The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-22
CITY COUNCIL meets tonight.

SPEAKER w. w. STICKNEY OF Ludlow was
in the city last Saturday.
T. j. KELLEHER has been in Concord, N.
H., during the past week.
GEORGE w. WING and Levi II. Bixby
went to Boston Tuesday noon.
j. o. JEFFREY of New York sang tenor in
Bethany Church choir last Sunday.
HoYrs "a Bunch of Keys" will be at
Blanchard Opera House, Friday, May l.
GEORGE BLAIR and daughter Julia have
been in New York during the past week.
Fl. B. WOODWARD has been in tow from
South Had'ey, Mass, the past few days.
MRS. q. A. BOND and son left last Thurs
day for Scranton, Pa to join her husband
Mis- MARY HARDWOOD OF Rutland was the
guest of Miss May Scoville over last Sunday.
DR.. A. W. RICE goes to Lawrence, Mass,
about May /, where he has very hattering
opening.
FRED, son of Charles Def. Bancroft has
been quite i'll with bronchitis during the
past week.
A LANDSLIDE of clay on East State street
has made travelling difficult on that thor
oughfare OF late
w. f. WATERMAN returned last Friday
from Florida, where he has been for the
past four months.
Mr.. AND Mrs. FRANK e. SMITH are in
Boston, where Mrs. Smith is receiving treat
ment for deafness.
CARDS have been received announcing the
marriage, April 10, of DR.. G. A. Bailey and
Mrs. Fannie Emery.
The Chautauqus Glass will meet next
Friday afternoon with Mrs. A.. w. SlOCum
No. 10 College street.
NEARLY 200 tickets were sold for the sugar
party given last Thursday evening by the
st. Jean aptiste Society.
Mpc LAWN raturna1 tO Montnelipr
last Friday, after visit of two weeks at her
former home in Randolph.
DR.. ID. G. KEMP has purchased for $4,000
the DR.. Chandler property adjoining Trim
ity Church on Main street.
The city treasurer will be at his Office
Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this
week to receive water rents.
MOSES KANE, train dispatcher for the
Montpelier & Wells River railroad, was in
New York over last Sunday.
7. l.. CAS- -AvANr brought to this office last
Wednesday a half dozen very lively grass
hoppers that he had found in his yard.
DIR HENRY JAMES of Waterbury was in
town last Monday in consultation with DR..
ID. G Kemp on Mrs. ID. l. Fuller's case.
M. s. DAVIS, proprietor of the Exchange
Hotel, has been great sufferer during the
past week with cry spelas in his left foot.
The residence of Rev A. HI. Webb on
Hubbard street has been connected with
the telephone exchange. The call is 259-3.
REV. L. F. SNAPP of Littleton, N. H., is to
preach in the Church of the Messiah next
Sunday, exchanging with Rev. Mr.. Wright.
w. A. BRIGGS, assisted by Mrs Briggs,
soprano soloist, will give free organ re
cital in Seminary chapel next Friday even
ing,
MISS G. A. MCCLURE leaves this after
noon for Beaver Dam, Wis, where she is
to reside. f. II. Mcclure will accompany
her.
THERON f. COTTON returned last Satur-
day from an extended western trip in the
interests of the Cotton Manufacturing Com
pany.
Wells River last Friday, where Mr.. Sterling
has a position in the Baldwin Bottling
Works.
c. A. BROWN has completed his studies at
the Medical College at Baltimore, Md, and
is to resume his position with DR.. G. K.
! Chandler.
The whist party given in Grand Army
| Hall last Thursday evening by the mem
bers of Brooks Post was very literally
patronized.
THE report current on the street yester-
day that E. M. Cory had sold his fruit store
to Frank W. Robinson was entirely with
out foundation.
| l.. O. TEwKsBURY has gone to the home ol
his parents in Worcester where he is re
ported as steadily recovering from his re-
cent severe illness.
THE Montpelier Banjo, Mandolin and
Guitar Club will give concert at Randolph
at the closing exercises of the Norma
| School, June 49,
VERMONT LODGE, No. 2, of Odd Fellowr
has accepted an invitation from Brooks
Post, g. A. r to participate in the parade
on Decoration day.
MED HoUaHToN, of the publishing firm o.
Houghton. Miff1in & Co., Cambridge, ha'
been visiting Mr. and Mrs. j. c. Houghton
his parents, during the past week.
CHARLES LIToH was down street last weel
months, during which time he has beer
confined to the house with pyaemia.
P. j. RYAN had one hand badly jam met
in the machinery at the granite sheds OF @
II More g. Co., last Thursday. He is tax
ing his enforced vacation In Waterbury.
WILLIAM @. MORSE, son of j. b. Morse
who has been with Phillips & Lucas three
years and half, has entered the Walthan
Neurological School at Waltham, Mass.
e. r. SKINEER is moving his storehous,
that stood on land owned by III. ID. Hopkin
on College street to the site of the old to
boggan chute on the Morton Marvin farm.
THE meeting for young men at the room
of the Young Mems Christian Association
last Sunday afternoon, was led by Johl
Doherty. His theme was Loyalty t.
Christ"
A SPECIAL train carried fifty couples 3
Barre last Wednesday evening, where
leap year ball was held in Miles Hall MI
sic was furnished by the Montpelier o.
chestra.
ADoLPHUs BARNEY fell backward in tn
yard of the Central Vermont railroad, las
Sunday, striking the back OF his head on
car-wheel and cutting cash that laid bar
the skull.
A oooDLY number Of the members {
Brooks Post, G. A. r., spent last Frida
evening with George w. Colby at his me-
home on Barre street. The evening ws
pleasantly passed in a social way, and