The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-06-30
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Poland.
RALPH BLANPIED arrived from Richmond,
Va, on Monday for visit of two weeks.
MR.. ANE MRS. GEORGE L. LANE of Low
ell, Mass. are visiting Mrs. Dennis Lane.
ROBERT EMERY was the guest of d. W.
Dudley, his grandfather, over last Sunday
A SUPER will be given in the vestry Of
the Baptist church this evening from five to
seven o'clock.
Mrs. q. w. EHLE and Archie II. Ehle of
Faribault, Mimi, are guests OF MIR. and Mrs
George r. Ehle.
e. w. THOMPSON, general traffic manager
Of the Baltimore Steam Packet Line, was in
town on Monday
CARROLL p. PITKIN and family expect to
go this week to their summer home on the
shore of Berlin pond.
REV. ANDREW GILLIEs will not preach at
East Montpelier Center next Sunday after
noon as has been announced.
MISS MARY PHINNEY is to sing contralto
in Bethany church choir during the alb
sence of Miss Clara 1. DeFord.
THE Montpelier National Bank has de-
clared semi-annual dividend OF four per
cent payable on or after July l.
d. d. NELSON and Miss Eva L. Stewart
were married last Thursday evening at the
home Of Rev. j. Edward Wright.
and Minnie Marcott attended the jubilee
celebration at Montreal last week
MRS. FRED L. EATON of Sioux City, Iowa.
with Miss Dorothy and Master Stanley, are
visiting at the home of j. r. Seaver.
THE Montpelier baseball team went to
Fort Ethan Allen last Saturday and was
taken into camp by score OF Is to a.
COLONEL A. g. BROWN, Mrs. Brown Mrs.
II. G. Fullerton and Mrs. Asa Blanchard
were at Willoughby Lake last week.
The theme of Rev. Andrew Gillies' dis
course at Trinity Church next Sunday
evening will be America, an Idea"
e. M. HARVEY and w. e. Terrill went
to Burlington on Tuesday to attend class
reunion at the University of Vermont.
WESLEY G. BREWSTER, father of Miss Mil
dred Brewster went, on Monday, to his
home in Huntington Center for few days
rest.
MRS. ALBERT s. SPARROW went last Sat-
urday to Nashua, N. Fl. She will visit in
that city and Boston for the next two
weeks.
The Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust
Company has declared a semi-annual divi-
dend OF five per cent, payable on and after
July /.
FRED A. ROWLAND went on Monday to
Hanover, N. H., to attend class reunion
and commencement exercises at Dartmouth
College.
EDWARD RYAN and Miss Lizzie Seeley
were married on Tuesday morning at st.
Augustine's Church by Rev. Father w. j.
O'Sullivan.
DR.. G. N. HUNT is making preparations to
build two tenement houses on Bailey Ave-
nue. on land recently purchased by him Of
Ralph Wiley.
REV. L. II. MERRILL Of Woodsville, n.
H., will preach at the Evangelical church
on Berlin side next Sunday All are cor
daily invited.
AN informal opening of Christ church par
ish house will be held this afternoon, when
the members of the parish are invited to
inspect the rooms.
Phillips were married at st. Augustine 8
church on Monday morning by Rev. Father
w. j. O'Sullivan
Hon. r. w. HULBURD Of Hyde Park was
in town on Tuesday on his way to Burling-
ton, to attend commencement at the Uni
versity of Vermont.
A DAUGHTER was born last Saturday to
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Moyce of Northampton,
Mass, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Harpan, parents of Mrs. Moyce.
WALTER THoRP, secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Association, leaves on
Thursday for Holyoke, Mass. He will
visit in New York before his return.
SIXTEEN High School young ladies are in
camp on the west shore Of Berlin Pond.
The party went there Hast Saturday and is
chaperoned by Mrs. Ella Brown Bailey.
PARTICULARS of the serious accident to
Clark Sibley at the quarries of the Eureka
Granite Company may be found in the East
Montpelier, Plainfield and Sodom items.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Auxiliary to the Young Mems Christian
Association will be held this afternoon at
three o'clock. A full attendance is re-
quested.
Mrs. EMILY SABIN and Miss Jessie are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. G, Andrews.
Mrs. Sabin has recently returned from the
Pacific coast and Miss Jessie from Radcliff
College, Mass.
LILLIAN McNAIR COUNCIL, No. 2, DAUGH-
TIERS OF LIBERTY, hold their regular meet
ing this "wednesday evening. All men,
bers interested in this order should be pres
ent at this meeting.
The ladies connected with the Ladies'
Aid Society of Trinity Church held meet.
ing in the church Vestry last evening to dis
cuss plans for remodeling and improving
the church kitchen.
A LARGE deer was seen last Friday on the
hill east of the Capitol Creamery, inside the
city limits. The animal crossed the rail
road track, swan the river and disappeared
in the Berlin woods.
JUDGE Nj. IL. SMILE went last Friday to
Gloucester, Mass, for his annual vacation
Judge Smile will return to Montpelier the
third week in July when the decisions in
| Supreme Court will be rendered.
LANGDoN j. DAVIS was arrested for intox.
| icaton by Officer Wood last Saturday even.
ing. Before Justice j. III. Lucia Monday
morning he pleaded guilty and was fined
with costs. Sl0.51, which he paid.
THE services in the Church OF the Mes
siah next Sunday morning, and in the
Morse school.house, East Montpelier at lit
p. M, under the charge OF Rev. j. e, Wright
will be appropriate to Independence Day.
CHILDRENs DAY was observed at the
Evangelical church last Sunday week. Al
interesting programme arranged by Miss
Florence Tillotson, Sunday-school superin
tendent, was well carried out by the chill
| dren.
FRED j. DIETER sailed from New Yorl
for Europe last Wednesday on the steamer
st Louis" DIR. W. Seward Webb was
passenger on the same boat. Bishop Hal
sailed the same day for Liverpool on tn,
Brittanic."
DIR. HENRY JAMES of Waterbury was II
town on Tuesday to see Mrs. James Il
Young of East Mont ,lier. An attack o
appendicitis was feared but both DIR. Jane
and DIR. ID. G. Kemp assured Mrs. Youn
that her fears were groundless.