The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-02-02
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

over last Sunday.
@. II. MORE was in Springfield, Mass, on
| business last week.
THE city farm has been connected with
the telephone exchange.
THE children OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Dut-
ton are i'll with scarlet fever
FRED BLANCHARD has closed his labors as
porter at the Montpelier House.
GEORGE BLAIR went to Boston last Thurs.
day for stay Of week or more.
A DAUGHTER was born last Wednesday to
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G. Thornton.
S. @. SHURTLEFT was confined to the
house last week with severe cold,
MRS. w. L. DRAPER OF RcL mondwas the
guest OF Mrs. g. W. Luce last week.
Miss HARRIET WRIGHT of Burlington is
the guest OF Miss Mary b. Carleton.
BECAUSE of the severe cold all the stone
sheds were closed last Friday and Satur-
day.
MISS LIZZIE WOOD clerk for I. s. Brophy
| q Co., is i'll with grip, as is Mrs. Leonard
| T. Lull.
THE Epworth League Reading club will
meet next Friday evening with Mrs. f. III.
Tracy.
GEORGE RIVERS takes the place of Fred
blanchard as porter at the Montpelier
House.
Hon. HORACE W. BAILEY of Newbury,
state fish commissioner, was in town last
Thursday.
STANLEY BLANCHARD left on Monday for
Kirksville, Mo-, where he is to take course
in osteopathy.
MRS. JOHN KMBALL of Council Bluffs, Ia,
was the guest last week of Mr.. and Mrs. l..
M. Hutchinson.
Mr.. AND MRS. BYRON REYNOLDS of Port
land, o., were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. o.
Cummins last week.
THE postponed service Of sacred song is
to be held in the Church of the Messiah
next Sunday evening.
GEORGE A. KNAPP went to New York on
Monday for a vacation of two weeks from
his duties at the post-office.
THE Ladies' Reading club connected
with Christ Church held reception last
evening at the parish house.
THE Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at 2;16 with Mrs. l.. p.
Gleason, No. Spring street
THE condition OF Mrs. John voodry is so
much improved that her friends have strong
hopes of her complete recovery.
THE check list for the annual city meet
ing was posted last Saturday by Sheriff
Bancroft, who perpared the same.
THE infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
A. Stone died last Sunday. Funeral SER
vices were held Monday afternoon.
THE ladies orchestra of Waterbury, of
which Mrs. G. A. Lang of this city is leader,
gave concert at Waitsfeld last evening.
MRS d. w. COOLEY of Antrim, N. H..
was called here last Friday by the serious
illness of her mother, Mrs. ohm Voodry.
GEORGE BRAINERD was at Shelburne
| Falls on Monday adjusting loss for the
Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Hon. NJ. P. PERLEY of Enosburgh Falls
was in town on Monday to attend the meet
ing of the trustees of Montpelier Seminary.
D. l.. FULLER was called to Barre on
Monday by tho death of his brother, Enos,
a notice of which may be found in the Barre
column.
A PENSION OF So per month with $500 ar
rearages has been granted Mrs. Elvira Nj
Johnson, through the agency of T. j.
Deavitt
REV. ANDREW GILLIEs will lecture in the
course at Waitsfeld Tuesday evening,
March l, on " The American Boy and His
Country"
THE selectmen of Berlin have commits
stoned I'll. B. Wedge to make a house-to-
| house canvass of the town to gather the vital
statistics.
ROBERT b. LILLE has purchased OF
George w. Parmenter for $1,000 the house
and lot on Seminary Hill now occupied by
Mr.. Lille.
CHARLES w. ADAMS and Harlie o. Cum
minis are at home from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology for vacation OF
two weeks.
JW. EMERY has purchased for 81 ,7OC
through the real estate agency OF A. j,
Howe, the w. l.. Draper house and lot on
Berlin street.
THE monthly meeting of the Ladies' Aid
Society OF Heaton hospital will be held
this afternoon with Mrs. Collins Blakely on
Winter street.
AMOS KINsoN OF Williston was in town
last Saturday to assist in celebrating the
SEVENTEEN birthday of Mrs. John w Smith
his sister-in law.
FRANK w. BIssoN and Miss Ada Booth
both of Tupper Lake, N. Y, were married
Monday evening by Justice of the Peace
NJ. W. Wheelock.
The father of Arthur Willis came to hil
rescue last Wednesday, paid the amount
due j. p. Donovan for rent, and Willis was
released from Jail.
MISS KATE C. DoHENY, one of the teach
ers in the Berlin street school, was obliged
last week to go to her home in NorthtielC
because OF illness.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach il
Middlesex next Sunday at two p. NJ. Sub
ject, THE Difference between Unitarian
and Universalists."
day from Concord, N H., where she ha
been the guest OF Rev, and Mrs. Howard +
Hill for two weeks.
THE Bethany Reading will observe a Re'
Letter Day at the home of Miss M. ID
t White, 147 Main street, Thursday Febru
ary 10, at two o'clock.
. Ii. ID. GATES was confined to his room a
3 the Exchange hotel last week, the result O
getting too near the heels of one of his las
car load OF western horses.
#. l., QUIMBY Of Boston, who represent
, creditors of the insolvent Montpelier Hard
a ware Company to the extent of 81, 100, ha
. been in the city several days.
t M. @. LEBEAN OF Detroit, Mich, genera
o agent for the state Of Michigan for the Ma
; tional Life Insurance Company, was q Wis
I itor at the home office last week
w. ID. LocKEsBY of Chateaugay, N. Y
: takes the place of j. Henry Libben as clerl
u at the Exchange Hotel The latter has gon
. on the road with his kaleidoscope.
TRANS from the Montpelier and Brattlt
O boro Young Mems Christian Associatio
= will play basket ball in the gymnasium
Il on Saturday evening, February II.
Vt M. w. WHEELoCK, town Il easurer OF Bel
o lin, paid 10 City Treasurer Merrill on Nor
day, $2,76l 80, the share of the town of Bel
lin for ha hri1tya and al N