The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-24
winter for the Industrial School, and other

THE reading club connected with the
Church OF the Messiah met on Tuesday
evening, with Mrs. W. g. Andrews on East
Liberty street.
both of Berlin, were married Monday after
noon at the Methodist parsonage by Rev.
Andrew Gillies.
THE infant children OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Conlin and M. and Mrs. w. l.. Pine
were baptized at st. Augustine's church last
Sunday morning.
No union Thanksgiving service is an
nounced for Thursday. The usual evening
prayer meetings will be held in Trinity and
Bethany Churches.
REV. L. L. BEEMAN, presiding elder OF
the Montpelier district, preached and held
quarterly meeting last Sunday at Thetford
and Union Village.
REV. ANDREW GILLIEs is announced as
| one OF the speakers at the county Sunday
school convention to be held at Cabot on
Wednesday, December L.
ALEXANDER CARRow and Mrs Elizabeth
| Leslie are to be married this morning at st.
Augustine's church. A wedding breakfast
will follow the ceremony.
CLIFTON HEAToN, George Osgood, William
Whelan and Miss Carrie Deavitt are at
home from the University OF Vermont for
the Thanksgiving vacation.
A LARGE number of the young friends of
Miss Zoe Coburn were invited to her home
last Wednesday evening to assist in cele-
brating her fifteenth birthday.
THERE will be Christian Science meet
ing at 80 State street next Tuesday at guar
ter before eight o'clock. Subject, "The
ffty-frst Psalm" All invited
The basket ball team from Company III
go to Burlington on Thursday afternoon to
play the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion team OF that city that evening.
WALTER THORPE is to have charge OF the
meeting for men to be held in Burlington
next Sunday, under the auspices Of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
AN office of the Mutual Reserve Fund
Life Insurance Association has been open
ed in Hubbard block, with A. e. Rich, for
merly Of Manchester, N H., in charge
PROF. o. d. MATHEwsoN of Barre held
special teachers examination in Grand
Army Hall last Friday and Saturday. Nine
teen candidates took the examinations.
Miss MINNIE g. REED of Boston, is at
the home OF Mrs. Charles w. Reed, her
mother, for Thanksgiving. She is accom-
panied by Miss Anna Murdoch OF Boston.
MRS. s. A. CAMP, mother of Mrs. II.
| Roger Bixby, is quite seriously i'll at the
home of her son, Fred, at Claremont N. H.,
as a result Of a recent partial shock OF
paralysis.
MISS LILLIAN THRALL went to Rutland
last Saturday to remain over the Thanks
giving holiday of her kindergarten. Miss
Mary Fisk, her assistant, is at her home in
Morrisville.
The position of Vermont manager of the
National Federation Of School Music Teach
ers has been rendered to Miss Mary A.
Phinney. Miss Phinney has accepted the
appointment
Hon. THOMAS G. OSULLIvAN, brother OF
Rev Father w. j. O'Sullivan, is q candi-
date for corporation counsel OF Greater
New York. with good prospects of securing
the appointment.
THE marriage of Martin Moran of Water
bury and Miss Mary E Mccormack, occur
red on Tuesday morning at st. Augustine's
church. Rev. Father W. j. O'Sullivan was
the officiating clergyman.
REV. j. X. THOMPSON will deliver the ad-
dress at the Thanksgiving service to be held
at the Baptist church on Thursday evening.
His subject will be " Praise" Service will
commence at half-past seven.
THE new residences of Clarence e.
| Moulton on Clarendon Avenue and A. O.
Blanchard on Hubbard street, are rapidly
nearing completion and will both be ready
for occupancy within few days.
THE post-office will be open on Thursday
from eight to ten o'clock in the morning
and from four to six o'clock in the evening.
There will be only one general delivery.
Collections will be made as usual.
Miss ETA THOMPSON Of the WATCHMAN
composing force slipped on an icy side walk
last Saturday evening and fractured her
left wrist. This injury will necessitate an
enforced vacation of several weeks.
T. c. BOOTH, managing editor of Timber,
trade journal published at London, Eng
was in town last week and was received
with marked courtesy by several Of the large
manufacturing concerns in the city.
THE Womans Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Miss Eliza Rublee
this afternoon at half past two. Mrs. El-
len G. Osgood will present the subject of
Scientific Temperance Instruction"
Among those from Montpelier who at
tended the meeting Of railway employees at
St. Albans, last Sunday and Monday, We're
II. A. Penniman, G.. jacobson, M. G..
Sawyer, John Cane and r. E. Livingston.
ARTHUR Rowland and Fred King were
taken to the state prison at Windsor by
Sheriff Collins last Saturday to serve SEN
tences of which mention is made in the re-
} port of the proceedings of Washington
county court.
INTERESTING Thanksgiving services were
} held in Trinity church Sunday school last
Sunday in place of the regular exercises
Recitations were given by the children, and
Rev Andrew Gillies, the pastor. made q
brief address.
, NEXT Sunday will be observed at the
Church of the Messiah as Temperance
sunday" The pastors theme in the morn
ing will be, "What those Vermonters who
do not Believe in Prohibitory Law can dc
for Temperance"
WILBUR Brown has purchased of Sumnel
Kimball and @. w. Hall, for 81 400, wooC
!, , lot of one hundred and forty acres situated
in the town OF Berlin. He has also pur
chased, for $500, of d. d. Martin, fifty acrei
located in that town.
THE annual military ball given under tn,
auspices of Company III will be held earl.
in December. Captain Pattee, Lieutenant
q Ryan and Osborne and Privates AllarC
i aud Moore are a committee to make prep
z arations for this event.
GENERAL 7. j. BoYNToN Of Boston was II
town last week. In response to inquire
from a WATCHMAN reporter he stated tina
r his law practice in Boston is so extensive
that he Is making no plans at present to re
i tnrn to Montpelier to reside.
3 l.. p. THAYER, the hustling newspape
O broker of Vermont was in town on Mon
day, on his way to Newport, where he wen
;. to close the deal with Theophilus Grout 70
l. the purchase Of the Newport Standard an
a Express. Truly there is only one Thayer Il
Vermont.
II JOHN MCDERMoTT of North Haverhill,
\. H., was arrested on Monday on Berlin side
l. while in an advanced stage Of intoxicatior