The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-13
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
TOWN TALK TOLD IN TERSE
PARAGRAPHS.

M. e. RICE Of New York is in town for
few days.
TIE infant son of Herbert Marble was
buried last Sunday.
A SON was born last Saturday to Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Marble.
ALLEN D. MOORE has been granted pa
tent on a water motor.
A SON was born last week to Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry d. Hutchinson.
f. M. CORY moved last week to his new
residence on Loomis street.
HARRY MOVES fell from a staging last
Friday afternoon, fracturlng his left wrist.
MRs.JoHN PORTER of Quechee has been the
guest of Mrs. G. W. Porter during the past
week.
f. L. GRAY is on the road as travelling
salesman for the Flanders & Pierce Com
pany.
MRS. EUGENE F. RAND was called to
Lowell, Mass, last week. by the illness of
sister.
CHESTER WRIGHT has entered a prepara-
tory school in Boston, to fit for Harvard
College.
w. FL. GRIFFEN, recently of Barre, has
opened a plumbers shop in the basement OF
Capital Hall.
DAUGHTERS were born last Monday to Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Lynch and Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Eddy.
LoNGFELLow DOUGLASS has returned from
Cripple Creek, Col, and is blacksmith for
Dillon & Haley.
THE Chautauqua Glass will meet next
Friday afternoon with Mrs George G. Pratt
on Baldwin street.
P. G.. DEWEY returned last week from
Canada, where he visited his daughter Mrs.
Tart, for two weeks.
Miss MAUD LANE BARRON gave dance to
hAt. frt.. la aA l. Ta11
last Monday evening.
Miss NELLIE JEROME, clerk at the Mont
pelier Bookstore, is ill. Her place is taken
by Miss Mamie Jangraw.
NJ. s. DAVIS, landlord of the Exchange
Hotel, is again confined to his room with
his old enemy, erysipelas.
THE Montpelier Seminary base ball team
played at Randolph last Monday, and at
Saxton's River on Tuesday.
Mrs. G. G. AINswoRTH is afflicted with a
cataract from which she is nearly blind. 1t
is feared that she can obtain no relief.
THE electrical apparatus at the Heaton
Hospital was tested last Thursday evening.
Everything worked very satisfactorily.
Mr.. AND MRS. G. A. McCoBB left last
Monday for a two weeks visit at Boothbay
Harbor, Maine, Mr.. McCobb's old home.
THE graduating exercises of the Chautau-
qua Glass will be held this year in the Pa
vilion parlors, probably on Friday, May 30.
FRED H. ADAMS, formerly clerk at the
Pavilion, now located in New York, is Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. j. O. Adams, his parents.
MRS. s. BARTON, the nurse, has moved
from Court street to the residence OF Mrs. N.
G. Miuard, her daughter, No. 214 Main
street.
MAJOR L. nj. CIRCUIT Of Stoneham Mass,
former well-known citizen of Montpelier,
is visiting his children in Montpelier and
vicinity.
THE barber-shop at the Exchange Hotel
is closed, and II. j. Pereau, the former pro-
prietor, is working in the shop of Oughtney
Jangraw.
In the absence of Rev. A. N. Lewis, be.
cause of illness, Professor j. A. DeBoer
read sermon at Christ Church last Sunday
morning.
JOHN j. BERGEN is in Philadelphia, at
tending convention of moulders, as the
representative of the Lane Manufacturing
Company.
W. A. PATTEE has been elected second
lieutenant of Company H, to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Walter
Fl. Sterling.
ite Company, arrived in town last Saturday
morning for brief stay, after an absence OF
seven months.
Mr.. AND MRS. THOMAS MARVIN and Mr..
and Mrs. Collins Blakely went to Washing
| ton, d. Co. last week, on the Royal Blue
Line excursion.
| MRS. CHARLES BOOTH went this week to
Maiden, Mass, where she expects to remain
| several months. She was accompanied by
| Mrs. Eliza CrOssett.
MRS. CHARLES A REED of Chicago is in
town, called here by the death Of c. j
| Gleason, Esq. She will remain for the
present with her sister.
MRS. DIR. j. e. MACoMBER is seriously i'll
| For several weeks she has been confined to
the house with rheumatic fever and this dis
ease has left her prostrate.
NAPOLEON DUBEo, the contractor, is NOV
| ing his building machinery from Middlebury
to Nashua, N. H., where he has contracted
| to build church costing $112,00O
The High School Debating Club will hold
no more debates until September. During
the summer months this organization will
be kept together as reading club.
CARL J. GLEASON, from Amherst College
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. j Gleason and Miss Emily
M. Gleason of Waitsfield were in town on
| Tuesday to attend the funeral of the late O
j. Gleason.
MRS. j. V. Morrow was seriously injured
at Green Mount Cemetery last week. The
horse started as she was getting into car
riage and Mrs. Morrow was thrown undel
the wheels
The listers will be at the city clerks
office next Wednesday, May 2O at ter
o'clock in the forenoon, to hear the com
plants of any persons who feel aggrieveC
by their action.
THE Randolph base ball team took the
Montpelier Seminary nine into camp at
Randolph last Monday by a score of sixteeI
to six. A. e. Carleton pitched for the
Randolph team.
MRS. G. Fl. HUBBARD of Berlin brings Il
the WATCHMAN office magnificent scarle
cactus blossom nearly nine inches in di
ameter. 1t is very striking specimen o
the floral kingdom.
MRS DAVID LLOYD, formerly Miss Dais.
Ballou Of this city, died recently at he
home in Chicago. The body was brought t.
Fair Haven for interment, where she has
mother and sister living.
MRS. NYE L. SMITH has sold her farm
property in Barre to George j. Towne o
that city for $1,000. A new trotting park Il
to be at once laid out on this ground tina
is ample for mile track.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT attended
meeting OF the Universalist and Unitarian
Ministers Union, held last Monday will