The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
RIPPLES ON THE SURFACE OF
LOCAL WATERS.

last wednesday, may be tound on page
three.
A REPORT of the recent fourteenth an
nual convention of the Washington County
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
held at Plainfeld, Is given on page two.
WALTER PAINE is at work at the store of
G. Fl. Cross & Son.
f. g. BREWSTER was i'll last week,
threatened with fever.
Mr.. AND Mrs. FRANCIS SMITH of Swanton
are guests Of Brock L. Flint.
BLANCHARD BROTHERS are moving their
stock of goods to Hyde Block.
A DAUGHTER was born last Wednesday
night to Mr.. and Mrs Il. e. Hills.
FRED A. Rowland is in the wilds of
New Hampshire on fishing trip
MRS. D. p RING attended the funeral of
an aunt at Richmond last Saturday
THE band gave a concert on Keiths
ledge by request last Friday evening.
THE Kellogg Hubbard Library will not be
open on Saturday, Independence day
Miss MAMIE PITKIN goes to Woodsville,
N. H., to-day to visit Mrs. N. S. Knight
MISS JENNIE HUNT is visiting Rev. and
Mrs. w. III. Jackson in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss MAE SMITH is at home from Wes-
leyan University for the summer vacation.
Mr. AND MRS. f. e. PATrEE have been WIS.,
iting Mrs. Pattee's brother at Lower Cabot
Hon. f. A. DwINELL left last Saturday
evening for Sioux City, Ia. on a business
trip.
MISS LOUISE SAvARD was at Crown Point,
n. Y, last week. where her sister gradu-
ated.
E. A. Cook of Newport was admitted to
the bar in United States Court Tuesday
morning
MRS e. F. RAND was again called to
Lowell, Mass, on Tuesday by the illness of
her sister
NED ALEXANDER has sold a building lot
on Wilder street to Ambrose Alexander,
his father.
Miss CLARA SUTHERLAND, matron of the
Heaton Hospital arrived in town last Mon
day evening.
FRED CHADWICK of Randolph is visiting
M. V. Chadwick, his father, at the Ex-
change Hotel.
Mrs. s. c. HAYFoRD and family are soon
to move to the Ii. A. Spencer house on
Seminary Hill.
GEORGE A. VILEs, a former clerk at the
Pavilion. has been visiting in town during
the past week.
the ate Board Of Pharmacy at st. Albans
last Thursday.
MISS INEz HAYFoRD is at home from
Barre, where she has been employed in q
millinery store.
EDWARD II. DEAvITT, a son of T. j.
Deavitt, graduated at the Harvard Law
School last week
THE lawn around the Baptist church has
been nicely graded, adding much to the ap-
pearance OF that corner.
Mr.. AND MRS DANIEL HOPKINS of Water
bury Center were guests last week of Mr..
and Mrs. A. o. Cummins.
SrpuuT CoMNtrssIoNup PnpuDro ,c;6an.
ing East Liberty street just east of the resi-
dence of Thomas H. Cory.
A DAUGHTER was born last Saturday to
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Bliss, and grand
daughter to Levi A. Persons.
THE rooms of the Young Mems Demo
cratic Club in Heaton Block were formally
opened last Monday evening.
MRS. DIR. S. l.. WIswELL of Cabot has
been visiting Mrs M. s. Davis at the Ex
change Hotel during the past week.
The Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust
Company has declared a semi-annual div
idend of five per cent, payable July l.
w. e. TERRILL is at Manchester attend.
ing the annual encampment of the Yer
mont division OF the Sons of Veterans.
MILES STANDIsH, who has done such ex
cellent work on the Metropolitan base bal
team, is visiting at his home in this city.
THE carding-m mill at South Northfield has
started up-an evidence of returning pros
perity after the nomination of Mckinley,
MISSES MAMIE TRoMBLEE and Charlotte
Ropes were at Pike Station, n. H., ovel
last Sunday, the guests of Mrs. E. B. Pike.
Mr.. AND Mrs. FRANK e. HOWE go tt
Brattleboro next Friday for visit of {
week or more with relatives of Mr.. Howe
MRS. F. L. LAIRD is the official reporter
at the United States District and Circuit
| Court, now in session at the Federal Build
ing
JACK ROGERS, clerk in the store of the b
M. Shepard Company, attended commence
ment exercises at Dartmouth College las
week.
THE Montpelier Hustlers were taken int,
camp last Saturday on the home ground b,
the Bethel Seconds by a score of twenty-si1
| to four.
MISSES KATE AND JENNIE FISHER of Syra
cuse, N. Y, are spending the summer will
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fisher, their grand
parents.
THE second prize of $25 at the annua
| priZe-speaking at Dartmouth College, las
week. was awarded to Ralph Blanpied o
this city.
A. e. MANsUR is soon to leave the EN-
ploy of A. G. Stone, to take position witt
Charles Wyman Il Sons, the jewellers, o
Burlington.
A NEW plank sidewalk has been laid o.
the south side of the Clay Hill road. 1t i
enjoyed and appreciated by residents G
that locality
REV. j. E. WRIGHT is to preach in tn
Morse school-house, East Montpelier, mex
Sunday at Q: 10 P. M. Subject, 1.-The Hap
piness of Jesus"
THE shops of the Cotton Manufacturin
Company will shut down next Friday nigh
for repairs. They will probably be close
all of next week.
GEORGE Il. EHLE has on exhibition in tn
show window of his book store one Of tn
finest lines of fireworks for the Fourth eve
seen in Montpelier.
p. II. HINKLEY was at Washington las
Monday as litigant in line fence disput
which the fence-viewers of that town weT
called upon to decide.
ELBERT III. DwINELL is at home frol
Harvard College, Will s. Scoville frol
Yale, Ralph Blanpied from Dartmouth an
Robert Emery from the University of We
mont
IT is expected that game of ball will /
J played on Seminary campus next Saturda
afternoon between the Young Mems Chri
| Association Ethan la