The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-09-12
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Lane.
Senator-elect II. E. Brown and wife o
| Burlington have taken rooms at the Mont
pelier House for the session.
Prof. j, A. DeBoer has gone to Buffalo
N. Y, for brief stay in the interests Of the
National Life Insurance Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Artemus Kilburn OF Phila
delphia are visiting Mrs. w. e. Terrill and
other relatives in town for few days.
The grand jury is working industrously
hoping to be able to report to Judge Rowell
by the latter part Cf this week.
The steam roller is stalled at the lower
end of State street awaiting repairs to its
steering apparatus which was injured on
Monday
r. VI. Harvey went to Wells River today
to act AZ counsel at the preliminary hearing
OF Burns Nelson, who was arrested Satur-
day on the charge of shooting Charles Bos-
took.
Claire Templeton of Worcester has &C.
cepted position as clerk in the store OF d.
L. Donnelly and is to begin his duties in a
few days.
Mr. and Mrs. #. j. McCuen leave this
evening for week or ten days visit in
New York They will stop eff at Saratoga
for a few days.
Theron II. Cotton has returned from a
five weeks business trip through the south
featuring Company.
G. II. Baldwin is to have cabinet and
glass work fixture constructed for the show
window of his jewelry store, and 1t will be
the handiwork of Robert Suitor.
A meeting of Montpelier Council, Knights
of Colum bus, will De held Wednesday
evening when the second degree will be
worked upon seven candidates.
Landlord Adams of the Adams Hotel has
already booked dozen or more members
Of thu incoming Legislature, and other ep'
plications are coming in daily.
Harold Cummings, while playing foot
ball on the Union school grounds Saturday
grounds, collded with another player and
sustained a fractured collar bone.
Chester Wright returned from New York
Saturday evening. He will remain at the
home of Rev. j. Edward Wright, his father,
until he returns to Harvard college.
Joseph E. Almon went to Poultney Tues
day to demonstrate the workings Of his pat
ent rimmer at the fourteen quarries operat-
ed by the Poultney Consolidated Slate Com
pany.
s. S. Ballard returned Saturday from
his four weeks European trip. He says he
enjoyed his tour immensely and especially
the side lights of the exposition in gay
Paree"
At business meeting of Volunteer hose
company on Friday evening, Frank ID.
Dewey was elected a delegate to he annual
convention of the Vermont State Firemen's
association to be held at Rutland next
week
Mrs. Charles r. Tyler and little son of
Burlington, who came to this city on Thurs
day TO bury Mr.. Tyler, are seriously i'll at
the home of /. III. 2. Rowell with bloody
dysentery.
The Ladies' Union connected with the
Spirtuaist Association will meet with Mrs.
Eliza Turner Wednesday, afternoon at two
O'Clock to arrange for sale, and to trans
act other business.
The Methodist Ladies' Aid Society will
hold business meeting Wednesday after
noon at three O'Clock at the home of Mrs
A. T. Hartwel on Barre street. A full at
tendance is earnestly requested
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi H. Bixby celebrated
on Monday evening the tenth anniversary
of their marriage by inviting "the Barre
street girls" to tea. 1t wss very pleas
ant occasion for all who participated.
Mrs. Abbe French of Barre, we'll known
in this city, who is at present visiting in
Cambridge, Mass, was the victim of a
pickpocket Monday. The thief secured her
purse which contained over $50 in money.
A. G. Stone has opened his new jew
elry store in the Heaton block on State
street. The modern fittings in which is
shown fine display of goods go to make
one of the finest stores of the kind in the
state.
Rev. w. j. Cloues, Mrs. L. T. Morse, Mrs
Eliza Crossett and Mrs. A. p. Hibbard left
today to attend the annual meeting of the
Vermont Central Baptist Association which
opened at Groton tuesday and continues
through Wednesday.
j. M. Donahue has made for himself
a reputation as fair and impartial ref
cree of wrestling and sparring matches
He goes on Wednesday to Berlin, N. HI to
referee two sparring matches, one of the
contestants being Powers, who appeared in
bouts here.
A drunken row in the neighborhood Of
the Charles street bridge Monday evening
gave rise to the report this morning that
John Fox had been drowned. Investiga-
tion showed the story to be myth, as Fox
was found at work as usual this morning
at the granite sheds of Dillon & Haley.
The many friends in the city of Miss
Florence e. Barber, who is at present fol-
lowing her vocation as trained nurse with
headquarters at the Howard Relief at Bur-
lington, will be pleased to learn that she
has fully recovered from her tedious illness
from typhoid fever and Is now attending a
case at Windsor.
BY mutual consent j. Il. Leland and Z.
S. Sawyer have dissolved partnership in the
Mr.. Sawyer retains the electrical part of
the business in the old store in Hyde block,
while Mr.. Leland has moved the other fea-
lures OF the business TO his new store at "a
Main street.
The Jeremiah Deadly farm at Montpelier
Junction has been sold to Henry f. Mat
thews of Wilton, N. H., through the Real
Estate Agenay OF M. W. Wheelock. Among
recent transactions through this agency was
the sale of the X. s. Bickford farm in Waits
field, and the William Luther farm in
Northheld.
w. T. Dewey is enjoying two weeks
vacation from his duties az treasurer OF the
Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
He left on the early morning train today
for Worcester, Mass. He was accompanied
by James f., his son, and Nelson Peck
who are to enter the Worcester Academy
| this fall
A general committee and subcommittee
have been appointed by M Montpelier Coun'
Gil, Knights OF Columbus, to arrange fol-
holding Catholic fair in Armory hall dur
ing the first week in October. 1t is plan
ned to make this fair one OF the most inter
esting and attractive ever held by the Gath
olics of this city.
The annual convention of the Vermont