The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-20
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


MRS. CLEMENTINE l.. BIxBY visited last
week in Burlington.
Miss NELLIE DEWEY has been in Boston
during the past week.
Mrs. H. G. COTTON is visiting in Boston
and Springfield, Mass
MRS. JULIETTE BANCROFT and Miss Jane
are in Boston this week.
w. 8. SMITH is in Boston, and @. l.. Smith
is deer hunting in Maine.
DR.. AND MRS. @. K. CHANDLER are in
Boston and New York this week.
A. j. ALLARD was in st. Albans on Tues
day to act as best man at wedding.
MISSES LIZZIE FINN and Nellie Jerome
were in st. Albans over last Sunday.
W. A. LORD has been chosen one OF the
directors Of the Vermont Valley railroad.
TwKNTY-EIGHr commercial travellers were
at the Montpelier House over last Sunday.
CHARLES W. BURPER Of Boston has been
visiting j. e. Leland during the past week.
MISS NELLIE FIFIELD returned last Satur-
day from New York and Northampton.
Mass.
Miss ANNA GUERNSEY went to Boston on
Monday to re-enter the Emerson School OF
Oratory.
II. M. GRAVES went on Monday to Will
Jamestown. Mass, where he is working in a
drug store.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE II. Cross Of st.
Johnsbury were guests of G. II. Cross over
last Sunday.
The Ladies' Guild Of Christ church will
meet at the Parish House on Thursday at
two o'clock P. M.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet with
Mrs. A. d. Farwell next Friday afternoon
at quarter past two.
THE Ladies' Guild of Christ Church will
meet at the parish house on Thursday after.
noon at half past two.
ROBERT W. KELLY has sold to Mrs. Jen-
ME Dunwoodie, for S2,525, three dwelling
houses on st. Paul street.
MRS. THEODORE DEWEY left on Monday,
with her two children, for New York where
she will spend the winter.
Miss NELLIE BLACK of the New York
Journal was in town on Tuesday looking up
the Brewster murder case.
f. W. MORSE is on a business trip through
the West. He will 60 as far as Chicago and
st. Louis before his return.
MRS. L. W. SHEDD has gone to Gorham,
Me-, to resume the care Of her mother, who
has been i'll for some months.
Col. FRED e. SMITH and II. W. Drew at
tended the funeral Of John w. Hobart at st.
Albans on Tuesday afternoon.
N. g. MINARD. representing Burbank &
pans, was in town on Monday.
THE engagement of "My Friend from
India" troupe at the opera house next Fri
day evening has been cancelled.
REV ANDREW GILLIEs lectured at Trinity
church last Sunday evening on "Some Les.
sons from the Life Of Neal Dow"
IT is solemnly asserted that the mayor
of Montpelier says damn'l Whyl the
the horrid man "l-Burlington Clipper.
THE class Of young men who were ad-
mitted to the Vermont Bar last Friday were
photographed in group Friday afternoon.
GEORGE G. PRATT has purchased of j. E.
Hubbard building lot on Summer street,
instead OF Clarendon Avenue as stated last
week.
"HEENAN" BOWERS was taken to the
house Of correction at Rutland on Monday
by Officer Wood for third offence Of intox-
cation.
A. j. HOWE, agent for the Connecticut
Building and Loan Association has, during
the past thirty days, made loans of over
$1,000.
MRS. "LEE" HARVEY fell last Friday
evening while alighting from a buggy on
Elm street, and fractured the bones of her
left wrist.
ARTHUR HUBBARD and Miss Sarah Coburn
are to be married this morning by Rev. DIR.
Norman Seaver, at the residence Of Hon.
Joseph Poland.
MRS. M. E. Brown, who has been visiting
Mrs. j. w. Leland. her daughter, for sew
eral months, returned last Friday to her
home in Philadelphia.
FRED B. BoYLEs, who has recently COM
menced housekeeping on Fullerton Avenue,
has been detained at home for few days
because OF slight illness.
A SON OF Fred III. Woodward was struck
on the left hand ON Tuesday by a piece of
exploded gun cap, which inflicted painful
but not dangerous wound.
THE second in series of whist parties
under the auspices OF st. Jean de Baptist
Society will be held in their hall in Lang
don block next Friday evening.
G. H. Heaton was elected grand treasurer
OF the General Grand Council of Royal and
Select Masons at the triennial conclave,
held last week at Baltimore, Md.
THE public schools were closed for three
days last week and several of the teachers
attended the meetings of the State Teach
er's Association held at Woodstock.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to conduct
the meeting in the Morse school-house, East
Montpelier, next Sunday at 2:15 P. M. Sub
ject; The Devil, Treated Historically"
MRS. II. II. TRACY went to Bennington on
Tuesday as a delegate from Trinity Church
Sunday-school to the State Sunday school
convention now in session at that place.
BENJAMIN GATES of Hartford, Conn, was
in town5over last Sunday. He conducted
the meeting for men held Sunday afternoon
in the rooms of the Young Mems Christian
Association.
A SPECIAL meeting Of the city council was
held on Monday evening for an informal
discussion of bridge and electric railroad
matters. No formal action was taken on
any matter that came before the board
MAYOR GUERNSEY was in st. Albans on
Tuesday in consultation with the Central
Vermont railroad officials regarding cross
ing the tracks of the company to the foot
bridge across the Winooski, that is to be.
DR.. ID. G. KEMP was elected delegate to
the White River Valley Medical Society, at
the annual session of the Vermont Medical
Society, held last week at st. Albans. DIR.
Kemp was also reelected treasurer of the
society.
DIR. X. LoNGFELLow CLEAvEs has added
an ingenious novelty to the equipment of
his dental parlors. 1t consists of fountain
spittoon and saliva ejector, which is great
convenience to those who are obliged TO sit
in dentists chair.
MISS MARIE MANNING, of the New York
World staff, was in Montpelier over last
Sunday, for the purpose OF obtaining an in
tervew with Mildred Brewster and CLEAN
ing facts regarding the tragedy and the
coming trial OF the case.
The Women's Christian Temperance