The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-02-03
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
Local H1PPENINGS.

ADDITIONAL locals may be found on page
| two.
ARTHUR WHITCoMB is visiting in Morris.
vile.
WILL II. STowELL is seriously i'll with
appendicitis
Mrs. HENRY e. FIFIELD 10 ill at her home
on State street.
REV. DIR. NORMAN SEAvER went to Rut-
land on Tuesday.
ARTHUR, son of Arthur Allen, Jr., is Ill
| with the measles.
ALBERT s. SPARROW visited in Nashua,
| N. H., over last Sunday.
A. A. STIMsoN shipped seven fancy horses
to New York on Tuesday.
MRS. ELIZABETH FISK is seriously ill with
hemorrhage of the kidneys.
A SON was born last Saturday to Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A, Chaplin Of Middlesex.
L. +. TERRILL, of Underhill. visited w
E. Terrill, his son, last Monday.
FRED f. PITKIN is seriously ill with dropsy
at his home up Worcester branch.
HENRY ID. CARLISLE, clerk at the Pavilion,
is confined to his room with the grip.
MIR. AND MRS O. II. BALDWIN were in
Nashua, en- route to Boston, last Sunday.
The High Schooj Record is in the hands
OF the printer and will be issued this week.
WILLIS CLARK, local reporter on the Free
Press, was in town last Saturday and Sun
day.
MRS. w. o. CHAPMAN will entertain the
Epworth League Reading Club next Friday
evening.
II. CARLISLE, of Walingford N. Y, is
with his son Henry, who is i'll at the
Pavilion.
HENRY M. DEAvITT is at home from the
School OF Technology. Boston, for q brief
vacation
Q. w. BRowNELL, Secretary of State, and
Gen. L 8. Peck, of Burlington, were in town
on Tuesday.
@. II. BUMP, representative from Brandon
in the last legislature, is dying at his home
in that village.
JOHN Hs SENTER is in New York this week
attending a session of the United States
Court of Appeals.
7. r. LAscoR returned last Saturday
from Hot Springs, Ark, where he has been
for several weeks.
REV. DR.. e. M. SMITH, principal OF Mont
pelier Seminary,is recovering from severe
attack OF pneumonia.
G. A. KNAPP went last Monday to New
York for vacation of two weeks from his
duties in the post-otfice.
THE Ladies' Guild of Christ church will
meet on Thursday afternoon at two O'Clock
with Mrs. G. III. Heaton.
KEW A. ii. w EBB lectureu IN tne waits
field lecture course last evening, on Eng
land and English Customs"
A LARGE party from Montpelier will at
tend the dance and chicken.pie supper at
East Montpelier this evening.
THE Ladies' Aid Association of the Hea-
ton Hospital will meet this afternoon at two
o'clock with Mrs. G. III. Heaton.
THE City Council has sold to Mrs. Ruth
Wiley for 500, the school-house situated
short distance below Wrightsville.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at quarter past two with
Miss Lizzie Stimson on First Avenue.
BECAUSE of the illness of Miss Annie
johnson, there was congreg ational singing
at Trinity church last Sunday morning
THE State Board of Pharmacy will meet
at the Pavilion to-day. Several matters Of
Importance are to come up for discussion.
THE members of Bethany Reading will
observe Red Letter Day Thursday after
noon, February II, with Miss M. ID. White,
lat Main street.
P. H. HINKLEY and Miss Annie Johnson,
who have both been seriously i'll on Semin-
ary Hill during the past week, are reported
as convalescing
HENRY FISHER, fnisher in the furniture
establishment of Johonnotts & Hall, has
gone to his home in Littleton, N H.. to re-
main for the present.
MISSES LENA Colby and Maud Crossett
are delegates from the Baptist Christian
Endeavor Society to the county union, to be
held at Barre next week Friday.
DANIEL McGOvERN, whose serious in
| jury at Bolton was noted last week, is re-
ported out of danger and his ultimate re-
! covery is confidently anticipated.
THE local physicians report an unusually
large number of cases Of measles at present
Most of them are in mild form, however,
with none par ticularly dangerous.
SHERIFF COLLINS escorted Lee Dodge and
James Albn to Rutland last Saturday
| They were brought here while their cases
were argued before Supreme Court.
PATRICK NORMAN was arrested last Thurs
day by officer Wood for intoxication. In
City Court next day he paid the customary
$11.51 assessed by the state for such diver
sions.
THE case OF Thomas Gibbons, against
whom mittimus was issued because his
appeal had not been entered, was settled in
city court last Monday by Gibbons paying q
fine Of S25.01.
MRS. A. II. WEBB has been travelling
through the southern part OF the state dur
ing the past week, speaking in the interests
of the State Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety, of which she is president
AT the annual meeting of the Iowa rail
way commission, w. W. Ainsworth fol-
! bbNtTdl years llb culClenb StCIoldIyp Wds
unanimously re-elected-a merited compli
ment to Mr.. Ainsworth's efficiency.
THE meeting for men at the rooms of the
Young Mems Christian Association, last
Sunday afternoon, was led by A. g. Booth
who took for his subject "Our duty to God.
The music was in charge of W. s. Smith.
Two cows from carload of cattle fol
shipment out of the state that were inspect
ed by Dr. L. c. Wakefield, and condemned
IA affected with tuberCulOsis were killed las
Monday at the farm of Harrison Lombard.
DAUGHTER of Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton p
Harroun died last Thursday of pneumonia
at their home on Berlin street. The funera
was held from the home OF Mr.. Harroun Sat
urday morning. Rev. N. M. Shaw ofiiciat
ing.
Adm A. BROWN received an Academia
blow on the head, while at work on Tues
day in the blacksmith shop of John Moone,
that cut bad cash in his head, and will
probably keep him from work for severa
days.