The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-06-02
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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ARTHUR A. TIFFANY was in town from ST.
Albans over last Sunday.
Miss JESSIE BoRUM of New York Is the
guest Of Miss Nellie Fifield.
SUNDAY, June 20, will be observed as
Children's Day at Trinity church.
GEORGE E. MILLS has sold TO r. M. Har-
vey building lot on College street.
SUNDAY evening services will be omitted
at Bethany church until further notice.
A. o. CUMMINs has been in Worcester and
Millbury, Mass, during the past week.
ATTENTION is called to the advertisement
of DR.. Twombly in the business column.
G. o. BARRETT is confined to the house
with erysipelas In his hand caused by burn
from acid.
II. WAITE SABIN is registered as a student
in the medical department OF the Univer-
sity Of Vermont.
MR., AND MRS. HERBERT HASTINGS Of st.
Johnsbury were guests over Sunday Of Mr..
and Mrs. G. W. Luce.
MRS. r. j. GLEASON returned last Friday
to her home in Waitsfield after brief visit
with II. @. Gleason, her son.
BEGINNING next Sunday the order Of SER
vice recommended by the general confer
ence will be followed at Trinity church.
j. II. SENTER is confied to his room with
intermittent fever, from which he has been
B. 9. ALEXANDER has moved from the
basement Of Holmes block to the Office of
the Montpelier Transcript in Willard block.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT has an appoint
ment to preach in the Morse school-house,
East Montpelier, next Sunday at 2:15 P. M.
E. B. HAMMITT is still at st. Lukes hos
pital, Chicago, but hopes to be in Mont
pelier by the last Of this week or the first Of
next.
REV. j. X. THOMPSON conducted the meet
ing for young men. held last Sunday at the
rooms of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation.
THE Ladies' Aid Association of the Hea-
ton Hospital will meet this afternoon at two
o'clock with Mrs. G. H. Heaton, No. 143
State street.
III. w. CUMMINGS and wife. who have
been in Lewiston, Maine for the past two
years, are now visiting his parents in
Shady Rill.
MRS. CHARLES A. SMITH, I'd, who has been
dangerously i'll during the past week, died
at midnight. An extended obituary notice
will appear next week.
The debate in Seminary chapel for the
Ives Batchelder prize Of S25, will be held
next Tuesday evening, instead of next Fri
day evening as first announced.
MARTIN GREEN, who is charged with an
attempt to pick pockets at Montpelier juno
tion, was brought to Montpelier last Satur-
day by Sheriff Collins and was lodged in
CHARLES LIMOGES closed his labors last
Saturday night in the barber shop of G. w.
Bonnette. He has gone to Burlington to
take charge of a barber shop belonging to his
| brother.
d. F. CLARK, Bruce Mcdonald, g. D.
Wells and Miss Myrtle Whitcomb are dele
gates from the local Epworth League to
the state convention to be held at Brattle-
boro Tuesday, June o.
THE June communion service in the
Church of the Messiah, will be held next
| Sunday afternoon at half past four o'clock.
Sunday evening services will be omitted in
that church till September II.
THE Ladies' Auxiliary of the Young Mems
Christian Association held open house in
the parlors, last Wednesday afternoon.
Members were present with invited guests.
| Light refreshments were served
THE wonders Of the Wild West Show
| that will be seen in Montpelier Wednesday,
June 16, are set forth in double column
advertisement on page three, and in various
reading notices on the inside pages.
| DIR. l.. @. WAKEFIELD was at Brookfield
| Center and Barton last week testing cattle.
At the former place he tested eighty head,
| and at Barton carload for the Massachu-
setts markets. No tuberculosis was found.
Il. ID. SIMMONS has closed his labors as
clerk at the Exchange Hotel and has gone
to his home in Lebanon, n. H. He expects
| to resume his old position on the road.
Louis Fisher. night clerk, succeeds him as
| clerk.
The Ladies' Guild of Christ church will
meet on Thursday afternoon at half past
two with Mrs. Lucy Moulton. At the close
of the Guild meeting business meeting
Of the reading club connected with this
church will be held.
The Montpelier Seminary base ball team
was defeated at Barre last Saturday by the
Barre Rushers, the score standing 10 to g..
In the afternoon the home team defeated a
nine from Essex Junction on Seminary
campus by score OF 18 to 10,
MISS KATHERINE WAsHBURN of Boston Is
visiting at the home of ID. s. Wheatley.
Miss Washburn has studied music in Bos-
| ton for the past two years and will sail from
New York June 20 for Germany where she
will complete her musical education.
THERE will be a musicale this evening at
Bethany church at eight o'clock, given by
Miss Katherine Washburn Of Boston, as
sisted by w. A. Briggs, George Ell. Wilder
and the Cecilia quartette A cordial invi-
tation is extended to all lovers Of music.
LucIEN L. DEsAULNIERs, a former clerk
at the Exchange Hotel, was in town over
last Sunday. Mr.. Desaulnier has been
night clerk at the st. Johnsbury house for
three months, and goes to the Twin Noun
tain House, White Mountains, Tor the sea-
| SON.
A FREE exhibit of kindergarten work and
material will be held at Miss Fisk's kinder.
garten rooms, 81 Hubbard street, on Thurs
day and Friday. The display will be
opened at one o'clock each afternoon and
continue through the evening" All are in
vited.
A BROTHER OF e. A. Young arrived in
town last Saturday and furnished bail fol
Mr.. Young's release from Jail. The pros
poets are that before next Monday, the time
set for hearing in this case, as noted else
where, money will be provided to settle al
claims.
RALPH II. WYLIE, for the past three years
assistant in the dental parlors OF DR.. *. l.
Cleaves, left for Boston this week, where
he will combine work and study. Tht
doctor " has been very popular with hi
young associates, and their best wishes fol
low him to his wider field OF usefulness.
THE City Council and selectmen of Berlin
held a meeting on Tuesday afternoon :tt
discuss bridge matters. No definite actor
was taken and the meeting was adjourned
,, ,, until next Wednesday. The bids ant
; plans before the board were informally dis
, cussed, but no contracts were awarded.
GEORGE G. PRATT has been appointed sec
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