The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-02-17
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

ADDITIONAL local news may be found on
page two.
MRS 7. s. BRoPHy is visiting in Boston.
MRS. K. r. DAVIS is seriously i'll with
measles.
ALDERMAN SMITH was at st. Johnsbury
over st Sunday.
W. P. STAFFORD, of st. Johnsbury, was
in town last Monday.
The condition OF Fred E. Pitkn is still
considered very critical.
A SON was born last Sunday night to Mr..
and Mrs. III. W. Moss.
e. G.. CoLBURN, in the employ OF o. ID.
Scribner, is i'll with the grip.
ALICE STEBBINs and a son of E. E. Tow
ner are i'll with the measles.
GEORGE H. WHITNEY is in New York at
tending the bicycle exhibition.
e. L. PUTNEY has purchased the d. d.
Nelson house on Hubbard street.
NEXT Tuesday evening will be Ladies'
Night" at the Apollo Club rooms.
FRED BLANCHARD is moving his stock to
his new store in Lawrence building.
FRED W. BANCROFT of Boston will visit
his friends in Montpelier next week.
Miss MINNIE CALLAHAN of Malone, N. Y,
is visiting Patrick Callahan her uncle.
q. s. HUBBARD has sold to T. j. Kelleher,
for $500, a strip of land on Seminary sire e..
Mrs. GEORGE r. EHLE went to New York
last Monday evening for an extended visit.
G. b. ROBERTS, road commissioner, is
still confined to his room with rheumatism.
II. ID. CARLISLE, clerk at the Pavilion is
convalescent from his recent serious illness.
JAMES T. SABIN was in Cambridge last
week to attend the funeral of II. j. Stowell.
HARRY McALLIsTER visited at his old
home in Waitsfield last Saturday and Sum-
day.
The rooms of DR.. G. E. Corbin have
been connected with the telephone ex-
change,
THE Epworth League Reading Circle will
meet next Friday afternoon with Miss Mae
Bullard.
REV. CHARLES N. THoRP of Rutland ex-
changed with Rev. DR.. Norman Seaver last
SUI day.
ARTHUR o. BAILEY, who resides on the
Scoville farm in Berlin, is dangerously i'll
with pneumonia.
A. l.. DEARTH has finished work in the
dental parlors of DR.. George E. Hunt, and
has gone to Boston.
Miss ADELAIDE L. GRIswoLD, private
secretary for State Superintendent Stone, is
i'll with the measles.
MRS FL. e. CAMPBELL is working in the
store of K. E. Towner during the illness of
Miss Jessie B. Hopkins.
PROF. EDwAt d W. MoRRELL, ,,of the Mont
pelier Seminary is seriously i'll. George d.
Kidder Is caring for him.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet with
Mrs. F. A. Sherburne next Friday after
noon at quarter past two.
ROBERT EMERY, Clifton Heaton and Ray
Huse were at home from the University of
Vermont over last Sunday.
The four children of Mr.. and Mrs. An
thur Allen, Jr,, have been sick with the
measles dur 1g the past week.
GEORGE CLARK Of Somerville, Mass,
is at the Exchange Hotel, while under treat
ment at the Helmer infrmary.
GEORGE A. KNAPP returned last Sunday
morning from New York, where he has
been for two weeks on vacation.
THE Methodist Woman's Home Mission
ary Society will meet this afternoon with
Mrs. s. M. Ferguson at 108 Elm street.
ROBERT EMERY went to New York last
Monday night. He is in poor health and
has gone to that city to consult specialist.
FRED II. PERRY is soon to move his fam
lily to Chicopee Falls, Mass, where Mr..
Perry has charge of a bicycle mandatory.
Miss TERRILL, student at the Mont
pelier Seminary, was obliged to go to her
home in Underhill this week because Of i'll
ness.
MRS. j. N KING OF East Barre is taking
the place of Miss May Labelle in the central
telephone Office during the illness of the
latter.
The meeting OF Royal and Select Masters
mentioned in the local items on page two
has been postponed until Tuesday evening
March 2.
A DAUGHTER was born last Saturday tc
Mr.. and Mrs. William George, and a daugL'
ter Saturday evening to Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Fitzgibbons.
REMEMBER the New England dinner al
the vestry Of the church Of the Messiah mex
Monday evening of which mention is made
in the business column.
The directors of the Montpelier National
Bank have chosen Henry l.. Farwell a.
teller to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of w. HI. Stowell.
THERON #. COTTON returned last Satur
day evening from six weeks trip through
the West in the interests Of the Coltor
Manufacturing Company.
The drama "Woven Webb" will be pre-
sented by Gen. Stephen Thomas Camp
Sons of Veterans, in Blanchard. opera house
Friday evening, February 26.
JESSIE, daughter of Thomas Marvin, il
i'll with measles. The local physicians re
port nearly one hundred cases of this dis
ease in Montpelier and vicinity.
THE body of Peter Gravelin was taken
on Saturday, to Greensboro, where funera
services were held. Lewis Wood accom-
panied the remains to that place.
REV. b. WALLACE JONES of Barre is 4
give lecture in the Church of the Messiah
next Sunday evening. Subject 9TH
Golden Mean" The public is invited.
The Seminary Banjo Club will give con
cert in Waterbury this evening. Severa
students from the seminary will attend. j
@. Adams will carry the party in the "MoI
it)r."
MRS. ID. G. CARTER Of Wells spent Las
Sunday at the Exchange Hotel with Mis-
Genevive Lewis, her sister, who is still r,
ceiving treatment from the disciples of OF
teopathy.
BRITrANA ELIZA, wife OF John KNAPP
died Saturday evening, February 6,
Cleveland, o aged sixty-nine years. Th
funeral and burial were the following Tue
day at Cleveland.
The members of Montpelier lodge No L
knights of Pythias will celebrate in the
hall next Friday evening the thirty -thir
anniversary Of the establishment OF thu
order In America.
: GEORGE w. PARMENTER will soon moy