The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-03-06
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
WHAT HAPPENED At THE DEBUT
OF THE CAPITAL CITY.

nngtOn.
Miss HARRIE HUsE returned from Boston
last week.
ABRAHAM LONG and wife left last Mon lay
for Florida
e. &. WRIGHT is confined to the house
with rheumatism.
AMBROSE j. AND BURTON G. ALEXANDER
are ill with the grip.
A NEW sign, "City Court" adorns the
front Of Judge SMILES office.
ADDITIONAL editorial matter may be
found this week on page three.
RUFUS ROBINSON has purchased the f. #.
Remple house on Bailey Avenue.
Mrs. CLARK KING entertained the Shake
speare class last Monday afternoon.
II. ID. HoPKI,s and wife went to Boston
last Sunday night to at END grand opera
@ G. PIERCE has been confined to the
house With the grip during the past week.
LADIES' night will be observed at the
Keeley League rooms on Thursday evening.
Miss MATTE WATSON entertained the
original Barre street whist club last evening
A LOCAL merchant is forcing the season
by displaying New Maple Sugar for sale.
H. j. CURTIS has taken possession of the
greenhouse formerly run by Capt. I. Per-
cival.
SWEENEY & SWEENEY have moved their
grocery store to Selinas block. on Elm
street.
JOHN STERLING and wife have moved to
the home OF Joseph s. Sterling on st. Paul
street.
j. j. HYDE, of the Exchange Hotel, spent
Sunday in Middlebury with his mother and
brother.
A SERVICE OF SACRED SoNa is to be held
| in the Church of the Messiah next Sunday
evening
MRS. JAMES CoFFEY of Portland, Me-, is
caring for Mrs. Thomas Allen, her sister,
who Is ill.
MRS. FRED f. SMITH was called to St.
Johnsbury last week to attend the funeral
of a sister.
Miss GERTRUDE GREELEY is bookkeeper
for the Eureka Granite Company of East
Montpelier.
WmFaED FRINK went last Friday to
Provide nee, r. l., where he has position
in clothing store.
Mr. AND MRS. G. Fl. MORE left last Ned-
nesday for Florida, where they expect to
remain several we eks.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Mrs. w e Laird. No. 43 Eas5 State street,
on Friday at 2: 10 P. NJ.
THE members of Bethany Reading Club
will meet at Mrs. M. K. SMILES on Tuesday
afternoon at two o'clock.
PROFESSOR j. A. DEBoER will deliver the
next lecture in the high school coui SO on
80 The Boys that l Know"
REV DR.. E. M SMITH lectured before the
pupils of the Washington County Gramm At
School last Friday af ernoon.
The Ladies' Guild of Christ Church will
meet with Mrs K ID. Blackwell on Thurs
day afternoon at two o'clock.
DIR. G. e. CHANDLER was called to War
rem last Friday to attend G. 1. Ford, who is
suffering with diseased eye,
THE Montpelier orchestra will furnish
music for the Odd Fellows ball at East
Montpelier on Thursday evening.
MAJOR J. l.. ELDER is now night clerk at
the Exchange Hotel. Arthur Spire of Mid
dlebury takes the position Of day porter.
WILLIAM ELLIS has changed his place o.
abode from ST. Paul street to the residence
of s. H. o. Bosworth, his uncle, on Loomis
street.
THE subject of the mid-week service il
the vestry of the Church of the Messiah
t this evening is Overcoming Evil will
Good"
? "MAKINa Bricks Withou Straw was tn,
r theme of Mrs. Effie X. Jones discourse a
the Church of the Messiah last Sunda.
8 morning.
8 A SON was born last Sunday night to Mr.
T aud Mrs. John Bartlett, and son las
4 Thursday evening to Mr.. aud Mrs. Denni
r j. Sweeney.
. TERRENCE FLOOD, formerly in the emplo
OF Stree Commissioner Roberts, and VIII
went to Ireland last fall, died there recentl
: of consumption.
REV. j EDWARD WRIGHT is to preac
+ from the words, "A citizen Of no meal
; city," in the Church of the Messiah mex
= ! Sunday morning.
;. BEAR in mind the annual meeting of tn
r Citizens Band Association ext Monda
evening at the Office of SenteI q Kemp. Sc
, notice elsewhere.
l.
/. to one eye last Thursday evening whil
|. splitting wood. 1t is feared that the sigh
4 Of the eye is destroy yed.
a The ladies of St. Vincent de Paul BenevC
z lent Society are to meet this afternoon wit
g Mrs James Canning to sew for the poor an
7. needy in this community.
THE March term of Washington count
s court will convene next Tuesday morning
:. Judge H. r Start will preside, with Judge
o Jones and Hoyt az associates.
n MRS. MINNIe MARSH IL in Boston th
|. week doing special work in music with re
u erence to the training OF boys voices. o.
u ganist s. b. Whitney is her instructor.
D Mr.. AND MRS E. w. THOMPSON and chi
u , dren and Mrs M. W. Bailey of st. Alban
left last Thursday for Southern Pinel
, North Carolina, for a stay OF several week.
y MISS Amy FISK, who is teaching kir
n dergarten at Springfield, has been seriousl
A. i'll during the past week. Miss Hattie FISH
+ her sister, went there last Thursday to car
/. for her.
y THE house and barn of franklin I
3 Lewis, on the Mddlesex Center road, wer
l. destroyed by fire last Sunday night A pal
B. of the furniture was saved in a dam age
" condition.
I, THE repairs and improvements on 8
Michael's school building that have been
10 progress for several weeks are completed
y and the school has reopened with larR
10 attendance.
MRS. WILLIAM PETERSON died last MOI
IN day morning after brief i'll cess with bio J
q poisoning. Her funeral will be held frol
g. St. Augustine's Church this morning
'g nine o'clock
81 ~ Hon. ELISHA MAY of st. Johnsbury, nj
u u ional bank examiner, locked over the boob
u = of the First National Bank last Wednesda.
~ 1t is needless to add that he found ever!
, thing in 6rst.class shape.
- A TYPOGRAPHICAL error in report of tow
~ expenses lasr week made the cost of tn
~ ~ support Of the poor $12, 134 Read $1,211 3