The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LIGHTS IND SHADOWS At THE
CAPITAL IN THE EARLY
SPRING DAYS.


night.
d. P. RING is working in the fruit store of
III. A. Bowman.
CARL GoURLEY has been seriously i'll du-
ing the past week.
Mr.. AND MRS. BURTON A. CUMMINs left
last evening for Pierre, s. ID.
MRS DANIEL d. NELSON has been i'll with
pneumonia during the past week.
Miss MARY MCCLURE is clerk in the dry
goods store Of d. w. Temple & Co.
Miss ALICE TAFT is visiting Mrs. Charles
A. Gay, her sister, in Maiden, Mass.
MISSES IDA AND ALICE LADD of Middlesex
Center are visiting Mrs. Harlow M. Smith.
The pupils of the High School held
dance in Whitcomb Hall last Friday even
ing.
The Epworth League Reading Circle will
meet next Friday evening with Mrs. A. Il.
Niles.
SIXTEEN young people were admitted to
full membership in the Baptist Church last
Sunday.
A SERVICE of sacred song will be held in
the Church of the Messiah next Sunday
evening.
EVANGELIST MINIS had charge of the
prayer Meeting at Trinity Church last
evening.
REV. A. II. WEBB lectured at Irasburgh
last Friday on The Yankee and his Pc
culiarities."
FRED A. COLLINS injured his right hand
quite seriously last week by falling on an
icy sidewalk.
Mr.. AND MRS. GEORGE BERTRAND of st.
Vincent de Paul, p. O., are guests of DR..
j. G. Dequoy.
ERNEST JACOBS, in the employ of w. L.
Draper, has been ill with pneumonia during
the past week.
MRS. STILLMAN CHASE and Miss Lillian
Rivers have been i'll with the grip during
the past week.
MRS NJ. S. DAVIS returned last Saturday
from visit of two weeks in New York and
Putnam, Conn.
The Baptist Ladies Missionary Circle
will meet next Friday afternoon with Mrs.
Amy P. Hibbard.
ID. w. TEMPLE leaves this morning for
New York, to purchase goods for the spring
and summer trade.
THE Montpelier Orchestra was at Hard
wick last week to furnish music for the
musical convention.
F. w. BANCROFT gives his song lecture on
Irish Songs and Song Writers" " at Groton
next Monday evening.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon with Mrs. George Br aim
erd, No 6 Liberty street.
The Bethany Reading Club will meet
with Mrs. G. III. Shipm an next Tuesday
afternoon at two o'clock.
Miss ANNA GUERNSEY returned to Boston,
last Monday, to continue her studies in the
Emerson School of Oratory.
HENRY ELDoRUs CoFFRIN has been ill
with lumbago and Bright's disease at Bur
lington for the past five weeks.
A MID WEEK service will be held in the
vestry of the Church of the Messiah this
"wednesday evening at T. 10 o'clock.
ST. PATRIc ks DAY will be celebrated by
a supper and social in the hall of st. Pc.
ter's Court, Catholic Order of Foresters.
The Methodist ladies' will serve warm
biscui 8 and honey in their vestry this even
ing, from five to half-past seven o'clock.
MISS MARY Doris SABIN celebrated her
sixth birthday with a party of her little
friends at her home on Tuesday afternoon.
THE Chautauqua Glass will meet with
! Mrs j. f. Waterman, M. 16 First Avenue
| next Friday afternoon, at a quarter past
two.
ROBERT j. HARGIN is quite seriously i'll al
| his home on Court street, and his condition
is such as to cause his friends considerable
anxiety
The members of Brooks Post, G. A. r.
and Brooks Relief Corps will give whist
party in Grand Army Hall next Friday
evening.
REV, j. EDWARD WRIGHT has an ap
pointment TO preach in the Morse school
house, East Montpelier, next Sunday a
2:15P.M
MRS. G. B. CARVER aud Mrs. NJ. A. LIE
land leave for New York, next Monda Il
purchase stock of spring and summe
millinery.
from Brooklyn, n, Y. last week, wher
they had been visiting for ten days at th'
home of Mrs. Atkins.
PROFESSOR S. j. BLANPIeD was at Bethel
last Friday evening, where he acted as on
OF the judges at the przs speaking OF tn
Whitcomb High School.
ABOUT forty candidates presented them
selves before Professor o. ID. Mathewson a
Grand Army Hall, last Friday, to take tn
examination for teachers.
THE Ladies' Guild of Christ Church is t.
meet at Mrs. W. K. Laird's, East Libert.
street, on Friday afternoon, instead o
Thursday, at the us lal time.
THE republican state committee will NEE
at the Pavilion to day to fix upon a tim
and place for holding the state convention
to elect delegates to st. Louis.
JAMES BURKE was run in for intoxicatiol
by Policeman Wood, last Saturday night
and was sentenced by Judge Smile las
Monday to fifteen days in the county Jail.
COMMENCING this week Thursday even
ing, the barber shops will close at eigh
o'clock every evening except Saturday. Ol
Saturday nights they will close at clever
o'clock.
THE annual meeting OF the Montpelier
Public Library Association will be held a
the library next Monday evening. Becaus
of this the library will not be open 10 tn
public that evening.
COMMENCING next Tuesday, George r
Ehle will deliver by carrier the New Yorl
papers at seven o'clock or as soon as the.
arrive, each evening This is enterprise
that will be appreciated.
"THE Courtship of Miles Standisb," " to b
given in the vestry of the Church of lh
Messiah Friday evening, is a dramatize
version of Longfellow's poem and can no
fail to be- very pleasing
Miss MARY b. CARLETON went to Bridge
port. Conn last Monday, where she is Wis
iting Miss Maud Porter Later she vii
visit relatives in Albany and Glen's Falls
N Y, and New York city.
REV. Il. b. EARLE returned last Thursda.
from his vacation and preached last Sunda.