The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
PEN IND INK SKETCHES OF THE
CITY LITER THE FLOOD.


LUTHER CREE is confined to the house
with the grip.
ROBERT CUsHMAN returned to Providence,
Il. l., last Saturday.
A SON was born last Thursday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Alexander Cruikshank.
Miss LUCY HUTcHINs is visiting Miss
Blanche Kelton at Worcester.
A. ID. FARwELL returned from New York
and Washington, ID. c., last Friday.
Mr.. AND MRS. G. A. BEST are soon to
move to the II. X. Ste yens house on Terrace
street.
CHARLES A. PRICE, OF the National Ex-
change Bank of Boston, was in the city last
Saturday.
JOHN MOONEY has been seriously i'll with
pneumonia during the past week, but is
convalescent.
The Capital Creamery delivery cart,
driven by Henry Libben, will be started
next Monday.
MUCH delayed town correspo 1dence and
a column OF up-to-date general ne VS. may be
found on page three.
Mrs. r. III. WHITTIER returned last Mon
day night from Melrose, Mass, where she
has spent the winter.
REV. DIR. e. NJ. SMITH preached at Trim.
ity Church last Sunday morning in the alb
sence of Rev. A. I'll. Webb.
Hon. w. p. DILLINGHAM will be the Me-
mortal Day orator at Springfield this year,
upon invitation of Jarvis Post.
REV. DIR. NORMAN SEAvER is to deliver
the Grafton at the Odd Fellows celebration
in Rutland next Friday evening.
CITY CLERK MERRILL is happy with the
new document file for the tax inventories,
recently received from Cincinnati.
MAJOR j. L. ELDER has closed his labors
at the Exchange Hotel and has gone to Sar
gents Hotel West Lebanon, N. II.
PAUL TERRIAULT and G. II. Hood have
leased for one year the granite quarry in
Calais owned by Guernsey & Dubec
MRS f. A. ADAMS is in Boston taking
lessons in china decorating under the
tn tion OF an instruc or in the Bishop school,
f. W. BANCROFT is in New Haven, Conn,
this week. the guest OF Hon. and Mrs. E. j.
Phelps. He expects to be away until Sat
urday.
REV. CHARLES r. EAST of Northfeld is
expected to preach for the Unitarian Society
in Middlesex next Sunday afternoon at two
o'clock.
REV. j. f. SIMMONS of Woodstock is to
preach in the Church of the Messiah next
Sunday on exchange with Rev. j. Edward
Wright.
F. G. JEwETT, manager of the Central
New York Car Association, was the guest
of Superintendent e. w. Thompson last
Monday.
THE street sprinkler made its appearance
last Sunday. 1t has been in d. A. Guptil' 8
shop for several weeks, and comes out in
bright colors.
d. G. RoBEN and Miss Nellie Sloan we're
marriei last Wednesday evening by Rev.
DR.. Norman Seaver at the home of the bride.
Their residence Is now in Barre.
The postponed exhibition game of bill
r6a IA Watson w
take place at d. G. Fields parlors on South
Main street on Thursday evening.
GEORGE A. KNAPP goes to New York
Thursday night TO meet sister that he has
not seen for twelve years She is expected
to arrive from England on Thursday.
A. A. STIMsoN left for East Cambridge,
Mass, last Mon1ay with four horses he had
Of the house o, correction in that city.
The woman's Christian Temperance
Union will hold its annual meeting Thurs
day afternoon at half past two o'clock with
Mrs. G. w. Guernsey. 80 Loomis street.
FRANK B. HYDE of Albany, N. Y, general
agent for the Smith-Premier Typewriter
Company, was the guest of j. j. Hyde, his
brother, at the Exchange Hotel last Mon.
day.
WILLIAM s. SMITH sang bass in Christ
Church chair last Sunday, and gave excel
lent satisfaction. He has been engaged 10
sing regularly in the place vacated by y. f.
Lowe.
FIVE members of Northfield Encampment
of Odd Fellows took the Golden Rule de-
gree with Thomas Wildey Encampment last
Friday evening. A banquet followed the
work of the evening.
FRANK HUNT of Chipnewa Falls, Wis, ia
| visiting his mother and sister in town. Mr.
Huut was former well-liked Montpelier
| boy, and Is now an extensive lu nber de AleT
in the city of his adoption.
| The farce "a Double Shuttle" will be
produced in the vestry Of the Church of the
Messiah next Friday evening by the pupils
| of the Union and Grammar Schools for the
benefit Of their base ball team.
On invitation OF the Garnet Seal Circle,
the Chautauqua class will meet next Friday
afternoon with Mrs. e. F. Rand. The com.
pany will be entertained with an informal
talk by Rev. j. Edward Wright.
MRS. III. f. HAMMOND and daught r re-
turned last Monday from Forest, N. Y,
where they have been for the past two
months. Mr. Hammond went there on Sat-
urday and accompanied them home.
ALL sportsmen who are Interested in or.
ganizing gun club are invited to meet at
Q. II. Ferrn's store. 4S State street, next
Friday evening at half past seven, where a
meeting will be held for that purpose.
THE arrangements for the Odd Fellows
| celebration at Blanchard opera house next
Friday evening ars completed, and an en-.
| joyable occasion is assured. The public is
invited, and no admission will be charged.
w. @. BELKNAP, formerly of the editorial
staff OF the WATCHMAN, made this Office a
pleasant call last Friday. He has been
practicing law in the 8 ,uth and contem-
plates re engaging in newspaper work in
| Vermont
THE Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
met yesterday afternoon with with Mrs. l.,
l.. Beeman on College street Mrs. DR..
Mary Christiancy, a missionary 70 India,
was present and gave the ladies deeply
interesting talk.
ALBERT p. WESTON, for the past three
years the popular clerk In the dry goods
store Of ID. g. Wheatley, has closed his la
bors there, and can now b, found in the
clothing store of George L. Nichols in
Blanchard block.
The first Sunday afternoon meeting for
men at the Young Mems Christian AssOcia.
tion rooms will be held the first Sunday in
May. 1t will be in charge of Secretary
Spence. An urgent invitation is extended to
| all young men to attend.
A RECEPTION to Rev. A. III. Webb and his
hrida will ha piyen in the vaatrv and parlora