The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

went to Boston Sunday night.
Miss Eliza McGrath of st. Albans spent
Saturday with Miss Kate McAvoy.
The Agathai will meet Thursday evening
at eight O'Clock with Miss Auna Phinney.
Rev. j. Edward Wright has an appoint
ment to preach in Middlesex next Sunday
at two p. M
Mrs Q. c. Ainsworth is visiting Mrs. Fred
Hutchins, her sister, at Groveton, N. H.,
for few days
The condition of Thomas Eagan who is
critically i'll with pneumonia, was reported
on Tuesday as serious.
The Capital Electric Company has con-
verted the basement of its store into well
equipped bicycle hospital.
The mid-week service of the Church OF
the Messiah will be held on Wednesday
evening at half past seven
Miss Blanche Smith and Miss Lizzie
Chandler go on Wednesday to Brooktield
where they are to visit relatives.
Irving L. Sparrow will sell at auction
next Saturday at the Montpelier House
stables his entire livery outfit.
w. A. Lord, national bank examiner,
left Monday noon for trip through one Of
the southern counties of the State.
Mrs. Nellie M. Stone has sold the A. j..
| Stone house on the Worcester branch road
to Mrs. Elizabeth Laundry for 800.
j. b. Estee of Milwaukee, superintendent
of agencies for the National Life Insurance
Company. is in the city for few days.
Mrs. Minnie Marsh is engaged in drilling
the chorus and children in class exercises
for Easter Sunday at Bethany church.
| RIP. Ben amin is confined to his house on
| Cross street from injuries received in fall
ing down his cellar stairs last Saturday.
The Ladies' Reading club Of Christ church
met on uesday at 2.15 O'Clock with
Mrs. Charles f. Lowe No IT Pearl street.
The Garnet Seal circle will meet next
| Friday afternoon at half past two o'clock
with Mrs. e. f. Rand, No. 43 Barre street.
Denison, son Of Orville Dewey of this
city, is a member OF the detail chosen to
guard the $3000,00O to be sent to Cuba by
| this government.
basket ball team suffered defeat in the
game played at Morrisville Monday even-
ing by score of sixteen to six.
| The members of the Baptist christian
| Endeavor society are to hold q sociable
Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs.
Eliza Crossett on Winooski avenue.
A. G. Stone has made enlarged copies Of
interesting stereOscopic views taken OF the
| business section OF the city at the time of
the flood of 1869 and of the great fire OF
| 1876.
George e. White, who recently sold his
residence on Barre street, is storing his
household goods. He and Mrs. White will
| for time make their home at the Vermont
House.
The hearing in the electric railroad in
junction cases did not materialize M onday
evening. This hearing will probably take
! place this week at a time and plac TO be
announced later.
A letter just received in the city from
Mrs. III. l.. e. Smith announces that her
| husbands condition has taken favorable
turn. He is now able to sit up for short
time each day.
The Methodist ladies will give sugar
Friday evening, to be followed by lecture
by Rev. Andrew Gillies on "Vermont in
War and Peace"
Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Guernsey left Satur.
day for Atlanta, Ga, where they will re-
main until May and perhaps longer in the
hope that Mr.. Guernsey's health may be
benefited by the change.
Rev. j. N. Short of Csmbridgeport, Mass.
presiding elder of the Evangelical church
will preach, and hold quarterly conference
in the hall on Winooski Avenue next
Thursday afternoon and evening.
Mrs. George Barber, Miss Annie Staples
and Miss E. Maud Crossett have beer
chosen as a committee by the Baptist Sun
day school to arrange for a concert to bt
held at that church on Easter Sunday.
II. G. Kennedy, president, and j. j
Flynn and A. o. Humphrey, directors Of
the Barre and Montpelier Traction anC
Power Company arrived in town this after
noon and went direct to the car barn.
In his double column advertisement or
page four Fred Blanchard characterizes tn,
Monarch paint as "the best paint sold.
MIR. Blanchard personally guarantees thi
| tatn ant 1n oil of Mnt.
arch"
The commissioners have finished th
appraisal of the property owned by tn,
granite firm Of Stafford & McGlynn. Til,
real estate, personal property and out
standing accounts amount to something
over $4,000. The real estate will not b
divided.
The engagement OF Seno Felipo Cato wa
not paying venture for the members O
Company III. A very small audience wa
present Saturday evening, and the total re
ceipts of the two evenings will hardly pa
expenses.
st. Pstrick's day will be observed on Fri
day evening by appropriate exercises in tn
> hall OF St. Peters Court, Catholic order @
Foresters. Rev. Father Cahill, assistant t
Rev. Father w j. O'Sullivan, will delive
an address
A practice game of basket ball will b
played in Armory hall Wednesday evenin
between the first and second teams of Com
pany III. On Friday evening at the sam
. place game will be played between tn
Goddard and first Company III teams.
About forty members of the Washingto
|, County Veterans Association met Saturda
afternoon in Grand Army hall. Col. Georg
I. Connor OF Barre presided The objsc
Of the meeting was to arrange for the tim
and place OF holding the next annual NEE
q ing of the association
5 While a stranger was driving down Stat
7 street this morning, the king,bolt of hi
> wagon jumped out OF the axle letting tn
4; body OF the wagon drop to the ground an
2 throwing him head first over the das
. board. No injury resulted and he was 500
b on his way once more.
Felix G. SeguiD Of the Forty seventh Me-
! York volunteers arrived In the city Monda
i evening from Brooklyn, N. Y, where hi
regiment has just returned from sewers
months service in Porto Rico. He wi
visit his parents for few days before bein
mustered out.
@. II. Lowe, w. A. Briggs and Miss Nell
y M. Whelan will assist at a musical ente
y ia nment to be given on the evening OF
!, Patrick's day in st. Monics's churcl
m L. .l..l.. Al.