The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-27
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.

phia to reside with relatives.
MISS CHARLOTTE ROPES is visiting friends
in Newton and Brookliue, Mass.
JOHN Cook has opened butter-box fac |
tory in the rear of Williams block on Main !
street.
W. A. LORD, L. Bart Cross and F. A.
Dwinell were registered at the Raleigh,
Washington. ID, g., last week.
THE ordinance of baptism by immersion
will be Administered to fifteen candidates
at the Baptist church next Sunday evening.
f. p. KINNEY, bookkeeper for e. w.
Bailey & Co., goes, about February !, to
Plymouth, Mass, to embark in the grocery
business
JOSEPH MENLEY and Miss Bridget Doyle
were married at st. Augustine's church last
Wednesday morning by Rev. Father w, j.
O'Sullivan.
Mrs. JULIA RIVERS, Mrs, David Brown,
and Mrs. James Campbell have been visit
ing an aged sister in Mddlebury during
the past week.
E. H. GABREE was arrested at the Cen
trail Vermont station, for intoxication, last
Thursday afternoon by Sheriff Bancroft In
city court, Friday morning, he was hned
S16.51 for second offence. with an alter
native sentence of fifteen days in county
Jail. He had no money and took the latter.
The newly-elected officers of the Baptist
Young Ladies' Mite Society are: President,
Rev. w. A. Davison; Vice President Mrs.
George M. Goss; Secretary, Miss Lena
Crossett: Treasurer, Mrs. A. e. Carr. An
executive committee Of seven was also
elected.
THE statement in the WATcHMAN last
week that A. N. Blanchard had sold to G.
o. Stratton and II. N. Tapln tract of land
on Bailey Avenue was inc s5 Su Mr
and Mr. Taplin all the land formerly owned
by them in that vicinity.
LOVERS OF lively music, gorgeous display
and entertainment in the minstrel line,
were highly entertained at Blanchard Opera
House last Monday evening, when Hi"
Henry's combination held the boards. The
company numbers fifty artists, and the
PLAYING of the band on the streets was a
taking feature. The coruet playing OF Mr..
Henry was received with great favor, and
the programme rendered had much in 1t to
please.
"THE "winter PICNIC" given by the
Young Peoples Fraternity OF the Church Of
the Messiah, held in their vestry last We'd
nesday evening, was success, both So
cially and financially. The vestry OF the
church was trimmed with evergreens, re-
mindng one Of the woods In summer. The
programme consisted OF readings. recitations
and singing. Special mention should be
made of the recitations given by Masters
James Ewing and Harold Jones' After the
entertainment light lunch was served.
the Fraternity in the near future.
In report of a reception given recently
by the artists of the Tenth Street Studio
Building, the New York Herald of recent
date says: 1.-THE studios had been bright
ened up for the occasion and most OF the
artists had their newest pictures displayed.
Mr.. Wood showed six large copies OF REM
brandts that he had made while in St. Pc
tersburg last summer, and copies OF Mu-
rillo's Madonna del Roma" a Turner, a
Landseer, Chaplin and Charles Lesie's
"Uncle Toby" They are to be presented
by Mr.. Wood to the Montpelier Art Gallery.
For several days prior to the event. it
was problematical in the minds OF many
whether the Poverty Party" to be given
in Armory Hall last Thursday evening, I'M
der the auspices of the Apollo Club, would
be a success or a fizzle. 1t was something
new, out of the ordinary, and some fore
holdings were felt that the people OF Mont
pelier might not take kindly to it. But be-
fore the first notes of the grand march were
sounded, all doubt had disappeared, and
the " Party" proved to be the most brilliant
success of the winter. Young and old, lit
orally
Some in rags, some in shags,
And some in old velvet gowns"
crowded into the spacious hall, and sport
and merrment held high carnival until
midnight. Nearly 700 tickets were sold
and the club netted $500 from the affair.
So many costumes, "fearfully and wonder
fully" made were in evidence that 1t is im-
impossible to psrticularize. The members
OF the orchestra caught the infection, and
their appearance would have done credit to
Callithumpian band in parade OF hor-
ribles. The quality Of the music, However,
fected by the poverty-stricken garb Of the
players. Nearly 100 couples wer. in the
march, led by A. g. Eaton and Mrs. #. L.
Pitkin, and the spectacle presented to the
crowded galleries was amusing in the ex-
IRENE. Each "fgger" of the dance pro-
T. r. Merrill, prompter, and old-time
dances, with music Of bygone days pre-
dominated. Prizes of box of candy for
the most taking lady's costume, and box
awarded to Miss Jane Bancroft and W. G.
Berry, by Mrs. M. NJ. Cutler and j. M. Will.
lard, the judges. 1t was thoroughly dem
ocratic gathering, and was enjoyable alike
to spectators and participants.
ABOUT one hundred and fifty members Of
the Barre Granite Manufacturers Associa-
ton and invited guests gathered at the Pa
vilion last Wednesday evening for their
fourth annual banquet. Nearly an hour
was spent in discussing the elaborate menu
provided by Landlord Viles, during which
time several popular selections were rem
o'clock William Barclay, president of the
association, raped for order, and, with a
brief congratulatory speech, introduced H.
X. Bush as toast-master. Letters of regret
were read from Mayor A. f. Sortwel of
Cambridge, Mass, President of the Mont
peller and Wells River railroad, S. W. Cum
mings, General Passenger Agent. r. W.
Baldwin, General Superintendent K. A.
Chittenden, General Traffic Manager, and
Col Fl. K. Stoughton, Division Superintend-
ent, of the Central Vermont railroad, Henry
Murray, President, and j. w. Frost Sec
rotary, of the New England Association of
Granite Manufacturers A. Marnott, Vice
President of the Q nncy Association and
the editor of The Stone of Chicago. During
the evening Prof. S. j. Blanpied, Principal
of the Montpelier High School, entertained
the company with readings, and A. Ander-
son gave an exhibition of the conjurers'
art. Mayor Stratton extended a cordial
welcome to the association in behalf of the
citizens of Montpelier, to which Mayor Cor
don of Barre responded in a felicitous man
ner Among the toasts and responses were
" Our Railway Service" George G. Mackie;
"The Barre Quarries," ex-Mayor e. L..
Smith The Past and Future of Barre"
Rev. e. w. Cummings; 1.-THE Bank and It's
Customers" G. n. Field; Cutting and