The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-18
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
PEN PICTURES or LOCAL EVENTS
IND SUBJECTS.


house with tonsilitis.
G.. II. Cross visited his son George at st.
Johnsbury last week.
ED A. SHATTUCK left last week to visit
friends in Denver Col.
II. II, SCRIBNER is still seriously i'll at his
rooms at the Montpelier House.
II II. McCLURs shipped a large snow
roller to Amherst, Mass. last Monday.
ION was born last week to Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Magoon of Wri, hts Mills
Miss MAUD WEEKS of Burlington is the
guest Of MIR. and Mrs. George p. Barber
Mrs. AMY HIBBARD entertained the Bap-
tist Reading Club on Tuesday afternoon.
A. l.. HARDY, assistant principal of st.
Johusbury Academy, was in the city yester-
day.
THE Epworth Lea ne Reading Club will
meet next Friday evening with Mrs. W. o.
Chapman.
The barber-shops will, in future close at
eleven o'clock instead of midnight on Satur-
day nights.
MRS. G. H. HEAToN and Mrs. Andrew
Hodgdon have been i'll with pleurisy during
the past week.
THE Chautauqua Glass will meet next
Friday afternoon with Mrs. George G. Pratt,
Baldwin street.
Mr.. AND Mrs. H. N. TAPLIN left last week
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several months.
Mrs. HATTIE WILLARD will assist the
Mozart Quartette at Williamstown next
Friday evening.
WILLIAM MILLER is having his new block
wired for electric lights. w. K. Laird is
doing the work.
Mrs l.. L. DURANT went last week to
! Columbus, Wis, to reside with Paul ID
! Durant, her son.
AT all the churches in the city services
appropriate to Christmas will be held next
Sunday morning.
Miss FLORA NJ. TERRILL of St. Johnsbury
was the guest of DIR. and Mrs. d. G. Kemp
over last Sunday.
A LARGE delegation from Montpelier at
tended the annual ball at East Montpelier
village last night.
THE Daughters of Rebekah will hold
whist social in Odd Fellows Hall on
| Thursday evening
J. II. HEALEY of the argus staff was con-
fined to his room at the Exchange Hotel last
week with tonsilitis.
H. d GATES arrived from Chicago last
Saturday morning with two carloads of se-
lected western horses
THE Montpelier Public Library aud
Reading-room will be closed all day and
evening Christmas day.
ROBERT BLISS, student at Goddard Sem
mary IL assisting IN A. IL. tdrWell'S 3 Store
during the holiday rush.
GENERAL L. J. BoYNToN, chief inspector TO
the postal service in New England, was at
the Exch Ange last week.
AN al.day meeting will be held Christ
mas day in Berlin Hall Able speakers
from abroad are expected.
FREEMAN r. HAYDEN is to open board
ing house in what was formerly Hotel
Kempton about January l.
CHARLES BAKER sailed from New York
for Liverpool last week, expecting to spend
several months in England.
The Reading Club connected with the
Church of the Messiah met on Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. d. w. Temple.
MRS X. M. BREWER returned last week
from Cleveland, o., where she has been for
several months visiting daughter.
THE classes for business men in the
Young Mems Christian Association gymna-
sium will be organized about January l.
MRS FRED X. HASTINGS is assisting in
the central telephone station this week,
while the change of offices is being made.
JAMES 7. SABIN was summoned to Hyde
Park last Monday as a witness in an arson
case now on trial in Lamoille County Court.
THE scenes in the " kinetophone " at Z.
e. Towners store will be changed Monday
and Thursday mornings until after the holi-
days.
THE quartetts and chorus choirs of Christ
Church will meet for rehearsal this evening
with Miss Olive b. Stout No. 35 School
street.
Providence, r. l., who have been guests OF
Miss Lizzie Stimson for two weeks, left last
Friday for their home.
FURTHER mention will be made next
week of Frohman's "The New Boy" that
will be at Blanchard Opera House Monday
evening, December 30
Miss I. LILLIAN HOWE, a former teacher
in elocution at Vermont Methodist Sem
mary, now fills that position at Lasell Sem
mary. Auburndale, Mass.
Miss ANNA GUERNSEY returned from Bos-
ton last Saturday evening, where she has
been pursuing a course OF study at the
Emerson School of Oratory.
THE nomination of officers for Montpelier
Lodge No. 13, Knights OF Pythias, will take
place on Thursday evening, and the cleo
tion will occur one week later.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT expects tc
preach in the Morse school-house, Eas
Montpelier, next Sunday afternoon. Sub
ject, "God Manifest in the FLESH"
j. d. GRANT led the meeting for young
men at the rooms OF the Young Mems Chris
tian Association last Sunday afternoon
Subject, What Will We Do With Christi
A WATER PIPE in the upper story of Hub
| DdTu DlOCh Dursb ldsJ uOhudy moinIhe uhe
flooded the meat market of G. s. Whittier
The damage was nominal but the annoy
ance 1t is not safe to guage In words.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Thursday afternoon a
half past two with Mrs. Polly Scribner
Subject, The Enfranchisement OF womeI
as related to the temperance movement"
= ALFRED K. FoRTEN was arrested las
I week by Deputy Sheriff Tuttle on charg'
+ of attempted rape on the little daughter q
j. W. Jerome The case has not yet beei
heard in city court, and any comments a
, this time are unwise.
THE children of the Industrial School will
be given little Christmas party on Satur
day, December 28, at Mrs. Anne Dillon's
Contributions of candy or other gifts will b.
gladly received at Mrs. Dillon's any tim
before the date named.
NJ. KENT sold at auction last Monda
: the farm and personal property of the lat
Luther NJ Parmenter. E A Pierce OF Eas
Montpelier purchased the farm for 81 ,99t
= and the wood lot Of five acres went To Cal
vim l.. Parmenter for $50. Hay sold a
81 90 per ton.