The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-12-23
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HJPPENINGS.
CITY COUNCIL meets tonight.
O. LII IIfII 10 III with tho nrin

MISS JENNIE HOLMES IL VlslJlng III DOStOn'
Miss EVELYN LEASE is visiting in New
York.
JOSEPH Fishers eyesight is gradually
! improving
JESSE N. KING moved his family last
week to East Barre.
THE schools Of the city are closed for
vacation OF two weeks.
MRS o. d. ScRIBNER has been seriously
ill during the past week.
A COLUMN Of live local news may te
found this week on page two.
GEORGE A. MCCoBB went to Boston on
Tuesday Tor medical treatment.
W. e HARLOW has heen confined TO the
house with the grip for several days.
DoLPH n. HUNT is dangerously i'll with
the measles at his home on Berlin street.
The eight-years old son of Clark Stewart
of Berlin, is seriously ill with appendicitis
EDBERT II. DwINELL is at home from
Harvard Law School for the holiday vaca-
tion.
Miss MARY BoARDMAN is the guest of
Misses Mary ana Isabel Dwight at Bur-
llngton.
LYNCH & MCMAHON shut down their
gran to works on Tuesday, until after the
holidays.
HARLIE CUMuINs will return from Wor.
cester, Mass, ON Thursday for the holiday
vacation.
MRS. I. e. CALLAHAN is at her old place
in the store Of George w. Wilder during the
holidays.
j. III. SENTER went to st. Johnsbury on
Tuesday to assist in the organization OF an
insurance company.
THERE will be a whist party at Grand
Army Hall next Tuesday evening to which
the public is invited.
A COTTAGE prayer-meeting was held on
Tuesday evening at the home Of Don Dodge,
on East Liberty street.
Miss MARY PHINNEY goes to Rutland next
Saturday to sing Sunday in the Congrega-
tional church in that city.
II. A DuBEC leaves on Thursday for a
business trip to Boston and Fall River,
Mass, and Providence, K. L.
The Bethany Reading Club will meet
nexe Tuesday evening with Mrs. s. j.
Blanpied, No. 1, Baldwin street.
THE next social assembly to be given by
the members Of Company III, occurs next
Tuesday evening, December 29.
w. III. HUNT has received, through the
agency of 7. j. Deavitt, pension of S14
per month, with S244 arrearages.
"N1cK' NIEBAuM, a former proprietor of
Hotel Burlington, now of Sitke, Alaska,
was visitor in town last week.
Miss ELENA GEORGE has closed her la
DOrS at tl6 montpelier DOOKStOre, anu Is
now clerk for w. e. Terrill & Co.
MRS. HARRY NJ. GRAVES has been seri-
ousy i'll during the past week with perito-
nitis Their infant child is also ill.
AT both services at Christ church on
Christmas Day the vested choir will sing,
and strangere are cordially invited.
Hon. f. A. DwINELL and wife returned
on Tuesday from Sioux City, Ia where
they have been since last September.
The Methodist Womans Foreign Mis-
sionary Socit ty met on Tuesday afternoon
with Mrs. A. III. Webb, at the parsonage.
aMRs. g. III. MORE and children and Mrs.
Rhinehart are all convalescent from the
grip with which they have, been prostrated.
REV. w. A. DAWSON, the Baptist pastor,
preached, last Sunday evening, the first Of
a series of three sermons on Regenera-
ton"
SHERIFF. BANCROFT started on Tuesday
to take the annual school census of the
| city, also the registration of births and
deaths.
THE pupils OF st. Michael's school gave a
creditable exhibition last Friday afternoon,
which was largely attended by parents, and
by friends of the school.
THE Capital Savings Bank and Trust
Company on Tuesday declared a semi
annual dividend of three per cent, payable
on and after January l next.
MISS CLARA 1. DEFoBD went, last Mon
day, to her home in Hardwick to attend
the wedding of her sis ter, which occurs to-
day, to Salma Davis of Danville.
M. s. DAVIS, landlord at the Exchange
Hotel, is still confined to his room with a
bilious attack, from which he has been suf-
feaing for the past three weeks.
SHERIFF. COLLINS took Thomas Corcoran
and j. f. Albin to the House of Correction
at Rutland last Saturday, where they have
been sentenced, as noted elsewhere.
The item in last weeks WAToHMAN re-
garding the suit of Miss Althea Blood
against George Davis of East Montpelier
should have read George Bliss. instead OF
George Davis.
ID. N. HUNT of Berlin Corner is i'll with
the measles. During his delirium last Sun
day evening he escaped from his attendant
and ran to neighboring house, clad only
in his night clothes.
JAMES McKIN Of Middlesex was arrested
last Saturday evening by Officer Wood for
Smile he pleaded guilty, and contributed
81 81 to the treasury Of the state.
MRS PRESTON TRow, mother of Mrs. j
G. Farwell, suffered a stroke Of paralysis
la, t Monday. Her condition has since been
critical, and at her advance age the chances
of recovery are somewhat against her.
PEARL DANIELS led the meeting for men
| ntlu ldSJ Ouuudy dltbruOON IN Jne rooms OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
His theme was "Christ the Light of the
World" A service of song was led by w
8. Smith.
THE many friends in Montpelier of Henry
Chambsrlin, the veteran Central Vernon
conductor, will regret to learn that he fel
from ladder last Friday at his home il
Burlington and suffered bad fracture o
one wrist.
MRS. GILMAN s. BLISS has been engaged
to fill the vacancy as teacher in the Sum
mer street school At North Barre caused by
the resignation of Miss Isabelle Whitehead
Mrs. Bliss taught several terms in this
school before her marriage.
ALBERT CHEQUETrF died on Tuesday o
tSphoid fever, aged twenty one years. Hi
funeral will be held on Thursday morning
from st. Augustine's church, Rev. W. j
O'Sullivan officiating, and the burial will b'
in the Catholic cent terry.
j. E. HUBBARD has purchased the barbe
81 op Of l.. David Moss, After January
next this shop will be und IT the proprietor
ship Of g. w, Bonette. Mr.. Moss intend
To al once open another shop in Montpelier
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