The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-29
auspices Of Montpelier Lodge, Knights OF
Pythias, to which the public Is invited.

1uIuou ldbJ WbeR 10 0er nome IN frOV10enC6,
Il. l., after visit OF several weeks with her
sisters, Misses Lizzie and Mary Stimson.
JAMES YoUNo is nursing badly-skinned
nose, and bruised arms and knees, the re-
suit OF header taken from bicycle while
riding from Morrisville last Sunday after
noon.
j. g: HUDGINs, advance agent for the
Haley q Whitney San Francisco Minstrels,
has been dangerously i'll at the Exchange
Hotel for several days with inflammation of
the stomach.
MISS EMILY COOPER OF Barre, who was at
Heaton hospital for several weeks last sum
mer, died last week in Brooklyn, N. Y.
FURTHER particulars may be found in the
Barre column.
e. T. SEoUIN will close his labors next
Friday in the jewelry store OF g. II. Bald.
win, and will devote his time in future to
handling the daily papers in the store of
George Il. Ehle.
The Huntington Free Baptist quarterly
meeting will be held with the church at
Shady Rill, October 8, 9 and 10. Preaching
service Friday evening. also through the
day Saturday and Sunday.
NEXT Sunday will be the sixth anniver-
sary OF Rev. A. N. Lewis rectorship in
Christ church parish. At the morning SER
vice Mr.. Lewis will give some interesting
statistics Of the past six years.
GEORGE M. SMITH, the well-known con-
ductor on the Montpelier and Wells River
railroad, has purchased the livery stable at
the rear OF the Union House belonging to
the estate OF the late b. P. Young.
THE proprietor of the welden House
property at st. Albans was in the city on
Monday. He had with him plans for new
hotel to be built on the site of the one
burned about three months ago.
On account of the Christian Endeavor
Convention, the monthly business meeting
OF the Woman's Auxiliary to the Young
Mems Christian Association, is postponed
to next Saturday, at three o'clock.
G. II. STEWART of Berlin has in his pos
session copy OF the Ulster county Gazette,
published January 4, 1900, identical with
the rare copy possessed by W. A. Stowell
OF which mention was made last week.
THE gang of concreters who have been
at work on the sidewalks Of Montpelier for
the past six weeks under the superinten-
dence OF 8. A. Howard, finished their la
bors last Saturday and went to st. Albans.
The fire loss Of Roys & Chase of Rox-
bury was adjusted at the Office Of the Yer
mont Mutual Fire Insurance Company on
Monday. Messrs. l, j. Brown of Under
hill and George Brainerd of this city were
the adjusters.
BISHOP NINDE says of "Your Mothers
Apron Strings" that it is worth any mans
walking ten miles to hear it. Chaplain
Lozier gives this eloquent and witty enter
tainment in Trinity Church, Tuesday even
ing, October 10.
A. W. EDsoN failed to pass the examina-
tion required for the position of assistant
superintendent Of the New York City
schools. The questions were almost wholly
technical and Mr.. Edison will be given q
second examination.
THIRTY-FIvE excursion tickets to New
York were sold at the Central Vermont sta
tion Tuesday. Among those who went
were Miss Lizzie Stimson, Mrs. John Dill
lon, Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Bancroft and Mr..
and Mrs. II. M. Graves.
H. G. WHITEHILL of the Waterbury Re-
cord was industriously looking after his
fences when the Vermont congressional del
egation was at the Pavilion last Thursday
evening. He scents !" furrin" appoint
ment in the ambient air.
ARCHIE WILLIAMS, against whom COM
plant for intoxication in Warren was made
some time ago by States Attorney How
land, was arrested on Monday in Northfeld
by Deputy Sheriff Chase, brought to Mont
pelier and lodged in Jail.
The Boston and Capital clothing stores
in this city were closed on Monday and
Tuesday to allow the proprietors and clerks
to keep the Jewish New Year. According
to the Hebrew calendar, Monday was the
first day Of the Jewish year 5658.
o. M. FISHER went on Monday to Boston
where he will remain during the fall
months with Jacobs, Whitcomb & Co., at
No. 26 Federal street. Mr.. Fisher will be
glad to meet there all his friends from
Montpelier and throughout New England.
THE annual meeting of the Montpelier
Benevolent and Educational Association
will be held at the residence of Mrs. Joel
Foster, 20 School street, next Friday, at
1880 P. M. 1t is extremely important that
there should be large attendance of the
members.
A SPECIAL meeting of the city council
waa held on Monday evening. The may
or's appointment of Selim Dubuc, as spe-
cial policemen at the arch bridge at the foot
of South Main street was confirmed. The
board voted to pay Howard & Clark, the
concreters, the balance due them amount
ing to $431,S
A. r. SoRTwELL, president of the Barre
quarry syndicate, was in town last Friday
night and closed deal with j. M. Bout
well, whereby the Langdon granite quarry
is leased to the quarry combine. Mr.. Sort
well returned to Boston on the midnight
train, Friday.
AMONG those from Montpelier who are 10
enter the University of Vermont at Bur
lington this week are Carroll Marvin, Pat
rick Cory, Roy Morse, G. A. Dodge, George
s. snd Lee %a Max St9n sss%n asaton
also returns this week to the Harvard
Law School.
RELIC hunters have been plenty around
the old arch bridge while that structure has
been in process of demolition. A large
number OF the hand-mad iron spikes and
wooden pins used in the bridge have been
secured and carried away as souvenirs of
the manner in which bridges were built
seventy-fve years ago.
DIR. L. G. WAKEFIELD was in Hardwick
and Greensboro last week testing cattle,
At Hardwick he tested three car loads and
at Greensboro one car load, condemning
and killing one COW in each lot. DIR. Wake
field also condemned and killed a COW last
week belonging to Napoleon Joron of Ber-
lin that was badly affected with tuberculo-
sis.
THE marriage OF Walter Thorpe, general
secretary of the Young Mems Christian As
socation, and Miss Lavina Mcdonald of
Holyoke, Mass, is to occur next Friday at
the home of the bride in Holyoke. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thorpe will be the recipients of many
hearty congratulations on their arrival in
this city. They will go to housekeeping on
Berlin side, in the house owned by Mrs
Eliza Crossett.
Miss LENA YOUNG, daughter of Albert
Young, died Tuesday afternoon in French
block on South Main street, after a brief
illness with peritonits. Deceased was
twenty years old. and had lived in Barre un-