The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-03
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Miss OLIVE ANDERSON is visiting In En-
field, N. ii.
CHAPLAIN WARNER of Bethel was in town
on Monday.
DR.. W. L. GooDALE and family are in
camp at Walden.
MRS. MAURICE Fl. COLLINS is visiting rela-
tives in Swanton.
MRS. II. r. WHEELocK and children are
visiting in Chelsea
MRS. H. A. DEWEY is visiting at Mr..
Dewey's former home in Poultney
MRS. PEARL f. BLoDaETT entertained the
Themas club last Thursday afternoon.
W. E. HEATHcoTE Of Omaha, Neb., was
the guest OF Henry Farwell last week.
Miss MARY LEAvITT OF Enfield, N. H., is
visiting Miss Myrtle Leavitt, her sister.
MRS. f. e. McGoRRIE submitted to an
operation at Heaton hospital on Tuesday.
MRS. SUMNER KIMBALL goes to-day to
Lakeport. N. H., for visit OF two weeks.
Mr.. AND MRS. GEORGE A. McCoBB leave
today on their return to San Francisco
Cal.
MRS. HATTIE BOOTH Of Gardner, ILL.,, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Hunt, her par
ents.
j. M. BULLOCK, the Northfeld pho
tographer, has opened studio in Miller
block.
@. E. DEMERITT and family are in camp
for two weeks on the shores Of Woodbury.
pond.
MRS. JOHN WILSON OF Burlington visited
Miss Lizzie Wilson, her daughter, over last
Sunday.
T. S. BRoPHy went last week to York
Beach, where Mrs Brophy has been for sew
eral days.
MISS LOUISE ANDREWS of Maiden, Mass,
is guest at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs 8.
W. Benjamin.
REV. DIR. NORMAN SEAvER leaves this
week for Rutland where most OF his vaca-
ton will be spent.
Miss JENNIE STERLING of Fishkill-on.the-
Hudson is visiting at the home Of Joseph
Sterling her father.
MR.. AND MRS. ANDREW Ross Of ver-
gennes were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. f. P.
| Carleton last week.
DR.. AND MRS. W. M. RAMsDELL of Brook
| lyn, N. Y, are visiting G. 9. Ramsdell,
brother of the doctor.
CHARLES Fl. Cross I'd and wife Of Boston
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. Bart Cross,
parents OF the former.
MR.. AND MRS. HENRY W. CATE returned
on Monday from carriage drive through
| the northern part Of the state.
Mrs. o. II. RICHARDSON and daughter
Caroline went last Saturday to Old Orchard
Beach for stay OF two weeks.
Mr.. AND MRS. CHARLES KELSEY of Hart
ford, Conn, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lard Holden, parents Of Mrs. Kelsey.
PERLEY j. JEROME has purchased OF
George L. Blanchard for 81 300 the house
and lot at No. 212 North Union street.
MILES STANDIsH was at Lisbon, n. H.,
where he pitched for the local base bali
| team against the nine from Franconia.
MRS. S. e. PArrEE and Mrs. E. s. Blake,
| her sister, are visiting their mother, Mrs.
r. A. Lawrence, in Westfeld this week.
q. Fl. SHIPMAN and family and Mrs. W.
P. Huntington and children are at one OF
the Stewart cottages at Berlin pond this
week.
MISS ELIZA GEORGE, of the WATcHMAN
composing force, went last Saturday to her
home in Bradford to remain through Au-
gust.
MISSES REBEccA WRIGHT and Alice
| Blanchard are guests this week of Miss
Anna Brackett, at her summer home in
Stowe.
A DAUGHTER was born last Friday to Mr..
and Mrs. Philip Barney, and daughter
last Thursday to Mr.. and Mrs. William
Lynch
JUDGE M. E. SMILE returned last Sstur-
day from Gloucester, Mass, where he en-
joyed the ocean breezes during the month
OF July.
Miss KATHERINE FLOOD, clerk for FL. e.
Slayton, left on Tuesday for a vacation Of
two weeks, part OF which will be passed in
Boston.
A CIVIL service examination for the
grades OF clerk and carrier will be held at
the Montpelier post-office between October
/ and 10.
DIR. G. e. CoRBIN has been at Peaks
Island, Me-, during the past week, where
he went to accompany several patients from
Morrisville.
E. j. DEWEY of Philadelphia has been
the guest Of W. T. Dewey during the past
week, while obtaining chronological data OF
the Dewey family.
M. 8. STONE and j. V. Brooks returned
last Saturday from the wilds of Canada
where they have been for three weeks on O
fishing expedition.
The usual Sunday morning service in the
Church of the Messiah will be resumed
August 7, but the Sunday-school will not
open for the present.
granted an increase OF pension from S8 to
S12 per month. 1t was secured through the
agency Of T. j. Deavitt.
ACTING under advice from the depart
ment at Washington L. w. 6hedd will moi
assume the duties OF postmaster at Mont
pelier until September 1.
AMONG the recent arrivals OF summer
guests at the Pavilion are Mrs. w. L. Col
burn Of Springfield, Mass, and Mrs. W. d
Buck OF Manchester, N. IL.
MISSES MARGARET AND IsARKLLK FIsHKI
returned ON Saturday to their home IL
Brooklyn, N. Y, after pleasant visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. George III. Smile.
THE Vermont Mutual fire Insurance Com
pany has thirty additional clerks this weei
to handle the extra work that comes at the
commencement OF the fiscal year.
THE monthly meeting Of the Ladies Ait
association OF the Heaton hospital will b,
held this afternoon at two o'clock, with
Mrs. Q. II. Heaton on State street.
THE night trains were delayed at Mont
pelier Junction several hours last Saturday
night by a derailed freight car just north O
the covered bridge near the Junction.
HERBERT FARNswoRrH Of Waterbury
was committed to the county jail las
Saturday by deputy sheriff Graves to serv,
a sentence Of ten days for intoxication.
/ REV. AND MRS. j. EDWARD WRIGHT, Mrs
w. l.. Whitney, Jr., and Miss Mary L
Mutt went on Monday to the Summit House
Mount Mansfield, for stay OF several days
/ MISSES ALICE DOYLE AND MARION DEWEY
I nurses at Heaton Hospital, went last Sat
urday to Hallowell Me-, the former hom
Of Miss Doyle, for vacation Of two weeks
a The residents on Berlin street have rive,