The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-17
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

with the grip last week.
The infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Lanier was buried last week.
GEORGE l.. MOORE is visiting at his for
mer home in Stamford, Conn.
GEORGE M. POWERS of Morrisville was
visitor In the city last Thursday
MRS. ALBERT II. Brown Of Springfield,
Mass, has been visiting relatives in town
for the past week.
The collection agency OF Emery b Co.
will soon move from Rialto block to rooms
in the Lawrence building.
Miss ALICE TAFT, clerk for George e.
Taplin, has been enjoying brief vacation
in Boston during the past week.
A SPECIAL convocation Of King Solomon
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, was held last
Thursday evening in Masonic hall.
THE Cecilia quartette will sing at the
banquet to be given at the Pavilion on
Thursday evening by the State Dental So
ciety.
MISS ADDIE PHILLIPS Is stenographer in
the Office of the collection agency OF Emery
& Co., of which W. M. Ordway Is local
manager.
BUFFALO BILLS Wild West Show is
booked for Montpelier Wednesday, June 10.
1t will be in Burlington June Is, and st.
Albans June II.
MAYOR GUERNSEY has been in Nashua,
N. H., during a greater part of the past
week, where he is experimenting the erec-
ton Of a large church.
MARTIN f. HEATING, long time head wait
er at the Pavilion, went last Monday to Bur
lington where he is to have charge OF the
Van Ness House dining room.
A MEETING OF the Democratic state com
mittee was called at the Pavilion last
Wednesday evening, but no quorum was
present and nothing was done.
E.. V. N. HARDWOOD formerly of the Rut-
land Herald was in town last week. He is
writing up the granite industry of Barre
and Montpelier for New York periodical.
WILLIS CouNrRYMAN, who has been in
the employ of the Montpelier Hardware
Company for the past year, left last Mon
day for New York and will go from there
to his home in Ohio.
SHERIFF COLLINS, with Deputies Graves
and Chase, raided last Wednesday evening
the houses on Clay Hill occupied by Mrs Ida
b. Marshall and Mrs. Emma Butterfly. No
intoxicants were found.
THE High School boys are meeting with
good success with the subscription paper
they are circulating to raise funds with
which to purchase uniforms for members OF
the High School battalion.
A LARGE audience will greet f. w. Ban
croft in Blanchard Opera House this even
ing, when he delivers his song lecture on
Irish Songs.and Song Writer'S" under the
auspices of St. Augustine's church.
MILES STANDIsH left last Wednesday for
New York to join the New York League
Base Ball team with which he has signed as
pitcher for the coming season. The spring
practice for this club opened last week at
Lakewood, N. j.
ANDREW j. CAMERON, one of the oldest
residents of Middlesex, was found dead last
Wednesday at his home near Middlesex
Center He was shoemaker by trade, and
had lived alone for several years. Death
was due TO natural causes His funeral
was held Thursday afternoon.
MISSES MARY E. MACoMBER Of the KEEL
logg-Hubbard Library and Evelyn s. Lease
of the Montpelier Public Library attended
the first public meeting of the Vermont
State Library Association, held last Friday
in the Billings Library, Burlington. The
next meeting will be held in Montpelier
during the first week in April.
THE Vitascope that was on exhibition at
Blanchard Opera House on Monday and
Tuesday evenings and Tuesday afternoon
attracted fair audiences Lights were ar
ranged to throw the figures upon canvass
on the stage, which was framed to resemble
a picture. When the theater was darkened
life-size pictures were projected upon the
canvas, and were so natural it was hard to
realize that they were not actually alive.
The Vitascope is one OF the latest perfected
inventions Of the Wizard of Menlo Park.
The attendance was unusually large at
the social given last Friday evening in the
vestry of the Church of the Messiah by the
ladies' society. An interesting programme
was rendered, which included Mrs,
Caudles Lecture" by Miss Loui Clark;
Demeritt; reading, Miss Alice Blanchard:
The farce, " A cloud on the honeymoon"
was presented, with the following cast Of
characters: Mr.. Pedder, Ralph Wylie; Mrs.
Pedder, Mrs Alice Fisk; John, Servant,
Louis j. Hathaway.
CHARLES MYERS and Fl. Burnstein, who
travel for clothing and dry goods firm at
Buffalo, N. Y, were arrested Just as they
were leaving the city last Friday morning
by Deputy Sheriff Tuttle On their repre-
sentation that they were closing out bank
rupt stock OF dry goods they had sold to
Joseph Leno aud George Campbell 100
yards of dress goods at sixty-hve cents per
yard, that were not worth tenth part OF
that price. The purchasers paid part cash
and gave their note for the balance. When
they learned how badly they had been
swindled they laid their case before t. R
Gordon, who compelled the swindlers to
take back their goods and give up the
money and notes.
TIE Free Press OF last Friday contained q
column story of highly sensational nature
regarding the mysterious Disappearance OF
W. II. Griffin, the Montpelier plumber
whose place of business is under Capital
L
last seen at the American House, St. AL
bans. by the proprietor, which was denied
in the st. Adams Messenger that evening
The story as published in the Free Press il
interesting. but its force was heavily dis
counted by the fact that Griffin was seen In
Montreal the same day 1t was published, by
train man on the Central Vermont rail
road, and Griffin evidently had no idea o.
disappearing. Mrs. Griffin went to Mont
real Friday afternoon to bring her absen
spouse to Montpelier.
AT the regular meeting of the City Coun
Gil, held last Wednesday evening, the fol
lowing bills were ordered paid: Thomas
Osborne, lumber, S54 70; Q. Def. Ban
croft, $16; Union Gard Company, printing
S27.65; N. e. Gamewell Company, $37!75
Capitol Guards, rent, $65; Watchman Pub
fishing Company, $44. Fred p: Carleton
was appointed city attorney. j. II. WEIGH
or was given permission to repair his house
The bill of Mrs. L. M. johnson OF Plainfiel'
for injuries received by falling on an ic,
sidewalk on South Main street was tabled
The bonds of the city treasurer. sheriff, frs
constable and overseer OF the poor were &C
copied. The city treasurer was authorizes
to borrow $1,000 for immediate liabilities
Mayor Guernsey's appointment of G.
Whittier and Arthur Felt as special police
men was confirmed. The Council made tn
following estimates and appropriations TO