The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-10

lHE DdpJlSb IhulBb mlSSlO0aTy society
will meet next Friday afternoon with Mrs.
Amy P. Hibbard on St. Paul street. Officers
Tor the ensuing year will be elected
| The regular monthly meeting OF the
| Apollo Club was held last Thursday even
| ing. Two new me mbers were admitted and
four other applications were received.
REV. j. e. WRIGHT expects to conduct
religious services in the Morse chool-house,
East Montpelier, next Sunday at Q: 10 P. NJ.
Subject, THE Witness Of the Spirit"
Miss NELLIE ALLARD, clerk for L. p.
Gleason & Co, goes to New York this week
with Mrs f. e Martell OF St. Johnsbury,
her sister, for stay Of week or more.
MRS. +. 1. PITKIN, soprano soloist, n
Fred Whittier violnist, took part in the
musical convention held last week in Dan
vile, under the direction OF G. f. Dudley.
THE annual meeting Of the Montpelier
| Public Library Association will be held next
Monday evening at half-past seven in the
rooms of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation.
The death of Miss Bertha Lovely is the
| first that has occurred among the pupils in
Bethany Sunday-school during the four
years that q. IL, More has been superin-
tendent
BECAUSE Of illness Mrs. j. f. Waterman
was not able to take her position as organst
at Trinity Church last Sunday oIning
Mrs. Potter of Seminary Hill presided at
the organ.
GEORGE BRA1NERD was at St. Albans on
! Tuesd adjusting the losses sustained by
the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany in the fire in Seymour block last Fri
day morning
REV DR.. NORMAN SEAvER will take for
his subject at Bethany Church next Sunday
morning, "Cleanness, Be thou clean" In
the evening his subject will be Temptation
an Education"
THE right hand OF fellowship was extend
ed last Sunday morning to twenty-four new
| members OF the Baptist church. Appro
pirate remarks were made by Rev. W. A.
| Dawson the pastor.
REV. l.. III. ELLIOT of Waterbury, state
agent OF the Vermont Bible Society, has
sent to Mrs. G. B. B. Denny one dozen tes-
taments to be distributed among the pupils
of the Industrial School.
THE Office furniture of the G. Fl. More
from Barre to their new quarters on the
second floor OF the Vermont Mutual Fire
Insurance Company building.
THE Bethany Reading met on Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs. II. G. Cotton, on First
Avenue. The occasion was unusually in
teresting because of an address delivered
by Mrs. w. j. Van Patten OF Burlington.
DANIEL f. MCGovERN, who was seriously
injured at Bolton several weeks ago, by
being struck by a railway train, has so far
recovered that 1T Is expected he will be
moved this week to his home in Montpelier.
S. G. SBURTLEFF was in New York last
week, where he argued the case of McDuffy
against the Boston and Maine railroad be-
fore the United States court Of appeals. Mr..
Shurtlef appeared for the railroad CORPORA
tiop.
THE wedding of c. f. Ward, clerk for
Marvin & Sherburne, and Miss Clara
Layton of Philadelphia, Pa, is to occur at
an early date at the home Of G. Fl. Ward
father OF the groom, at Winter Park,
Florida.
! LAWSON G. CUMMINs and William E. Stod-
dard were at Williamstown on Monday and
Tuesday to attend rifle shoot held in con-
nuction with the opening of the new rifle
range and club house of the Williamstown
Rifle Club.
A HORSE owned by A. o. Bailey ran down
State street at a furious rate on Monday
afternoon. The sleigh was wrecked in
front OF the federal building and the ami
NAL was captured uninjured near the Mont
| pelier greenhouse.
THE Womans Christian Temperance
Union will meet on Thursday afternoon at
half past two O'Clock, with Miss Eliza B.
Rublee. The programme will be in charge
OF Mrs. e. ID. Putnam, superintendent of
prison and Jail work.
THE new offices of c. H. More & Co.. in
the Vermont Mutual building have been
fitted up in excellent shape, with new plate
glass windows, new partitions, water facili-
ties, etc, and were occupied for the first
time on Saturday last.
PROFESSOR GEORGE DALRYMPLK is to take
the place Of Professor Morrill, at the Mont
Pelier Seminary during the spring term.
Professor Morrill, is slowly recovering from
his recent dangerous illness, but will not be
able to do any work at present.
ANOTHER ladies quartette has been
formed during the past week with Mrs.
Minnie Marsh first soprano and leader
Miss Nellie Dewey, second soprano, Miss
Clara l. DeFord, first contralto, and Mrs.
George e. Mills, second contralto
JOSEPH LoTTI OF Barre pleaded guilty in
| United States district court Tuesday morn
ing of selling Intoxicating liquor at Barre
without having gone through the formality
OF obtaining government license. He was
fined S25 and costs, which he paid.
MRS. JOHN j. HOFFMAN and George Burn.
ham, the eloping couple whose escapade is
mentioned elsewhere returned to Mont
pelier last evening on the accommodation
train from the north. They had trunk
and drove away in the direction OF Shady
Rill.
PROF. j. d. CHAvIs will speak at Trinity
church next Sunday morning on " The New
South" Prof. Chavis Is a colored orator of
more than ordinary ability and has been
sent to Vermont for a month to speak in the
Methodist churches before the annual con-
ference.
GEORGE G. PRATT has sold to A. E. Niles
his interest in the dry goods store of Niles
& Pratt and the business will be conducted
in future under the firm name of A. e.
Niles & Co. Mr.. Pratt is as yet undecided
as to what business he will engage in, in
future.
THE Vitascope that Will be on exhibition
at Blanchard Opera House next week, as
advertised elsewhere, is an improvement on
the Kinetoscope and adds life and vitality
to the figures shown upon a life-size scale,
1t has achieved an instantaneous success
wherever exhibited.
The Baptist Christian Endeavor Society
elected the following officers last Sunday
evening President. II. A. Carr; vce-presi-
dent, Miss Ada Hutchins; corresponding
secretary, Miss Lena Crossett; recording
secretary, Miss Lena Colby; treasurer. w,
A. Shay.
REV. FATHER w. j. O'SULLIvAN is to lee
ture in Montreal on the evening OF st. Pat
rick's day before the Ancient Order OF HI
bernians Of that city. Father OSullivsn is
also making arrangements to lecture in
other places for the benefit of the new Gath