The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-03-09
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOOAL HAPPENINGS.
MRS. T. r. GORDON is i'll with the grip.
j. A. DEBoER was in Boston last week.

Burlington.
Mr.. AND Mrs. @. P. PrTKIN were in Bos-
ton last week.
CHARLES f. JONES has been appointed as
sistant city clerk.
Hon. AND MRS. CHARLES DEWEY are In
Boston this week.
1. L. SPARROW and T. j. Kelleher are in
Boston this week.
Col. @. S. FORBES OF St. Albans was in
town on Tuesday.
JOSEPH FITZGERALD is now night clerk at
the Exchange hotel.
A, G. MANsUR Of Burlington visited in
the city last Sunday.
A SON was born last Sunday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Fl. A. Bowman.
A SON was born asst Wednesday to Mr..
and Mrs. William Milo.
MRS. FRANK A. ADAMS is visiting at her
former home in Granville.
PRoF. @. p. SINCLAIR OF Algona, Ia, Is
the guest Of Mason S. Stone.
Mr.. AND MRS. ALBERT JoHoNNoTT were
in Burlington over last Sunday.
A SON was born last Thursday morning to
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilkinson.
JOHN PETERSON has been severely i'll dur
ing the past week with pneumonia.
MISS LOUISE R. GLEASON Of Wsitsfeld is
visiting Fl. g. Gleason. her brother.
f. 1. ROBBINS, clerk for @. FL. Baldwin, is
visiting at his home in Keene, N. Il.
MISS AGNES DRURY of Essex Junction is
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. e. 1. Drury.
Mr.. AND MRS. LESTER Fl. GREENE were
in Littleton N. H., over last Sunday.
THE Bethany Topic Club will meet this
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. H. 8. Cotton.
DIR. HAROLD A. FIsKE has been seriously
ill during the past week with pneumonia.
Mr.. AND MRS. f. j. MoCUEN and Mrs. d.
W. Temple went to New York on Monday.
Mrs. FRIEDRICH P. CARLETON is visiting
s. n 7. sR' home of her parents in el'n' Falls
The Christ church reading club will meet
next Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. O. A.
Best
MRS A. o. CUMM1Ns leaves next week
for Pierre, s. D., to visit Burt A. Cummins,
her son.
MISS ELIZA GEORGE OF the WAToHMAN
composing force is visiting at her home in
Bradford.
B. e. BAILEY OF Philadelphia has been
visiting Frank A. Bailey, his brother. for
a few days.
| MISS GERTRUDE MEINECKE went to New
York last Saturday to learn the latest styles
in millinery.
f. L. LAIRD was in Morrsville last week
as one Of the commissioners in q case heard
| In That town.
Miss MARY FIsKE went last Saturday to
Boston to purchase goods for the spring
millinery trade.
Mr.. AND MRS. TIMOTHY CUMMINs attended
the funeral Of George FL. Blake at Bradford,
last Wednesday.
G. FL. BIGELow, town clerk Of Brookfeld,
was welcome visitor at the WArCHMAN
Office on Monday.
MRS. r. G. BOWERS entertained the
Church of the Messiah Reading Club on
Tuesday afternoon.
A MEETING of the ladies' guild of Christ
church will be held on Thursday afternoon
at the parish house.
| W. II. LOMBARD starts for Willimantic,
Conn, this morning with car load oi
dairy cows and oxen.
The first and third degrees will be work.
ed by Montpelier lodge, Knights OF Pythias,
on Thursday evening.
MISS FRANCES BUTLER Of johnson has
been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lane
during the past week.
THE Epworth League Reading Club will
meet next Friday evening with Miss Eva
Fuller on Elm street.
HENRY WILEY has purchased for $500
the house owned by Alderman o. Il. Rich.
| ardson on Barre street.
MRS. e. P. WALTON returned on Monday
evening from Columbus, O., where she has
been for several weeks.
The young son of Mr.. and Mrs. III. 8
Cotton was badly bruised on Monday even
ing by falling down stairs.
MISS ANNA GUERNSEY returned to Boston
on Monday to continue her studies in the
Emerson School of Oratory.
AN interesting account of Florida winter
resorts, by Ernest b. McDuffee Of Brad
ford, Will be found on page three.
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day evening from New York, where she hai
been visiting relatives for several weeks.
MRS. ANDREW HULL, who has been at the
Pavilion for several weeks, left last Friday
morning for her home in Elmra, N. Y.
DIR. G. A. BAILEY, former practicinl
physician in this city, Is now president of {
college of osteopathy at Los Angeles, Cal.
PROF. AND MRS. f. l.. LAWRENCE ant
Miss Jesse Lawrence are at Springfield
Mass, during the vacation at the seminary
SATURDAY afternoon is now observed as
half holiday by the working force at the OF
fee of the National Life Insurance Com
pany,
A. j. COLE has given up the charge o
the city farm and a Mr.. Pickett has beer
hired by Overseer Wheeler to take hi
place.
THE ladies of Bethany Reading will oh
serve Red Letter Day" with Mrs. O. II
More, 139 State street, March 10 at tw'
o'clock.
Mr.. AND MRS. l.. W. SHEDD went to Bos
ton on Monday. Mrs. Shedd will 60 froI
that city to Gorham, Me-, to visit he
! mother.
TwENTy-FoUR candidates for certificate
, were before County Examiner o. ID. Natl
: ewson in Grand Army hall last Friday an
Saturday.
The Ladies Guild of Christ church wi
{ have an Easter sale in the parish room,
} A variety of useful and fancy articles wi
: be on sale.
MISS MARY j. CLEAvKs returned last Sa
, urday from Woodstock, where she has bee
I the guest Of Mrs. Frank Mckenzie for SO,
4 eral weeks.
= : FRED MCDKRMoTT. formerly clerk in tn
: book store Of George r. Ehle, begins wor
! this morning as book-keeper for Marvin
2 Sherburne.
d SECRETARY THORPE conducted the NEE
' ing for men held last Sunday afternoon
8 the rooms Of the Young Mems Christia
Q Association.
}. The Garnet Seal Circle will meet nel
I Friday afternoon at a quarter past tw
/ o'clock with Mrs. j. Ell Goodenough,
. Barre street.
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