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

uupDdru SJreeJ VdChteu Dy w. III. COWell.
MRS. W. H. PICKARD of Antrim, N H., is
caring for Mrs. John Voodry, her mother.
Miss CLARA L. DEFoRD is keeping the
books for the Langdon Granite Company.
REV. A. N. LEWIS rector of Christ Church.
is visiting this week in New Haven, Conn.
Miss MARY POLAND returned to Smith
College, Northampton, Mass, last Monday.
P. G. DEWEY and Miss Henrietta, his
| daughter, visited last week at Farnham,
Pc
| WILLARD p. WHITCoMB has recently been
granted patent for Il shirt-damping ma
chine.
A. L. WEEKS OF st. Albans, deputy col
| lector Of internal revenue, was in town last
Monday.
EIGHT persons joined Bethany Church
last Sunday, seven by confession and one
by letter.
FRANK III MCCLURE has recently added a
new moulding machine to the equipment of
his shop.
The grocery stores now close at half past
six on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
evenings.
M. S. DAVIS proprietor of the Exchange
Hotel, was in Brattleboro on business last
Saturday
FRANK MARSHALL of Calais has been ap.
pointed deputy county clerk, in place of w
G. White
III. s. Martin and wife of Swanton were
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice II. Collins
last week.
REV. D. P. Brown, an evangelist from
Waterloo, Ia, is at the Exchange Hotel for
two weeks.
DR.. l.. G. WAKEFIELD went to Randol ph
on Tuesday to test several herds Of cattle for
tuberculosis.
Mr.. AND MRS. W. G. SHAW and son Of
Bethel were at the Exchange Hotel several
days last week.
CLAYTON B. BIaELow has moved to the
house on Hubbard street vacated by Free
man r. Hayden.
MISS MARY JACOBS and Bert Nelson were
married last Wednesday evening at the
home of the bride,
A NEW granite cutting plant is soon to be
started in Montpelier under the irm name
of O'Keefe & O'Neil
THE Non partisan Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet this afternoon
with Mrs. ID. L. Fuller.
The Ladies' Guild of Christ Church will
meet with Mrs, O. H. Heaton on Thursday
afternoon at two o'clock.
The Bethany Reading Club will meet
with Mrs. G. Fl. Shipman next Tuesday
afternoon at two o'clock.
MISS ANNA GUERNSEY returned to Boston,
lASb saturday, 10 resume Dtr studies IN the
Emerson School of Oratory.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
Middlesex next Sunday at P. NJ. Subject:
"The Genius Of Christianity"
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet with
Mrs. F. A. Hayden. 96 Elm street, next Fri.
day afternoon at half past two.
FREEMAN r. HAYDEN has over twenty
boarders at what was formerly Hotel
Kempton, in the Holmes block.
Mrs. ABBIE p. BABCooK of Cabot is
seriously i'll with pneumonia at the resi-
dence of Mr.. j. W. f. Washburn.
JOINT installation of the officers OF
Books Post and Brooks Relief Corps was
held at Grand Army Hall last evening.
TWENTY EIGHT degrees below zero, with
no snow on the ground, kept the local
plumbers busy last Sunday and Monday.
w. A. ELLIS of the Vermont Mutual
office attended the funeral of Mrs. G. NJ.
Benjamin his aunt, in Barre, on Tuesday.
GEORGE l.. BLANCHARD has purchased of
the Mechanics Building and Construction
Company. for 1875, building lot on Charles
street.
Miss MARY HAawooD, who has been the
guest OF Miss Mary Scovlle during the hoi.
days, returned to her home in Rutland last
Saturday.
TIMOTHY HoRNBRooK was thrown from
wagon, last Monday evening, receiving in.
juries that necessitated tho services of a
physician.
DR.. l.. G. WAKEFIELD tested COW owned
by George ROBBERS last week. He found it
badly Affected with tuberculosis The COW
was kill "a.
s. G. WHITE and wife of Los Angeles,
Cal, are at the Pavilion. Mr.. White was
formerly with the Vermont Granite Com.
pany at Barre.
MRS. E. p. WALTON went last Monday to
Somerville Mass, to remain until after the
marriage of Miss May U. Griffin, her niece,
which occurs next Wednesday.
MAJOR o. d. CLARK, Captain A. G. Eaton
and Lieutenant Walter Sterling, of Com.
pany II, will attend the school for officers
TO be held next week at Burlington.
THE inmates OF the town farm house were
remembered at Christmas by useful and ap-
propriate gifts from the Non. partisan
Womans Christian Temperance Union.
MASON s. STONE, state superintendent of
education, was one OF the speakers at the
dedication OF the new public school build
ing at Springfield last Friday afternoon.
Mr.. SrURaEss Of the Montpelier Seminary
led the meeting for young men in the gym
nasium OF the Young Mems Christian
Association last Sunday. His subject was
Faith"
THE funeral of Mrs. Alexander Campbell
was held last Thursday morning from st.
Augustine's Church, Rev. w. j. O'Sullivan
officiating. The burial was in the Catholic
cemetery.
The ladies Of Montpelier are invited to
meet in the grand jury room at the Court
House, at half past two this afternoon, to
form Ladies' Aid Society for the Heaton
Hospital
The marriage of Henry w. Gate and Miss
EvaJ Bancroft will take place this even.
ing, AT eight o'clock, at the residence OF Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Def. Bancroft on East
State street.
THE Sunday. y.school connected with Trim
ity Church held its annual meeting last
Friday evening George K Mills was elected
sistant; Carroll Marvin, secretary; Bruce