The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12
sONTPE..lE and VICINITY.
COO1L HAPPENINGS.


visit in New York, buying Christmas goods.
Mildred. the little daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. T. Il. Merrill, is i'll from scarlet fever.
Bruce Mcdonald was at Warren on Sun
| day to attend the funeral OF Miss Mabel
! Stoddard.
Mrs. Charles Reed is to close her resi-
! denCe on State street and take rooms at the
| Pavilion for the winter.
Miss Adelaide L. .Grlswold left Mondayfor
! Pensacola, Fla, where she is to remain
during the winter.
j. w. Csustic has been appointed Deputy
Grand Chancellor Of the Montpelier Lodge
Knights OF Py thas
Leo Gsuthier, formerly with the Temple
| McCuen Company, has taken position at
the Capital Clothing store.
The Garnet Seal circle will meet next
| Friday afternoon at half past two In the
trustees room Of the Kellogg-Hubbard
! library.
Mrs NJ. #. Atkins returned Friday even
! ing from Brooklyn, N. Y, where she has
been visiting st her former home for six
| weeks
The regular monthly business meeting of
| the Volunteer Hose company was held on
Friday evening, but only routine matters
! were considered.
Mrs. Harry Lowe and little son, with
Mrs. j. Warren Bailey and Miss Ella Bailey
left on Monday for New York city to remain
during the winter.
Henry L. e. Smith leaves Friday for
Jacksonville Fla where he will take his
old position as cashier at the Ponce de Leon
hotel for the winter.
The next number in the Star entertain
ment course will be a lecture on Friday
evening, December IA, by Ebert Hubbard
chief OF the Roycrofters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dayton Jones went on Fri
| day TO New York, where Mr.. Jones is to be
| treated by specialist, They were accom-
panied by II j. NJ. Jones
At the drawing of the oil paintings for
| the benefit OF Miss Spaulding, the fruit pic
! ture was drawn by Miss Spaulding and the
landscape scene by e. j. Bailey.
James Ford, billing clerk for the Mont
pelier and Wells River railroad, left Satur-
day night for a two weeks visit in Chicago,
| st. Paul and other western points.
j. Med. Stewart, special pension examin-
er, moved his family Saturday from Angus
ia, Me, to this city. He has taken rooms
with Mrs. I. G. Vail on School street.
Pecue Brothers, who operate a stone shed
near the Taylor street bridge, have put in
polishing plant with electric power, which
they started for the first time yesterday.
Mrs. Jessie Booth has been obliged to
give up her duties as teacher in the Union
school for time because Of continued i'll
health and has gone to her home in Bellows
Falls
Mrs. Lillian Griffin is employed at the
Montpelier Bookstore as clerk during the
holidays as are Mrs. Kate Blackwell and
Mamie Malone at the Temple McCuen Com
pany store.
T. J.. Esgan has purchased of A. Shambo
pair OF work horses. The consideration
is said TO be $3.50. Mr.. Eagsn sent the
horses toWarren Tdesdaywhere he has 1000
logs to draw to mill.
rbo ~ a4t ba hxy fba
Montpelier orchestra On Friday deserves
special mention. Including the piano there
were nine pieces and the company execut-
ed it's program in an artistic manner.
Because of the new Odd Fellows hall
not being completed, the institution OF
lodge No. 81, which was to have been held
Tuesday evening of this week, has been
postponed until some time next week
The Montpelier Military Band and Com
pany III will give another concert and
dance in Armory hall on Thursday even
ing. The band will give concert from
eight TO nine, and dancing until eleven
O'Clock will follow.
Alderman Kent, the veteran auctioneer,
: held the largest sale in given time in his
7 experience on Haymarket Square Satur-
day afternoon when he sold slelghs, horses
3 and harnesses aud minor articles right and
8 left at good prices. This indicates the pres
ence OF prosperity.
| mrs. II. Na0ubTbg DrbSlubuU VI IHt
= State Rebekah assembly, left yesterday fol
White River Junction. She will attend {
district meeting at Proctorsville on Wed
nesday and will visit the Rebekah lodge a
Windsor and the Odd Fellows home a
Ludlow during her absence.
n Northern Vermont felt yesterday tn,
: first real grip Of winter. AT sunrise th
4 temperature varied in different parts of thu
= city from twelve TO sixteen degrees below
zero, while Barre reported twenty below
:, Last night was the first severe night OF th
= winter, and, coming so early in the season
y Carroll G. King, son OF Hon. Clark Kin
2 of this city, was recently elected alder
man from ward of the city of Brockton
Mass. MIR. King is rising young lawye
OF that city, His election as "cty father
is deserved recognition of his ability an
worth, which is very gratifying to his Mon
il pelier friends
y The funeral OF Edward g. Sawyer wa
i held from the house Sunday afternoon
~ Rev. Norman Seaver officiating Tue beal
70 ers were James and Norman Sawyer of thi
u city, brothers, and Winnie and Homer Bal
10 or Of Fitchburg, Mass, brothers-in-lsw
= the deceased. Burial WAS in the famil
burying ground in West Berlin.
The holiday season is upon us and ou
readers are interested in everything pc
tanning to the season, We would call the
attention TO a new departure in the adve
tising line on this occasion In the way of
CnrlbbInAs column 10 Do lOunu ON th6 tnlr
page in which several advertisers announC
s. their specislties for the holiday trade.
Id The statement has been going the rou q
as OF the press that the case Of State againl
Frank Miller, for murder, will be tie
a, when Washington county court reconvent
III December Is. This report is not true. III
as murder case in question is set for trial o
AZ Tuesday, January l next, and wituesst
have been summoned for that time. IL
thought the trial will not take more than
DO week or ten days.
st Alderman M. A. Kent has in his posse
h. sion warming pan that Is supposed
"A have once been the property OF Gen. Pa
w Icy Davis OF East Montpelier Center.
III was found in the house by &c. W, 0rmsbt
8. many years after the death OF Gen. Davi
M and is probably more than hundred yea
old. This reminder of bygone years can /
seen at Alderman Kents store ON Sta
)h street.
in The local Young Mems Christian ASS
to citation IL making an earnest eff rt to clio,
the year free from all indebtedness I
that end they today sent out over 200 pc
II; sonal appeals for contributions of sma
IN una Ia n m a 1aHoiannv nf OH