The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-22
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
LOC4L HAPPENINGS.

interior of their drug store.
The Industrial School has taken vaca.
tion until Saturday, April 8.
The Capital Electric Company is wiring
9. II. Berry's house or electric lights.
Rev. N. M. Shaw will occupy the pulpit
OF the Congregational church at Roxbury
on Sunday.
j. l.. Shorey is to go soon to Kirksvile,
Mo where he is to take course OF study
in osteopathy.
Mary Parker, daughter OF Mrs. j. B.
| Parker, died Monday forenoon at her home
on Winooski street.
Bertram, son of G. B. Walton, went Mon
day to Jericho where he is to participate in
the Joys of sugaIiug.
Charles Booth has purchased Of Don II.
Dodge a building lot on Pleasant street in
the annexed district
c.. H. Fuller ent to New York Saturday
night and will go from there to his new
home in Huntington, Pa.
The date OF the Donahue O'Neil wrest-
ling match has again been postponed until
Thursday evening, April 20.
Henry W. Goodrich has sold to Mrs. NJ.
Jennie Dunwoodie the Woodard house on
upper Main street for 81 900.
The Bethany Christian Endeavor Society
will hold "Conumdrum Social in the
chapel Wednesday evening
Mrs. Harriet Eaton of Cherry field Maine
a sister of DR.. X. l. Cleaves, is expected
this afternoon for short visit.
Langdon Schroeder, who has been visiting
in the city for few days, returned Monday
morning to his home in New York
A Library Social" will be held in Trim
| ity church vestry Wednesday evening un-
der the auspices of the Epworth League.
Miss Cora Gillette arrived Monday even
ing from Washington, ID. G., for an extend
ed visit. She is at present at the Riverside.
Hon. W. P. Dillingham; will be the guest
of the Young Mems Republican Club Of
Bellows Falls on Tuesday evening, March
%.
Several sleighloads OF gypsies landed on
| Haymarket Square Tuesday. In one of
the sleghs was a colt about three months
old
Elwin G. Holmes has flushed work in the
foundry of the Lane Manufacturing Com
pany and has moved to his farm in Wood
bury.
Fred Wilder, one of the young men con-
vic,ed OF intoxication in city court Friday
afternoon, has paid his fine Of $40 81 and
has been released from Jail.
Mrs. Emma Paul will address the Spirit
ualists in Grand Army hail. Opera house
block next Sunday at eleven o'clock A. M. ,
aud at 2.30 P M. All are cordially invited
to attend.
The members of the primary department
OF the Baptist Sunday-school have just pre-
| sented the church with beautiful brass
stand with onyx top which they earned by
selling soap.
The Brooks & Berry house and lot, No 4
Putnam street, was sold Saturday through
| the real estate agency OF Martin w. Wheel
ock to Matthew j. and Annie K. Doyle.
Consideration about 50, 200.
The current number OF The Ne,o Voice
contains two-page illustrated story of
"The Genesis Of Admiral Dewey" which
contains several anecdotes of George
De wey's boyhood hitherto unpublished.
The basket ball game between the God.
dard and Company III teams, played in the
Armory Friday evening, was not largely
attended. 1t resulted in a victory for the
latter team by score of ten to six.
Miss Catherine Smith is expected home
fro jackson, Mich, about the first OF May
She will be accompanied by Mrs. Charles
e. Wilson, her sister, who will spend the
summer in Montpelier.
Mildred, the little daughter of T. K. Mer
rill was taken with commissions late on
Monday afternoon aud did not regain con-
seriousness until this morning. This after
noon she is reported more comfortable
Rev G. Il. Ordway of Windsor is to
preach in the Church of the Messiah next
Sunday, exchar glng with Rev. j. K. Wright.
| Mr.. Ordwsy will also conduct the services
| in the Morse school-house, East Montpelier,
al 2: 10 P. M.
Mrs. K. A. Mutt was summoned to Bur
/ lington Monday morning TO read testimony
taken by her in Chittenden County court in
| December 1897, in the case Of Hunt against
Bacon, in which the Supreme Court re-
versed the decision and sent it back for a
new trial.
The parents of young Gibbs, who recently
married Evelyn Burns in Boston, have
taken him to his home in Burlington, leav-
ing his wife in Boston. The youth was not
of age, and it ia reported that his parents
will attempt to annul the marriage or secure
a divorce for him.
@. s. Whittier has at his market a novel
contrivance in the way of an extension lad
der for the use of firemen. 1t is 80 arrang-
ed that it can be heightened to the desired
length automatically, retaining its position
firmly, and can be lowered by simply re-
leasing a spring.
Loren Friend has purchased OF Francis
an Margaret Leslie for 81 100 their resi-
dence ON upper Main street. Mr.. Friend
has just completed a long term OF service as
baker in the O. III. Gross Il Son bakery
He contemplates engaging in the general
trucking business.
The new passenger engine "a. #, Sort.
well" built Tor the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad at the shops of the Man
chester Loco motive Works arrived today.
It carries all the latest improvements and
will be valuable addition to the motive
power of this company. The new locomo'
tive will be put into service at once on the
main line
George Seguin returned Monday evening
from a few days visit in New York, where
he witne sed the burning of the Windsor
hotel. His brother Felix expects to be
mustered out of the United States service
about April and in the meantime is en-
gagged in preparing an illustrated souvenir
OF the Porto Rican campaign which he is t.
place on sale.
A COW owned by ELAN Provost was killed
I Sunday by Dr. L. G. Wakefield, and wa
found TO be badly affected with tuberculo
sis. This cow has been for two years in tn
herd OF milkman Lawrence. Since Mr.
} Provost took her home few weeks ago h
has used the milk in his family. 1t wa
one of the worst cases seen by the veterinar
in a long time.
Because OF the fact that States Attorne
D Hoar is engaged in the trial OF the arso
. case, now on ID Washington county court
t.. 1t is probable that the preliminary hearin
! in the case of Charles Doherty, charge
3 with shooting Fred Murphy at Bolton Fail
will again be postponed. The hearing