrs. ID. L.
Full ,er.
Two of the select men of Lebanon, n. H.,
were in town on Tuesday consulting with
Street Commissioner r Jberts in regard to a
snow roller.
Mr.. WRIGHT has an appointment to
preach in the Morse school-house next Sun
day at 2: 10 P. M Subject: " If Jesus Were
to Visit U.s."
o. NJ FISHER was at Barre on Tuesday to
attend the funeral of his brother Alonzo
notice of whose death may be found in
the Barre items.
THE Unversalist chicken pie supper and
concert at Barre last Thursday evening was
attended by about fifty members by the
Church of the Messiah.
WHILE at Barre on Monday, Albert Jo-
! honnott cut his foot on a hay knife while
measuring hay, and may be confined to his
| house for several days.
MRS. FL. II. GooDsELL has arrived from
| Hartford, Conn, to care for her husband,
who has been i'll for some weeks at the res
idence of w. o. Standish.
REV. C. R. EAST of Northfield will ad-
dress the Young Peoples Fraternity of the
Church of the Messiah next Monday even
ing at a quarter past seven.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL HARRIS took
| the three Hartford pOst.otfce robbers to
Rutland last Saturday to serve their SEN
tence in the house of correction.
The Burlington papers speak in very fiat
| tering terms of the lecture on Scotch
Songs and Song Writer'S" delivered there
last Th Irsday evening by F. w. Bancroft.
Mrs. f. NJ. DENNY entertained the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union last
Thursday afternoon, and gave a most in
teresting accou at of the Cleveland con-
vention
THE entertainment given in Good Tenn
plars hall last Wednesday evening by Miss
Ethelynd Gould of West Rand )lph gave
excellent satisfaction, and attracted good
sized audience.
REV. FATHER RoBILLARD of st. Alban
officated at St. Augustine's Church las
Sunday Rev. w. j. O'Sullivan had charg,
of the services at St. Marys Church, st. Al
bans, that evening.
The annual meeting of Mount Sna
Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, will
be held next Friday evening for the elec
ton of officers and two representatives I,
the Imperial Council.
THE annual meeting of the Ladies' AiI
Society. connected with Trinity Church
will be held in the parlors of the churct
this evening. A chicken-pie supper will b,
served from five to seven o'clock.
, M. S. STONE, state superintendent Of ed
ucation, and Principals S. j. Blanpied AM
, E. NJ. Smith took prominent parts in tn
proceedings of the State Teachers Associa
tion, held last week at Rutland.
} A STOCK exchange has been opened at 8
: State street, in the Rialto building, b.
Hector A. Dubuc, agent for the Baldwin
: Brothers Company of Boston, Of which
! more can be learned in the business colu nm
! THOMAS III. HANLY, New England pas
! senger agent of the Central Vermont rail
road, was the guest of Superintendent &c
w. Thompson over last Sunday. MI
Hanly was accompanied by his wife an,
, child.
The pupils OF Barre High School were en-
tertained by Miss Edith Barnes in the dir
ing room of the Montpelier Seminary las
, Wednesday evening. The hostess wa
: presented with several valu able gifts by he
guests.
i. THE Arthur Tandy" is again in tn
suburban service of the Montpelier an
a Wells River railroad The noisy littl
/ snorter has been in the shops for sever:
months, and comes out shining like ne'
. dollar.
$ REV. CHARLES II. EAST of NorthfislC
| vice-president of the state organization
s Young People, Christian Unions, is to az
: dress the Young Peoples Fraternity of tn
. Church of thu Messiah at their meeting neg
4 Monday evening.
GEORGE, son of Josiah Hasbrook, die
= last Thursday, of ulcers in the head, at tn
residence of his father, near the foot {
k Mount Hunger. He was an exemplar
3 young man about twenty-one years of age
= The funeral was held at Middlesex on SUI