The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
CITY COUNCIL meets tonight.

THERE will be no services at Trinity
church next Sunday evening.
THE Agathai club was entertained by
Miss Anna Phinney last evening
w. E. DUgUR is slowly convalescing from
a serious illness with pneumonia.
EDWIN s. SAWYER has moved to the G. G.
Downing house on Downing street.
MISSES DELLA FAY AND GRACE PARKER
were in Burlington over last Sunday.
HENRY w CATE is away from his duties
in the post-office for a weeks vacation.
CARLOS l.. SMITH left on Monday for
business trip to Boston and New York.
MISS ALICE TRUE of St. Johnsbury visit
ed Mrs. M. s. Davis, her aunt, last week.
Miss II. VIRGINIA PAoUET was the guest
OF Miss Nellie Whelan over last Sunday.
A j. SIBLEY has purchased of G. S. Hub
bard, for $3.50, two lots on Foster avenue.
Miss MAE BULLARD is clerk in T. s.
Brophy's store during the holiday season.
Mr.. AND Mrs. j, d. WATSON of Chicago
are at the Montpelier House for few days.
MIR. AND Mrs. GEORGE r. EHLE are re-
joicing over SOD, born on Tuesday morn
ing.
REV. AND MRS ANDREW GILLIEs left on
Monday for ten days visit in Rochester,
N. Y.
ROBERT j. WRIGHT cashier of the New
port National bank, was at the Pavilion on
Tuesday.
THE ladies OF Bethany Reading will meet
with Mrs. w. j. Bagley on Tuesday, De-
cember IA.
MRS. Lucy A HURLBURT, who has been
very ill during the past week, is reported
as convalescent.
MRS. w. G. ANDREWS gave whist party
last Friday evening at her home on East
Liberty street.
FRANK W. TUTTLE, mayor of Vergennes,
visited Deputy Sheriff John L. Tuttle, his
father, last week.
MRS. WALLACE G. HALE and daughter,
Lena, of Bellows Falls are visiting at the
home of III. A. Skinner.
MRS. f. L. LAIRD went on Monday to
Chelsea, where she is to be official reporter
in Orange county court.
DIR. o. L. WATSON has moved into his
house on Barre street, that was recently
vacated by A. A. Stebbins.
GEORGE H. MACoMBER returned on Mon
day from Albany, N. Y, where he has been
attending business college.
GEORGE WHEELER, overseer of the poor,
was confined to his room several days last
week, threatened with the grip.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at a quarter past two with
Miss Amy Fisk on Hubbard street.
w lLLiAM -. ANDREWS, Iatner OF MIS-
Leonard L. Lul1, is seriously ill at the home
OF his daughter at No. First Avenue.
THE comic opera Wang" is the next
attraction booked at Blanchard opera house,
and the date is Monday, December 20.
A. G. SPIRo is suffering with badly
injured knee pan, the result of slipping on
an icy sidewalk last Saturday evening.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
Middlesex next Sunday at two P. NJ. Sub.
ject: " A Plea for Some Non-essentials. !"
THE Blanpied lyceum met last evening
and discussed the question whether the
civil war was benefit to the United States
Miss MAUD WoRTHEN, recently from the
Mary Hitchcock Hospital at Hanover, n.
H., is at Barre caring for Mrs. Fred Ed
wards.
Mr.. AND MRS. 8. l.. HOWE returned on
Tuesday from Chicago, where they have
been visiting relatives for two months or
more.
Miss ANNETTE NJ UPHAM left the Pavil.
ion last week for New York, where she is to
remain during the winter at the Windsor
Hotel
e. j. ROBBINS, clerk for c. III. Baldwin,
was called last Saturday to his home in
Keene, N. H., by the serious illness of
his father.
MRS. MARY REINHART was quite seriously
bruised by falling on an icy sidewalk in
front of G. II. More's residence last Sunday
afternoon.
THE meeting for men, held last Sunday
afternoon in the rooms OF the Young Men s
Christian Association, was led by Rev. w.
| A. Dawson.
A DAUGHTER was born on Monday to Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Ellis, and daughter to
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lee, who reside on
Berlin side.
A MISSIONARY meeting, led by Miss Mary
b. Carleton, was held last Sunday evening
in the chapel by the Bethany Christian En-
deavor Society.
THE basket ball team from the Young
Mems Christian Association was beaten at
Burlington last Thursday evening by a
score Of 18 to IL.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet this afternoon with Mrs.
| Jane Palmer, No. 80 Loomis street, at half
past two o'clock.
A COMMUNION service is to be held in the
Church of the Messiah next Sunday at four
evening service.
played at the Young Mems Christian Asso-
| citation gymnasium at eight o'clock tonight.
Admission free.
A SCORE or more of Masons from Barre
visited Aurora Lodge on Monday evening.
Refreshments were served at the COM
pletion OF the work.
MASON S. STONE, state superintendent OF
education, is one Of the speakers at the an
nual meeting of the State Grange, now in
session at Springfield.
Miss MARY TRoMBLEE has been suffering
from a severe cold, which necessitated her
absence from the store of George E. Taplin
several days last week.
TAE Baptist ladies gave "a cbiokeh-pi
supper and held a Christmas sale in their
vestry, last evening, which was awarded a
very generous patronage.
THE members of Brooks Relief Corps
gave an enjoyable whist party last Friday
evening in Grand Army hall. There were
fourteen tables in the drive.
GEORGE T. DURKEE OF Barre and Miss
Jennie Brown OF Plattsburg, N. Y, were
married on Monday evening by Rev. j. Ed
ward Wright at his residence.
j. A. WELLMAN of Manchester, N ii.
general agent for New Hampshire of the
National Life Insurance Company, was in
Montpelier several days last week.
CARL j. GLEASON is i'll with appendicitis
at the Harvard Law-School, Cambridge
Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. p. Gleason, his
parents, went to him on Tuesday.
SHERIFF. COLLINS took Fred Woodward
and Il. l., White to Rutland on Monday tC
serve he sentences recently imposed upon
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