The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-02-24
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY,
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

NEARLY two columns OF live local news
may be found on page two.
CITY COUNCIL meets tonight.
ELMER e. CLARK is i'll with grip.
III. X. SHERBURNE is ill with the grip.
MRS. DENNIsoN TAFT Ia i'll with the grip.
GARDNER H. wHITcoMB is i'll, threatened
with fever.
@. II. SHIPMAN was at Lisbon, N. H., over
last Sunday.
F; 9; BnEwsrER is again occupying his
studio In Miller block.
MRS. HIRAM s. SMITH is suffering from
cry ysipelas in the face.
MRS. RUFUS G.. ROBINSON and daughter
are visiting in Calais.
HENRY KENDALL has closed his labors as
steward at the Union House.
MARTIN NoKRs has been seriously i'll at
the Jail during the past week.
MRS. HATTIE e. TRUE and daughter Alice
are visiting in Woodsvilie, N. II.
GEORGE r. EHLE returned ON Tuesday
from flying trip to New York.
FLOYD HAYFoRD has been severely ill
with measles during the past week.
A YOUNG son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John f.
Thorn is seriously i'll with pneumonia.
L. W. sHKDp will attend the Inauguration
ceremonies at Washington next week.
FRED e. PITKIN is gradually growing
weaker, and his recovery is not expected.
The Bethany Reading will meet next
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Hugh Jones.
MRS. OLIVER DoBEY is dangerously i'll,
and no hope Is entertained Of her recovery.
FRED A. CARR is in Bristol this week put
ting in switch board for Col. A. G. Brown.
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whist party in Grand Army hall last even
ing.
Mr.. AND MRS. w. A. ABBOTT of Hartford
are at the Exchange Hotel on their bridal
trip.
THB measles have Frustrated the entire
family OF p. j. Ledden during the past
week.
f. B. Boyles, clerk forl l.. P. and FL. G.
Gleason, is visiting at his old home in
Cabot.
EDWARD 81. DEAvIrT of Boston spent last
Sunday at the home Of T. j. Desvitt, his
father.
The Epworth League Reading Circle will
meet next Friday evening in Trinity church
vestry.
MRS. DR.. D. w. COOLEY OF Antrim, NJ
H., is visiting Mrs. John voodry, her
daughter.
Miss ANNA GUERNSEY is at home from the
Emerson School Of Oratory, Boston, for a
brief vacation.
A YoNNo son Of Luther P. Doeg broke his
left arm last Saturday afternoon while rid
ing toboggan.
MRS. A. N. LEWIS, returned last Satur-
day evening from New Haven, Conn.,, where
she has been for several weeks.
G. W. BRowNKLL, secretary Of state, and
j. X. Batchelder Of Arlington were regis
tow tha Do T,,na
Mr.. AND MRS. ADoLPHUs Moss and
daughters Of Burlington were guests Of H.
W. Moss, his son, over last Sunday.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
Middlesex next Sunday at two P. NJ. Sub
ject, Inspiration or Exasperation?"
The Baptist Young Ladies' Mite Society
will hold Conundrum Supper" and So
cial in the Baptist vestry this evening.
L. L. DEsAULNIKR has closed his labors
as clerk at the Exchange Hotel His place
lie taken by Louis Fisher Of Hartford, Conn.
The Garnet Seal Circle will meet with
Mrs. o. II. Richardson, on Barre street,
next Friday afternoon at quarter past
two.
Montpelier attended the whist party and
dance at East Montpelier last Monday
night.
The funeral Of Clayton Harroun was held
last Thursday afternoon from his late home
on Prospect street. Rev. N. NJ. Shaw Off
ciated.
THE granite firm of Lynch & Mcmahon
has been dissolved, Mr.. Lynch has gone in
to business for himself in the More & Col
ton sheds
A DAUGHTER was born last Friday at
Pierre, 8. D., to Mr.. and Mrs. Bert A. Cum
minis, granddaughter to Mr.. and Mrs. A.
o. Cummins.
W. III. GRIFFIN, the plummer, is in Bos-
ton attempting to negotiate sale for the
ball nozzle and closet clamp recently in
vented by him.
ARTHUR BAILEY of Berlin is recovering
from dangerous illness from pneumonia
and measles. His wife and infant child are
i'll with the measles.
MISS ALICE HOWE, stenographer in the
general Office of the Montpelier and Wells
River Railroad. is visiting this week at her
home in Burlington.
The report in the Montpelier items Of the
Free Press last Thursday that Charles A.
Smith had resigned the captaincy of Com
pany ii, was incorrect.
THE Bethany Christian Endeavor Society
will hold social in the chapel this even
ing, at which illustrations Of popular ad-
vertisements will be given.
W. e. BROWN of Williston is clerk at the
mOuup6ll6r hOubo uurluR JH6 dUbouCe VI
Martin Henley, who is taking pleasure
trip through Canada and the West.
WAsHINGToN's Birthday was observed as
holiday by the public schools. Appro-
pirate exercises were held in the several
departments last Friday afternoon.
THE next dance in the series given by the
members Of Company II will occur at
Armory Hall next Monday evening.
THE infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elwin l.. George died last Friday. The
body was placed in the tomb at Green
Mount cemetery Sunday afternoon.
A SERVICE of sacred song will be held in
the Church Of the Messiah next Sunday
evening, in which 1t is hoped that the choir
will be assisted by Frederick W. Bancroft
Miss GERTRUDE DREW and her sister
Mrs. A. g. Eaton, have gone to Bayonne
N. j., TO visit their sister, Mrs. @. w
Learned They will be absent few weeks
SHERIFF BANCROFT was taken suddenly
| i'll at the court house on Tuesday afternoon
He was taken to his home aud physician
was called, who pronounced him very sicl
man.
THE marriage of Joseph N. Baudette anG
Miss Minnie Marcott, that was to have oc
Cured on Tuesday morning at St. Angus
tines church has been indefinitely post