The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-03-16
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

week
MRS. E. r. MORSE is seriously i'll with
gastritis.
Hon, B. F. F1F1ELp went to Boston Mon
day noon.
Mrs. CHARLES E. PERRIN is again crit
icslly i'll.
@. H. DEMrNo is in New York on busi-
ness this week.
DAVID L. SANDERS is oanvassing at Lyn-
donville this week.
Col. o. d. CLARK has appointed e. 8.
Meigs as his orderly.
@. H. MORE was in Schenectady, N. Y,
on business last week.
MISS JESSIE KENT visited a sister in Plain
field over last Sunday.
MRS. JOHN BENJAMIN is visiting her son
Forest in Maiden, Mass.
Mr.. AND MRS. L. BART Cross and Miss
Carrie are visiting In Boston.
Hon. G. P. HOGAN OF st. Albans will be
the Memorial Day orator at Montpelier.
THE Cady property on Cliff street has
been purchased by Alfred Harris for LOO.
RALPH d. BLANPIED OF Springfield, Mass,
is visiting his mother and sister in this city.
THE public schools will close next Friday
for vacation OF one week.
Mrs. f. w. CARVER and daughter Blanche
went to New York on Monday.
Mr.. AND MRS. G. II. MORE returned on
Monday from Schenectady, N. Y.
REV. DIR. NORMAN SEAvER and Rev. W.
A. Dawson exchanged last Sunday.
T. T. RANNEY went on Monday to SPRING
field to bring his family to this city.
CHARLES RKcoR has purchased OF j. s..
Viles, for 81 800. the Cilley farm in Berlin.
DR. HAROLD A. FISK is reported as con-
valescent from his recent dangerous illness.
w. e. JACKSON broke bone in his left
hand on Tuesday by slipping on an icy side
walk.
THE Themas Club met last evening with
Miss Ella Bailey at her home on Elm
street.
MRS. N. j. WHITEHILL was called to
Peacham last week by the illness Of her
father.
Hon. +. d. HALE OF Lunenburg and Gen.
w. II. Gilmore of Fairlee were in town last
Friday.
G. o. BARNES is dangerously i'll at his
home on Seminary Hill from gangrene in
one foot.
MRS. FANNY NJ. PIrKIN accompanied Mrs.
A. o. Cummins to Pierre, S. d. They left
on Monday.
Miss LYLE TRACY and Richard Tracy OF
Chelsea visited last week at the home oi
r. III. Tracy
Miss HATTIE FISK leaves this morning
for New York. She will visit in Brattle.
boro en- route.
G. L. SMITH and G.. A. Peck leave fol
Boston this noon, expecting to be absent q
! week or more.
FREDERICK P. CARLETON has rented the
George l.. Lane house, corner OF Vine and
Summer streets.
MRS. d. f. CLARK was at the home Of
Alexander Cochran, her father, in Grotor
over last Sunday.
MISS AMY BEDFORD of Radcliffe College
was at the home Of DR.. II. s. BoardmaT
over last Sunday.
BETHANY READING will meet with Miss
Nellie Barrows, 102 Elm street, next Tues
day at two o'clock.
MRS. ANNETTE LovELAND OF Burlington
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Noyet
over last Sunday.
The Baptist ladies served the first new
mapel sugar of the season at the vestry las
Wednesday evening.
The next annual division encampment o.
the Sons of Veterans of Vermont will bt
held at Montpelier.
MRS. JOHN f. GooDENoUGH returned las
Thursday from Huntington where she has
been for several weeks.
MRS MINNIE MARSH has purchased 81
John E. Hubbard for $3.50, two acres O.
land on Cemetery street.
1. L. SPARROW shipped to Boston on Mon
day the fine pair of chestnut horses recently
purchased Of q. A. Gale.
MRS. KATHERINE PORTER returned las
week from Quechee, where she has beer
visiting for several weeks.
FRED BLANCHARD, formerly porter at thu
Montpelier House, now fills similar po
sition at the Exchange Hotel.
The Garnet Seal Circle will meet mex
Friday afternoon at 2:15 with Mrs. l.. P
Gleason, No Spring street.
MRS. SARAH M. FAYER of Barton Land
ing has been the guest of 8. 9. Shurtlef, he
brother, during the psst week.
Mr.. AND MRS. ABRAHAM LONG left las
Thursday for Atlantic city, N. j., expecting
to be absent until about May l.
FRED Fl. PERRY of Chicopee Falls, Mass.
is in town as witness in the case now OF
trial in Washington county court.
A. e. WHITE has purchased OF #. A. Sher
burne, for $500, building lot corner O
First Avenue and fremont street.
MISS FLORENCE SHIPMAN gave a party tt
several OF her young friends on Monday
evening at her home on Court street.
MRS. RUFUS G. ROBINSON and daughte
visited, last week, at the home of Mrs
Kent, mother Of Mrs. Robinson, in Calais.
NJ. L. BEARDsLEY organized branch o
the Connecticut Building and Loan Associ
alton at White River Junction last week.
WALTER BRIDGE, assistant for year O
more in the dental parlors OF DR.. G. e
t Hunt has opened an office in Somesworth
n. H.
HIGH mass will be celebrated at st. Au
gustines church by Rev. Father w. j
O'Sullivan on the morning of st. Patrick
, Day.
} STREET COMMISSIONER ROBERTS use
dynamite with good effect on Monday il
, destroying the ice Jam at the foot of Stat
street.
I REV. GEORGE w. PERRY, State Geologist
= was at the State House several days las
week, arranging exhibits in the stat
cabinet.
= A FULL report Of the Frances Willard mt
mortal service held last Wednesday afte
!. noon at the Baptist church may be found o
: page two.
o OSCAR N. Cross is still confined to th
8 house. He is suffering with combinatio
Q Of ills supernduced by an attack of grip 81
8 weeks ago.
o II. M. CUTLER, treasurer .of the Nations
l. Life Insurance Company was confined I
Q the house several days last week with
o severe cold
i FRANK KENDALL OF Walla Walla, Wash
: a former teller in the First National Banl