The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19


ASH "WEDNESDAY.
LENT begins to-day.
SERVICES will be held in Christ Church
this evening.
l.. BART Cross has been in Boston during
the past week.
LESTER H. GREENE was in Boston on
business last week.
REV. DR.. NORMAN SKAvER was in Boston
nearly all Of last week,
B. G. ALEXANDER was in New York and
Philadelphia last week.
ROBERT j. HARoIN is confined to his
house with a severe cold
COLLINS BLAKKLY was confined to his
house with grip last week.
A DAUGHTER was born to Mr.. and Mrs. A.
W. Bailey last Wednesday.
MRS. @. H. BALDWIN has been i'll with
the grip during the past week.
MRS j. w. LELAND has gone to Philadel
phia for visit of several weeks.
THE Baptist Mite Society will meet this
afternoon with Mrs. E. b. Earle.
j. A. DEBoER left last Monday for a ten
days business trip in Boston and New York.
THE pupils of the High School enjoyed
dance at Whitcomb's hall last Friday even
ing.
REV. FATHER O'NKILL of Burlington Off
ciated at st. Augustine's Church last Sun
day.
THE new barber shop of Luce & Moss in
Miller block will be opened next Wednes-
day.
WILLIAM WHELAN has been at home from
the University of Vermont during the past
week.
THE Epworth League Reading Circle will
meet next Friday evening with Mrs. A. E.
Niles.
WAsH1NGToN's birthday. next Saturday,
is legal holiday, and the banks will be
closed.
T. L. WooD, assistant state librarian,
spent last Sunday with his brother in Ran
dolph.
s. n. Jackson of Barre exchanged last Sun
day morning.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet with
Mrs. e. f. Rand next Friday afternoon at
half past two.
THE Woman's Relief Corps will hold
whist party in Grand Army Hall next
Tuesday evening.
Miss DARLING, an evangelist from Elmore,
is holding meetings in Berlin Hall every
evening this week.
B. M. SHEPARD and Miss Lillian Burrows
were married yesterday at the home Of the
bride in Burlington.
THE Bethany Reading Club will meet
with Mrs. NJ. e. Smile next Tuesday after.
noon at two o'clock
K. B. BAILEY, special agent for the Home
Fire Insurance Company of New York, was
in town last Monday.
A DAUGHTER was born on Tuesday to Mr..
and Mrs. p j. Ledden, and a son to Mr..
and Mrs. W. j. Lynch.
BECAUSE of the illness of Mrs. W. A.
Briggs, Miss Julia Cross sang soprano in
Bethany choir last Sunday.
A SPECIAL city meeting was held last Sat-
urday evening, but no business OF public
Importance was transacted.
THE Blanpied lyceum this week will dis
cuss the question whether the United States
should assist the Armenians.
The Kellogg Hubbard Library will be
kept open at the usual hours on Washing
toms birthday, next Saturday.
MRS. WILDER P. HUNTINGTON gave
ladies' whist party last Friday evening at
her home on East State street.
A. N. BLANCHARD is in Boston this week,
where Mrs Blancl hard has been visiting her
daughter for the past two weeks.
j. w. ARNOLD, general passenger agent
of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg
railroad, was in the city last week.
THE infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Alfred Bailey of East Montpelier Center
died last week OF cholera infantum.
Mr.. AND MRS. r. II. NEWTON and George
W. Wing attended the funeral of Mrs. Hat
tie Randall at Rutland last Monday.
THE Chautauqua Glass will meet at the
Exchange Hotel with Mrs. K. A. Mutt next
Friday afternoon at quarter past two.
GEORGE BRAINERD went to Royalton on
Tuesday to adjust a small loss for the Yer
mont Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
The piano used last week at the first mu-
sca convention ever held in Groton was
purchased of j. f. Dutton by 1. NJ. Kicker.
Miss IDA e. CHASE, formerly book-keeper
for JOhonnotts & Hall, is now working in
the Office of the Lane Manufacturing Com.
pany.
DOMINGO THoMAssI returned last Thurs
day from Italy, where he has been for
several months. His family will return
later.
HOMER N MINARD, a student at Mont
pelier Semi nary, has just completed sue
cessful term of school in district No. 7,
Middlesex
THE land on St. Paul street belonging to
the estate of James r. Langdon, known as
the Smith property, has been purchased by
Benjamin Daley.
THE Woman's Home Missionary Society
connected with Trinity Church will meet
this afternoon with Mrs. II. A. Bowman,
No. Cedar street.
REV. JOSHUA GILL of Brookline, Mass,
editor Of the Christian Witness, is to preach
in Berlin Hall next Wednesday at two and
seven o'clock, P. M.
REV. Mr.. PARoUNAGAIN, a native of Ar
menia will lecture ON Armenia and Mo
hammedanism at Seminary Chapel on
Thursday evening.
MRS. MARY r. HALL, sister OF G. G. Aims
worth of this city, is seriously Ill at her
home in Lower Cabot with nervous prostra-
tion and liver trouble.
Fl. c. COTTON and his son Theron are in
New York this week attending the annual
meeting of the Wholesale Saddlery Manu-
facturers Association.
THE Ladies' Society Of the Church OF the
Messiah will hold country supper in the
vestry next Friday evening from half past
five to seven o'clock.
THIRTY-FoUR and thirty-six degrees be-
low zero were recorded at several places in
this city on Tuesday morning-the coldest
thus far for the winter.
THE Ladies' Aid Association will meet
this afternoon in the hall of Heaton block.
The work Is ready, and those who prefer to