The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-07-26
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

| for two weeks vacation in st. Alban5.
Clifton 8. Emery of Boston, is the guest
os Dr. O. N. Hunt, his uncle, for few
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. II. Baldwin returned
| on Monday from a few days visit with
relatives in Rutland
Mrs. l.. b. Holt OF Montpelier will speak
in the Brick church at East Montpelier next
| Sunday afternoon at two o'clock.
Rev. j. Edward Wright is expected to
| preach in the Morse school. house, East
Montpelier, next Sunday at 216 PM
| The Albert johnson assault case, which
was set for hearing in city court Monday af-
ternoon, has been continued until Wednes-
day morning.
The boys and girls of the Y. M. @. A.
gymnasium classes, accompanied by Secre-
tary Merrill, enjoyed picnic at BenJa-
MINIS Falls Tuesday.
Miss Katherine Kane went this afternoon
to Saranac Lake, in the Adirondacks, for
an indefinite stay. She was accompanied
by Mrs. j. j. Bergen, her sister.
Sunday morning services will be resumed
in the Church of the Messiah next Sunday,
but the Sunday school will not be reopened
till the first Sunday in September
The patriotic and military tsbleaux at the
Military Bazaar, to be held Wednesday
evening in the vestry OF Trinity church will
alone be worth the price of admission.
Mrs. A. M. George of Boston, was in
the city on Monday. She purchased OF q.
A. Smith handsome granite monument to
be placed over the grave OF her husband in
Chelsea.
DIR. e. e. Beeman, with his mother and
brother, is enjoying weeks outing at
Kimball's Camp at Berlin pond. The doc
tor is in the city during the day to attend to
his patients.
Mrs. Charles d. Birtel was taken sudden
ly ill Sunday evening and for time her
family were fearful for the result. She is
reported as being in much improved con-
diton today.
e. 7. Seguin went on Monday to Platts-
burg, N. Y, where he took part in an ex'
hibition bicycle race. He went from
there to Saratoga to participate in century
run from Saratoga to Albany.
| G. Milo McAllister, of the McAllister
Lumber and Supply Company of Boulder,
Col, was the guest of ID. L. Sanders on
Monday. This was Mr. McAllister's first
visit to Vermont and he was charmed with
the scenery around its capital.
A meeting of the creditors OF the insol-
vent Montpelier Hardware Company was
held Tuesday in the probate office for the
| purpose Of ascertaining whether further
| ten per cent dividend can be paid in addi-
ton to the one of fifty per cent paid the
creditors some time since
The Ladies' Home Journal for August de-
votes two pages to illustrations OF suburban
| homes embod wing practical or novel ideas
These photographs are gathered from near,
| ly every state in the Union and among
them is the residence of Harry M. Cutler OF
this city.
An interesting program of the Decennial
Anniversary meetings at Queen City Park
under the direction of Rev. j. j. Lewis
from Augr st 7 to August ID, has been is
sued Together with very attractive excur
sions it offers great number and variety
OF lectures, sermons and addresses, by such
distinguished men as Rev. Drs. Marion ID.
Shutter, @. II. ShinD, II. W. Thomas, A
j. Garfield, e. G. Boles, e. II. Capen and
others
FIJI. H. Thompson visited the homes Of
several of the legal officials early on Mon
| day morning and reused them from theil
slumbers to inform them that he had found
COW owned by s. w. Corse stamping
about his garden and had lodged the animal
in the city pound. He was advised to leave
the COW in the pound and not lay himself
liable to prosecution for breach of the
peace because OF disturbing the slumDers
of innocent citizens.
Hubbard Park" was thronged with Wis
itors Sunday, all anxious to become ia
miliar with the extent, character and loca
tion of Montpeller's recent inheritance
From the brow OF the hill magnificen
view is obtained, and the future possibili
ties OF the place, in the hands of exper
landscape gardeners, with abundant means
at their command, are almost beyond the
power of the imagination to conceive The
trolley or cable car will undou btedly follow
in the wake Of these improvements, making
the entire territory easy OF access.
Fridays storm is credited with singula
instance of annihilation by natural electro
cution. A bolt of lightning descended int
meadow owned by Leland Brothers
when a little column OF smoke was seen t.
arise. No attention was given to the mat
ter at the time, as it came from the opel
and no damage could result. Later it wa
found that skunk was the objective OF tn
bolt and the animal had been annihilated
excepting the claws and tail, and even tn
latter had been skinned, leaving only lttl
tuft of hair on the end by which the AM
malls identity was established.
Alderman Kent is the possessor OF
piece OF pottery, which, though the age
uncertain, must have been manufactured il
colonial days. Mr.. Kent found the relic i
the ditch in ward six in which the ne'
sewer pipes are to be laid. 1t was foun
ten feet below the surface of the highwa
. below the old corduroy road The gilt ol
/ namentation Of the pottery IL as fresh a
though just taken from the oven and it ais
! bears upon it's surface the medallion lik,
ness of a woman, probably that OF som
celebrity Of the time in which it was mani
featured.
Y The marriage of Miss Hattie @. Fisk {
. this city and Carlos Gay of Barton Landin
l occurred at nine O'Clock Tuesday mornin
. the home of Mrs. II. b. Gross, sister OF th
: bride. Rev. Perrin b. Fisk of Greensboro
o a brother of the bride, performed the cer
mony. The wedding was quiet one, onl
, the immediate friends and relatives bein
! present. The gifts were many and valu
d BILE. The bride was one Of the milliner
Q firm which for several years has been
l. business on State street. By her man
II courtesies, and sterling worth OF chsrsct,
= she has made a wide circle of friends wi
Q express hearty congratulations on this o
It casion. Mr.. and Mrs. Gay left on tl
Q morning train for Burlington. They wi
u reside at Barton Landing
i. This Burlington Clipper recently made
j. cheap. slurring. and entirely false, referen
, which the Ne,0s copied-to the phot
q graphs Of Vermont school buildings Supe
d intendent Stone had procured to send
IT the Paris Exposition. The facts OF ii
o matter are stated in private letter fro
al Mr.. Stone to citizen of Burlington, tl