The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-01-12
MONTPELIER And VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
CITY COUNCIL meets tonight.

| mhs' - o. WILkINe III visiting In WAte
field.
g; N. Arms is able to be at his store, afte
an Illness Of two weeks.
Miss GERTRUDE LELAND is visiting rela
tives In Whitefeld, Mass.
I. @. PHINNEY was confined TO the hous
| by illness several days last week.
The Montpelier House will be headauar
ters for the Spiritualists this year.
MISS Bessie Bowers returned last weel
to her studies In Wellesley College.
MRS. j. W. HILL has been seriously IL
with peritonitis during the past week.
MISS EVELYN M. BURNS has closed hel
iaoors as stenoRrapher for j. H. Senter.
The engagement Is announced OF Theron
+. Cotton and Miss Eva Clark Of New York
KHBALL M. WALLINa was the guest o.
W. E. Vail at Burlington over last Sunday
MRS. Ruth CARPENTER went on Monday
10 Boston TO spend the winter with her soI
Frank.
| FORTY TWO marriage licences were issued
BY City Clerk Merrill in 1897 against fifty
| In 1896.
Rev. THOMAS TYRIE Of St. Johnsbury
Gillies.
JOHN MoGLYNs, OF the firm of Stafford &
McGlynn, was In New York on business
last week.
Hon. HORACE W. BAILEY OF Eewbury,
State Fish Commissioner, was in town on
Monday.
MRS. j. f. WATERMAN entertained the
Trinity church Reading Club on Tuesday
afternoon.
j. Fl. SENrER was in Brattleboro last Fri
day to attend q session OF United States dis.
trict court.
GEORGE A. KNAPP is prevented by an at
nj fnr frN III al
In the Dost-office.
II. @. CoLroN left on Monday for busi-
ness trip through Vermont, New Hampshire
and Massachusetts,
TwENTY-sIx new members were initiated
into the St. Paul de Vincent Society last
Wednesday evening.
MRS 8. 4. HOWE entertained the Kings
Daughters on Monday evening at her home
On Baldwin street.
The milk team of R. W. Warren was
wrecked on Tuesday and considerable good
milk went to waste.
The next case set for hearing before the
supreme Court Ia State against /. Fl. P.
Rowell, for perjury.
CLAYTON FLINT Of Shady Rill has 80 far
recovered from his recent illness as to be
able to attend school.
MISSES CHARLOTTE AND LAURA ROPES
were with Mr. and Mrs. Ropes in Burling-
ton over last Sunday.
MRS. CALVIN f. FULLERTON OF Minneapo.
lis, MINI , is visiting Mrs. j. v. Babcock
and Mrs. Vail, her sisters.
Rev: j. NEWTON PERRIN OF Plainfield and
Miss Gertrude Greeley, formerly Of Mont.
pelier, are soon to be married.
A DAUGHTER was born last Saturday
night to MIR and Mrs. Peter Crapo. The
infant died the following day.
Mrs. 9. L. Smith, 9 Barre street, on Tues.
day, January 1S, at two o'clock.
ATTENTION is called to the ADVERTISE
ments OF the Pike Manufacturing Company
In the business column this week.
MISS KATE ATKINS of Milton has been
visiting. during the p 4st week, at the home
OF Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, her sister.
e. e. TowNER returned last Saturday
from Washin ston, where he accompanied a
Royal Blue Line excursion OF sixty.
Hon. ALPHA MKssER was in town on
tuesday, en- route to Westford, where he
speaks to-day at farmers institute.
e. P. RICHARDSON has resigned as bass
drummer in the Montpelier Military band,
after service Of nearly twenty years.
REV. N. M. SHAW and Rev. j. X. Thomp-
SON are holding q series Of revival meetings
this week In the church at West Berlin.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at a quarter past two with
Miss Amy Fiske, No 21 Hubbard street.
FRANK ]. SEAvER of Waitsfield and Miss
Mary e. Egan OF Middlesex were married
last Thursday by Rev. j. Edward Wright.
THE venerable Charles H. Cross is the
subject OF an interesting sketch and portrait
In the New Years number OF Zion's Herald.
The afternoon services in the Baptist
church this week will be held at three
NJ half txun I'D
tised.
Dr.. N. w. GILBERT has again taken up
his residence In Montpelier. He is occupy
ing the house owned by him ON East State
street.
Tn Home Missionary Society, connected
with Trinity church, will meet this afte...
noon with Mrs. w. N. Root on Winter
street.
MRS. ]. r. W0RKUA returned to New
York city last Thursday after visit OF three
weeks at the home Of Hon. B. r. Fifield,
her father.
THE Ladies' Reading Club, connected
with the Church Of the Messiah, held
social last evening at the home Of Mrs. O.
Fl. Ferrin,
The meeting for men, held last Sunday
day afternoon In the rooms Of the Young
Mems Christian Association, was conducted
by A. e. Niles.
A. A. SrEBBINs arrived in town from
Manchester, N. H., last Sunday morning.
He was called here by the serious illness Of
Mrs. Stebbins.
THE officers OF Companies III OF Mont
pelier, r OF Northfield and X Of Barre, went
ON Monday TO st. JOhnsbury to attend the
officers school.
Miss ADDIK PHILLIPS takes the place as
stenographer In the office OF Superintendent
Stanyan Of Barre, recently vacated by Miss
Nellie Thurston.
Miss KATHERINE SMITH returned last Sat
urday evening from Boston and Taunton,
Mass, where she has been visiting for the
past four weeks.
ROSWELL REED, a former resident OF
Plainfield, has moved to this city and is oc-
cupying tenement In the Poland building
on East State street.
The members of Rob Morris Chapter,
| Order OF the Eastern Star, and their friends
enjoyed whist party last Thursday even
| at the residence Of 3. X. Colby.
FRANK e SMITH, district deputy grand
patriarch, has called a district encampmen'
meeting OF Odd Fellows at Northheld fol
Tuesday evening, February 10.
ARTHUR MAxHAM, Bert Herrick, Anna
Bertha and George Cummings OF Shady
Rill attended the Free Baptist quart erly
meeting at Huntington last week.
Hon. H. A. HUsE left last Wedpesda,
for Lansing, Mich, where he is to argue
| l<oSo tha nj MinhiQan