The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-14
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


j. w. FOUNTAIN and wife OF Winooski
spent Sunday with Mrs S. E. Pattee.
THE Daughters of Liberty hold their regu-
lar meeting this "wednesday evening.
MISS JESSIE SANBoRN of Plainfeld has
been visiting Mrs. g. A. McCobb, her sister.
MRS w. A. LORD will be at home to her
trends on Thursday afternoon of each week.
THE number Of borrowers cards issued to
date in the Kellogg Hubbard Library is
1,799
THE Ladies' Guild of Christ Church is to
meet at Mrs. Edward Dewey's on Thursday
at two O'Clock p. M,
CLARENCE E. BUGBEE is soon to erect
house on Fuller street. on the lot recently
purchased by him.
BETHANY Reading will meet with Mrs.
Morton Marvin on Tuesday afternoon, Oc-
tober 20, at two o'clock.
w. e. LAIRD has been appointed man.
ager of the Consolidated Lighting Com
pany in place of e, ID. Blackwell.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at quarter past two with
Mrs. ID. s. Blanpied, No. College street.
Miss BELLE X. Cross of Cambridge, Mass,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. L. Bart Cross on Thurs
day, while eu route from the White Noun
tains.
THE Epworth League Reading Circle will
meet next Friday evening at half past
seven with Miss Ida A. Putnam, No. First
Avenue.
THE Seymour farm in Berlin has been
purchased by A. K. Carr, who has taken
possession, Mr.. Carr will still reside in
Montpelier.
THE suit brought by the city against
Thomas III. Cory for obstructing the high
way leading to Heaton Hospital will be
heard on Thursday
ERNEST PATTERSON was adjudged insane,
last Wednesday afternoon, and was taken
by Sheriff Bancroft to the Asylum for the
Insane at Waterbury.
THE members of Montpelier Lodge,
knights of Pythias, cordially invite visiting
knights to meet with them any Thursday
evening in Grand Army hall
FROM now until December the barber
shops will be open every weekday evening
except Saturday until nine o'clock. Satur-
day nights until eleven o'clock.
WALLACE w. MOVES has bought the in
terest of Eugene Smith in the barber-shop
owned by Smith & Ennis, on Main street.
and took possession Monday morning.
THE date for the annual meeting of the
Vermont Pharmaceutical Association at
Montpelier is Tuesday, October 20. An in
teresting programme has been prepared.
THE members of Vermont Lodge of Odd
Fellows attended in body the funeral of
Mrs G. r. Booth Thursday afternoon. Rev.
DR.. Norman Seaver otficiated at the funeral.
EXTENSIVE preparations are in progress
for the grand military ball to be given in
| the Armory some evening the last Of Octo-
Der. A more extended notice will appear
later.
The ewly-organized choir at the Church
of the Messiah is made up OF Miss Clara l..
Houghton of Barre, soprano; Mrs. Hattie p.
Willard contralto; B. M. Shepard, tenor;
w. S. Smith, bass.
CHARLES f. UNDERHILL the imparson-
al or, will give his second entertainment at
the vestry of the Church of the Messiah this
"wednesday evening, when he will inter
pref rip Van Winkle."
JOHN AUBIN of Williamstown was ar
rested Sunday afternoon by Policeman De-
merritt for intoxication. Before Judge
Smile, Monday morning, he pleaded guilty
and was fined, with costs, S11.51, which he
paid
THE Montpelier Seminary football team
defeated the Goddards on the home ground
Monday afternoon by score OF TO 0. The
brilliant work of Foss, Parmenter and
Dodge of the Montpelier team was feature
of the game.
The late Ex-Governor Levi X, Fuller was
at the time of his death director of the
National Life Insurance Company. Major
| o. ID. Clark, assistant secretary, represented
the company at his funeral at BrattleborC
yesterday afternoon.
MRS. s. B. ZEIGLER of West Union, Ia
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Moss
Mr.. Zsigler, her husband, has recently re-
turned from AK la Chapelle, where he was
United States iconsul. Mrs Zeigler is 8
sister OF Mrs. j Q. Adams.
THE water-mains are being extended in
the vicinity of the electric light station, un'
der the direction of Superintendent Joe
Foster. Many inhabitants in that LOCALITY
have long demanded better water privi
leges.
THE sal bon at the corner Of Elm and
School streets, known as the Soldiers
Home" was raided Thursday evening by
Sheriff Collins and Deputies Wedge and
Chase. A diligent search failed to find any
contraband goods.
A CHANGE of time on the Central Vermont
railroad went into effect on Sunday. The
evening accommodation train south and The
Chicago express north that have left Mont
pelier at 600 p. M, now leave at 8: 50 P. NJ
Don't forget this and thus get left
THE Vermont Historical Society will holt
its annual meeting in the society rooms a
the State House on Tuesday, October 20
The question whether an evening address
will bs delivered in Representatives Hal
or elsewhere will be settled at the annua
meeting.
THE eighteenth annual excursion to Bos
ton via the Mont pelier & Wells River rail
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81. Fare for the round trip from Barre anC
Montpelier will be $5 A special train will
leave Montpelier at $3.50 on the morning OF
the 2lst, arriving in Boston at 3:45 P. M
Tickets will be good returning until Novem
ber 2.
For the only lecture to be delivered in
Vermont by "Ian Maclaren," author o.
beside the Bonnie Brier Bush" at Bur
lington this "wednesday evening, the Cen
trail Vermont railroad will sell round trip
tickets at reduced rates. Fare from Barre
81 40; from Montpelier, $1.25. Tickets goot
on all regular trains, and will be good re
turning October 10.
CHARLES II. HoYT has written and pro
duced nearly score of comedies. but his
greatest success, both from a financial anC
mertorious standpoint, is his " A Texas
Steer" which Is keen satire on politics
written in Hoyt's merriest vein. The author
being a member of the New Hampshire
legislature, must have known how 1t was
himself" when he outlined this bright and
entertaining skit At Blanchard Opera
House, Thursday evening. October TO-
OK Wednesday evening, October 28
comes the first entertainment in the Young
Mems Christian Association Star course