The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-01
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

An adventurous robin was seen on State
street Tuesday morning.
Town meeting in the town of Berlin will
be held in the old church at West Berlin.
Mrs Harry B. Taplin went to New York
Monday, to visit her mother for two or three
weeks.
ID. d. Martin, who resides near the cleo
| trio light station, is dangerously ill with
pneumonia
Mrs. Henry G. Fullerton entertained a
party OF friends at duplicate whist on Fri
| day evening
A. L. Hewitt is the leading candidate for
the Office Of town clerk and treasurer in the
| town of Berlin.
There will be whist party and dance at
| Village hall, East Montpelier on Wednes-
day evening, March l.
The Trinity church Ladies' Aid society
will hold a social in the vestry OF the church
on Wednesday evening.
George H. Wilder is in New York where
| he has received fatterng offers to join q
noted musical organization.
The Garnet Seal Circle will meet next
Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs.
w. o. Chapman, II st. Paul street.
Irving L. Sparrow has rented the tene-
ment on Fullerton street made vacant by
the death of Mr.. and Mrs. E. K. Morse.
Miss Eleanor Webster trimmer in past
seasons for Mrs. M. e. Dickey, is to open a
millinery store in Rutland this spring.
| Miss Jennie Palmer, the elocution teacher
at Montpelier Seminary, was taken to Hea-
| ton Hospital on Saturday for treatment.
The lower floor OF the Jewett house on
State street has been rented to New York
parties, who will occupy it after June 1.
Dorman b. e. Kent returned Friday
from Washington, d. O., and other cities
where he has been visiting for two weeks.
Rev. W. A. Dawson and wife left Tues
day for Saranac Lake, N. Y, where Mrs.
Dawson will remain an indefinite time for
her health
A large number Of young people took ad-
vantage OF the moonlight on Friday even
ing, and went coasting on the crust on
Berlin side.
The subject at the mid-week service Of
the Church of the Messiah this evening is
to be, "The Silent Appeal of the Holy
Communion"
The Garnet Seal Reading club met with
Mrs. A. G. Blanchard on Friday afternoon.
Refreshments were served at the close OF
the programme.
The members of Vermont lodge OF Odd
Fellows and Ivy lodge, Daughters OF Re-
bekah. will hold whist party in Odd Fell
lows hall Thursday evening.
A meeting OF the auditors Of the town Of
Berlin will be held on Wednesday for the
purpose OF making final adjustment of the
accounts before town meeting.
G. A. Smith shipped on Saturday to
Strafford large monument to be erected
by the Bacon estate. 1t required two four
horse teams to transport the monument.
The Ladies' Aid Association of the Hea-
ton Hospital will meet with Mrs. Collins
Blakely, I'll Main street, on Wednesday
afternoon, March /, at two o'clock. Work.
The Bethany Christian Endeavor Society
will hold patriotic social in the chapel
Wednesday evening at half past seven. A
musical and literary programme will be fur
| nished.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Gabree, Mrs. Nora
Lawrence, Mrs. William Milo, Eddie Gull
len and Bert Chase were baptized by i'm
mersion at the Baptist church Sunday
evening
Charles, son of Luther S. Wheeler, who
has recently graduated from the school Of
Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo-, is soon to To-
cate at st. Albans for the practice OF his
| profession,
The Spirtuaists will hold box socable
at Henry Childs ON East Liberty street,
| Wednesday afternoon and evening The
| gentlemen will fill and bring the boxes and
the ladies buy them at auction. All are
cordially invited.
l. l.. Leonard received an offer on Friday
from the leader Of the Sherman Military
|
ton as cornet soloist. Mr. Leonard has this
| fiattering offer under consideration, and
will doubtless accept.
Considerable trouble has been caused by
| the sewer in front of the Scribner block on
Main street being clogged or frozen. All
| attempts to clear it have met with no sue
cess and it has been found necessary to dig
up the pipe at that point.
Excellent progress was made in chorus
work at the meeting OF the Philharmonic
Society, held Monday evening in Bethany
chapel. Fifty-three singers were present
including about twenty from Barre. Several
spectators were also in attendance.
Ralph, the young son of Vernon Lindsay
had an attack of bleeding at the nose on
Saturday that made it necessary to call q
physician. The loss of so much blood
made the boy very weak but it is not
thought any serious results will follow.
The Lords Supper is to be celebrated in
the Church Of the Messiah next Sunday a.
4: 80 P. M, taking the place OF the usua
evening service. Rev. j. Edward Wright
is to preach in Middlesex at two in the af
ternoon upon "Church Entertainments"
The funeral of Mrs. Roxanns Tyler who
died on Sunday OF pneumonia at the home
of her son, W. M. McCarty, near BerliI
pond, was held at her late home this after
noon. She was seventy-two years of age
Interment was in cemetery at Berlin Corner
u. w. b0nnette ana vile nave purCnaset
OF G. W. Luce his barber shop in the Mile
block. Possession was given this morning
Mr.. Luce is contemplating a western tril
with a view to locating there Ernest Me
nard, his assistant, is at present undecided
sa to what he will do.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
} Union will meet Wednesday afternoon
, March s, with Mrs. j. N. Kibby, on Libert,
street. memorial service for Miss France
E. Willard will be held Each member /
, expected to be present, and others inter
> ested are cordially invited.
: A granite block weighing nine tons wa
{ hau ed through the street Saturday noon.
I was from quarry in Sodom and was take
to the sheds of Ryle & Mccormick. 1t
to be used as a second base for large MOI
, ument this firm is manufacturing. TIE
4 horses were required to haul it..
8 Denison Dewey, a member of the Unite
y States engineer corps stationed at Willett
o Point, Long Island, is at home on a 81
4 days leave of absence. He expects to b
: ordered to Porto Rico or Manila soon, {
4 take the place of some of the voluntee
8 forces now stationed there who are soon
i be relieved.
u Ambrose VOse of the firm of Vose & Con