The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
TOWN TALK TOLD IN TERSE PARA
GRAPHS.

Miss MARY WILEY is i'll with pneumo-
mia at her home at Shady Rill.
JOHN LELAND is still very low, and his
recovery is considered doubtful.
A DAUGHTER was born las Thursday to
Mr.. and Mrs Franklin E. Lewis.
L. II. PARLIN of Boston is at the Pavilion
for the winter with his wife and son.
W. j. BIGELow, night editor of the Free
Press, was in town last Saturday.
TWIN daughters were born last Thursday
10 Mr. and Mrs. II. D. Currier OF Berlin.
DANIEL M. BRoPHY OF Toronto, p O.,
visited T. s. Brophy, his brother, last week.
G. l.. DOUGLASS and wife of Gaysvile are
stopping at the Exchange for few weeks.
Mr.. AND MRS. G. II. WILEY of Boston
have been at the Exchange for several days.
A MEETING of the Royal Arch Chapter of
Masons will be held on Thursday evening
Mrs. GEORGE A. MCCoBB and Miss Emma
M. Sanborn, her sister, are visiting in
Hartford.
SON was born last Saturday night to
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Q. Blodgett of
Wrightsville.
Miss GERTRUDE MEINEcKE was called to
New York last week by the illness OF her
sister in.law.
DIR. CARROLL KING of Brockton, Mass.
visited Hon. and Mrs. Clark King his par
ents, last week.
E. f. Ross, one of the proprietors Of the
Exchange Hotel, was at Middlebury on
business this week.
FRANK KENDALL of Walla Walla, Wash,
former teller in the First National Bank,
is visitor in town.
THE Cbautauqua class will meet Friday
afternoon at 2: 10, with Mrs. A c. Blanch.
ard on Barre street.
A JOLLY party of young people drove to
Uata Of avapipU and had q
the Waterbury Hotel.
Miss LEILA ToBEY is off duty at the GEN.
tral telephone station this week. Miss Ida
| Putnam takes her place.
THE annual meeting of the Baptist church
will be held in their vestry on Thursday
afternoon at two o'clock.
The ladies of Bethany Reading Club will
meet at Mrs. g. H. Shipman's on Tuesday,
January 8, at two o'clock p. NJ.
MRS. A. D. BANCROFT and daughter,
| Jane, and Carlos G. Bancroft have taken
rooms at the Pavilion for the winter.
Miss MARGARET SHANKs, the former in.
structor in elocution at the Montpelier Sem
mary, is the guest of Miss Rose Lucia.
IT is stated ON reliable authority that it
has been found necessary to take Mrs. Rev.
G. W. Gallagher, formerly Of Montpelier,
to private retreat for the insane.
E. P. YOUNG succeeds Marshall Lavio-
lette as foreman IN the argus job rooms,
the change taking effect January l.
A CALL from Fargo, s. D., has been ex'
tended to Rev. G. w Gallagher of Tacoma,
| Wash, former pastor of Bethany Church.
COMMENCING next Monday, the clothing
stores will close at seven o'clock every even:
ing, except Monday and Saturday, until
April l.
THE Woman's Auxiliary Keeley League
will meet in Keeley hall on Friday evening
at half past seven. Keeley League invited
to be present.
Miss BESSIE CARY is to sing in the Unita.
rian choir at Burlington. Mrs. Jennie
Bartlett Mills takes her place in Bethany
| Church choir.
REV. J. EDWARD WRIGHT delivered very
| interesting address on Holidays in Ger
many" at the Church of the Messiah last
Sunday evening.
A LARGE number of people went to Barre
by special train last Sunday evening to heal
Bishop Hall speak on temperance at the
| opera house there.
REV. CHARLES r. EAST of Mortified has
an app Jintment to preach in the Union
church in Middlesex next Sunday after
noon at two o'clock.
Miss GEORGIA e. RooD of Swanton, for
merly at the head OF the art department a.
the Montpelier Seminary, was the guest O
Mrs. P. q. Hinkley last week.
A PLEASANT little dance, given in honor
of the young people who have been at home
during the holiday season, vas held at the
Pavilion last Thursday evening.
PROFESSOR w. S. SPENCER, who is attend
ing theological school in New York, ha'
been visiting Rev. and Mrs. III. A. Spencer
his parents, for the past ten days.
CARDS are out for the marriage Of Charles
e. Wilson Of Jackson, Mich, and Mis-!
Lillian, daughter Of Carl l.. Smith, which
Is to occur Wednesday, January 9.
THE Ladies' Literary Society of Chris
Chu rch met with Mrs George A. Peck, Mon
day evening. A full att ,ndance and inter
esting programme made it a very pleasan
meeting,
THE inmates of the town farm were mad
h Apply, Christmas day, by receiving yer.
liberal basket of fruit, presented to them b,
the Young Peoples Fraternity of the Churcl
of the Messiah.
REV. A. II. WEBB preached and admin
istered the sacrament at Bellows Falls las
Sunday, in place OF Presiding Elder l.. l.
Beeman, who is i'll. Rev. e. NJ Smitl
preached at Trinity Church.
sLIG 1T fire was discovered Sunda.
evening in the coal bins at the shops OF th
Lane Manufacturing Company, but tn
flames were extinguished with hand hos
before any damage had been done.
o. G. BARRON went to Concord, N. H., ol
Tuesday to assume his duties as represen
tative to the general assembly from Fabyan
N. II. Mrs. Barron and Miss Maud will
remain in Montpelier for the present
AN evening OF music, in place of the usua
midwinter reception Of the Ladies' Literar
Club of Christ Church, will be- given at thu
Pavilion parlors, Monday evening, Januar.
II. Some of onr best talent will contribute
THE Capital Savings Bank has declare,
semi annual dividend OF three per cen
upon the capital stock, payable January
The First National Bank has also declare
a semi.annua dividend OF two per cent, pay
able the same date.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Miss Eliza Rublee o.
Thursday afternoon at half past two o'clock
Extracts fr m speeches made at the Clevt
land convention are TO be read by mem
bers.
II. W. BUCHANAN OF Barton Landing
grand chancellor of the Knights Of PyJhia
OF Vermont, visited Montpelier Lodge re
Gently and expressed himself as highl
pleased with the substantial and rapi
growth of this young organization.
FORREST HEATH of Albany, N. Y, visite