The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-10-13
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOC4L HAPPENINGS.

| MRS. L. D. bHORhH ITOm JDe
| Fabyan House last week.
Mrs. WILLIAM III. Moss is clerk in the
store Of l.. @. Tewksbury.
MISS BERTHA MAE DEwINa Of Duxbury
is visiting Miss Ruth Roleau.
Hon. III. W. LYFoRD of Warren was in
town on Monday and Tuesday.
X. M. WALLING was the guest OF W. e.
Vail over Sunday at Burlington.
MISSES HATTIE AND FLossIE NICHOLS are
visiting relatives in Lowell, Mass.
| G. M. BENNETT has moved from Edwin
Lanes to Mrs. Caroline Benefits.
s. L. HOWE went last week to Chicago,
where Mrs. Howe is visiting her sister.
IT is expected that the grand jury will be
ready to report either to day or tomorrow.
| ALANsoN LUCE visited brother in Bran
don last week, and took in the Brandon
fair.
Mrs. George Wing who reside on Berlin
steet.
GEORGE 9. PRATT has purchased OF A. N.
Blanchard building lot on Clarendon
Avenue.
J. e. HARRIS, editor OF Harris Weekly
and the Burlington Clipper, was in town on
Tuesday.
MRS. FRED L. GRAY was called to wolcott
last week by the death Of Mrs. j. d. Titus,
her sister.
Miss NELLIE FIFIELD went to New York
last Saturday to visit Mrs. j. +. Workum,
her sister.
MARTIN HENLEY, clerk at the Montpelier
House, was at his home in Richmond over
last Sunday.
MRS. A. r. FoRTIN was taken to Heaton
Hospital on Monday for treatment for bron-
chial trouble.
THE communication from Mayor Guern-
sey in another column will be read with no
little interest.
MRS. JONATHAN PERKINS goes on Thurs
day to Rockland, ILL.,, to visit d. Arthur
Wing, her son.
MARTIN HoRAN was taken to Heaton
Hospital on Tuesday for treatment for ul-
GERS in one eye.
BETHANY Reading will meet next Tues
day afternoon at two o'clock with Mrs.
Morton Marvin.
AN informal meeting Of the probate
judges of the state will be held to-day with
Judge Carleton.
Miss ALICE d. BANCROFT of St. Albans
visited last week at the home Of Sheriff Ban
croft, her brother.
DIR. X. LoNGFELLow CLEAvEs has pur-
chased of John Z. Hubbard building lot
on Summer street.
REV. JAMES WRIGHT of the Seminary will
preach at East Montpelier Center next Sun.
day evening at three O'Clock.
Fl. D. HOPKINS is taking a brief vacation
from his duties in the Office Of the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
REV. 1. w. CATE and family of Toxic,
Japan, have been guests during the past
week of Mr.. and Mrs Henry w. Gate.
The next attraction at Blanchard opera
house will be Friday, October %, when my
Friend from India" will hold the boards.
Nv fal nj tba
Young Mems Christian Association build
ing last Friday, badly injuring one hand.
MISS MAUD CRossETT is to open kinder
garten in Northfield, at the rear of the mil
linery store of Misses Smith & Andrews.
MRS. ORLANDO W. HARVEY has been dam
gerously ill during the past week with gas
trio fever, but is reported more comfortable.
MISS FLORENCE COLLINS, bookkeeper for
Q. Ii. Cross q Son, is visiting in Boston.
Her place is taken by Miss Eula Cassavant.
THIRTY witnesses for the State were ex-
amined before the grand jury last week in
the case OF State against Mildred Brewster.
The junior league connected with Trinity
Church will hold sociable next Friday
evening at the home Of Wilbur e. Hayford.
BRUCE MCDONALD returned on Monday
from Holyoke, Mass, where he acted as
best man at the wedding of Walter Thorpe.
REV. ANDREW GILLIEs will lecture at
Trinity church next Sunday evening on
"Some Lessons from the Life OF Neal Dow"
Miss DAISY LANE is with Mrs. o. G. Bar
ron at the Quincy House, Boston. She in
tends entering some school in Boston soon.
s. B. SIBLEYs delivery team made things
lively on State and Main streets last Thurs
day morning, but no serious damage was
done.
THE Vermont delegation to the Nashville
aYnOaitiOn. aaVaOtV-Hya atrOup. naAspl
through Montpelier Junction yesterday
noon.
THE Ladies' Reading Circle connected
with Trinity Church met on Tuesday after
noon with Mrs. Merrill Russell on State
street.
Mr.. AND MRS. W. G. ANDREWS were the
guests last Sunday Of Mr.. and Mrs. s. A.
Andrews at Vergennes, brother OF the
former.
H. L. e. SMITH returned last Friday from
the Mount Pleasant House, White Noun
tains, where he has been clerk during the
summer.
GEoRaE l.. LANE is at home from the
Fabyan House, where he has spent the past
summer. He expects to pass the coming
winter in Boston.
HARVEY BURNHAM has purchased the
has engaged Charles Holmes of Saxton's
River to run it for him.
A special meeting of Aurora lodge OF
Masons will be held this evening at seven
o'clock for work on the third drgsee. A
banquet will follow the work.
MRS. II. G. BRIGHAM left for Grand
Rapids, Mich, last evening, accompanied
by Miss Florence Ferrin. Miss Julia Peck
also started on her western trip.
THE first of series OF whist parties to be
given by St, Peters Court, Catholic Order
OF Foresters in their hall in Lawrence build
ing will occur next Friday evening.
REV. A. j. HoUGH of White River juno
tion conducted the meeting for men held
| last Sunday afternoon at the rooms of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
O. II. HEAToN is in Baltimore, Md, this
week attending the triennial meeting OF the
General Masonic Grand Chapter and Gen
eral Grand Council OF the United States.
A CIGAR stub started a lively blaze last
Thursday in the rubbish Of the old arch
bridge. A few pals Of water squelched the
flames without the necessity for an alarm.
B. ID. WHEELER, one Of Vermonts sons,
but now advertising manager OF the Des
Moines Leader, was in town last week, as
was Arthur #. Stone, editor OF the Gale
| d0nidn.
THE usual fortnightly meeting OF the Uni
tartan society in Middlesex is to be held
| next Sunday at p. M. either Rev r. w