The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-18
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Watson Varney of No. SO Elm street, a
granite cutter, Is dangerously i'll with pneu-
monia.
Mrs. F. L. Laird has purchased the Capt.
tai hall property of James w. Brock for
$4,000.
Mrs. +. H. Merrill went last Saturday to
Waterbury, Conn, for visit Of several
weeks.
| II. NJ Cutler, treasurer OF the National
Life Insurance Company, is i'll with SO.
we're cold.
| Owing to the large amount OF sickness the
schools have been badly broken up for the
past week.
Francis L. Bachelor Of Boston is in this
city looking after the interests Of the Cap
ital creamery.
Wilbur Brown of Berlin has struck some-
thing worse than the annexation question.
IL 10 the grip.
Mrs. George E. Mills and Miss Annie r.
johnson have been ill with the grip during
the past week.
The choir boys of Christ church were
given sleigh ride last Wednesday evening
by Prof. A. j. Phillips.
Mrs. W. A. Barnes OF Westboro, Mass ,
has been the guest for several days OF Mrs.
L.. b. Brooks, her sister
The Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Miss
Amy Fisk, q Hubbard street.
An offer of $4,000 has been refused for
the farm and residence of the late Thomas
b. Stevens of East Montpelier.
Ned Guernsey returned from Springfield,
Mass, last evening and will spend about
ten days at his home in the city.
James NJ. Healey of the Argus staff was
called to Indian Orcharch Mass, last Sat-
urday by the death of a relative.
@. N. Arms was honored last week by his
thirty-ffth consecutive election as director
OF the Waterbury national bank.
W. s. Hudson hes been appointed superin-
tendant Of the Unitarian Sunday-school in
place of A. q. Blanchard, resigned.
The passenger station of the Montpelier
and Wells River railroad was wired for
electric lights last week by George Ii.
Almon.
Charles H. Perry and A. B. Cordiner of
st. Louis, and g. w. Dunshee of Proctor
were among the arrivals at the Pavilion on
Monday.
still suspended by Judge Smile for suffi-
cient reasons. 1t will eventually be trip
to Rutland.
Rev. Andrew Gillies will lecture next
Friday evening in the Cabot Christian En-
deavor course, on 1.-THE American boy and
his country"
The ice on the dam of the Winooski river
has been scraped for trottng, and it is pro-
posed to hold several races there before the
season is over.
The Blanpied lyceum discussed on Mon.
day evening the following question, ERE
solved, That college education is bene-
hcial to ayoung man.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Squires of Council
Bluffs, Ia, were at the Pavilion last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Squires will soon take an ex-
tended European trip.
Sheriff Graves of Waterbury was in town
yesterday, fixing a room in the county Jail to
be used by him as an office and sleeping
room when he is in town.
Because of so much sickness in the fam.
lilies of members of the Church of the Mes
siah the services at that church were
omitted Sunday evening.
Faancis Gravlin, who served in the Cuban
war in the Ninth Mas achusetts regiment,
has been visiting Francis Gravlin, Sr, his
father, during the past week.
Articles Of incorporation OF the Vermont
Society of Colonial Danes, comprising
ifty-three names, were placed on record at
the city clerks office on Monday.
State Fish Commissioner John W. Tit
comb was at the Pavilion last Thursday
and Friday evenings. He visited the State
fish hatchery at Roxbury on Friday.
George Beckett of Williamstown, Alfred
G. Austin Of Burlington, George f. Bailey
Calais, were visitors in the city today.
The members of the Themas club will en-
tertan their gentlemen friends at Elmore's
hall on Wednesday evening. Cards and
dancing will be the order of the evening
State Geologist G. II Perkins is rearrang-
ing the mineral exhibits in the State cabi-
net so that in future il will be much more
attractive to visitors than it has been in the
past.
The reception which was to have been
given by the Themas Club Wednesday
evening has been indefinitely postponed on
account OF the illness OF several OF the men,
bers.
The civil suit of A. A. Bliss OF Sodom
against Samuel Keyes of Moretown that had
been in Justice j. II. Luca's mill for some
time, was settled and discontinued Monday
morning.
Doctors @. e. Chandler and A. B. Bisbee
were in Groton last Thursday afternoon to
perform an operation on III. l.. Gilman Of
that town. He is suffering with erysipelas
in one foot.
A box social will be held Thursday even
ing at the residence OF Fri Morse near the
"Morse sugar place." The proceeds will be
applied to support Sunday services in the
Morse school house.
d. l.. Sanders and Edward Baker were at
Northfeld last Thursday evening to assist
| In the public installation of the officers of
the Odd Fellows encampment and the
Daughters of Rebekah.
The annual meeting OF the sixth Masonic
district which includes Barre, Montpelier,
Waterbury, Randolph and Cabot will be
held at Montpelier on Wednesday, Febru-
sry 10, in Masonic hall.
Box 90 was pulled last Wednesday after
noon for slight fire In the Exchange hotel.
A defective fiue was the cause and the fire
was squelched with extinguishers without
the aid of the fire department.
Judge l.. II. Thompson and Mrs. Thomp-
son were at the Pavilion last Friday night
on their way to Irasburgh. Judge Thomp-
son has been seriously i'll with pneumonia
at Rutland for the past three weeks.
@. II. Smith OF West Topsham, ex-sheriff
Of Orange county, and Horace W. Bailey,
State fish commissioners, was in town last
Saturday in the interests OF Maj. j. III,
Watson for appointment to the vacant
judgeship.
Fred A. Rowland, Secretary of State,
and John l., Bacon, State treasurer, who
are State commissioners Of insurance, made
their annual inspection OF the affairs of the
National Life Insurance Company last