The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-18

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month at the Office of DIR. Harold A. Fisk.
Miss HouGHroN of the Unitarian choir is
i'll with bronchitis. Her place will be filed
next Sunday by Miss Foster of Goddard
Seminary
SEVERAL Montpelierites took advantage
OF the special rates to Burlington to attend
the election celebration which occurred
there Saturday.
THE reunion OF the Vermont Cavalry will
be held in Grand Army hall next Thursday
evening. This is the twenty-fourth annual
meeting of the association.
THE local staff of teachers, who have re-
| turned from the meeting Of the state aSso-
citation at St. Albans, report a very inter-
esting and profitable session.
REV. DIR. NORMAN SEAvER preached a
specia sermon to young people in Bethany
! church Sunday evening. 1t was an elo-
quent and impressive discourse.
THE house of G. II. More is temporarily
converted into a hospital, there being no
less than five people i'll in the family. One
Of the little boys is threatened with pneu-
monia.
JOHN MCDONALD, residing on Hubbard
street, is receiving congra ulations upon the
appearance in his household Of a phenom-
enon in the shape of a fourteen-pound baby.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Thursday afternoon at half
past two o'clock, with Mrs. Anna Dillon.
The subject of last meeting will be con-
tinued.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is expected to
preach in the Morse school-house, East
Montpelier, next Sunday at 2:15 P. NJ
Subjects "What Ought Liberal Christian
to Be2"
The Central Vermont railroad will sell
tickets to all points in Vermont and New
York at extremely reduced rates; good GO
ing Nov. 255h and Goth, and returning till
the Both.
MEssRs. II. G. AND T. f. COTTON will be
in attendance upon the annual meeting of
the National Saddery Hardware Associa-
tion, which opens in New York city next
Tuesday.
CLIFTON HEAToN, who was recently
elected manager of the freshman football
eleven at the University of Vermont, is dis
tinguishing hi nseif as a half-back on the
same eleven.
o. j. OSBORNE has supplied long felt
need by presenting Company III VITA a
portable box-office, to be used for the ale of
tickets when Armory Hall is used for an
entertainment.
A GRAND military ball will be given by
Company III in Armory Hall on November
20. Music will be furnished by the Mont
pelier Orchestra, with extra pieces from
Burlington and Concord.
THERE will be box social at the Morse
school-house in East Montpelier Thanks
giving eve, to which the public is cordially
invited The Musical and Dramatic Club
will present the farce Getting Ready"
THE Christian Endeavor Society of the
Baptist church will hold sociable at the
home of Mrs. j. w. Leland, Wednesday
evening. There will be a short entertain
ment after which refreshments will be
served
MRS. e. f. GEORGE, superintendent of the
Watts de Peyster Home, Tivol, N Y,
anpka at Trinity cburrh
the work of the Italian girls mission in
New York. A collection was taken for the
benefit OF the Home.
MISSES MAUD SHURTLEFF, Harriet Huse,
Louise Gleason, Nellie Dewey, Mrs. Ii. w.
Gate and Mrs. A. N Stratton are assisting
the regular force of the Vermont Mutual
Fire Insurance Company in arranging
system of card alphabeting.
A GAME is scheduled between the Bur
lington High School eleven and the Mont
pelier Seminary second eleven, to take
place on Seminary hill, Friday afternoon,
at $3.50 O'Clock. A small admission fee will
be charged. Lovers of football will un-
doubtedly find this close contest.
IT is probable that Mr.. Southwick will
| play return engagement in Montpelier in
March next, when The Merchant of Ven
ice," and 'Richafd III'' may be presented.
Should this talented and delightful actor
decide to return to Montpelier he may be
! assured OF very warm and enthusiastic
welcome.
ARMoRY HALL was packed Saturday
evening, and all departments of the Catho-
lie fair did rushing business. The spa
cious floor gave ample room for those who
cared TO dance, and ID. ID. Haley, the mer-
chant taller, shook his nimble heels in clog
dances that were applauded to the echo
| The fair will close W ednesday evening.
THE eleven representing Montpelier Sem
mary went to st. Johnsbury yesterday to
play return game with the st. Johnsbury
| Academy eleven. The eleven defeated the
local team on the Seminary campus few
weeks ago by score of 16 to 6. The Mont
pelier Seminary team yesterday had sweet
revenge, simply toying with their oppo-
nents, and winning by score Of 20 too.
w. A. LORD, ESQ is candidate for the
Office of United States district attorney for
Vermont under the incoming admnistra-
| tion. Mr.. Lords recommendation for this
position will carry with it gilt-edged sup.
port of which any man might well be proud.
1t is unnecessary to add that his qualifica-
tfons for the Office will also be the strongest
| kind OF recommendation.
WORK on the new block being erected on
Main street by Blanchard Brothers is pro-
crossing finely, The lower floor is devote d
to three large and commodious stores, while
the three upper stories will be fitted up for
| offices. George Guernsey is the architect.
1t is expected that the building will be com
pleted by about the first of January. 1t
will certainly be an ornament to our city.
THE Montpelier Gun Club, at the request
of some of the officers of the Vermont Fish
and Game League has decided to hold a
special shoot at their range on Thursday,
November 10, for the benefit of all members
attending the annual meeting of the League,
which is to be held that evening. 1t is ex-
pected that o. r. Dickey, who won first
prize in the e. q. international handicap
for 1896, will be present, as will several
other crack shots from out of the state
Train will leave the Montpelier and Wells
River depot at / 05 sharp, for the range.
The Vermonter for November is an Edu,
cational and Legislative Number" 1t con
tains comprehensive article on Vermont
Normal Schools" by Principal Edward
Conant of Randolph, with cuts OF the nor.
NAL school buildings at Johnson, Castleton
and Randolph. The leading article is de-
voted TO a sketch OF the early life of Sena-
tor Justin S, Morrill,, by Judge James Bar
rett of Rutland, and illustrated with por.
traits of Senator Morrill, and views of his
home in Stafford. The cover is adorned
with fine half-tone portrait of the senator
made from a lata phOtnoranh