The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-04-29
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
A NEWSP PAGE THAT MIRRORS
LOCAL LIFE.

Q. @. AINswoRTH is night clerk at the Ex-
change Hotel.
JUDGE M. E. SMILE went to Boston last
Thursday noon.
Miss MARY ELLIOT SMITH of New York
was in town Monday.
THE Kellogg Hubbard Library will be
open at all hours to-day.
A YOUNG daughter of Jerry Mccormick
is i'll with spinal meningitis.
LEON HADLEY of Rock Island, p. O., is
working for #. E. McGorrie.
GOVERNOR WOODBURY. has appointed
Friday, May /, as Arbor day.
A DAUGHTER of M. d. Sturtevant on Ber-
lin street is i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. g. w. EHLE of Faribault, Mimi, is
visiting George r. Ehle, her son.
MISS GRACE REED of Cambridgeport,
Mass, is visiting Mrs. j. W. Ellis
j. 8. VILEs went to Boston last Sunday
night to purchase electrical supplies.
A. Q. CUMMINs is administrator of the es-
tate of the late George e. Wilkinson.
Miss MARY CARLETON returned last Fri
day from an extended visit to New York
state.
Mrs. GEoRGE FISK has been visiting
during the past week at the home of III. B.
Cross.
SEE notice in the business column OF sun
per and musicale at Bethany Church this
evening.
G. III. HEAToN goes to Burlington to-day
to inspect the commandery there in the
evening
last Friday evening at his home on First
| Avenue.
j. ELLIOTT SMITH of New York was the
guest of Colonel Fred e. Smith, his brother,
last Monday.
WILLIS CLARK went to Burlington last
Monday, where he is to do local work for
the Free Press.
MRS. SUSAN WHITTIER returned last week
from Wollaston, Mass, where she has spent
the winter months.
G. @. PIERCE made a business trip last
week through eastern Vermont and north
ern New Hampshire.
The Chautauqua Glass will meet next
Friday afternoon with Mrs. Z. A. Mutt at
the Exchange Hotel.
F. H. O'NEIL of White River Junction
was the guest OF Rev. Father w. j. OSulli-
van er last Sunday.
THOMAS LAWRENCE left last Monday for
Kensico, n. Y, where he is to work at his
trade as stone-cutter,
MILES STANDIsH went to New York last
Monday, where he is to join the New York
baseball team as pitcher.
The Antoine Labouchere place on Main
street was purchased at auction last week
by George Dix for 81 400.
H. ID. HOPKINS has moved to the tene-
ment at the rear of the residence of II. c.
Gleason on Loomis street.
ELBERT II. DwINELL returned to Harvard
College last Saturday, from which institu-
ton he will graduate in June.
Miss NELLIE SANFORD of Concord N. H.,
has been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs T. j.
kelliher for the past few days.
MRS GEORGE WILKINSON and Mrs. Sidney
Wilkinson, from Providence, R. l., are Wis
iting at Mrs. Richard Dillon's.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
Middlesex next Sunday at two P. M. Sub
1ect, The Laughter of Fools"
WILL WHELAN has been at home for a
few days from the University of Vermont
nursing an abscess on one hand.
THE Ladies' Aid Society of the Heaton
Hospital will meet this afternoon at two
O'Clock at the hall in Heaton Block.
THE Methodist Woman's Home Mission
ary Society will meet this afternoon with
MIS-. IL. X. Sherburne on Elm street.
A. f. SoRTwELL of Cambridge, Mass,
president of the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad, was at the Pavilion last week.
BASEBALL on the Seminary campus at
3: 10 this afternoon between Norwich Uni
versity and Montpelier Seminary teams
DENNIS RYLE has been laid up for the
past week with an liberated eye, caused by
getting piece OF steel embedded therein.
MRS. H. L. MEEoH returned last week
from Stephens City, Va, where she has
been visiting her brother for several months.
Mr.. AND MRS. w. A. LORD returned last
Friday from Worcester, Mass. where Mr..
Lord has been engaged in trying a will case.
GEORGE c. ALDER left last week on a
Western trip OF month or more in the
interests of the r. 9. Bowers Granite Com
pany.
A LARGE number from down town at
tended the concert given in Seminary chapel
last Friday evening by Mr.. and Mrs. W. A.
Briggs.
ID. M. SPENCE will address the Epworth
Reading Circle at its meeting next Friday
evening with Mrs. l.. l.. Beeman on Semi
nary Hill.
MONTPELIER is the place, and Wednesday
May q, the time, for holding the state dem
ocratic convention, to place in nomination
state ticket.
The marriage of Miss Julia r. Ellis and
Mr.. Robert Wilkinson will take place
Thursday at 3: 80 P. M. at Miss Ellis home |
on Barre street.
THE Life and Work of Miss Dorothea L. |
Dix" will be Rev. j. Edward Wright's |
theme in the Church Of the Messiah next
Sunday evening.
THE executive committee of the State |
Press Association will meet at Montpelier
oo-uay w compieto plans LOT summer meet |
ing and excursion.
CHARLES K. RYLE of the Columbian
Granite Company started last Monday even
ing on an extended western trip in the in |
terests Of that firm
r. G. BOWERS, o. ID. Clark and LesterIH. |
Greene were at Swanton last Sunday to |
witness the launching of a new steamer by |
Captain f. X. Hawley
Mr.. AND MRS. q. s. DUTToN, who have |
been spending the past winter with j. II. |
Dutton, their son, returned last Monday to |
their home in Hardwick.
@. A. LANG left last Thursday for South.
ern Pines, North Carolina Mrs. Lang and |
her mother, who have been spending the |
winter there, will return with him.
The Choral Union will meet at Whitcomb |
Hail on Thursday evening at half past seven |
for rehearsal. The new books have arrived |
and will be used for the first time at this re-
hearsal
DIR. l.. q. WAKEFIELD went to White |
River junction on Tuesday to test the |
dairy herds OF George w Smith and r. T.