The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
MONTPELIER And VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Miss FLORENCE FERRIN is i'll with measles.
MRS. II. A. DwINELL is seriously i'll with
the grip.
Fl. O. SCOTT OF Chicago is visiting Mrs. j.
THE city schools reopened last Monday
morning.
A SON was born last Monday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Zeb Carlo.
MRS. M. S. DAVIS returned last Wednes-
day from southern trip.
K. B. HAMMITT Is in Boston and Man
chester, N. H., on business.
The annual meeting of the Apollo Club
will be held on Thursday evening.
A DAUGHTER was born last Saturday to
Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Poor Of Berlin.
WESLEY HILL is dangerously i'll with con-
sumption at his home in East Montpelier.
LESTER II. GREENE was in Swanton last
Monday to attend the funeral of friend.
Mr.. AND MRS. ELHANAN T. LILLEY of
Randolph are writing Mrs Ned Alexander.
A PARTY from Montpelier attended the
New Years dance at the Middlesex Hotel
MRS. e NJ. Goss of La Grange, ILL.,, is
with George M. Goss, her SOD, for the winter.
GEORGE W. Colby spent last Friday with
his father, brother and sister in Morrisville.
Miss BLANCHE TURNER of Morrisville is
working in the store of the Union Card
Company
MRS. WILLIAM GOULD is critically i'll with
rheumatic fever at her home on Berlin
street.
PAUL TERRIAuLT was thrown from his
sleigh last Saturday, fracturing his right
elbow.
W. w. BROCK returns to Kirkville. Mo-,
next Tuesday to resume his studies in os-
teopathy.
BETHANY Reading will meet next Tues.
day afternoon with Miss Mary Lewis, at 1O5
Elm street.
THE State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners held meeting at the State House
on Tuesday.
Mrs. D. W. TEMPLE returned last week
from visit Of several weeks with relatives
In New York
REV. A. N. LEWIS, rector of Christ Church,
held services at the poor farm in Berlin last
Sunday afternoon.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at a quarter past two with
Mrs. A II. Webb.
The annual meetings of the Montpelier
National and First National Banks will be
held next Tuesday.
s. c. SHURTLEFF is in Worcester, Mass,
wht re he is counsel in the Andrew .Jaquih
will case, now on trial.
Miss MARGARET FITZGERALD left last Sat
main during the winter
A PLEASING feature of the music at Christ
Church last Sunday morning was the violin
obligato by Ray Huse.
THE annual meeting of the Young Mems
Christian Association will be held next Fri
day evening at eight O'Clock.
HARRY DoUCETrE has been critically ill
during the past week with typhoid fever,
but is reported couvalescent.
DR.. G. j. HELMER returned last week
from New York, and has resumed the prac-
tice of osteopathy in this city.
THE next attraction at Blanchard Opera
House will be Mr. Barnes of New York."
Monday evening" January 1S.
The docket for the January term of the
Supreme Court that convenes next Tuesday
contains an even hundred cases.
CHARLES G. KING of Brockton, Mass, has
been visiting Hon. and Mrs. Clark King,
his par ents, during the past week.
Mrs. ANTONIO BEATTIE broke her right
ankle last Friday by slipping on the ice
near her home at the Pioneer Mills.
MRS. K. e. TowNER and son returned
on Tuesday from Manchester, n. H., where
they have been spending the HOLIDAYS.
THE first of a series of dancing schools by
! Professor George Elmore will be held in
Wbitcomb hall on Thursday evening.
The venerable Mis-. o. II. Smith is con-
fined to her bed at the Riverside from the
result OF a fall on an icy sidewalk last week.
MISS LAURA A. PIERCE of Barre takes the
place of Miss Gertrude Greeley as book
keeper for the Flanders & Pierce Company.
THE annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Capital Savings Bank and Trust
Company will be held Thursday, January
THE granite sheds of Lynch & Mcmahon
and rhe Capital Granite Company starte d
up last Monday after the holiday shut
down.
MRS. 8. W. CoRsE, district deputy in
stalled the officers of the lodge of Daugh-
ters of Rebekah at Randolph last Monday
evening
THE meat markets of this :city will close
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday even
ings at six O'CLOCK sharp, beginning this
evening.
Miss ADALINE SNYDER, who has been the
guest of Miss Carrie Brown during the holi
days, returned last Monday to her home il
Burlington
E. H. DwINELL and Harlie Cummins re
turned last Monday to their studies at Har
ward Law School and Worcester School o
technology.
THE Barre Street Whist Club met at Will
lis Blanchsrd's last Saturday evening, AM
} will meet at o. H. Richardson's next Fri
day evening.
BY actual count there we're one hundred
and eighty five ladies from Barre and Mont
pelier in attendance at the Wales trial Mon
day afternoon.
EDWARD PRATT OF Parysound, Ont, |
: visiting in town. Mr.. Pratt was well
: known young man in Montpelier abou
8 twenty-five years ago.
WILLIAM DALE was brought to Montpelie
5 from Barre last Friday, and lodged in ja
: for refusing to make disclosure after h
. was arrested for intoxication.
Mr. AND. MRS FRANK KELLEY aud Mis-
. Mattie More were guests of Marshall Woo
during the holidays They returned to thei
home Ia st. Albans last Saturday.
y Nils JESSIE NJ. SABIN returned on Tue
:, day TO Radcliffe College, after a pleasaI
:, visit Of two weeks with Mrs. w. G. Al
u drews and Mrs. A w. Ferrin, her sisters.
o THE school census completed last wee
4; by Sheriff Bancroft shows l., ,161 children
u the city between the ages OF i've an
|, twenty -one years, an increase of about tifi
;. over one year ago,
REV A. n. LEWIS is visiting daught
& in New Haven, Conn. Rev. G. j. Suthe
70 land OF Mortified, will occupy the pulT
4 at Christ church next Sunday
u THE monthly meeting OF the Ladies' A
taI hn Ia