The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-04-05
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
LOO1L HAPPENINGS.

making rooms ON East State street after q
brief vacation.
The Capital Clothing Company will keep
their store open every week day evening
until II rther notice.
Perley w Holden, assistant treasurer of
the Capital Savings Bank and Trust Com.
pany, is seriously ill.
The Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at 2 80 o'clock with Mrs.
| A. @. Blanchard, 80 Hubbard street.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society
of Trinity church will meet with Miss
Martha Bullock on Winter street Wednes-
| day afternoon,
The ladies OF the church OF the Messiah
will hold sociable in their vestry next
Friday. Supper from $50 to 7, to be fol-
| lowed by short entertainment.
John Scott died Saturday at his home
in Berlin, aged sixty-eight years. His fu-
neral was held Sunday afternoon at one
o'clock from the church at Berlin Corner.
A team from Vermont lodge of Odd Eel
lows will work the second degree at the
district meeting and institution of lodge
at Williamstown on Friday evening, April
2S.
Papers conveying an undivided half in
terest in ten acres of land in Berlin, from
Elmer Jacobs and wife to V. l.. Slayton,
have been made out by Martin w. Wheel
ock.
MAN bdlIOIGu SulIB, IuB COITbCb UHlDR III bbyIb
and fabric, beautifully tailored, is what the
ladies will find at the store OF Homer Fits,
in Barre. See his advertisement in this
paper.
When Mr.. and Mrs. w. n Root returned
from drive on Friday afternoon they
found that their infant child who has been
subject to spasms had died during their alb
sence.
George Smith has finished work for Mar
win q Sherburne and is employed in the
fruit store of #. W. Blanchard. Mr..
Blanchard and Mr.. Virgins, his clerk, are
both i'll.
The listers started out bright and early
Saturday, on their annual listing mis-
sion. At half part nine that morning Lister
Bancroft had sworn and secured the list OF
fifty persons.
Mrs. Nellie Denning has purchased the
household effects of Mrs. Elvira johnson
and will engage in the boarding house busi-
ness. Mrs. Johnson plans to go soon to
Georgia for her health,
The monthly meeting of the Ladies Aid
association OF the Heaton hospital, will be
held at two o'clock Wednesday afternoon
with Mrs G. H. Heaton on State street. A
full attendance is desired.
d. K. Gallagher is arranging for concert
to be given by some OF the best local talent
on Tuesday evening, April II, in the Bap-
tist church. The receipts are to be used for
ihltIlOr repairs III ludJ euluC6'
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be held
with Miss Eliza b. Rublee next week
Wednesday afternoon at half past two
o'clock. full attendance is requested.
G. E. Woodward, Jr., an attorney of
Plainfield and for some time the WATCH
MAN correspondent at that point, will move
to Montpelier. He has rented the house off
School street, vacated by DR.. w L. Goodale
hos Gn;o for
Johonnotts & Hall and in company with
with George III. Whitney is to open under
taking rooms at 104 State street which will
be run in connection with Mr.. Whitney's
present business.
Arthur Lockln is said to be an absentee
and the cause Of his departure from the city
is said to be because of the fact that when
Adolphus Barney of this city was arraign-
ed in Barre city court on Monday he dis.
closed upon Locklin.
Perley w. Holdens condition is reported
as more comfortable to-day. The report in
an evening paper that he had been taken to
| Heaton hospital was incorrect. His condi-
ton has been so precarious that his clothes
could not be removed.
James T. Phelps of Boston, General j. G.
Mccullough of Bennington and g. G. Bene-
dict of Burlington were in the city Tuesday
to attend the quarterly meeting OF the direc-
tors OF the National Life Insurance Com
pduy, ublulbhlo
Leonard Love went Monday to Burling-
ton TO meet his son whom he expected to
ri % in that city from New York but was
| obliged t. return Tuesday without him.
he uApects now that his son will come
home by different route.
Joseph etiquette and Adolphus Barney
were arrested Sunday in Barre for intoxi-
cation. The use of dray was necessary to
convey Barney to the lock up. In Justice
A G. Fay's court Monday morning they
were each fined So and costs.
F. w. Bancroft of Boston gives his song
lecture, "Songs From Four Countries" in
Northfield Tuesday evening" April II, al
the residence of President A. ID. Brown, al
"Red Letter" day given by the ladies'
reading circle of Northfield.
The engagement of Miss Genevieve
Holmes and g. II. Wilder is announced
Their marriage will take place some time
within a month. They both have an en-
gagement at the Franconia Inn, White
Mountains, during the coming summer.
Frank G.. Rogers, the Barre truckman
who was arrested on Thursday for trucking
in the city without license and whose
hearing was to have been this after
noon in city court, has waived examina
tion and will pay S1l,0t to settle the affair
The firm of Ledden & Campbell, tailors
has been dissolved, p. j. Ledden purchas
ing W. III. Campbell's interest in the bust
ness. Mr.. Ledden will continue the bust.
ness alone. Mr.. Campbell has gone to Sa
lem, Mass, where he has a position as
tailor.
Martin w. Wheelock, real estate agent
sold for William Andrews for 81 200, or
Saturday the buildings and some sixteen
acres OF his farm in Berlin, formerly known
as the martin l.. Reed farm" to Thoma.
L. Cassavant. Mr., Cassavant is to move
there at once.
George II. Wilder received on Saturday
three flutes. made to order by j. @. Haynes
& 90. Of Boston. These instruments ar,
the finest made in this country and ar'
listed at $500 each. They are made of coir
silver with solid gold springs. They wer.
ordered for Il. ii. Newton, George III
Wilder and Il. II. Leavitt Of Plainfield.
! The Union Mutual Life Insurance Com
! psny OF Portland. Me, has secured, through
Elisha 8. Fiske, its general agent, perma
nent quarters in the commodious office
lately occupied by Homer W. Heaton. G
: II. Heaton is reftting and furnishing tn
same and will occupy portion of them a
, heretofore.
, Telesphor Allard, who for the past thirt,
} years has been engaged in the horse shoe