The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


ALVIN SMITH has moved from East State
street to No. 10 Kent street.
A DAUGHTER was born last Sunday to
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Bartolli.
A. B. GRANT has sold to John Birtel his
house on East Liberty street.
Miss FLORENCE ALLEN OF Burlington was
| the guest of Miss Harriet and Ray Huse last
week.
Miss MARY TRoMBLEE and Miss Kate
| Doheny have taken rooms at the Willard
house.
MISS LILLIAN DoRMAN of Dorchester,
Mass. is visiting Mrs. Richard Standish, her
sister.
The Willard house on State street has
been connected with the telephone ex-
change.
Miss GERTRUDE MEINEcKE left for Bos-
ton on Monday en- route for the New York
markets.
GEN. STEPHEN THOMAS is at Randolph
attending a reunion of Orange county
veterans.
W.. II. PIcKARD had his left foot badly
crushed Monday evening by horse step
ping on 1t.
Mr.. AND Mrs. III. G. BANCROFT OF Co.
lumbus, Ohio, are at the Pavilion for an in
definite stay.
Miss EFFIE KIBBY, daughter of j. M.
Kibby, returns to her school in Laconia
next Saturday.
Miss EMMA CAMP left for Washington on
Sunday night after visit of four weeks
with her sisters.
THE Montpelier Military Band will give a
concert from the School street stand next
| Friday evening.
SUNDAY evening services will be resumed
| in the Church Of the Messiah next Sunday
at seven o'clock.
Miss WHITE gave tea on Thursday af-
| ternoon in honor of her niece, Miss White,
from Washington, Vt.
AN infant child of Mr.. and Mrs, Ernest
st. Croix died last Friday from epilepsy, and
was buried on Saturday.
DR.. G. G. ELLIS and wife of Somerville,
Mass, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. G. E..
! Perrin over last Sunday.
The firm of Shorey & Chapman, fruit
and fish dealers, has been dissolved. Joseph
| Shorey will continue the business.
MRS. A. w. FERRIN very pleasantly en-
| tertained large party at her cottage on the
| shores of Berlin Pond Friday last.
The shops of the Lane Manufacturing
| Company are shut down this week while
necessary repairs are made to the dam.
W. e. BAKER of Fitchburg, Mass, is Wis.,
iting Edward Baker, his father. He made
the trip from Bellows Falls on his wheel
Miss ANNA j. GUERNSEY is to return to
| bOStOn OCJOUtT 10 W ldho q pObt-RIduudIC
course at the Emerson School Of Oratory.
oh ROBINSON, New York agent for the
| Bay Line Steamship Company, was the
guest of Harry A. Slade over last Sunday.
THE work of laying out and completing
Clarendon Avenue Is in progress, under the
direction of Street Commissioner Roberts.
Mr.. AND MRS. M. d. FOWLER left on
Monday for Boston and Worcester, Mass,
to visit their daughters for two weeks or
more.
The Union and Grammar schools and St.
Michael's parochial school opened on Mon
day with a full attendance in all depart
ments.
Mrs. NED A. ALEXANDER was stricken
with paralysis on Tuesday. One side is
paralyzed and her condition is considered
critical
w. H. HUNT returned last week from a
western trip. He has been absent several
weeks, during which he visited a daughter
in Illinois.
MISS EMILY M. GLEASON, whose condi'
ton at Heaton Hospital last week was con-
sidered critical, is reported as much more
comfortable.
The new heating apparatus for the build
ings at the city farm will be put in this
week under the direction OF George Wheeler
overseer Of the poor
THE young men will give q return dance
to the young ladies at the Pavilion, this eve
ming, for which music will be furnished by
the Montpelier orchestra.
THOSE wishing to obtain club rates fol
the Chautauquan can do so by applying to
Mrs. o. II. Richardson, 81 Barre street, not
later than September IA.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is expected tt
preach in the Morse school-house, Eas
Montpelier, next Sunday, at 2:15 P. NJ. Sub
ject, "a Plea for Open Eyes"
TT nuwuv traaaurar NJ tha Varmon
Mutual Fire Insurance company, left or
Monday for a vacation of two weeks in New
York, Boston, and Portland, Me.
JUDGE l.. Fl. THOMPSON and wife of Iras
burg, e. M. Barlow and Prof. j. l.. Hills o
Burlington and A. L. Weeks of st. Alban
were at the Pavilion on Tuesday.
LOUIS BROOKS, Chester Wright, james
Mass, went last Friday to Mount Mansfield
! on their wheels, returning on Monday.
! DIR. L. @. WAKEFIELD has purchased
through the real estate agency of A.
Howe, for $3.50, the house on upper Mai
street owned by Mrs. Julia M. Durant.
AT the adjourned hearing in city cour
, last week on the case against Michael Can
, ming, charged with an assault on Cassiu
!, : Boynton, the respondent was acquitted.
Col. AND MRS. A. q. BROWN started las
Saturday evening for Minneapolis, MINI
, They accompanied Rome G. Brown, thei
son, and will visit him for two weeks O
more.
Miss ELIZABETH HAWKINS returned las
, Saturday from a visit of two weeks at he
, home in Champlain, N, Y, and has reopen
ed her dress-making parlors in Lawrenc
> building.
A BASEBALL team made up largely {
a Montpelier young men who are home froI
school and college on vacation, defeated til
Plaintelds on Seminary campus on Monda
| afternoon by score of 16 to IA.
The poles for the electric railroad hav
: : been set on Main, State and Barre street,
: and the gang of Dagoes laying the rail
is nearing the city limits. The track i
Barre and between the two cities is pract
: cally completed
The September Vermonter is at hand an
| both editorially and geographically is fin
: number. The leading article is an illu
' trated wrte-up Of Newport and its SUI
I roundings, with brief sketches of many
4 its leading citizens.
+, ALEXANDER MCMILLAN was arrested o
Tuesday by Sheriff Bancroft The sheri
had a warrant for Mcmillan on civil sui
a but found him in state of intoxicatioI
. and that is the first charge he will have I
j. face in city court this morning.
MRS. CARRIE DANIELS and daughter Man