The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-11
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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house with the grip.
A DAUGHTER was born last week to Mr..
and Mrs. o. b. Gross.
#. A. SHEBBURNE and Hermon d. Hop
kins are ill with the grip.
A. J. SIBLEY was in Washington, d. O.,
and New York last week.
Mr.. AND Mrs. HI. b, TAPLIN have taken
rooms at the Willard house.
MISSES JESSIE AND LAURA HOPKINS are
visiting relatives in Montgomery.
THE Bethany Reading met on Tuesday
afternoon with Mrs George g. Pratt.
A. w. MoDERMID, book keeper for Marvin
Sherburne, is i'll at his home in Sodom.
Il. 7. SKGUIN left on Monday for Chicago,
expecting to be absent ten days or more.
MRS. G. H. REYNOLDS of New York is
visiting Mrs. 8. II o. Bosworth, her sister
MRS. JULIA BLAIR is seriously ill at the
home OF George Blair, her son, on Berlin
side.
MRS. CALVIN FULLERTON Of Minneapolis,
Mimi, is visiting Mrs. j. V. Babcock, her
sister.
THE hardware stores will be closed every
evening except Monday and Saturday until
April 1.
CLAYTON j. BoYcE was called to Lebanon,
N. H., on Monday to attend the funeral of a
relative.
9. P. MCGILL hos purchased of T. j. and
! Michael Kelleher for $500 building lot on
College street.
/ Miss JANE BANCROFT returned on Mon.
day TO Northampton, Mass, where she is at
tending school.
DR.. HAROLD A. FISK returned last week
to Saranac Lake, N. Y, after visit of ten
days in this city.
AN adjourned meeting OF the directors Of
the Y. Nj 9. A. was held last evening in the
Association rooms.
l.. 9. HOWE, telegraph operator at the To-
cal office, has moved his family from Bur-
lington to this city.
GEORGE II. PARMENTER has entered the
medical department. at the University of
Vermont, Burlington.
THE wife and children Of Capt. Herbert
S. Foster have taken rooms at Dr. Hiram
Clark's on Elm street.
Mr.. AND MRS Nj. l.. BEARDsLEY left on
Tuesday for an absence of two weeks in
Hartford, Conn.,, and New York.
MONTPELIER LODGE, Knights of Pythias,
will work the first and second rank at their
Castle hall on Thursday evening.
HERMoN e. DOLE, clerk for Marvin &,
Sherb rburne, has been ill during the past
week with muscular rheumatism.
Hon. JAMES L. MARTIN of Brattleboro
has been III during the past week with the
grip at the home OF Edward Dewey.
AMONG the recent grip victims are Mrs
f, M. Cory, Mrs. r. Lanier, G. W. Luce,
Mrs. Fl. y. Lull and James T. Sabn.
Mr.. AND MRS. THERON F. COTTON went
last Friday to New York. From there they
will return to their home in Chicago.
THE Garnet. Seal circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at half past two with Mrs
II. b. Cross at No. 81 Hubbard street.
MRS. III. B. TAPLIN and Miss Mary e
Tromblee we're 10 Boston last week pur.
chasing goods for the Corner Store"
MARTIN HEALEy, clerk at the Montpelier
House, has been seriously ill during the
past week, threatened with pneumonia.
MISS ANNA GUERNSEY returned last week
to Redbank. N. j :. where she is instructor
in elocution in young lady's seminary.
GEORGE BLAIR is at home from St. AL
bans, i'll with grip. Mrs. Blair aud Miss
Julia are also ill with the same distemper
CAPT H. G. LULL is to speak at camI
fire to be held next Friday evening at Barre
under the auspices of Crandall Post G. A
r.
MRS. COLLINS BLAKELY will entertain
tie res ding club connected with the Church
of the Messiah at her homo OF Thursday
evening.
THE annual meeting of the Ladies Aid
Association of HeatOn hospital will be held
this afternoon at 2:30 in the rooms of the
Apollo club
DWIGHT E. MASON local manager of the
Western Union Telegraph company was a
the home of his mother in Swanton ovel
last Sunday.
j. G. Brown was confined to the house
last week with the grip. His two children
have also been seriously i'll with the
whoopir cough.
A RECEPTION was given last evening a
the home of Edgar A. Cummings. in Eas
Montpelier in honor Of DR.. K. A Toby o.
River Falls. Wis.
LAURA GAUTHIER has iled a petison fol
divorce from Frank Gsuthier, her husband
Oh the ground OF intolerable severity ant
refusal to support.
J. ELI GoopKNoUaH has resigned as su
perintendent OF the Unitarian Sunday
school and A. 9. Blanchard has been ap
pointed in his place.
DAVID l.. SANDERS and Edward Bake
were In Randolph last Friday evening to as
sist in the installation of Eureka encamp
ment Of Odd Fellows.
THE Reading Club connected with Trim
ity church, met on Tuesday afternoon will
Mrs. E. f. Rand on Barre street. The quo
tations were from Dryden.
A. W. Hunt OF Boston, editor and man
ager of Granite, magazine devoted to th
dealers, was in town over last Sunday.
A. NILES has purchased for $4,000 o
Rev. l. l.. Beeman and wife the house nov
occupied by him, and the lot adjoining, a
the corner OF East State and College streets
/ THE work of putting in the metallic cell
/ ing in the office and dining room at tn
i, Montpelier House is in progress. The jo
. is being done under the direction OF #. III
Tracy.
7. 8. BRoPHY is visiting his father II
Montreal, who is seriously ill. He was aC
compauied to Montreal by Misses Dsis
and Oorrinne Lane who are in school ii
that city.
! WILLIAM EAaAN, former stone cutter II
l Montpelier, died recently in Nebraska from
consumption. He was an industrious
! hard-working man and had many friend
; In Montpelier.
The ANIMAL meetings of the Montpelie
National and First National banks wer
held Tuesday. At both these institution
> the old board Of directors and present off
GERS were reelected.
ARTHUR N. STRATToN and Miss Addie M
Smear we're marie last Saturday eVenin