The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
CERTAIN LOCAL M4TTERS WHICH
WE'RE NOT "KEPT OUT OF
THE WATCHMAN."

w. A. SrowELL went to Boston last Mon.
day night.
F. w. MORSE was in New York on bust.
ness last week
SPEAKER w. w. STIcKNEY of Ludlow was
in town on Tuesday
AN infant child of Joseph Labouchere
was buried last Sunday.
Miss ELLA WAITE of Cambridge is the
guest of James L. Sabin.
A SON was born last Wednesday to Mr..
and Mrs. J. W. Mooney.
HARRY A. SLADE attended the Pharmacy
fair in Boston last week.
A PLANK sidewalk has been laid on the
west side of Cedar street.
MRS. JOHN VooDRY is in Antrim, N H.,
caring for a sick daughter
e. w THOMPSON is confined to the house
with slight indsporition.
WILLARD WHITcoMB returned from New
York last Monday evening.
STATE EVANGELIST GULL occupied the
Baptist pulpit last Sunday.
PROFESSOR s. j. BLANPIED is to be Memo
rial Day orator at Gaysville.
MRS. WOOSTER SPRAGUE is very low, and
her recovery is not expected.
Hon. OLIN MERRILL Of Enosburgh Falls
was in the city last Saturday.
MRS. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is visiting in
Cambridge and Newton, Mass.
MRS. H. f. HAMMOND and daughter left
last Sa urday for Forest, N. Y.
MRS. G. II. BALDWIN returned last week
from Boston and Nashua, N. ii.
WILLARD EMERY of Boston is visiting
Mrs. Fannie Emery, his mother.
MISSES BESSIE FARwELL and Lillian
Stowell were in Boston last week.
j. W. SAULT, editor of the St. Johnsbury
IN tar
w. 8. SPENCER of New York is visiting
Rev. and Mrs. III. A. Spencer, his parents.
A DAUGHTER was born last Sunday to Mr..
and Mrs. Erving e. Densmore of Middlesex
Center.
CHARLIE LORD, a former we'll known
Montpelier boy is visiting W. A. Lord, his
brother.
Miss CARRIE Cross has returned from
Boston, where she has been visiting for sew
eral weeks.
JUDGE M. w. BAILEY of st. Albans was in
town last Friday to attend the funeral of
Hon. j. j. Deavitt.
THs Chautauqua class will meet with
Mrs. G. G. Alber, 40 East State street, next
Friday at 2:15 P. M.
q. D. GATES left for Chicago last Monday
evening for two carloads OF western horses.
See business column.
The new store of G. II. Ferrin on State
street has been connected with Berlin
water during the past week.
Holy COMMUNION will celebrated at
Christ Church at half past nine on Thurs
day morning, Ascension Day.
A LAD named Mason broke his collar bone
and was seriously bruised by falling through
a bridge in Berlin last Sunday.
A LARGE number Of theater parties from
Barre are coming to see "Trilby" at Blanch-
ard opera house next Monday night.
REV. A. N. LEWIS delivered the third of
q course of lectures on Common Prayer /"
at Christ Church last Friday evening.
EXTENSIVE repairs are now in progress at
the Huntington restaurant, and the place
will be closed to the public till June /.
MRS. CHARLES r. EAST OF Northfield is to
preach for the Unitarian society in Middle
sex next Sunday afternoon at two o'clock.
L. P. LAWRENCE has sold the Thomas
Spear farm in Berlin to James Lawless of
Plattsburgh, N Y. Consideration, So, 900.
THE marriage OF Henry Alden and Miss
Phoebe Bartell occurred last week. Rev.
N. M. Shaw was the officiating clergyman.
The sale of the Gilman house both to 8.
A. Moss and President Sortwell is " off,
and Professor S. j. Blanpied rejoices thereat.
THE Ladies' Guild of Christ Church will
meet on Thursday afternoon at Mrs. G. b.
B. Denny's to finish work begun on Tues.
day.
REPORTS from DIR. Norman Seaver state
that he is cOnvalescing rapidly, but his
physician advises rest over one more Sun.
day.
GEORGE CAMPBELL has purchased Of
Alexander Campbell, Sr., his father, his
farm up Worcester branch Consideration,
81 1000.
The suit of A. Felix Pratte against the
local st, Jean de Baptiste Society, for $50
due for sick benefits, has again been post
poned.
Church of the Messiah will close for the
summer with Service of Sacred Song next
Sunday.
MAYOR WING left last Friday evening for
Sioux City, Ia, in tho interests Of the
Farmers Trust Company, Of which he is
treasurer.
THE saloon of Moses DEMO, on School
street. and the Union House were raided
last Friday evening, but no intoxicants
were found.
THERE will be a social for practcing the
hymns used at the meetings, at the Young
Mems Christian Association rooms next
Friday evening.
TIE city fathers have secured a place
near the slaughter house of III, G. Holmes,
on the Samuel l.. Town farm, for dumping
place for rubbish.
ABOUT JW6uJy-uV6 lrOn mOuJpoilor Woub
to st. Albans, Monday afternoon, to view
the ruins of the contlagration, returning on
the midnight train.
| PETITIONS will be presented to the com.
mon council to night to straighten Jay
street and to construct highway from
Ridge to Barre street.
THE famous Laing Brothers will give a
! phonograph concert in Trinity Church next
Tuesday evening under the auspices of the
local Epworth League.
SPECIAL trains TO Barre and to Plainfield
will be run over the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad at the conclusion of "Trilby"
next Monday evening.
| A GAME of baseball is scheduled for Me-
mortal Day on the Seminary campus be-
tween the Montpelier minary and Swan