The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-23
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
NEWSY COLUMNS THAT MIRROR
LOCAL LIFE.

ED j. ENNIS is confined to the house by
Illness.
MRS A. G. Brown has recovered from her
recent illness.
MRS. N. A. CUTLER is i'll with pleurisy
and pneumonia.
The Montpelier Keeley Institute will be
closed this week.
Mrs. j. " BROOKS is convalescent from
an attack OF the grip.
Mrs. s. L. HOWE entertained the Barre
Reading Club on Tuesday afternoon.
ALANsoN LUCE is visiting this week in
Boston. Haverhill and Lowell, Mass.
HARVEY W. BROWN, the postman. has
moved from 121 Elm to 1873 State street.
MRS. d. s. WHEATLBY attended the mu-
sical convention held last week at Littleton,
N. H.
THE infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Rowland was buried last Saturday after
noon
MISS GERTRUDE COCHRAN attended the
musical festival at Littleton, N. H., last
week.
THE names of 275 tax-paying women will
appear on the checklist for the March city
election.
REV. Dr.. e. M. SMITH preached at
Bethany Church last Sunday in the absence
OF DIR. Seavsr.
MISS Cora GRANT of Akron, O., has been
the guest of A. b. Grant, her uncle, during
the past week.
ADKLBERT K. CARR severed his con-
nection with the telephone exchange last
Saturday night.
A LOCAL grocery firm advertises Lem
cons" on its bulletin board. A new kind
OF fruit possibly
The Ladies' Guild of Christ Church will
meet at Mrs. G. B. B. Denny's on Thursday
afternoon at two o'clock.
THE Ladies' Reading Club of Christ
Church will meet with Mrs. e. ID. Black
well next Monday evening.
The Chautauqua class will meet next
Friday afternoon with Mrs. George q. AL.
ber, No. 40 East State street.
G. f. LOWE and f. W. Bancroft were un-
able to sing in their accustomed places last
Sunday because OF severe colds.
d. 81. ROBINSON, ticket agent at the Gen.
trail Vermont station, returned last Mon
day from short visit to Boston.
THE members of Bethany Reading ub
will meet at Mrs. 8. H. o. Bosworth's on
Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock.
THE Ladies' Aid Society connected with
Trinity Church will hold a social in the
church parlors next Friday evening.
THE officers OF the local lodge OF New
England Order OF Protection were installed
last evening at the studio OF 8. W. Corse.
JOHN STANLEY and Miss Della Nathan
were married at st. Augustines Church on
Tuesday morning by Rev. W. j. O'Sullivan.
DAVID l.. SANDERS, grand patriarch, made
| an official visit to Green Mountain encamp-
ment Of Burlington last Thursday evening.
THE next lecture of the course at Worces.
ter Is to be given this evening by Rev. j. E.
| Wright. Subje 1.-THE Bundle Of Habits. y
THE dry goods store Of Niles & Pratt and
the residence Of DR.. j. E. Macomber have
been connected with the telephone ex
change.
SHERIFF COLLINS took "Piddy" Butter.
fly to the house Of correction at Rutland on
Tuesday to work out fine OF 500, nearly
years job.
REV. j. E. WRIGHT is to preach in the
Morse school-house, East Montpelier, next
Sunday afternoon. Subject" Jesus Bear
ing Our Sins"
THE Non partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet this afternoon
at half past two with Mrs. j. r. Seaver on
Charles street.
Miss JOSEPHINE TRUAx of Swanton
d ,ughter of Rev. A. B. Truax, formerly oi
Montpelier, was married recently to Charles
Searles of st. Albans.
THE Ladies' Guild of Christ Church will
hold its annual sale Wednesday and Thurs
day, February 13 and ID, in the vestIy oi
|
Hon. FRANCIS BATCHKLDER, mayor of the
city OF Everett, and proprietor of the Capt.
tol creamery, was the guest of Manager A.
W. Slocum last Thursday.
MASTER LOUIS BROOKS had his collar bone
crack d and was otherwise badly bruised
last Friday evening by striking an electric
light pole, while tobogganing.
AT the social to be held next Friday even
ing in the vestry Of the Church of the Mes.
IntA ~ atra so
selections from Burns poems.
G. II. HEAToN went to Brattleboro last
Thursd,y to inspect the commandery OF
Knights Templar there. He was accompa
MED by his wife and daughter.
THE Wesleyan Glee and Banjo Clubs
will give an entertainment at the opera
house next Tuesday evening for the benefit
OF the Seminary baseball team.
Mr.. WRIaHT's subjects at the Church Of
morning, 1.-THE Great Gulf" and in the
evening, " Some German Charities"
MRS. G. M FOSTER and Thomas Rogers
sailed from New York last Thursday for
Tallapoosa, Fla where they are to remain
several months. Mr.. Foster will join his
wife there in a few days.
#. l.. LAIRD has purchased OF DR.. j. D.
Lance his property on the Berlin side. DIR.
Lance has sold his house on Elm street to
@. N. Arms, and expects to leave Montpe.
lier in about three weeks.
THE members of Brooks Post had charge
Of the funeral of John #. Phelps, which
was held at his late home on Berlin side
last Thursday afternoon. Rev. G. Q. Web
ster was the officiating clergyman.
REV, THOMAS GULL the state Baptist mis-.
sionary, who has been having such excel
lent success holding evangelical meetings
in Barre, will begin next Sunday a series OF
similar meetings in the Baptist church in
this city.
The fund for hospital, now in the hands
of the Kings Daughters, has lately been in
creased by small sums. These, as we'll as
larger gifts, are very gratefully accepted.
All may be sent to Miss Ella Bailey, agent,
ia Elm street.
REV. DR., SEAvER was detained at Rut-
land last Friday by the illness of his mother,
and was unable to lecture before the pupils
OF the Grammar School, as advertised. Rev.
G. o. Webster will deliver the next lecture
next Friday afternoon.
THE enterprisng firm OF Whtcomb
b others have purchased the strip OF land
just north OF Bacon block on South Main
street on which they are at once 10 COM
mence the erection of a three-story building
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