The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-03
Christian Association Sunday, November
IL. Prominent speakers will take part.

DR.. ID. @. KEMP removed cancer frc m
the lower lip OF e. M. Andrews last We'd
nesday. The operation was very successful
and Mr.. Andrews is rapidly recovering.
REV. ANDREW GILLrEs will give, next
Sunday evening, the first OF O series OF lee
OF his first lecture Is "The Young Man in
History"
The semi-annual election OF officers for
the Epworth League Society will occur at
the business meeting to be held on Thurs
day evening after prayer meeting at Trim
ity church.
The new st. Augustine's church is ready
for the roof. The walls are practically fin
ished and should the weather be favorable
for the next two weeks this work will be
rapidly pushed.
The entertainments in the Star Course
commence promptly at eight o'clock.
Everyone is requested to bear this in mind
next Friday evening, and be in their seats
before that time.
JOHN FL. SENTER has rented rooms in
Lawrence Building which he will occupy as
law office upon the expiration of his term
as United States District Attorney, the first
week in January next.
THE Womsn's Christian Temperance
Union will meet this afternoon at three
o'clock, with Mrs. Ellen G. Osgood on First
Avenue. Temperance hospital work and
study will be taken up.
OFFICER DEMERIrT arrested Fred Worth
en- Tuesday afternoon for an alleged assault
on Norman Stone last week Monday even
ing. Before Judge Smile Worthen pleaded
not guilty and the case was continued.
BECAUSE OF the storm the Ladies' Reading
Circle, connected with Trinity church did
not meet on Tuesday, but will meet on
Thursday afternoon at half-past two with
Mrs. George e. Mills on College street.
THE abutments for the new iron bridge
across the Winooski at the foot of Main
street are completed and the work Of
stringipg the bridge will be accomplished in
short order when the structure arrives.
The week commencing Sunday next will
be observed as week Of prayer at the
Young Mems Christian Association. Meet
ings will be held each evening and several
prominent speakers from other towns will
be present to assist
THE employees of the Worcester Con-
struction Company were engaged all day
last Sunday in putting in an electric rail-
road crossing at the Sabin farm where the
line crosses the tracks of the Montpelier g.
Wells River railroad
M. s. STONE, State Superintendent of Ed
ucation, goes to Bethel to-day where he ad-
dresses teachers meeting, and from there
will go to Boston to attend the annual
meeting of the Association Of New England
School Superintendents.
HARRY A. FREER takes the place of W.
A. Shay as local correspondent for the Free
Press. j. M. Healey, formerly of the Argus
staff who for two years has been on the
Worcester Telegram, takes the place OF
Frank e. Howe on the Argus.
THE Epworth League reading circle con-
nected with Trinity church will take up a
course in American literature for their
work during the fall and winter. The first
m aUaninp a IA
of ID. f. Clark on Loomis street.
d. f. CLARK, assistant postmaster, was in
charge of the mail car over the Montpelier
& Wells River railroad last Friday morn
ing. Because Of the burning of a railroad
bridge near arLittleton, n. H., W. W. Holden
was unable to reach Montpelier on Thurs
day evening.
Sunday evening, by officer Brown, while in
a hopeless state of intoxication. Before
Judge Smile Monday morning he was
fined, with costs, S11.51. He disclosed on a
quart of liquor that he brought from Sher-
brooke, 2. q.
THE funny comedians, George Richards
and Eugene Garfield, who for the past ten
years have been identified with several of
Hoyt's successes take the leading charac-
ters in "My Boys" the musical comedy that
is billed for Blanchard opera house next
Monday evening.
Holy communion will be celebrated at
Christ Church at the close of morning
prayer next Sunday morning. The sermon
will be upon "The Intermediate State, or
Where is the Soul Between Death and the
Resurrection" The evening service will
be at seven o'clock.
w. A. LORD was seriously i'll last week,
threatened with appendicitis He is very
much better, however, and it is not prob
able that his illness will be of such ma
ture as to interfere with the trial of the
Brewster murder case which is set to be-
gin! n!Monday, November 10.
The members of the school board held a
meeting on Monday evening in the Office of
Col j. III. Lucia. The board voted to re-
quest the city council to appropriate 81 900
for school purposes. Col. Lucia was elected
superintendent of education to comply with
the provisions Of the city charter
GoRToN's minstrels drew fair-sized au
dience at Blanchard opera house last Fri
day night. The street parade and band
concert at noon were pleasing features. The
performance throughout was devoid of OBJ
jectionable features and the solo work in
the first part was unusually good.
AT meeting of the cabinet of the Yer
mont Conference Epworth League held al
Montpelier on Tuesday, Montpelier, Will
Jamestown, Barre, Worcester and North
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