The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-03
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

ADDITIONAL local news may be found OF
page two.
ASH WEDNESDAY.
T. w. EAGAN went to New York las
Sunday night.
Mr.. AND MRS. II. G. CAMPBELL are visit
ing in Montgomery.
MRS. w. s. SHANNON OF Manchester, N
H., is the guest Of Mrs. E. e. Towner.
Mrs. ANNETTE LovELAND of Burlington
is visiting William Noyes, her father.
Miss MARY b. CARLETON has been visit
| ing in Burlington during the past week.
MRS. A. II. WEBB will entertain the
Epworth League Reading Circle this even
ing.
T. s. BRoPHY is in Boston where Mrs
Brophy has been under treatment for sew.
eral weeks
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet with
Mrs. II. X. Sherburn next Friday afternoon
at 2:15 o'clock.
GEORGE MACoMBER goes on Thursday to
Albany, N. Y, where he is to take a course
in business college,
A. A ST1MsoN shipped two matched pairs
OF horses and one gents driver to New
York parties last week.
CHARLES G. CONVERSE, clerk in the post
office, was called to Woodstock on Tuesday
by the death of an uncle
THE Sweet Sixteen " club invited their
BeDlltueu lTlBnuS 10 u UdDCe III w ultcOm u
Hall last Saturday evening.
Mrs. 7. W. JONES of Ashburnham, Mass ,
has been visiting George Megrath, her
brother, during the past week.
Miss ANNA GUERNSEY was ill and unable
to take part in the programme at Kellogg
Hubbard Library hall last evening.
Mr.. AND MRS. FRANK e. MARTELL of St.
Johnsbury are visiting at the home of Tel
esphor Allard, father of Mrs. Martell.
THE first of a series Of mid-week services
will be held in the vestry of the Church of
the Messiah on Thursday, at 7: 10 P. M.
THE Home Missionary Society connected
with Trinity church will meet this afternoon
with Mrs. G. l.. Bullock on Winter street.
Miss KATE SMITH will sing contralto in
Bethany choir during the absence on vaca-
ton for three weeks of Miss Clara 1. De-
Ford.
JOSEPH DERRY and Miss Margaret Grape
were married at St. Augustine's church last
Monday morning by Rev. Father W. j.
O'Sullivan.
REV. EFFIE X. M. JONES of the Univer-
salist church in Barre is to occupy the pull
pit of the Church OF the Messioh next Sun
day evening.
TWENTY-FIVE couples attended the dance
given in Amory Hall last Monday evening
BY the members of Company II. This was
the last assembly until after Lent.
THE monthly meeting Of the Ladies' Aid
Association for the Heaton Hospital, will
be held this afternoon at two o'clock with
Mrs. G. H. Heaton on State street.
NEW sheds for granite cutting are to be
erected this spring on Hubbard meadow by
Cotton & More These sheds are already
contracted for by Barre granite crttipg
firm.
MISS ALICE II. FULsOM OF Boston takes
the position of stenOgrapher in the Office OF
the National Life Insurance Company made
vacant by the resignation of Mrs. Charles A.
Smith.
L. T. SEAvER has moved to Montpelier
from Jonesville, where he has been keeping
a hotel. He will occupy the house up
Worcester branch, owned by George W.
Parmenter.
REV. n NJ SHAW is in Boston this week.
On his return he will take up evangelistic
work in any church to which he is called.
He is accompanied in this work by Mr..
Smith, charming gospel singer.
BY request a special sermon to young
women will be preached next Sunday morn
ing, at Bethany church by Rev. DR.. Norman
Seaver, the pastor. Communion services
will be held at three o'clock in the after
noon;
The annual prize speaking and exhibition
by the Junior class at Montpelier Seminary
occurred on Tuesday evening in the chapel.
Vocal and instrumental music, and declama-
tons by the class of '98 made up the pro-
gramme.
CHILDREN playing with matches set fire
to clothing in a closet last Monday, at the
home of I. W. Eagan, and some lively hust
ling was necessary to prevent serious dam
age and a call on the fire department for
assistance.
MRS. H. N. TAPLIN, a member of the
Marquis Lafayette Chapter, ID. A. r.,
Of Montpelier now residing in Washing
ton, ID. c., has recently been chosen by the
Continental Congress registrar general of
the d. A. r.
STATE SECRETARY Claus Olandt OF the
Young Mems Christian Association, is in
the city making arrangements for providing
a general secretary and physical director
for the Montpelier association. They will
both probably be in Montpelier by April /.
The temperature was twenty -four degrees
below zero at sunrise last Monday morning,
notwithstanding that it was the first day OF
a spring month. Sunday night was the
most severe night OF the winter, and II the
old adage proves true March ought to " go
out like lamb"
AMONG those who left for Washington
A. Lord, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Brock, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. M. CORY, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Bart
Cross, j. Eli Goodenough, l.. W. Shedd, A.
o. Cummins, Henry Bolton, GEM. Gillette
and Alanson Luce.
PHILIP f. Brown died recently in st.
Louis, Mo-, aged seventy-fve years. Mr..
Brown will be remembered by the older
residents of Montpelier as a genial and
active business man, q member OF the firm
OF Emery & Brown, generation since.
A PARTY OF twenty-five from Mortified
attended the benefit concert for Miss Agnes
M. Dooley, given last Friday evening in
Blanchard opera house, After the concert
they had an oyster supper at the Exchange
Hotel, and played "Pillow Dex" in the
dining-room until the departure of the mid
night train.
So satisfactory was the presentation OF
" Illustrated Advertisements by the young
people of Bethany church last Wednesday
evening that it will be repeated next Fri
day evening in Bethany chapel. The la
dies will give an oyster supper in connec-
ton Herewith and brief literary and mu-
steal programme will be rendered.
REV. A. N. LEWIS, rector of Christ
church, read letter TO his congregation
last Sunday morning from Bishop Hall.
The Bishop Is still at Bermuda, and will not
return until after Easter, Christ Church ia