The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-07
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY,
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

X. M. WALL1Na is confined to the house
with measles.
w. M. PERKEY has opened tailor shop
in Rialto block.
Mrs. II. T. WHITNEY OF Woodstock is
visiting in town.
Miss II. JULIA Gross returned from Bos-
ton last Saturday.
MRS. PHILIP ROBERTS is confined to the
house with the grip.
THREE new patients are booked for Hea.
ton Hospital this week.
l.. p. GLEASON was confined to the house
last week with severe cold.
CHARLES LIMOGES is working in the bar
ber shop OF George Bonnette.
A COLUMN of live local news may be
found this week on page two.
ATTENTION is called to Miss Hawkins an
nouncement in the business column.
MISS SALLY OvIATT is book keeper in the
Office OF the Consolidated Lighting Com
pany,
THE work Of putting the steel ceiling in
the Montpelier National Bank was begun
on Tueseay.
THE wife and child OF Professor Maynard
Maxim left on Monday for visit to her
home in Maine.
DIR. SPRouLE, who is at present located in
Burlington, was at the Exchange Hotel
ONeT ldbb Ouuuhy'
HARLIE CUMMINs is at home from the
School OF Technology, Worcester, Mass,
for brief vacation.
THE banks will be closed all day on Fast
Day. The post-office Will be open during
the usual holiday hours.
Mr.. AND Mrs. julius Poor of Barre have
come 10 Montpelier to reside with Mrs. Nye
L. Smith, their daughter.
DR.. D. G. KEMP performed an operation
on the hair lip Of a patient named Davis at
the Heaton Hospital on Monday.
Dr.. MARSHALL and DR.. MCGUIRE are at
tending physicians at Heaton Hospital dur
ing the months Of April and May.
JESSE KING Of East Barre has purchased
the barber shop of "Ted F" Terriault in Hub
bard block and has taken possession.
THE daughter of W. B. Turney and four
children OF M. T. Turney, in the Jones
Brook neighborhood are i'll with measles.
II. A. BOWERS, of r. G. Bowers Granite
Company, returned last week from Scot
land where he has been for several months.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT has an appoint
ment to preach in the Morse school-house,
East Montpelier, next Sunday at 2: 10 P. NJ.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
d. Silloway died last Sunday, of water on
the brain. The funeral was held on Tues
day.
MRS. G. G. EATON is in New York with
Mrs. A. B. Hepburn, her daughter, who is
recovering from a severe attack Of scarlet
fever.
DR.. A. R. SHAW of Rio de Janerio, a class
mate OF w. e. Terrill in Norwich Univer-
sity in 1889. was the guest Of Mr.. Terrill last
Saturday.
THE Ladies' Aid Association of the Hea-
ton Hospital will meet this afternoon at
two o'clock with Mrs. G. H. Heaton, the
president.
A MEETING Of the creditors OF George H.
Whitney will be held in the Probate office
on Monday, April 12 when an assignee will
be chosen.
Mr.. AND MRS. W. A. ELLIS have moved
from the home of Miss Charlotte Merrill on
State street, to the residence Of 4. K. Fuller,
on Elm street.
MRS. MARY CARLETON, mother Of Judge
Hiram Carleton and Mrs. Ellen Osgood, is
seriously i'll at the home of Edwin Carleton,
her son, in Barre.
MISS THRALL began the spring term Of
her kindergarten, with fifteen kinder, on
Monday, in o room in the house Of l.. ID.
Taft on Main street.
MRS. T. 8. BRoPHY is with Mrs. o. G.
Barron, her sister, at the Quincy House,
Boston. She is slowly convalescing from q
serious nervous illness.
SHERIFF COLLINS and his deputies raided
change Hotel last Friday afternoon. No
intoxicants were found.
THE mid-week service in the vestry OF the
Church of the Messiah, tomorrow, Thurs
day evening, will take the place Of the Fast
Day service in that church.
INRz, the two-years old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Daniels, died last Monday
at their home on Putnam street. The
funeral will be held this morning.
MRS. @. B. CARVER and daughter Blanche
returned last Saturday night from Boston
tending spring millinery openings.
The choir of Bethany Church and George
H. Wilder, flute soloist, assisted in an organ
recital and concert at the Congregational
church, Barre, on Tuesday evening.
EDWARD J. LovELEY shot seventeen
plckerel in Malletts Bay last Thursday, the
largest weighing nine and three-fourths
pounds, and the smallest four pounds
The members OF the Reading Club con.
nected with Trinity church, with invited
guests, will be entertained this evening at
the home of Charles FL. Cross on East State
street.
Hon, GEORGE BRIGGS OF Brandon and d.
G. Denison of Royslton were in town on
Tuesday to attend the quarterly meeting of
the National Life Insurance Company
directors.
THE large water main on Barre street
burst last Saturday nearly opposite the
residence of DR.. o. l.. Watson, causing a
miniature flood in that neighborhood before
it was repaired.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Thursday afternoon at half
past two O'Clock with Mrs. Ann Dillon
Subject: "The influence Of the press OF
temperance work"
GEORGE A. McCoBB, who left Montpelier
for the Pacific coast several weeks ago, has
secured position in San Francisco as ca
BILE car conductor. Mrs. McCobb joined hin
there about two weeks ago.
g. W. BRowNELL, Secretary Of State, anC
II. #. Field, State Treasurer, were in Mont
peier last Friday, and listened to a part o
Hon. w. p. Dillingham's argument in tn,
Marsh-Buzzell murder trial.
BECAUSE Of high water the Central Yer
mont trains to Barre are running over tn
lines Of the Montpelier & Wells River roa'
to Barre Transfer. The trestle near N
Tabor's was rendered unsafe.
Col. III. e. PARKER of Bradford, gran,
secretary of the grand lodge Of Odd Fellow
of Vermont, was in town last Saturday
making arrangements for the meeting OF tn
grand lodge at Montpelier in May
WILLIE HEoEIcKE OF Middlesex, who wa
terribly scalded by falling into a pan of be
water at the sugar-house Of III. j. Taplin
as notsd last week, Is suffering from loci