The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-04-06
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

MRS. FLORENCE PORTER is visiting IL
Boston.
LESLIE HAYFoRD is at home from Tuft,
College.
A,C. BooTH was in Essex Junction over
last Sunday.
Col. G. 8. FORBES Of st. Albans was in
town yesterday.
MISS MARY A. PHINNEY is at home from
Rutland on vacation.
PRoF. j. X. LORD Of Hanover, N. H.,
was In town on Tuesday.
II. s.. LOOMS was confined to the house
last week with tonsilitis.
Mr.. AND MRS. e. @. WELLS Of Cambridge
are guests Of j. B. Sabin.
w. r. JONES OF Ashburnham, Mass, is
visiting George McGrath.
r. G. BREWSTER is to open branch
studio In Northfeld until May 1.
THE Kings Daughters met on Monday
afternoon with Miss Ella Bailey.
Mrs. CHESTER TAYLOR, mother OF the
late W. A. Taylor Is seriously ill.
MISS CHARLOTTE sHIPMAN is at home
from Andover, Mass, on vacation.
w. II. VAIL OF Burlington was the guest
OF X. NJ Walling over last Sunday.
THE Unitarian ladies will give supper
In their vestry on Thursday evening.
A DAUGHTER was born last week to Mr..
| and Mrs. John Lawrence OF Berlin street.
MISS BESSIE BOWERS is at home from
| wellesley College for the Easter vacation.
f. A. SHERBURNE has sold to Thomas
Marvin for $725 a lot Of land on West street.
THE Baptist Sunday-school will hold an
egg social in the vestry next Friday even
ing.
MAYOR SENTER and daughter Frank go
to New York tonight for a stay Of few
days.
JOHN BKNHAM of Milton was the guest
last week OF Mrs. George B. Walton, his
sister.
B. G. ALEXANDER has gone to Burlington
as clerk in the clothing store of Stiles &
Kelley.
JOHN f. GooDENouGH, the postman, has
moved from Sibley Avenue to Hillside
| street.
A SON weighing sixteen pounds was born
last Wednesday to Mr. and Mrs James Nc
Donald.
DR.. +. Fl. BROWN OF Lebanon, N. H, WIS.,
tied Mrs. g. M. Smith, his sister, over last
| Sunday.
WALTER THORPE occupied the pulpit in
the church at Berlin Corner last Sunday
morning.
W. ID. LocKERBY, clerk at the Exchange
Hotel, is visiting at his home in Chateau
gay, N. Y.
EASTER concerts will be held in the
Methodist and Baptist churches next Sun
day evening.
covenant meeting in the vestry on Thurs
day evening.
REV. AND MRS. P. B. FISK of Lyndonville
attended the funeral of Fl. b. Cross last Fri
day forenoon.
1. Fl. FISK and W. l.. Goodale are to be
the Heaton Hospital physicians during
April and May.
F. w. STANYAN left on Monday for a trip
to Southern Pines, N c., combining busi-
ness and pleasure.
Miss KATE MEpLER left last Thursday
evening tor Minneapolis, Mimi, where she
is visiting relatives
BETHANY Christian Endeavor Society will
hold sunrise prayer meeting in the chapel
next Sunday morning.
ELMoRR's orchestra will furnish music
for social hop to be given in Armory hall
next Monday evening.
THE reading club connected with Trinity
church will meet next Friday afternoon
with Mrs. A. W. Slocum.
ROBERT II. PRKNrIss is at home from Bal
timore, Md, where he is taking a course of
study in medical college.
MRS. F. A. SHERBURNE will entertain the
Trinity Church Home Missionary Society
at her home this afternoon.
W. A. BRIGGS furnished music for dance
given by the young people on Monday
evening in Whitcomb hall.
THE ladies missionary society connected
with Bethany church will meet in the
chapel next Friday afternoon.
The Ladies' Aid Association OF Heaton
Hospital will meet this afternoon at two
o'clock with Mrs. G. II. Heaton.
JAMES e. DOYLE has purchased of Fl.
Freeman the house on Kent street in which
he has lived for several months.
The last meeting Of the season of the
Bethany Reading was held on Tuesday af-
ternoon with Mrs. T. j. Deavitt.
A. g. srIRo left for New York on Monday
for business trip OF q week or more. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Spiro.
A. N. BUSH OF New London, Conn. a
leading restaurant man OF that city, is visit.
ing Miss Annette Bush, his sister.
THE directors Of the Vermont Mutual Fire
Insurance Company will hold their quar-
terly meeting to-day at the home office.
MISS ALICE BLANCHARD OF Boston and L.
G. Blanchard OF Richmond were guests last
week OF Misses Addie and Maud Phillips.
Holy week services are held this week at
St. Augustine's church. A special musical
programme has been prepared for Easter.
The Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
o'clock with Mrs. o. FL. Richardson, 38 Barre
street.
THE seventeen beds in Heaton Hospital
are all occupied. Six additional beds have
been ordered from Boston by President
Taplin.
Fl. j. M. JONES went to Boston on Mon
day, accompanied by a brother from Chi
cago, who has been visiting him during the
past week.
A SALVATION army string band Is billed
for an appearance at the Young Mems
Christian Association gymnasium next
Monday evening.
GEORGE ii. GUERNSEY has been in Man
chester, N H., during the past week, where
he and Napoleon Dubec have the contract
for building a church.
The Bethany Topic Club met last even.
ing at the residence Of G. L. Smith on Barre
street The topic for consideration was
American Humorists."
REV. w. A. DAWSON and wife returned
last Friday from Worcester, Mass, where
they were called by the illness and death of
relative OF Mrs. Dawson.
OLIVER GIsBoRNE and son from Liverpool,
Eng, are visiting Thomas Osborne, brother
OF the former. They expect to make Mont
pelier their home in future.