The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

| JOWh Ou luboudys
l.. r. TERRILL of Underhill is visiting W.
K. Terrill. his son.
| A SON was born last Thursday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Corliss Lafferty.
A DAUGHTER was born last week to Mr..
and Mrs. W. l.. Pine.
Mr.. AND Mrs. III. @. COTTON visited in
Brookfield last week.
CHARLES LORD of New York is visiting
W. A. Lord, his brother.
MR.. AND MRS EUGENE Il. RAND are visit
ing in CharlestowD, N. III.
Mrs. A. W. FERRIN and son Charles Wis
tied in Morrisville last week.
THE post-office is soon to be equipped
with long distance telephone.
Mr. AND Mrs j. II, SENTER. have been in
New York during the past week.
MRS. e. b. DwINELL of Marshfeld is visit
ing at the home of j. W. Caustic.
HARRY LOWE returned last week from a
two months trip through the West.
EDWARD KANE of Manchester, N. H., Wis.,
tied Moses Kane, his brother, last week.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT exchanged last
Sunday with Rev. B. W. Jones of Barre.
HIRAM STONE of Hardwick visited last
week with Mrs. e. d. Putnam, his sister.
MISS NELLIE TRoMBLEE has gone to Bos-
ton and will soon leave there for the South.
MISS LILLIAN TRAILS kindergarten will
close next Friday for two weeks vacation.
MISS ETHEL BINGHAM of Essex Junction
was the guest Of Mrs. E. A. Mutt last week.
Miss ELLEN CIRCUIT has just completed
very successful term Of school at West Ber.
lin.
j. s. WILKINS was in Boston and Man.
chester, n. H., last week on insurance busi-
ness.
JACK WHEELER is the newly appointed
manager of the Company 81 basket ball
team.
JUDGE M. E. SMILE is the proud possess
sor of chainless, 1893 model, Columbia
wheel.
THE stone work on the new Catholic
church has been suspended until next
spring.
CLAYTON the young son If Leroy Flint of
Shady Rill, is quite seriously i'll with psri-
tonitis.
MISS MARY B. CARLETON is to attend the
military hop at Burlington next Friday
evening.
III. j. LIVINGSTONE Of st. Albans visited
last Saturday in the family Of Alderman
Whelan.
II. G. Cotton returned on Tuesday from
an extended business trip through New
England
Mrs. JULIETTE BANCROFT has been con-
fined to the house during the past week
with grip.
MILES STANDIsH takes the place of Wal
ter Washburn as bookkeeper for w. o.
Standish.
A GAME shoot will be held on Thanks.
giving day at the range of the Montpelier
Gun Club.
MRS. l. d. TAFT has been visiting rela-
tives in Boston and vicinity during the
past week.
| A TEN-HORsE power gas engine was last
week put into the stone sheds of Frasier &
Broadfoot.
Miss ETA THOMPSON, of the WATcHMAN
composing force, is visiting relatives in
| Waitsfeld.
THE four years old son of Jerry Donahue
fell down stairs last Thursday breaking his
collar bone.
SHERIFF BANCROFT has been appointed
administrator of the estate of the late Ar
| thur Dennis.
THE young people of Bethany Church
will hold sociable in the church vestry
this evening.
THE ST. Jean de Baptiste Society will give
a whist party this evening in their hall in
Post Office block.
JOHN SMITH, the tent and awning manu-
facturer, went last week to Boston to remain
through the winter.
The Glover Club met last Thursday even.
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thirteenth birthday.
Two carloads of fine Jersey cattle were
shipped last Thursday by w. FL. Lombard
to Willmantic, Conn.
THE members OF Ivy lodge, Daughters OF
Rebekah gave dance in Whitcomb hall
last Thursday evening.
MISS CHARLOTTE SHIPMAN is at home from
Abbott Academy, Andover, Mass, for the
Thanksgiving vacation.
VIZ IL.
last Wednesday evening after spending the
summer at the Pavilion.
THE plumbing firm of O'Neill & Blackall
has been dissolved. The business will be
continued by Mr.. O'Neill.
HENRY G. STURTEvANT OF Center Harbor,
N. H., has been the guest Of Mrs. M. g.
Davis during the past week.
THE Montpelier Orchestra will furnish
music for dance to be held at North
Calais on Thanksgiving eve.
AN arc light was placed on Berlin side on
Monday, opposite the brass foundry of the
Cotton Manufacturing Company.
FRANK III. SMITH and Miss Jessie l..
Humphrey are to be married this evening
at the home of the bride in Berlin.
THE Baptist juvenile Christian Endeav-
orers held a social last Friday evening at
the residence of Rev. w. A Dawson.
MRS. WILLIAM NUTTINa and daughter
Lucy OF Bellows Falls have been visiting
Mrs. ID. A. Guptil during the past week.
ASHLEY HUBBARD and Mrs. Sarah j.
Chilson were married last Wednesday by
Rev. j. Edward Wright at his residence.
Col. AND MRS G. H. JOYCE of Rutland
visited Mr. and Mrs. M ID. Fowler last
week. Mrs. Fowler is sister of Col. Joyce.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at quarter past two with
Mrs. Frank A. Hayden, IA East State street.
JOHN p. ADAMS went to Boston last Fri
day night and witnessed the great Harvard
Yale football game at Cambridge on Satur-
day.
A SPECIAL meeting Of Aurora Lodge OF
Masons will be held next Monday evening
at seven o'clock. Work on the third de-
gree.
MONTPELIER has thirteen policy holders
in the Bay State Beneficiary Association,
which last week went into a receivers
hands.
Miss HELEN DEWEY returned last Friday
from Brattleboro. She was accompanied by
Miss Helen, daughter Of Hon. James L.
Martin.
THE appearance of the Willard block al
the head of State street is materially i'm.
proved by the removal OF the wooden porch
in front.