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

| HON. Is. Il. tIFIHLD anu family Will T6UuTn
to Montpelier to-day,
A SON was born on Monday to Mr.. and
Mrs Elmer e. Clark.
WESLEY g. TAPLIN is in town from
Southern Pines, N. G.
DIR. 9. E. CoRBIN visited relatives in AL
bany, N. Y, last week.
A SON was born last Sunday to Mr. and
Mrs. George L. Wilson.
A SON was born last Friday to Mr. and
Mrs. George Perrin OF Berlin.
GEORGE L. MOORE of Stamford, N. Y,
was in town over last Sunday.
CARL @. BANCROFT left on Tuesday for
business trip through the West
II. G. CAMPBELL moved this week from
East Liberty to East State street.
A SON and daughter were born on Mon
| day to Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Irwin.
NJ, A. KENT is in Barton, st. Johnsbury
and Newport this week on business
MISS MARY WHEAT returned last Satur-
day to her home in New Haven, Conn.
MR.. AND MRS. GEORGE X. PUTNAM re-
turned last Friday from their wedding trip.
CLARENCE LOWE takes the place Of L. o.
| Jones in the chorus choir OF Christ Church.
PROFESSOR G. A. BUNKER OF Peacham was
the guest of Mason 8. Stone over last Sun
day.
MRS. G. B. WEEKS of st. Johnsbury was
the guest of Mrs. Kate Dewey Squires last
week.
The drug store of Lester II. Greene has
been connected with the telephone ex-
change.
e. L. GEORGE is moving from the city
farm to the c. W. Litch house on Cliff
street.
MISS FANNIE PARMENTER played second
violin in the Zephra orchestra on Monday
evening.
CoRLIss LAFFERTY is on duty as one of
the night police, in place OF Q. e. Demeritt,
suspended.
Miss JANE CLEAvEs moved on Monday
from Heaton Hospital to her home on lower
| State street.
HENRY L1BBEN, clerk at the Union
House, is taking brief vacation in Boston
and New York.
j. II. SENTER, United States District At
torney, was at Brattleboro on Monday on
official business.
Mrs. G. w. PORTER returned last Friday
| from Boston where she has been visiting
! for several weeks
L. G. TEwKsBURY has been seriously i'll
| during the past few days, and is still con-
| fined to the house.
The grocery stores will close at half-past
six on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, un-
til January !, 1898.
A. A. STEBBINs has rented the DR.. o. l..
Watson house on Barre street and will take
possession in about ten days.
MOSES YATTKR of Boston, the celebrated
billiard player, has been in the city visiting
relatives during the past week.
G. B. B. Denny has moved his household
furniture from his former residence in
Montpelier to his farm in Berlin.
CHARLES, son of Rev. A. II. Webb, will
remain at the Montpelier Seminary until
the close of the present school year.
NEARLY all the young ladies in the differ
ent dances in Zephra were photographed in
costume at Armory hall on Monday.
G. j. HOFFMAN of Columbus, O.. has been
engaged by the National Life Insurance
Company as an expert policy writer.
w. II. HUsE closed his labors with the
Consolidated Lighting Company last Satur-
day and returned to his home in Bristol
E. E. TowNER left on Tuesday to conduct
another Royal Blue Line Excursion from
New England points to Washington, d. G.
A LARGE party from Montpelier wit
messed the presentation of Hoyts Black
Sheep" at Barre Opera House last evening.
THE gross receipts for the four presenta-
tions of Zephra were S1,250. The net pro-
ceeds for the Heaton Hospital will be about
$500.
REV. L. Il. TAYLOR returned to Utica, N.
Y, on Monday. He was called to Mont
pelier to attend the funeral of Mrs. Henry j.
Curtis,
THE officers of the Ladies' Aid Associa.
ton of Heaton Hospital will meet at two
o'clock this afternoon with Mrs. G. II.
Heaton.
MR.. AND MRS. JOSEPH FISHER returned
last week from Syracuse, N. Y, where they
have been for several months with theiI
daughter.
MRS. M. 8. DAVIS was badly bruised last
Gun hy falling hoUD q tiubt nf ataira q
the Exchange Hotel. Fortunately no bones
were broken.
j. j. EAGAN, State Chief Ranger of the
Catholic Order of Foresters, and DIR. M. #
Mcclure inspected st. Albans court las
Saturday evening.
R. r. HANNAFoRD of Waterloo, P. @.
| takes the place of #. j. Driscoll as express
messenger between Montpelier Junction
} and Williamstown.
REV. ANDREW GILLIEs will lead the meet
ing for young men to be held next Sunday
afternoon at the rooms of the Young Mem
Christian Association.
;; L. o. JONES has left the employ of thu
National Life Insurance Company to take
? position with the Connecticut Telephone
! Company Of Hartford
THOMAS, the young son of Patrick Starky
is under treatment at Heaton Hospital TO
o injuries resulting from a severe burn re
: ceived in his childhood.
!, W.. BUCKLEY, OF the law firm of Drew
q Jordan & Buckley, Of Lancaster, N. II
j was the guest of States Attorney Fred A
}, Rowland last Saturday.
Mrs. SUSAN WHITTIER returned last wee
from Cambridge, Mass, where she has bee
>. spending the winter, and has again take
y rooms at Il. R. Skinner's.
A MEETING is called In the rooms of tn
Y Young Mems Christian Association mex
Friday evening" to discuss the advisabilit
d of forming bicycle club.
BETWEEN acts at the presentation {
:; "Zephra on Monday evening flute solo
were rendered by George III. Wilder, whic
n received hearty applause.
l. THE second game of basket ball betwee
the Yellows and Reds will be played at tn
y Young Mems Christian Association gymni
81 sium next Friday evening
70 ST. PETERS COURT, Catholic Order {
a Foresters will give public entertainmeI
a at the dedication OF their new hall in Law
- renee building, about May 10.
DR.. II. 8. BoARDMAN will return frol
New York city, this week, where he he
20 been for the past three months, and will r.
70 sumo his practice in Montpelier.
ts The late John W. Foster OF Boston, wi
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