The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS,

A COLUMN and half of fresh local news
and the proceedings of Washington County
| Court last week may be found on page
| two.
MRS. HENRY CLARK is still very ILL.,
j. G. FARwELL is in Boston this week.
Mr.. AND MRS. @. P. PITKIN were in Bos.
ton last week.
REV. DIR. e. NJ. SMITH preached at Wells
River last Sunday
Col, II. w. HALL OF Burlington was in
town on Tuesday.
MRS. FRANK BEMIs is visiting at her home
in Willsboro, N. Y.
GOVERNOR CIRCUIT has appointed Friday,
May 7, as Arbor Day.
MRS. ROBERT M. FRASER is dangerously
Ill with consumption.
e. e. GEE is recovering from a serious
illness from gastritis.
LEO FULLER Is slowly recovering from a
serious illness with measles and pneumonia.
MRS. Q. 9. FIELD visited last week at the
home Of Mrs G. b. Drury at Essex juno
ton.
MISS G. A. MCCLURE has moved from
Heaton Hospital to the residence of j. d.
Brown.
Mr.. AND MRS. ALBERT JoHoNNoTT re-
turned last Thursday from their trip through
the South.
GEORGE II. WILDER assisted in the Easter
services at the First Universalist church at
Keene, N. Fl.
HENRY L. FARwELL has moved to the
upper tenement in the house OF e. f. Rand
on Barre street.
r. G. BOWERS went on Monday to Buffa-
10, N. T., on business for the r. g. Bowers
Granite Company.
IL inf Of a1t
Battalion Adjutant of the First Regiment.
V. N. g., Is announced.
A. A. STEBBINs was in Brattleboro last
week on business for the New York Mutual
Life Insurance Company.
X. M. WALLING has returned to his duties
in the store Of T. 8. Brophy & Co., after a
serious illness with the measles.
BISHOP WALDEN attended chapel exer
cises at the Montpelier Seminary on Tues
day, and briefly addressed the students.
MRS. LEVI A. PEARsoNs was called to
Elmore last Monday by the death OF Mrs.
Oliver Warren, her sister.
GEORGE BRAINERD was in st. Albans on
Tuesday, on business for the Vermont Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company.
G. B. B. DENNY has moved to the farm in
Berlin, owned by r. B. Denny, his son,
where he is to reside in future.
THE reading circle connected with Trinity
church met on Tuesday afternoon with Mrs.
Il. M. Smith on College street
81. d. HOPKINS is taking brief vacation
from his duties in the Office Of the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
The listers have nearly all the inventories
in. They were busy up to late hour last
evening making up a list Of offsets.
BECAUSE of the session Of the Vermont
Conference at Barre, there will be no SER
vices at Trinity church next Sunday.
MRS. w. o. STAND1sH returned from Bos-
ton last Saturday, where she has been visit
ing relatives for the past three weeks.
A DAUGHTER was born on Tuesday to Mr..
and Mrs. Napoleon Gauthier, and q son
last Sunday to Mr.. and Mrs Carl Holt.
Hon. W. P. DILLNaHAM has been in Bos
ton during the past week, where he has
been assisting in the trial Of will case.
THE measles are abating. Very few new
cases are reported by the local physicians,
and this disease seems to have spent itself.
REV. FATHER w. ]. OsuLL1vAN is to lee
ture this evening before St. Joseph's Court,
Catholic Order Of Foresters, in Burlington.
REV. AND MRS. A. H. WEBB were the re-
cipients of q purse Of money last evening
on the eve OF their departure for conference.
OVER $50 was contributed to the piano
fund at the Easter concert, held last Sum-
day evening in the Church OF the Mes
siah.
MARTIN HENLEY, clerk at the Montpelier
House, returned last Saturday from the
West, where he has been for the past two
months.
THE creditors Of g. B. B. Denny. insolvent
debtor, met at the Office Of Judge Carleton
last Saturday and elected A. o. Cummns
as assignee.
A. d. FARwELL, j. w. Peck, j. 8. Viles,
J. M Boutwell,, l.. Bart Cross and L. II.
Green went to Boston on Tuesday to attend
the horse show.
spector Of finance, and Major J. H.
Mimms Of St. Adams were in town last
Friday and Saturday.
ELBERr d. DwNELL, who has recently
completed q course in the law department
at Dartmouth College, is visiting Hon. f.
A. Dwinell, his father.
ATTENTION is called to the announcement
in the business column, OF the lecture by
Prof G. w: Perry at the Church Of the
Messiah on Thursday evening.
j. e. ALMoN of New York City, senior
Beloit. Wis, is in town to attend the funer-
al OF Mary Ann Ryan, his aunt.
THE annual meeting of the Ladies' Guild
Of Christ Church for the election Of officers
for the year, will be held with Mrs. Frank
A. Adams on Thursday at two P. M.
W. o. STANpIsH, G. 8. Whittier, William
r iley and Lucius @. Stone were in Burling-
ton on Monday to attend the opening Of the
Lake Champlain' Provision Company
Mr.. AND MRS. e. M. SMITH entertained
the faculty Of the Montpelier Seminary and
the members OF the senior class last Friday
evening at their home on College street.
f. M. CORY is remodeling the ell part OF
his store. The building will be moved
back and raised story. Mr.. CORY also
contemplates enlarging and remodeling his
store.
j. II. SKNTER, United States District At
torney, returned last Thursday evening,
much improved in health. He has been In
New York most OF the time during his alb
sence.
THE building just west of the Montpelier
House, recently purchased by A. S. Spar.
row, the proprietor, has been fitted up for q
sample room for which 1t is admirably
adapted.
The new twenty-horse power electric mo-
tor, that has recently been placed in the
sheds OF the United States Clothes Pin Com
pany, was tested last week and proved sat
| isfactory.
SHERIFF COLLINS and Deputy Sheriff