The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-05

baccalaur 9ate sermon before the graduating
class of Montpelier .minary at Trinity
Church next Sunday morning
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is expected to
preach in Middlesex, in the Union Church,
| next sunday afternoon at two o'clock.
Subject, The Altar at Home"
THE ladies' of Bethany Church served
=, conundrum supper in the chapel on
Tuesday evening that was very enjoyable
and created no little amusement.
Mr.. AND MRS. DURMAND EELY of Lon
! don, Eng, were at the Exchange last week
| They are on a lesurely tour of inspection
and pleasure through the northern states.
GEORGE BISHOP will lead the meeting for
young men at the Young Mems Christian
Association rooms next Sunday afternoon
Master Fred Whittier will play violin solos
Mrs. e. d. PUTNAM aud her grauddaugh-
ter Ida went to Marshfold yesterday to at
tend the funeral If A. f. Putnam Before
their return they will visit friends in Cabot
The seectmen of Berlin and the memb bers
of the city council will meet this evening to
consider the proposition to build new
bridge across the Wnooski at the foot of
Charles street
THE supreme court concluded the bust
ness Of the May term laat Wed lesday and
took recess to Friday, July IL, when de-
cisions upon cases heard at this term will
| be rendered.
BEFORE Judge Smile, last Monday morn.
ing, Charlie Laviolette pleaded guilty to
stealing money from Mrs Gillette, at Hotel
Kempton, about a month ago Sentence
was suspended.
REV. A. II. WEBB gave brief address at
the service for young men at the Young
Men s Christian Association rooms last Sum
day afternoon. The choir of Trinity Church
furnished music.
THE first baccalaureate sermon before the
graduating class of Washington County
Grammar School will be delivered at Beth.
any Church next Sunday morning by Rev
DIR. Norman Seaver.
The young business men of Main and
State streets played five innings of base
ball on the seminary campus last Thurs
day forenoon. The score stood 81 to II in
favor OF State street.
The argus says the new safe in the office
OF the city treasurer weighs twenty tons.
s nall wonder that George Whites hand
was crushed when it was caught by the
doors of such a monster.
SPECIAL trains will be run TO and from
Barre over the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad this evening to accommodate those
who wish to witness the presentation of the
" Kirmess"; also Saturday evening.
HARRY NJ. CUTLER, assistant treasurer of
the Natl NAL Life Insurance Company
leaves on Thursday evening for brief va
cation. He will visit New York, Balti-
more and Philadelphia during his absence.
Miss POLLARD, the originator of the Pol.
lard system of teaching reading, explained
her method to the executive committee and
others interested at the Union school-house
after the exercises last Wednesday after
noon.
THE National Life Insurance Company
received last week an application for pol
icy on the life of Ellen Beach Yaw of Cali
fornia, who is said to have the greatest
compass of voice of any woman in the
world.
F. w. BALDWIN, general superintendent
of the Central Vermont railroad, returned
last Saturday in the private car Mans
field" He is rapidly recovering from the
dangerous illness which Frustrated him in
Boston.
THE WATCHMAN unintentonally over.
looked the fact that there is a savings bank
in Northield when it stated, last week, that
the two savings banks in Barre were the
only ones in Washington county outside of
Montpelier.
A. G. MANsUR has resumed his position
in the jewelry store of A. G. Stone, after an
absence OF several months @. III. Ayers,
who has been in the store during Mr.. Man
sur's absence, has gone into business at
Proctorsville.
SUPPER will be served from five to half
past seven this evening, at Trinity church,
TO be followed by the " Good Night Drill :"
by eighteen children The affair is to be
under the auspices Of the Womans Home
Missions ary Society.
REV H. A. SPENCER is to lead the conse.
Grafton service this morning at the fourth
annual convention of the Vermont Confer
ence Epworth League at st. Albans, and
Miss Mae Bullard is to open the discussion
on " Our Difficulties"
REV. F. E. WHITMAN has neen dismissed
from the pastorate of the Congregational
church at Berlin Corner. We have been
tph N mi hliah in Hatail for
this action, but our authority is not authen-
tic enough to warrant so doing.
COLONEL FRED e. SMITH slipped last Fri
day on the marble floor in the vault at the
office of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company, and fell, receiving several
severe bruises and contusions that confined
him to the house for several days.
W. A. RICE has been awarded the first
prize offered by the Phoenix Mutual Life
Insurance Company of Hartford Conn, to
the agent in Vermont doing the most bust
ness during the month Of May. The prize
was handsomely decorated sign.
The pupils of the Washington County
Grammar and Union Schools are to give an
entertainment in the opera house next
Tuesday evening for the benefit of the
music department of the school. Mrs. Min
ME Marsh has the affair in charge.
IT is said that two aspirants for the good
will OF the same female fought the thing
OuVb uOnudy az Juo Ipdr Vi
Blanchard block, and that one of ue con-
testants was badly knocked out before he
would acknowledge himself vanquished.
NOAH CARLETON, formerly of Northfield
died last Saturday at st. Johnsbury. He
was son of Noah Carleton, and cousin OF
Judge Hiram Carleton of Montpelier. He
served with Company e, Eighth Vermont
regiment, and was mustered out in June,
1865.
GENERAL o. o. HOWARD will deliver an
address al the rooms of the Young Mems
Christian Association on Sunday afternoon
July 7. The members Of Brooks Post and
Company III will be invited to attend A
special programme OF patriotic music will be
prepared.
G. w. BRowNELL OF Burlington and Fl
H. Field Of Rutland, state insurance com
mssioners, made their annual examina.
tions OF the Vermont Mutual and Union
Mutual Fire Insurance Companies last Fri
day. They found both institutions in excel
lent condition.
The fourteen-year. old daughter of E. O.
Tillotson Of East Montpelier under went q
very painful operation last Saturday in the