The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-29
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


ings in Chelsea this week.
r. g. Bowers was in New York state
last week on business trip.
w II. LONG OF Farlee visited Abraham
Long, his brother, last week.
MRS. BENJAMIN WALKER of Chicago is at
she Pavilion for the summer.
Col. FRED e. SMITH was at his camp at
Berlin pond over last Sunday.
PROFESSOR W. NJ. NEWTON was in Mid
dletown, Conn, over last Sunday.
Mr.. AND Mrs. e. G. HOLMES and Mrs. M.
e. Dickey are visiting in East Corinth.
Miss ALICE TRUE of st. Johnsbury was
the guest of Mrs. M. 8. Davis last week.
THE Capital Cafe on Main street has been
connected with the telephone exchange.
HORACE w. BAILEY of Newbury, State
fish commissioners, was in town on Tuesday.
THE public schools on Berlin side will
close next Friday for the summer vacation.
WILLIAM CANNING and Myron Hill have
been reappointed policemen on Berlin side.
CARLISLE j, GLEASON is at home from
Harvard Law School for the long vacation.
G. II. DEMINa and family have been visit
ing relatives in Newbury during the past
week.
Miss LILLIAN THRALL went last Thursday
to her home in Rutland for the summer va
cation.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ORRIN CHAMBERLAIN of
Randolph are guests OF Mrs. Catherine
Pratt.
MRS. j. W. HosMER of Chicago is with
Mrs. 8. L. Howe, her sister, for several
weeks.
Mrs. HOWARD #. HILL OF Concord, N. H.,
is the guest Of Hon. and Mrs Charles
Dewey.
DR.. LUTHER WHITCoMB of Lynn, Mass,
is visiting Mrs. Amanda T. Newcomb, his
mother.
MRS. s. j. BLANPIED and Miss Ethel went
last Friday to Milford, N. H., for a visit OF
two weeks.
w. W. MOVES has sold to George L.
Blanchard three tenement houses on upper
Main street.
MRS. HATTIE BARRON of California has
been the guest of Mrs. f. r. Stevens for
several days.
The Washington county Democratic con-
vention will be held at Montpelier on Sat-
urday July 30.
MRS. ELIZA TURNER addressed the local
Spiritualists in Grand Army hall last Sun
day afternoon.
j. NJ. HEALEY of the Argus staff attended
the wedding of a sister in Springfield, Mass
last Wednesday.
o. FL. RICHARDSON has purchased of f. R.
Stevens, for 8400, his house and grounds
on Terrace street.
l.. E. HEATH of Saratoga, N. Y, a former
resident of Montpelier, is at the Montpelier
House for few days.
Mr. AND Mrs. PETER B. MEDLER Of St. AL
bans have been visiting relatives in the city
during the past week.
AARON SUMMERvfLLE OF Lowell, Mass.
a former drug clerk for Lane Brothers, Wis.
tied in town last week.
AMONG the graduates from the University
of Vermont this week are Miss Carrie
Deavitt and W. T. Whelan.
THE excursion to Vergennes last Sstur-
day, over the Central Vermont, carried
nearly four hundred people.
M. s. STONE and j. V. Brooks start next
week for fishing trip OF three weeks or
more ia the wilds of Canada.
JUSTICE j. II. LUCIA has been appointed
by Mayor Senter acting city judge during
the absence of Judge Smile.
CHESTER WRIGHT returned last Friday
from his freshman year in Harvard Col
| lege for the summer vacation.
Mrs. f. l.. LAIRD returned on Tuesday
from St. Johnsbury, the June term Of Gale
donia county court having closed.
GEORGE o. STRATToN was in Brattleboro
on Tuesday on business for the Vermont
| Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
| MRS. Q. H. BALDWIN was in st. Johns
bury last Wednesday to attend a class re-
union at st. Johnsbury Academy.
The body of Cynthia Winters Bemis was
| brought TO Montpelier last Wednesday, and
was buried in West Berlin cemetery.
The Cecilia Quartette sang at Burlington
| last Saturday evening at a concert given by
the University OF Vermont Glee club.
GEORGE H. WILDER has an engagement
commencing July to play with the orches.
ira at Franconia Inn, White Mountains.
Monday over the grave OF Alexander Camp
bell and wife, in the Catholic cemetery
W. j. BAaLEY, dynamo engineer for the
Consolidated Lighting Company, Is quite
seriously Ill at his home near the station.
T. r. MERRILL and family are at Wood
bury ON vacation. Because of this no opeI
air band concert will be given this week.
The electric railroad between Barre and
Montpelier was inspected last Thursday by
the State Board of Railway Commissioners
Hon. JAMES L. MARTIN, United States
district attorney, and Mrs. Brown, hii
stenographer, were at the Pavilion on Mon
day.
AuGHTNKy SHAMBo is building q wall fol
the city between the new bridge at the foo
Of Main street and the mill Of e. w. Bailey
& Co.
MRS. e. A. MUTT returned last Saturday
from Woodstock, where she has been re
porting the June term Of Windsor county
court.
THE Home Missionary Society connected
with Trinity Church will meet this after
noon with Mrs. Calvin Bullock on White
street.
The Soldiers Aid association Is soon t.
send nine dozen water filters to CAM
Thomas for the use Of the members Of Com
pany III.
FRANK r. GALE of the Harvard Divinit.
school Is to preach in the Morse school
house, East Montpelier next Sunday a
2.15 P. N.
Hon. W. w. BLoDoETT OF Pawtucket
r. l., and Rev. 9. II. Blodgett OF Rochester
N. Y, were guests last Sunday Of P. +
Blodgett.
SEVERAL members of Mount Zion Com
mandery, Knights Templsr, attended tn
funeral OF j. g. Cady at Northfeld last Fri
day afternoon.
Miss M. ID. WHITE gave tea ON Aonda,
afternoon at the Langdon homestead Ii
honor Of Mrs. Joel p. Hestwole and Mis-
Alice Archibald.
The Womsn's Foreign Missionary Sc
ciety connected with Trinity church me
Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. A. w. Slocun
on College street.
Hon. b. #. FIFIELp was, on Monday
ala tad 80 tha Vy.S.x - W.,