The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08

the vestry from haf.past five to seven
O'Clock next Tuesday evening. Admission
fifteen cents
UNLESS the meeting of the hotel proprie.
tors at the Montpelier House today is held
with closed doors, the WATCHMAN next
week will give its readers a full report Of
the proc edngs.
Hon @. w, BRowNELL OF Burlington and
Hon. III. f. Field of Rutland, state insur.
ance commissioners, were in town on Tues
day, making their annual examna ations of
the local insurance companies.
MRS. j. w. SEVERANCE has made arrange.
ments with Q. III Ferrin to handle her cele-
0rated home made candy at his store, 48
State street. This candy was in great de-
maDd during the holidays aud is absolutely
pure.
Mrs. GEORGE 9. ALDER and Mrs. E. A.
Mutt will serve five o'clock tea to the Chau-
tauqua Glass next Friday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Albsr, No. 40 East State
street. The class will meet at the usual
| hour.
THE Sunday evening services of Bethany
church will hereafter be held in the audi
ence room at seven O'Clock, beginning next
Sunday evening. The musical programme
will b9 more elaborate than in previous
years.
The Consolidated Lighting Company gave
its second annual banquet to its employees
al the Montpelier House last Wednesday.
| The company numbered twenty, aud the
occasion was most enjoyable to all con.
cerned.
THE First National Bank of Montpelier
has declared a semi-annual di idend OF two
'er cent, the Montpelier National Bank one
OF f)ur per cent, and The Montpelier Savings
Bank Il Trust Company a dividend of five
| per cent
The marriage of Henry Holt and Miss
| Mildred K. Ladd occurred on Tuesday at
the home Of O.. NJ Ladd in Worcester
| They are Co reside in the new house on
Bailey Avenue erected the past summer by
Mr.. Ladd.
ELvERToN w. LOOMS, the one. armed
veteran, who was for 80 long familiar fig
ure around the Exchange Hotel, is quite
low with brain trouble at the home OF his
brother in Berlin. George w. Kidder is
caring for him.
WILLARD p. WHITCoMB is in New York
this week on business. A firm in that city
has offered him $1,000 for the shirt. damping
machine on which he has recently OBJ aimed
patent but Mr.. White )mb is not anxious
to sell even at that price.
E. A. CHIrrENDEN Of st. Albans, general
freight agent of the Central Vermont rail.
road, Hon. Oln Merrill of En- osburg Falls,
Hon. o. NJ Barber of Arlington, F. Smith
of ST.. Albans, Hon. q. j. Bell of Walden
and Hon. H. W. Bailey. of Newbury were
at the Pavilion on Tuesday.
years been connected with the furniture es-
tablishment of l.. P. Gleason & Co., left last
Saturday for Grand Rapids, Michigan,
where he has been appointed to the posi-.
tion OF manager of the Grand Rapids Fur
niture Exposition Company.
julius DEWEY, Charles Adams and Cliff
ton Heaton returned to Rock Point Insti.
tute. Burlington, last Monday. All the
young people from the University OF V r.
mont and other institutions of learning who
have spent the holiday vac alton in town
have returned to their work.
Hon. GEORGE BRIGas, Hon. j. l.. Martin,
Hon. II. q. Hill, w. w. Stickney. W. A.
directors in the Vermont Mutual Fire In.
surance Company, were in town last We'd
nesday to attend the quarterly meeting of
the directors of that institution.
ARTHUR G, EATON, treasurer of the State
Young Mems Republican Club, has guaran.
teed the executive committee of that organ
ization sufficient sum for the payment of
expenses If the annual meeting is held in
Montpelier on February II, and favorable
reply is hoped for from that committee.
The annual meeting Of the Apollo Club
was held last Thursday evening, when the
following officers were elected President,
j. M. Boutwell,; vice.president, R. G. Bow
ers; secretary, j. 7. Sabin; treasu er, r. B.
Denny; managers, Abraham Long, j. A.
DeBoer, F A. Rowland. Frank l. Pratt.
Mr.. AND Mrs. TELEsPHoRE ALLARD held
a pleasant family reunion at their home on
Court street last Sunday. Mrs f. b. Martel
and Mrs. NJ. Guevin of st. Johns bury, their
daughters, A. j. Alard of St. Albans, and
Misses Carrie, Nellie, Julia and Hattie,
who reside at home, made up the happy
company
The Methodists, Baptists and Congrega.
tionalists are observing the Week of Prayer.
AT Trinity Church meeti lgs are held every
evening at half past seven. Rev. Dr. e. NJ.
Smith and others are assisting Rev. A. II.
Webb, the pastor. 1t is expected that the
meetings will be continued next week with
union services
CHARLES 3. CURRIER, city engineer OF
Barre and Miss Blanche III. Skinner were
married last Wednesday evening at the
home of III. A. Skinner, Barre street, by
Rev. j. Edward Wright. A wedding re-
ception followed the ceremony. Mr.. and
Mrs. Currier are to reside on Merchant
street in Barre, and will be at home to their
friends about January 20.
MRS LAURA LANE, widow of the late
Willis Lane of Maple Hill (Plainfield) died
last Thursday at the residence of Mrs. A. N.
Blanchard, her daughter, with whom she
has lived for the past eleven years. The
body was taken to Plainfield Saturday
morning, WIN re- the funeral was held that
afternoon, Rev. j. Edward Wright oficiat-
ing, and where the burial took place.
EDEN LACY, an employe at the state in
sane asylum at Waterbury, was arrested
for intoxication last Friday by Deputy
Sheriff Tuttle. Before Judge Smile, Satur
day morning, he pleaded guilty, disclosed
on Ed Sweeney, and was fined $11.51.
Sweeney refused to acknowledge that he
had furnished the intoxicants, and, through
his counsel, appealed his case to county
court.
MRS. LILLIAN ID. JONES OF Maiden, Mass,
has been visiting Mrs. II. A. Bowman and
other friends in the city. Mrs Jones is
pleasantly remembered in Montpelier as
Miss Lillian Slack. and was for time the
efficient clerk in charge of the money order
department of the postoffice. She received
telegram, last Monday, that her mother
was dangerously i'll, and left at noon for
Maiden.
w. w. PRRsCorr is pleasantly remem-
bered in this city. Mr.. Prescott is now on
a tour round the world in the interest
OF the religious sect of which he is leading
member We acknowledge the receipt
from Melbourne of an address delivered by
him at Armadale, Victoria, printed by the