The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-19
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY,
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

GENTLY to be on the street once more.
K. E. BLAKELY left on Thursday for Chi
cago on three weeks. business trip,
Ex.MAyoR STRATToN OF the Vermont Mu-
tual Office is out on brief vacation.
MRS. f. K. GooDALE went to the Mary
Fletcher hospital Thursday for treatment.
G. l.. SMITH SHOT hundred and fifty
pound buck on Thursday in the Maine
woods.
Mr.. AND MRS. q. S. BUTTON OF Hardwick
are visiting at the home of j. #. Dutton,
their son.
FRANK J. MARSHALL, who was recently
admitted to the bar, will open an office in
Marshfeld.
AUoTIoNEER KENT is called to preside in
an official capacity at six different events
this week.
THE seminary was closed on Thurday, out
OF respect to the memory OF Private Norris
Of the class OF '92.
The Foresters will soon install an elegant
new piano, just purchased, in their rooms
in the Lawrence building.
W. r. WESTON has about got located in
the Poland house recently purchased by
him on East State street.
THE Central freight yard is being embel-
lished with some new side tracks to accom-
modate the increased business.
GEORGE II. ALMoN has been awarded
the job of equpping hotel at Richford for
electric lights and bells.
HENRY e. l.. SMITH has returned from
the Mount Pleasant House, White Noun
tains, where he has been cashier during the
past season.
P. w. CLEMENT president of the Rutland
railroad, was in town for a few hours on
Wednesday, coming in his priva'e car
"Nehasene."
B srlin Corner citizens threaten remon-
STRANGE against annexation, but-in the
words of the late Editor DAna-"We may be
happy yet, you bet"
The annual business meeting and ban
quet of the Sons of the American Reyolu-
ton are named to take place in this city
Thursday, November 3.
DIR. l.. NJ. BINGHAM of Burlington was in
town Friday on business The doctor has
spent the entire summer in Stowe but has
recently returned to Burlington.
THE base and fifty ton granite spire got
ten out by G. IL More & Company for the
estate of Henry M. Bennett at Asbury Park,
N. j., were shipped on Thursday.
ONE week from next Wednesday evening,
the 26th, the Pavilion will be held by the
Vermont Officers Society, at which Col. G.
w. Hooker will preside as postmaster,
THE case of Andrew II. Gregg against
Moses Willis, from Windham county, was
heard on Wednesday in Supreme Court.
Fits for plaintiff; Waterman. Martin and
Hit for defendent.
MRS Q. j. GLEASON aud Mrs. @. A Reed
daughters of Mrs. o. III. Smith, arrived in
this city Wednesday, at noon, summoned
here by the distressing accident to their
aged mother on Sunday of last week
MRS. SMITH, mother OF Mrs. G. j. Glea-
son and Mrs. Charles A. Reed, who sus-
tanned painful fall on the steps of the
Riverside few days since, is much more
seriously injured than at first supposed.
Her daughters are with her.
MRS. FIRED MURPHY, who was recently
deserted by her worthless husband, and
who has been and is yet quite sick, is now
an inmate OF the Heaton Hospital. Over
seer Wheeler has secured caretaker for
the little children for the present.
PROBATE Judges Tory E. Wales of Bur-
lington, j. d. Smith OF Vergennes e. G.
White of Hyde Park and j. B. Bromley of
CastletOn met Wednesday afternoon in the
Office of Judge Hiram Carleton for an infor-
NAL discussion Of matters relating to the
business OF probate courts.
Charles IrvingNye and MissA ceAsenath
Hamblet, both Of North Montpelier, were
married Wednesday evening at the home OF
K. j. Hamblet by Rev. j. Edward Wright,
sasisted by Rev. Joseph r. Cobb. The cere-
mony was performed in the presence OF
the immediate families Of the contracting
parties.
NEW L, Il. IOhIhh Vi AlJbl6bOu, mhbb.,
preached in the Church OF the Messiah on
Sunday morning, and conducted services in
Middlesex at two P. M Mr.. Wright went to
Stowe for the morning service, and Mr..
Porter assisted Mr.. Wright at the service
of sacred song in the Church of the Messiah
in the evening.
CARDS are out announcing the approach.
marriage at Walla Walla, Wash, Wednes-
day, October 26, of Rev. Edward Lincoln
Smith and Miss Rosalia Imogene, daugh-
ter Of Mrs. d. S. Baker Of that city. Mr..
Smith is son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl l..
Smith OF this city, and has wide circle Of
friends in his boyhood hom3 who will offer
sincerest congratulations on this coming
happy event.
The annual mid-term reception at the
Seminary. given by the sisters societies to
the brothers. societies, was held on Friday
evening. The program was as follows: The
Nightingale Prof. Hathaway; Laska, Miss
Taylo Gaily chant the summer birds, Miss
Northey; How or Moses Counted, Miss
Taylor; Drinking Song, Male Quartette; The
Marriage of the Flowers, Miss Taylor; Old
time love song. Miss Northey; The Swan
song, Miss Taylor; Aus der Ohe, Prof.
Hathaway.
THE bank wall at the corner of Wilder
and Fullerton streets, that is being erected
by James Ewing, begins to loom up. 1t is
needless to say that the work will be we'll
done for look at it in the unfinished state
Is convincing proof that Mr.. Ewing knows
his business. 1t is hoped that when the
wall is finished the city council will see fit
to put in some sort OF a street light at this
point to light the weary traveller on his
homeward way. There is no place in the
city where a light is needed more than at
this place.
AMEDKE e. FORGET, of Winnipeg, Mani
toba, has recently been appointed lieuten-
antgovernor OF the northwest territories.
Mr. Forget will be remembered here as
having been for some time in his student
life member OF the household of the late
George w Reed. For twenty-three years
he has been connected in official positions
of increasing importance with the admins
tration of the affairs of the vast region
known as the northwest territories, and he
is referred to in Canadian papers as not
only thoroughly acquainted with its needs,
and popular with It's Inhabitants, but also
as zone of the best informed men in Canada
on constitutional procedure, and political
questions"
LOUIS V. NORRIS died early on Wednesday
Oct. 49, at Heaton hospital of typhoid few
or, aged twenty-four years. Mr.. Norris en-
listed last May in the First Connecticut reg
iment and was at his home in Montpelier
on furlongh whan he was striker With the
hat his life nanaaaaI q