The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-12-23
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

DR.. G. H. CoRBIs visited in Bradford
last week.
A SON was born last Wednesday to Mr..
and Mrs. A. E. Niles.
LF TERRILL of Underhil visited w. e.
Terrill his brother, last week.
DIR. GEORGE j. HELMER of New York
will spend the holidays in Montpelier
Mr. AND Mrs. HIRAM ODELL visited last
week at the former home OF Mr.. Odell at
Odelltown, =. Q.
HOWARD EDISON, clerk for Gleason & Co.,
goes to Boston January 1, where he has
good position
MRS r. III. WHITTIER went last Thurs
day TO Cambridgeport, Mass, where she is
to spend the winter.
II. N. TURNER, superintendent OF the
Fairbanks SC lie Works at st. Johnsbury,
was in town last Thursday.
THE annual conclave OF Mount Zion Com
mandery, Knights Templar, will be held at
Montpelier next Tuesday.
GEORGE CROSBY returned last week to his
duties in Boston after visit OF several
weeks at the home of William Maloy
NEARLY fifty from Montpelier attended
the annual ball and oyster supper at East
Montpelier last Thursday evening.
INMATES of the county Jail can now enjoy
the luxury OF a bath. A tub, fitted Tor not
and cold water, was put in last week
AT. SoRrwELL, President of the Mont
heller and Wells River Railroad, is the
newly-elected Mayor of Cambridge, Mass.
ONE of the deer shot by Willard Whit
comb in the wilds of Maine last summer
has been mounted and now decorates the
show window at the Whitcomb laundry.
Miss GERTRUDE GREELEY will close her
labors as bookkeeper for the Flanders &
Pierce Company next week, and will go to
her home in Plainfeld for needed rest.
"MART" MARKHAM, who lost one foot in
the yard of the Montpelier and Wells River
Railroad last spring, has procured an arti-
fetal foot which enables him to walk with
but very slight limp.
OFFICIAL orders regarding the death of
Ex-Governor Levi X. Fuller were received
last Thursday by Lieutenant G. A. Smith
OF Company II. The flag over Armory
Hall was placed at half mast the following
day.
THE Royal Arch Masons of the third dis
trict, composing the chapters at Montpelier,
Waterbury, Barre, Randolph and Bradford,
will hold district meeting at Montpelier,
Wednesday, January 49, This is the first
district meeting held in three years, and
several of the grand chapter officer are ex-
pected to be present. 1t is not yet decided
what degrees will be worked.
The following officers of Thomas wildey
Encampment of Odd Fellows for the year
ensuing were elected last Friday evening:
Chief Patriarch, Edward Baker; High
Priest, S. W. Corse Senior Warden, w f.
Waterman; Junior Warden, W. f. Ward
ner; Scribe. Frank E. Smith; treasurer, d.
W. Dudley These officers will be installed
Friday evening, January l, and the exer-
cises will be public to members of Vermont
Lodge of Odd Fellows, and Ivy Lodge,
Daughters Of Rebekah.
myrtle, wife of Eugene A. Smith, died
last Friday morning of heart failure, super
induced by measles and pneumonia. Mrs.
Smith had baan aariOualv i'll qinra Thanks
giving, but was considered convalescent
until a few hours before her death. De-
ceased was born in Montpelier, February
"a, 1862. and was daughter of Thomas G.
age OF two years, on the death of her
mother, she was adopted by Edwin f.
Hutchins. In December, $780, she married
Mr.. Smith who, with q. young son and
daughter, survives her. Mrs. G. Def. Ban
croft is an only sister, Charles III. Alexan-
der, half brother, and two daughters OF
Edwin r. Hutchins are foster sisters. Mrs.
Smith was always home body, OF retir-
ing disposition. In the home circle she al
ways took supreme comfort and delight,
and from that home the light has now gone,
and dark shadows have come. Her afflict-
ed husband and family have the profound
sympathy of very wide circle of friends.
The funeral was held from her late home
Sunday afternoon, Rev. W. A. Dawson
officiating, and the burial was in Green
Mount Cemetery.
THE Vanity Fair" held last Wednesday
and Thursday in the vestry of the Church
of the Messiah, by the Ladies' Society of
that church, was pleasant and very sue
cessful event of the holiday season. The
oyster supper Wedn esday evening, and
chicken-pie dinner Thursday were both
literally patronized, and were all that the
people have learned to expect from the
ladies of this church. The various booths
were objects of special attention and a
goodly sum was realized from the sale of
the articles offered. The room devoted to
the poster exhibit was crowded, day and
evening. In this room the valuable collec-
ton of posters, some three hundred in num-
Der, owned by George A. Viles Of Boston,
were on exhibition, and their special fea-
lures were pointed out by Mrs. A. ID. Far
we'll. The closing entertainment Thursday
evening attracted an audience that sent
standing room to premium. The pro-
gramme rendered included piano solo by
L. j. Hathaway, solos by Miss Nellie M.
Dewey, and Master Rollo Blanchard, selec-
lions by the boy choir, under the direction
of Mrs Minnie Marsh, and Miss Anna j.
Guernsey OF the Emerson School OF Oratory,
in several Rotations Miss Guernseys Sc
lections were new, and, in their varying
character, fully exemplifed the versatility
of this young ladys ability. Her power Of
delivery is strong, her limitations danger
ously near the perfection line. Ter gestures
were easy, and her bearing graceful. She
was repeatedly recalled, and her friends
are pardonably proud of the delightful
reader and elocutionst into which she has
developed. Her selections included a skt
from " Helens Babies" "Mr Traver's
First Hunt" /" The Marriage of the Flow
ers," and The Angel and the Shepherds"