The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-06-23
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Wellesley College next fall.
A DAUGHTER was born last Sunday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Jones.
j. w. CARBERRY, of the Boston Globe
staff, was in town on tuesday.
Mrs. w. A. STowELL went last Friday to
Lowell, Mass, to visit her invalid sister.
@. e. MoULroN has broken ground for the
new house he is to erect on Clarendon
Avenue.
MRS. 9. Q. AINswoRTH is at Mary Fletch-
eer Hospital, Burlington, for treatment for
her eyes.
Mr.. AND Mrs. L. E. LADD and daughter
Of Philadelphia are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. W. Leland.
MISS HELEN HOLMES of Cambridge, is
visiting Miss Margaret Sabin at her home
on Bailey Avenue.
Miss HATTIE B. LAYTON Of Georgetown,
Del, is spending the summer with Mrs G.
II. Ward her sister.
JUDGMENT for defendant has been rem
dered by Judge Smile in the case OF Bow
man against Stanyan.
The Baptist Junior Christian Endeavor
society will picnic to-day on the shore of
Langdon's pond in Berlin
MRS. II. W. BEIsNER, Miss Ella Beisner
and Mrs. Ella Durand Of Galveston, Texas,
are at the Pavilion for the summer.
Mr.. AND MRS. f. P. CARLETON returned
last Friday evening from their wedding
trip They are to live at the Riveside.
Rev. w. A. DAWSON conducted the meet
ing for men held last Sunday afternoon at
the rooms of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation.
Miss JEANNKrTE NORRIS is expected
home this week from Stoneham, Mass,
where she has been teaching, for the snm-
mer vacation.
WALTER THoRP was at st. Johnsbury
last Sunday, where he addressed meeting
held under the auspices Of the Young Mems
Christian Association.
The Capital Clothing Company's store
on Main street was closed on Tuesday by
Deputy Sheriff Tuttle on an attachment
levied by Boston parties.
M. 8. STONE, state superintendent OF edu-
cation, attended the graduating exercises
Of the Royalton Academy on Monday even
Ing, and made an address.
Miss BESSIE CARY, former instructor in
vocal music at Montpelier Seminary, sails
for Germany in August to take course OF
instruction in voice culture.
unteer Hose Company No. l to the State
Fireman's Tournament and Association
now in session at Vergennes.
ALFRED d. HARRIS has badly lacerated
thumb, the result Of hitting 1t with ham,
mer while at work in the Perry Manufac-
turing Company's shop last Friday.
e. B. READ of St. Johnsbury, general sec
retary, will address the meeting for men to
be held next Sunday afternoon in the Young
Mems Christian Association rooms.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Ladies' Aid
Association Of the Heaton Hospital will be
held this afternoon at two o'clock with Mrs.
G. P. Pitkin, 144 Main street. Work.
A STRAWBERRY supper will be given in
the vestry of Trinity church this evening by
the Ladies' Aid Society. Supper will be
served from five to half past seven o'clock.
CHARLES II. Cross and Miss H. Julia
Cross started on Monday for carriage
drive to st. Johnsbury, where they will
visit several days at the home of George II.
Gross.
THE Montpelier Transcript was one day
late this week, but its editor had an excel
lent excuse as son was born early on
Monday morning to Mr.. and Mrs. Harry M.
Graves.
GEORGE l.. LANE and Miss Maud Barron
Brophy during the past week. Mr.. Lane is
to be at the Fabyan House, White Noun
tains during the season.
LOVERS of sharp game of baseball will
go to Barre on Thursday afternoon, when
the st. Albans league team will attempt to
down the Barre Rushers. The game will
be called at sharp half-past two.
MR. AND MRS MARSHALL IL. WOOD re-
turned last Friday from their wedding trip
which was spent in Boston and Washing
ton, d. c. They have begun housekeeping
in the Bailey house on Main street.
j. j. EAGAN, State Chief Ranger, and II
A. Dubec, State Secretary of the Catholic
Order of Foresters, were at st. Albans last
Friday evening to attend reception given
High Secretary Thiele Of Chicago
CHILDREN's DAY will be observed at Trim
ity church next Sunday. Rev. Andrew
Gillies, the pastor, will preach to the chill
dren in the morning, and in the evening q
Sunday-school concert will be held.
j. ELLIOTT SMITH, superintendent of the
fire alarm system Of New York City, and
Harry B. Thayer, manager of the Western
Electrical Manufacturing Company of New
York, are guests of Colonel Fred e. Smith
MRS. G. G. DOWNING leaves next week
for an extended visit in Wisconsin. She
will be accompanied as far as jackson,
Mich, by Mrs. Carl L. Smith, who goes
there to visit Mrs. @. e. Wilson, her daugh-
ter.
MISS EDITH FORREST of Chelsea is to be
preceptress at the Montpelier Seminary for
the ensuing year. Miss Forrest was for
merly teacher in the Maine Wesleyan
Seminary at Kent's Hill and comes highly
recommended
THREE is little to say in regard to the
condition Of Mildred Brewster She rallied
labU week from an autdCK winch, III was sup
posed, would end in death, and since that
time there has been no material change in
her condition
THE condition OF Mrs. Shafter has not
materially changed during the past week
She is still very weak, but is able to sit up
for short time each day. II Mrs. Shafter
lives seven months more she will round out
an even century Of existence.
j. K. BENTLEY, the affable excursion
agent Of the Central Vermont railroad, was
in town on Tuesday perfectng arrange
ments for the excursion to Plattsburg, to be
run next Saturday, of which more ex-
tended notice is made elsewhere.
HENRY M. DEAvITT, who graduated last
week from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, is in town for few days. He
returns next Monday to Boston, where he
has accepted the position Of chemist for the
American Glue Company OF Boston.
AMONG the speakers already secured for
the State Christian Endeavor Convention
TO be held at Montpelier in September are
Professor Amos r. Wells, editor of the
Golden Rule, and Rev. DIR. w. E. Barlow OF
the Shawmut Avenue church, Boston.
MISS FLORA M. TERRILL, a former we'll
liked preceptress of Washington County
Grammar School and later a teacher in St.
Johnsbury Academy, sails for Germany,
Thursday, July %, to take an extended
course OF study in the German language.
AT the semi-annual meeting OF Bethany