The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-26
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY,
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
CITY Council meets tonight.

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in Rutland.
THE banks OF Montpelier will be closed
next Saturday.
e. W. BAILEY of Chicago has been in
town during the past week.
Mrs. L. A. HOWE of Brattleboro is visit
ing Frank e. Howe, her son.
Mrs. CHARLES A. SMITH, I'd, is GONZALES
cling from her recent serious illness.
A CHILD OF Sylvester Wheeler, on East
State street is i'll with scarlet fever.
BENNETT TURK of Burlington was in town
on Monday looking after fancy horses.
II. G. HOLMES is building house on
land owned by him off College street.
Mr.. AND Mrs. A. f. SoRTwELL OF Cam
bridgeport, Mass, were at the Pavilion over
Sunday
Hon. II. A. HusE will be Memorial Day
orator at East Barre, and +. A. Rowland at
Warren.
j. w. CAusr1o has been seriously i'll with
peritonitis during the past week, but is i'm
proving.
MRS. HATTIE p. WILLARD is to assist the
Unitarian choir at Barre on commencement
Sunday.
THE Kellogg Hubbard library will be
open only from six to nine in the morning
on Saturday next.
BURcHARD M. SMITH, son of Rev. DIR. E.
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versity over last Sunday.
ALEXANDER CRUIKsKANK has been seri-
ously ill with pneumonia during the past
week, but is convalescent.
Mr.. AND MRS. S. j. WINsLow of Wood.
stock were the guests of Mr. and Mrs
Frank Winslow last week.
n. L. BoYDEN of Randolph, district
deputy, visited Rob Morris Chapter, Order
of the Eastern Star, last evening.
Miss FANNIE NJ. PARMENTER was given a
surprise party last Saturday evening by
large number of her young friends.
SELAH BROOKS, barber in the employ Of
E. j. Ennis, and Edward Nichols are con-
fined to the house with rheumatism.
Mrs. GEORGE o. BoYcE is seriously i'll
with heart trouble. Mrs. Frank A. Hay
den, her daughter, is caring for her.
ROBERT EMERY was at home from the
University of Vermont over last Sunday,
with D. W. Dudley, his grandfather.
GEORGE M. ERWIN and Arthur r. White
will take the civil service examination to
be held at the federal building June 8.
MRS d. s. BLANPIED will attend the
wedding of w. S. Spencer and Miss Garfield
which occurs at Bradford next Wednesday.
HOWARD EDsoN, assistant secretary of
the Young Mems Christian Association at
Lawrence, Mass, visited in town last week.
MISS DANA, the art teacher at Montpelier
Seminary has resigned, the resignation to
take effect at the close of the present school
year.
THE five inmates OF the old city farm in
Berlin were moved last Friday by Over.
seer George Wheeler to the farm up the
branch.
MRS. f. B. DIMICK is seriously i'll with
Bright's disease at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles A. Best, at No. Baldwin
street.
j. J. EAGAN, State Chief Ranger of the
Catholic Order Of Foresters, installed the
officers Of st. Adams court last Friday
evening.
PROF. EDWARD w. MoRRELL goes to-day
to Tunbridge for an indefinite stay. He is
recovering very slowly from his long and
serious illness.
GEORGE o. STRATToN is adding a second
story to the ell part of his residence on
Summer street, and making other extensive
improvements
DIR. o. G. STIcKNEY of Barre had charge
of the meeting for men at the rooms Of the
Young Mems Christian Association last
Sunday afternoon.
COUNTY COURT convened on Monday,
Judge Rowell presiding. No business was
transacted and an adjournment was made
to next Tuesday morning,
j. d. WILEY of East Montpelier is thor
oughly repairing his house and building a
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Lindsay are doing the work.
THE United States District Court which
convenes in this city Tuesday, June s, will
be grand jury term. A large number of
cases are on the docket for trial.
! THE stores and places of business were
closed from two to four o'clock last Satur-
day afternoon, during the time of the funer-
al services of the late b. P. Young.
THE Union school building has been ex-
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and its sanitary condition has been pro-
nounced excellent by that official.
MRS. T. s. BRoPHY returned last week
| from Boston where she has been for several
weeks i'll with nervous prostration. Her
condition is considerably improved.
CHARLIE NEWELL, porter at the Exchange
Hotel, has been quite i'll during the past
week with neuralgia of the heart. Fred
Rowell has taken his place at the hotel.
COUNTY COURT will reconvene next Tues
day, Judge Rowell presiding, and take uI
the civil docket. The prospects are that
court will continue well into midsummer.
WILLIAM d. SMITH had shock of apo
plexy shortly after noon on Tuesday and has
since been in an unconscious state. rup
ture of blood vessel on the brain is feared
ID. II. ROBINSON of New York, Eastern
Passenger Agent for the Baltimore Steam
Packet Company has been renewing old
acquaintances in town during the past
week.
GEORGE e. WHITE, Frank L. Huntington
and II. w. Kemp went to Milton last Sat
urday and from there took a run through
portions OF Grand Isle county on theiI
wheels.
E. b. HAMMITT was quite seriously in
jured last week, while getting on stree
car in Chicago. This accident will delay
Mr.. Hammitt's trip through Vermont for {
few days.
REV. A. n. LEWIS, rector OF Christ Church
will preach Memorial sermon next Sun
day morning, it being Memorial Day
Grand army men and all veterans are cor
daily invited.
A STATED conclave OF Mount Zion Com
mandery, knights Templar, will be held il
Masonic hall next Friday evening. The
Order of the Temple will be conferred OF
several candidates.
The members of Ruth Chapter, Order o
the Eastern Star Of Barre, visited Rol
Morris Chapter last evening, when Distric
Deputy N L. Boyden of Randolph made al
official visit to the local chapter.
THE subject at the prayer. meeting OIL
Thursday evening to be held at the Baptis
church will be "War Stories." Reminis