The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-02-27
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
WHAT rs HAPPENING At THE BE-
GINNING OF THE LENTEN
SEASON.


Mr.. AND Mrs. G. II. SHIPMAN visited in
Lisbon, N. e., last week.
MISS HATTIE BROCK Of Newbury is the
guest OF Mrs. A. ID. Farwell.
MISS ANNA PHINNEY visited Miss Mary,
her sister, in Rutland last week.
HENRY DEAvITT was at home from Bur-
lington last Friday and Saturday.
Miss ANNA GUERNSEY is at home from the
Emerson School Of Oratory, Boston.
JOHN LELAND is convalescing from long
and dangerous illness with typhoid fever.
DEPUTY SHERIFF d. w. DUDLEY has
been housed with grip during the last week.
G. L FRANKLIN of Rutland was the guest
Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Bagley over last Sun
day
Mr.. AND MRS. ABRAHAM LONG expect to
leave Montpelier for Florida early next
week.
J.S MARSHALL OF Boston was the guest
OF Mr.. and Mrs. W. o Standish over last
Sunday.
THE communion service is to be held in
the Church of the Messiah next Sunday at
four P.
THE Ladies' Guild of Christ Church will
meet with Mrs T. G. Phinney on Thursday
at twoP. NJ.
The winter term of Montpelier Seminary
closes on Thursd ~. The vacation will be
two weeks.
REV. HARRY HOLDEN of Amherst, Mass,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Good.
enough last week.
MRS. H. f. HAMMOND was called to For
est, N. Y last Thursday by the serious ILL
ness OF her mother.
M DEAN OF B oston Is at the Exchange.
His fun of en- ertaining anecdote is as in
exhaustible as ever.
THE woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety will meet next Friday afternoon with
Mrs. W. o. Chapman.
TaE piano pupils of Louis j. Hathaway
gave a recital at his home on Court street
last Saturday evening.
CHARLES W. LITCH has had a serious
time during the past week with an abscess
on his leg, but is improving.
The members of Bethany Reading CT lb
will meet at Mrs. K. r. SINNERS on Tues.
| day afternoon at bwo o'clock.
REV EFFIE X. NJ. JONES of Barre is to
preach for the Unitarian society in Middle
sex next Sunday at two P. M.
G. r. BAGLEY has been in town during
the past few days. He /, t. move his fam
lily to Woodstock this week
DIR. E. w. SLAYToN, the longtime town
clerk Of Warren, made the WATCHMAN office
a pleasant call last Saturday.
CHARLES WHITTEN clerk for Niles &
Pratt, went to St. Johnsbury, last week, to
work in dry goods store there
A MEETING will be held at the Baptist
church, Thursday evening, to vote on the
resignation of Rev. g. o. Webster.
MRS HERBERT MARBLE l., seriously i'll
with the grip. Miss Annie Flaherty her
sister, is quite sick with pneumonia.
TIE help at the Exchange Hotel cele-
brated Washington's birthday with sugar
party and dance last Friday evening.
W. E. POOLE has secured a position in a
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went there last Saturday with his wife.
PRESIDENT A. F. SoRrwELL of the Mont
pelier and Wells River railroad and Mrs.
Sortwell were at the Pavilion last week
REV. DR.. NORMAN SEAvER will lecture
before the pupils of the Washington County
Grammar School next Friday afternoon.
A PARTY of ladies from Northfield drove
to Montpelier last Wednesday afternoon
and took supper at the Montpelier House.
A SPECIAL train will be run to Barre over
the Montpelier and Wells River railroad
after "A Trip to Chinatown" at the opera
house.
ROBERT MORRISON, who has recently ar
rived from England, is visiting William
Morrison, his brother, at the Exchange
Hotel.
f. w. BANCROFT is to deliver his lecture
on :" Scotch Songs and Singers in the lee
ture course at Amherst, Mass, next Friday
evening.
w. G. TAPLIN is the delegate from Mont
pelier lodge to the Washington County
Good Templars' Union that meets to day a
Roxbury.
H. G. GLEASON and G.. II. Shipman wen
to Boston on Tuesday. Miss Bessie Cary
goes to that city this noon for two weeks
vacation.
THE Ideal Whist Club and several othel
young people went to East Montpelier last
evening to attend the last whist party o
the season.
THE Ideal Whist Club was given dane,
in Blanchard's 8 hall last Monday evening by
the gentlemen members Of the Columbian
Whist Club.
REV. A. H. WEBB will speak on Euglisl
Customs and English People" in Trinity
: vestry next Friday evening for the benefi
of the ladies' aid society.
GENERAL STEPHEN THOMAS spoke to tn,
, members of Brooks Post al their regula
meeting last evening on the matter OF his
, torical register for the post
AT the Church of the Messiah next Sun
day morning the pastor expects to b. as
sisted oy Rev. Effie X. M. Jones of Barre
who Is to preach the sermon.
H.. TAPLIN and wife le I'VE to-day TO
. Wash Ington, ID. c., where Mrs. Taplin is
delegate to the national council of tn,
. Daughters of the Revolution.
WALTER LINDSAY was struck in one elbow
last week with a piece OF dynamite car
fridge, and was injured so severely that ht
has since been unable to work.
A DISTRICT Odd Fellows meeting is to b.
held AZ North6eld on Tuesday evening
, March II. at whi III team from Vernon
: lodge will work the third degree.
DURING the past fiscal year Treasure
! Bixby has paid the $2, 900 outstanding flo At
ing debt OF the town OF Montpelier and owe
$4,000 of the funded debt Of 1891
The question Should Morals Be laugh
8 In the Public Scbools?" was discussed at tn,
| Grammar School lyceum. last Thursda,
A. evening, and decided in the affirmative.
: MISSES MARY CARLETON and Maud Shurt
= left are delegates from the Bethany Chris
tian Endeavor Society to the county conven
ton, to be held next week Friday at Barre
4 THE Garnet Seal and Chautauqua ci Gle
D met with Mrs. George O. Alber on Tuesda
: afterno IN. Monsieur A. de Pierpont tn
French instructor, was present by Invitation
= CONGRATULATIONS to Mayor.to be Georg
= w. Wing of Montpelier May his election
be unanimous and his administration mari
o an "A in the capitals historyl'- Burlin0toi