The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-03-20
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
As SEEN FROM THE DOME OF THE
CAPITOL BUILDING.


Mr.. AND Mrs. 7. S BRoPHY went to New
York last week.
Hon. CHARLES DEWEY and wife are in
Boston this week.
II. e. FOLSOM Of Lyndonville was in
town on Tuesday.
THE spring term OF Montpelier Seminary
opened on Tuesday.
MISS ANNETTE NJ. UPHAM Is visiting rel
atives In New York.
COLONEL FRED e. SMITH was. in Boston
last Friday and Saturday.
HERBERT CHAPMAN is in the employ OF
Gould & Nichols of Barre.
HENRY G. COTTON went to Connecticut
ist Monday on business trip.
A DAUGHTER was born last Monday night
to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Daniels.
A DAUGHTER was born last Friday even
ing to Mr.. and Mrs. K. X. Butler.
MRS. ADDIE CHAFFEE OF Chicago is visiting
Mrs Wooster Sprague, her mother.
Miss ANNA GUERNSEY has returned to the
Emerson School Of Oratory, Boston.
A DAUGHTER was born last Thursday
night to Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav Jacobsen.
MISS ETHEL BINGHAM of Essex Junction
is visiting Miss Ellen Grout, her cousin.
Mrs. W. Fl. DAVIS of st. Albans visited
Mrs. .. A. Lang, her daughter, last week.
8. l.. HOWE was called to Randolph
Mass last week by the death Of his brother
RALPH BLANPGED is at home from Iowa
and expects to remain east for the present.
CAPTAIN II. G. LULL is making a tour of
Washington county, inspecting Grand Army
posts.
e. II. PUTNAM of West Randolph is en-
ployed temporarily in the local express
Office.
THE office of the city clerk and treasurer
haa haA taI nit fha ka1n
change.
MRS. d. D. DAVIS of st. Albans was a
welcome visitor at the capital several days
last week.
MISS MAMIE TRoMBLEE was called to Bos-
ton last week by the illness of her sister,
Mrs. lincoln.
STREET COMMISSIONER ROBERTS has been
confined to the house with the grip during
the past week.
CAPTAIN THoRNHILL PERCIvAL was taken
to the ho pital at st. Aloans last Wednes.
day afternoon.
JOSEPH LAPoINT is moving back to Mont
pelier from Waitsfield, where he has lived
for several years.
THE Chautauqua class will meet with
Mrs. G. j. Berry, No. Baldwin street, next
Friday at q 10 NJ.
THE Washington County Grammar and
Union Schools closed last Friday for Va
cation OF two weeks
THE Ladies Guild of Christ Church will
meet with Mrs. Lester H. Green this after
noon at two o'clock.
HENRY M DEAvITT has been at home
from the University of Vermont at Burling
ton for the past few days.
COLONEL FRED E. SMITH left last Monday
for Bellows Falls on tour OF inspection of
the banks In that vicinity.
DIR. H. T. CLARK has been dangerously i'll
with typhoid pneumonia during the past
week, but Is now convalescent.
THE members OF Bethany Reading Club
will meet at Mrs. II. d. Hopkins, next
Tuesday afternoon, at two o'clock.
MD-wEEK service in the vestry OF tn,
Church Of the Messiah this evening. Sub.
ject: "Crises in Religious Experience"
EDITORIAL matter, town officers elected,
and batch of deferred items from Will.
Jamestown, may be found on page three.
THE members Of Ivy Lodge Daughters OF
Rebekah, will hold a social with Mr. and
Mrs. Frank e. Grout on Thursday evening.
WEBSTER l.. DRAPER Of Berlin has pur.
chased for ST. 900 of II. j. Curtis the green,
house formerly managed by Capt. T. Per-
| cival.
THERE will be social at Trinity vestry
on Friday evening, with an art exhibit and
literary exercises Cake and coffee will be
served.
The Wooster Sprague place on Barre
street ss been purchased by H. A. Skinner
Of Barre, who will take possession about
April l.
The venerable mother OF G. n. Phillips
was buried in Barre last Sunday. A more
extended notice may be found in the Barre
column.
last evening at the home Of Major o. d.
| Clark for the benefit of the meadow base
ball nine
REV. j. EDWARD WRIaHT's text at the
Morse school house, East Montpelier, next
Sunday afternoon, will be, Take heed what
We hear"
HENRY M. CAMPBELL has purchased for
81 900, of Il. X Peck and A. O. Cummns, a
tract OF land near the tannery OF Pecks &
| Cummins.
The faculty and students OF Montpelier
Seminary were very pl 'asantly entertained
last Wednesday evening at the home Of
Rev. A. a. Webb
THIRTY-FIvE members of the Church OF
the Messiah tended the gentlemen's supper
last Friday evening
and the postoffice and store of McWhorter
& Hyde at Barre have been connected with
the telephone exchange.
AT meeting Of the trustees Of the Mont
pelier Seminary, held yesterday, the new
name created by an act of the legislature of
1894 was formally ado pied.
SERGEANT ALARMS PHINNEY has been
trimming up the trees in the state house
yard, and has removed some Of those that
have SURVIVED their usefulness
The counters in the office of the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company have been
mo ved nearer the center OF the room, max
ing more room for the working force.
JOHN j. WILLIAMS has purchased the
Fisher property on Main street, and 3 to re-
m 'del and fit up the building for his bicycle
business. The price paid was So 600.
JUDGE START missed railway connection
last Monday and was unable to reach Mont
pc ier to hold court In tle afternoon. An
adjourn nent to Tuesday morning was made.
THE eighty-sixth birthday of George w.
Scott was quietly observed last Saturday
Mr.. Scott ID In excellent health, and is re-
markably we'll preserved for one of his years.
FREE textbook agents made business
lively at the hotels over last Sunday The
| lot OF M. 8. Stone, ate superinl endent Of
education, is not a happy one Just at present.