The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-29

twenty..one pretty gifts from members OF
the club.
MISS MAE BULLARD, Mrs. John Bishop,
G. ID Wells and Ben Gates are delegates
from the local Epworth League to the an
nual state convention, to be held June and
5 at st. Albans.
GEORGE @. PRATT and wife and Miss
Adalaide Griswold and A. j. Howe are
delegates from Bethany Church to the Con-
gregational county conference now in ses-
sion at Roxbtry.
REV. JOSHUA GILL of Newtonville, M S.,
visited Mrs f. A. Sherburne, his daughter,
last week Miss Alice Sherburne returned
with him, to remain during a greater por.
tion OF the summer
f. w. BANCROFT is to deliver his song
lecture on Scotch Songs and Singers" be.
fore the young lady pupils of Miss Burn
ham school at Northampton, Mass, We'd
nesday evening, June II.
BECAUSE of the small attendance at the
store OF q. Fl. Ferrin last Thursday even
ing, the organization of Shooting and Gun
Club was again postponed to this evening
at the same time and place.
M. f. CHASE, general agent of the Con.
necticut General Life Insurance Company,
went to Randolph last Monday TO pay
p 'licy on the life of James II. Hebard Of
that town, recently deceased.
BEFORE the opeaing of the June term of
Orange county court at Che lsea, next week,
Colonel A. Q. Brown will have established
direct telephone commune alton with Chel.
sea- through Barre and Washington.
In excavating the clay bank at the rear
of the Golden Fleece building, stratum of
fine sand was struck at depth Of about
thirty feet. The question is, How came 1t
there, imbedded under tons of clay2
A DETACHMENT from Brooks Post, G. A.
r., wi / attend the Memorial Day exercises
at Worcester on Thursday forenoon. Din
ner will be served that day in the Grand
Army hall by members Of tn, Relief Corps.
JONATHAN u. HOPKINS of Canaan, who
was sentenced by the United States court
at Windsor to two terms of imprisonment
of three months each for forgery, was COM
mitted to Washington county Jail last Fri.
day.
MRS. ]. B. WILLIS, who gave such de-
lightful piano recital in Seminary chapel
last Wednesday evening, has been the guest
of Professor aod Mrs. ID. s. Blanpied for
several days. She returned to Boston last
Friday.
w. T. DEWEY, treasurer and L. 2. Glea-
son and George Brainerd, adjusters, of the
Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
have been in st. Albans during greater
part of the week adjusting losses by the re-
cent fire.
+. G. KENNEDY, pre- ,dent of the Winooski
& Essex railroad, G. W. Brownell of Bur-
lington, and NJ. A. Bingham of Essex
Junction, were in this city last Saturday to
confer with Hon. w. p. Dillingham; in the
interests Of that road.
ALTHOUGH not largely attended, the
piano recital in Seminary chapel last
Wednesday evening by Mrs. John B. Willis
of Boston was most enjoy able. Miss Ger
trude Cochran assisted as vocalist in a
most acceptable manner.
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last Friday afternoon with Mrs. G.. @. Alber
the following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: Mrs. K. A. Mutt, president;
Mrs l.. p. Gleason, vice president; Mrs.
George G. Pratt, secretary.
RAIN prevented the game between the
Montpelier Seminary and Burlington Young
Mems Christian Association teams at Bur-
lington last Monday, and it was postponed
to Tuesday, with the same result. The boys
came home Tuesday noon.
A STATE convention of Catholic Foresters
will be held in Montpelier next Tuesday,
June 4. In the evening an entertainment
will be held in Foresters' hall, at which
music and refreshments will be provided
and toasts responded to by visiting repre-.
sentatives and local members.
GEORGE E. WHITE jammed his left hand
quite badly last Monday by getting it
caught in safe door at the city treasurer s
office. In consequence of this, Prospero
Truda played first VIOLA with the orchestra
at the Trloy" entertainment that even
ing, and did it in first-class shape.
A KETTLE Of fat caught fire on the kitchen
stove in the residence of Jacob w, Pape, rs
Barre street, Monday afternoon, frighten-
ing the inmates and causing an alarm to be
turned in from box "a, corner of Barre and
Sibley streets. The department responded
promptly, but its services were not required.
EDDIE E. DODGE was sentenced last
Wednesday to the State Industrial School
at Vergennes during the remainder of his
minority He was taken there Thursday
by Sheriff Bancroft Patrick Siarkey, Jr.,
was taken back at the same time, but he
will be wanted to- day at the trial of Willie
,Jangraw.
"THE Good Night Drill" to be given
in Trinity ves5ry next Wed nesd ay evening
by eighteen little tots, will be unique and
pleasing entertainment. The ladies OF the
Home Missionary Society of that church,
under whose auspices it will be given, have
expended much time and patient work in
its preparation.
JAMES HARRAN was arrested last Satur.
day on complaint OF John e. Simonds
charging Harran with assaulting Simonds
wife. The case was heard in city cour,
Saturday afternoon, but so conflicting was
the evidence that Judge Smile could no,
see his way clear to hold Harran, and he
was ulbcndrReu.
G. s. WHITTIER has placed in his market
a computing scale from the Computing
Scale Company of Dayton, o., that is quite
a curiosity. Brain work and the use of a
pencil are relegated to the rear where one
of these scales Is in use. 1t weighs any
thing up TO 200 pounds, and gives its correct
value in dollars and cents.
THE suit Of Frank Cavanaugh against
Grossman and Benoit, the picture artists
for the recovery of certain original pictures
was tried Saturday afternoon before Judge
Smile in the city court f. p. Carleton ap
pearing for the plaintiff and w. A. Lord for
the defendants, who were awarded fifty
cents damages and their costs
IT 30 happened that the individual who
broke open the storehouse of the Mont
pelier Hardware Company and stole some
phosphate one evening last week, was
caught in the act. The proprietors are sim
ply waiting to see what he will do about il
before they proceed to make it the most
expensive fertilizer this party ever used.
ONE would jud 90 from the hale and hearty
appearance of the veneI eIable George s. Hub
bard that he had been drinking at the foun
tain OF perennial youth. He has returned
from Connecticut, where he spent the win,
ter, to remain in Montpelier during the
summer. Almost nonagenarian, his step