The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-09

their home for the present with Mr. and
Mrs. w, A. Stowell, parents of Mrs. FaT-
wtll
Mss Mo LrE BR1sBrN of Glens Falls, N
"t. # % r seriously bruised last Satui-
uaj D. 10 iHf brown from a tandem bicycle
she was riding gith r. p. Carleton.
THE Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs e. ID.
Putnam on First Avenue. The subject dis
cussed was The feast of ingathering."
DR.. X. LoNGFELLow CLEAvEs went to
Portland, Maine last Friday He will
visit for two weeks at his former home in
Maine before his return to Montpelier.
FRANK A. MUTT Of Brookline, Mass, is
the guest of Il. A. Nut, his uncle. Mr.
Mutt is connected with the well known in
surance house of John 9. Paige, Boston.
RALPH @. BROWN, a student at the Mont
pelier Seminary, broke his left arm while
playing ball on the campus last Monday.
DIR. Q. E. Chandler reduced the fracture.
REV. l.. L. BEEMAN, presiding elder Of
the Montpelier district, preached and con-
Quoted quarterly meeting at South Tun-
bridge and South Royalton last Sunday.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT has an appoint
ment to preach in the Morse school-house
East Montpelier next Sunday afternoon
Subject: Responsibility for Accidents"
DIR G.. j. HELMER has rented, until Jan
uary /, the George III. Whitney house on
East State street. II is understood that DR..
Helmer will come to Montpelier next
week.
w. d. ALLEN, the representative-elect
from North Hero, is well known in Mont
pelier, having for many years been clerk
for Marvin & Sherburne and Putnam &
Marvin.
AN italian with name difficult to be re-
duced to United States' was lodged in
Jail last Friday evening by Officer Buchanan
Of Barre. He is charged with larceny in
that city.
THE woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Mrs. @. w. Guernsey
on Thursday afternoon at half past two.
Mrs. Anna Dillon will conduct a select
Bible reading.
MAJOR L. NJ. CIRCUIT of Stoneham, Mass, is
visiting in this vicinity. He will attend the
reunion of the Eighth Vermont regiment, to
be held at Montpelier next Friday after
noon and evening.
BY request of the Board of Trade, all
places of business were closed from two to
four o'clock, last Thursday afternoon, dur
ing the hours the funeral of the late DR..
j. e. Macomber was held.
DANIEL SEXTON was before Judge NJ. E.
Smile in City Court last Wednesday morn
ing, charged with intoXication the night be-
fore, He pleaded guilty and was fined,
with costs, S11.5l, which he paid.
ONE of the heavy gray horses owned by
the city was strauglad in the city barn last
Thursday night by getting snarled up in its
halter. II was valued at 5000 and was the
mate of the one that died last spring.
WoRKMEN have been engaged during the
past week in painting and Frightening up
the exterior of the court house, prepara-
tory to the September term of Washington
County Court, which opened yesterday
Miss BLANCHE CARTER returned last Sat
/ fAsv ha
spending her vacation with her parents
She has re-entered the High School and is
living in the family of Professor S. j. Blan'
pied,
T. j. BoYNroN denies most emphatically
the report sent out from Barre last week tC
the Boston papers that he has said he shall
vote for Mckinley in November. He IL
camping on the trail OF that press CORE
! spondent.
w. NELSON PECK now in his eighty.
sixth year, has voted at either state OF
| town election in Montpelier for sixty-foul
consecutive years-a record unsurpassed, il
is believed, by any voter in this city and by
few in the state.
A COMMUNICATION from Chelsea regarding
the non-appearance there, last Saturday
week, of G. A. G. Jackson and A. A. Steb
| bins of this city, who were advertised tC
speak in that village at that time, has beer
consigned to the waste-basket.
WILLIAM SAWYER, a brakeman on the
Montpelier & Wells River railroad, wa;
taken to Heaton Hospital last Saturday
with badly bruised and lacerated arm
caused by getting it between the buffers
while coupling cars at Wells River.
The members OF Company II will give a
| dance in Armory Hall on Tuesday evening
September 10, for which the Profile House
Orchestra, with George FL. Wilder as flute
soloist, will furnish music. A concert by
tl,a ,aufr ttf1 10 ha
BY clerical error that was not discov
cred until page three of this edition wa
printed, the election returns printed on that
| page give CIRCUITS plurality 500 less than i
really is. The correct figures are, Grouti
plurality, 3S,204; Grout's majority, 3G,ol1.
R. c. BOWERS bid in the property of thu
Vermont Quarry, Company, known a
Saturday afternoon. The property con
sists of twenty three acres of land and
quarry, and was struck off to Mr.. Bower
for S6,650.
THE Baptist Christian Endeavor Socet,
has elected the following officers: Pres
ident, Mrs. w. A, Shay; vice-president
Miss Winnie Bliss; recording secretary
Miss Maud Crossett; corresponding secre
tary, Miss Lena Crossett; treasurer, Har
vey Burnham.
MOSES DEMO was thrown from his hors
last Friday evening while the procession
was passing the WATCHMAN Office. Hi
horse reared, throwing Mr. DEMO back
ward. He received several bad bruises bu
remounted the animal and followed tn
bands to the end of the route.
q. Angler, a stone-cutter in the emplo
@. p. Gill * Co, received notice last weel
from an attorney in Montreal that fortun
of 81 100000 has recently been left him i
France. Mr.. Angler at once went to Mont
real TO consult with the lawyer, and, later
will sail for Havre TO prove his claim.
BARNARD Town, resident at the tow
farm in Berlin, has been spending his sui
stance for many years in a vain attempt {
discover the secret of perpetual motor
He nov claims that he has solved the prot
lem, and invites any one to visit the pool
farm and see his machine in operation.
THE excursion trains to Burlington las
Thursday, TO accommodate those VIII
wished to attend the interstate fair at How
ard Park, were slimly patron!zed Peopl
seemed to be waiting for tho state fair d
White River junction and the South RyI
gate and Waterbury fairs, held this week.
r.. NJ HARVEY, ESQ, the well-known a
torney, of West Topsham has moved hi
family to Montpelier. They will reside q
38 COllepe street. Mr. Harvev's increasin