The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-26
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOUND By
"W4TCHMANO NEWS
HUNTERS.

Randolph.
Miss e. p. PALMER is visiting in Bed
ford, p. O.
FRED j. McCUEN is visiting at his former
home in Vergennes.
HARRY OvIATT was at York Beach, Me-,
on vacation last week.
MISS ELLEN j. CIRCUIT is teaching in the
Welch district, Berlin.
A SON was born last Friday to Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest LaPlant.
MIR. AND Mrs. e. L. PUTNEY have been in
Boston during the past week.
L. T.. CALLAHAN has purchased the l.. G.
Tewksbury house on Elm street.
Miss NELLIE BILLINGS of Woodiord Wis
tied Miss Eta Markham last week.
MRS GEORGE w. KENT Is moving from
Bailey Avenue to her farm in Calais.
MRS. CARLOS BANCROFT is very i'll, and
no hopes are entertained of her recovery.
Mr.. AND MRS ISAAC FESNo of Boston
have been at the Pavilion during the past
week.
Mrs. G. B. WAIT of Cambridge is visiting
James 7. Sabin, her son-in.law, on Bailey
Avenue.
Mr.. AND MRS. EDsoN PECK of Brookfeld
are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. ii. A.
Skinner.
MRS REV. j. II. BABBITT of West Brat
tleboro will be the guest of the Misses Fisk
on Thursday.
NEARLY a thousand people from Mont
pelier attended the races at Barre last Fri
day afternoon.
No decision has, as yet, been made public
by the commissioners in the Charles street
bridge hearing.
Mr. AND MRS. f. w. ROBINSON spent last
week at the farmhouse of w. II. Maloy
in East Montpelier.
ALoNzo BENwAY of Excelsior Springs,
Mo-, has been visiting Mrs. W. II. III. Max
ham, his wife's sister.
Mrs G.. NJ. GILLETTE leaves next Monday
for St. Paul, MINI, for visit OF several
weeks with daughter.
A j. WHEELER aud E. B. Hammett left
last Thursday for Fruithurst, Ala, where
Mr.. Wheeler will locate
NEXT Sunday is " camp-meeting Sunday
at Northfeld. There will be no preaching
service at Trinity church.
NJ. S. STONE, superintendent OF educa-
tion, went last Friday to the wilds OF Maine
for vacation of ten days.
SENATOR AND MRS. JOHN M. THURsToN
were the guests of Hon. and Mrs Joseph
Poland last Monday night.
The kindergarten taught by Miss Amy b.
Fisk will open September in their new
room at 81 Hubbard street.
MISSES MAY AND GRACE BRADIsH of East
Fred r Stevens last week.
S. G. SHURTLEFF attended the annual
meeting of the American Bar Association,
held last week at Saratoga, n. Y.
| A son was born last Sunday to Professor
and Mrs. ID. s. Blanpied and daughter TO
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Labershire.
THE condition of DR.. j. Z. Macomber is
reported practically unchanged during the
past week, He is still seriously ill.
FRANK w AND RUFUS G. ROBINSON were
called to Noyan, p. O., last Saturday by the
dangerous illness of their aged father.
A FULL report of the dedication of the
| Chittenden monument at Wiliston last
Wednesday may be found on page two.
THE Young Mems Republican Club and
hundreds of others will attend the republi'
can rally at Barre next Friday evening.
GEORGE SALLIEs, porter at the Exchange
Hotel, has been visiting in Burlington and
Plattsburg, n Y, during the past week.
ONLY sixty-three tickets from Montpelier
and filty-three from Barre were sold for the
excursion to Fort Ticonderoga on Tuesday
j. S. VILEs is setting a line of electric
light poles between Montpelier and Barre
and on the main streets of the City Of Barre
EZRA X. PERKINS, ex.mayor of the City
of Providence r. l., has been visiting Ell
kins Perkins, his father, for the past tel
days
LION WILEY had one leg broken las
Monday by getting it caught under heav.
stick of timber he was hauling on BerliI
, street.
MRS @. w. LEARNED and daughter o
, Bayonne, n j., are at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry w. Drew, parents OF tn
, former.
Mrs. f. p. KINNEY returned last Monda
from South Ashburnham, Mass, where sh
has been visiting for several weeks at he
. Old home.
THOMAS ALLEN left for Springfield, Mass
Q on Tuesday, where he is to locate for Tn
r present. His family will join him in abou
r two weeks.
I MONTPELIER Lodge of Good Templar
t has surrendered its charter and disbande6
low state of finances and lack of iuteres
D. was the cause.
$ REV. A. II. WEBB, Rev. L. l., BeemaI
presiding elder, and Rev. DR.. E. M Smit
! were at ClaremOnt junction camp-groun
! over last Sunday.
REV. e. L. SMITH left last week for Jacl
= son, Mich, where he will visit Mrs. Charlie
8 Wilson, his sister, en- route to his home
Walla Walla. Wash.
l. MR. AND MRS. JOEL FOSTER returned la
; Saturday from western trip. They wei
absent four weeks aud went as far west
- Denver and Pixies Peak,
y Books upon both sides of the silver que
!, Kellogg Hubbard Library. They may
>, found in its reading-room.
y L. II. DEAvITT went last week to BostC
!. to enter the law office OF Kendall, Moore
II Hubbard. He will take the bar examin
,s tion at Montpelier in October.
t. ANDREW j. PHILLIPS of Chicago arrive
in town last week for a visit with q.
n Phillips, his brother, and Professor n.
r. Phillips OF Barre, his venerable father
is THE poem on page three entitled WI
sr Does It?" was written by Rev, A. j. Houl
10 of Brattleboro, a former pastor OF Trini
1; church, aud should have been credit'
d to him,
81 MRS HATTIE TRUE leaves next Saturdi
80 80 for Winnipeg, Manitoba. She expects
A. q, be absent about two months and will VII
's relatives in Sterling, Ill, during her a
sence.
~ HARRY NJ GRAVES of the Argus sta
" " will arrive to-day from Palmer, Mass, wi
y his family. He Is TO occupy tenement
" Reed block, over the store of JononnoI
y & Hall
st THE board OF civil authority met Ia