The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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guest at the Pavilion.
L. f. Terrill of Jericho was the guest of
W, e. Terrill, his son, today.
A daughter was born Monday afternoon
to Mr.. and Mrs. II. A. Rowland.
Mrs. Aaron w. Perry formerly Miss Car
rie Clark a former resident of Montpelier,
Is renewing old acquaintances In the city.
A car load of steel material for the
Charles street bridge arrived today and the
work of putting it in place is to be begun
soon
Ladies' Aid Society will hold strawberry
festival at the East Villsge hall Friday
evening, June 49, All cordially invited.
Ladies' please bring cake.
Mrs. Frederick j. Prentiss and Frederick
c., her son. of New York, and Miss Jessie
Hurd, of Pittsburg, Pa, are guests at the
Pavilion.
Mrs. Andrew Sprague and infant son,
who have been visiting relatives In town
for few weeks, returned to their home in
Chelsea today.
The first Mckinley and Roosevelt flag to
be thrown to the breeze in Montpelier was
unfurled Tuesday by a. W. Kemp at his
residence on School street.
DR.. S. d. Pemberton of Kirksville, Mo-,
who is TO have charge OF DIR. e. e. Bee
mans practice while he Is absent in Eu-
rope, has arrived in town.
The excursion on Lake Champlsin Mon
day run under the auspices OF Barre Lodge,
New England Order OF Protection, carried
100 from Barre and 30 from Montpelier.
j. P. Adams, w. W. Brock, R. B. Denny
and Fred B. Shepard Of Cleveland, o, left
this morning for tour OF Lake George,
Saratoga and the Hudson river to New
York.
Several Montpelier people are intending
to 60 on the excursion to Halifax, N. s.
July 4, where the annual meeting OF the
National Institute of Instruction are to be
held next week.
Mason S. Stone went to Boston Monday to
attend to the preliminary arrangements for
the Halifax meeting. He will deliver an
address before the Salem Normal school
Wednesday evening.
7. j. Kelleher b 3 been appointed by the
probate court as &C .ninistrator OF the estate
Of the late p. r. Kennedy, and f. P. Carle-
ton and T. e. Callahan have been appoint
| ed commissioners.
While Felix N. Cloukie was running
| buzz planer at the Lane Manufacturing
Company's shops Saturday afternoon he
lost the end Of one finger and lacerated
others by running them accidently upon the
planer knives.
1t is estimated that from 1000 to 1900
people attended the opening of the miner
theatre at Dewey park Monday evening
aud the vaudeville entertainment given Is
reported as being one Of the best seen in
| this vicinity.
Mrs. j. W. Snow with Miss Bessie, her
! daughter, who has been the guest OF Mrs.
| M. L. Beardsley, her daughter, for some
weeks, left Monday for her home in Ohio.
They were accompanied as far as Buffalo.
N. Y, by MIR. Beardsley.
Mayor Brown has received q communi-
cation from the Groton Bridge Company
announcing that the bulk OF the steel work
for the Charles street bridge has been COM
pleted and that q shipment Of the same is
now on the way to this city.
Capt. H. Q. Lull the liquor agent, did not
wait until the time limit set forth in the
demand OF the Little Three" but he secur-
ed and had in his custody all the books Of
the agency used during his term of office
by Saturday evening, and the trio is graft
fed.
John Holland and Patrick McCarty, who
have been in Jail since May 28 for giving an
unsatisfactory disclosure when prosecuted
and convicted of being drunk, we're brought
into court Saturday and disclosure accept
ed. They were fined, with costs, $26 81
each, in default Of which they were commit
ted to Jail for ten days
A section man in the employ of the Cen
tral Vermont road named Gross, while al
work on Monday near Bolton laying the
dent. One Of the rails fell upon his left leg
crushing one of the bones Just above the
ankle. He was brought to this city on the
White Mountain express and taken to the
Heaton hospital for treatment.
Henry Cham mberlain, the veteran Centra
Vermont conductor, Is again in charge OF
the White M ountan train between Burling
ton and Montpelier. With hair as dark
and step az elastic as young man, MIR
! Chamberlain has evidently discovered the
secret of perpetual youth, while hundreds o
his associates OF fifty years or more ago have
grown old and decrept in the service Of the
, road and have rested from their labors
: The Central Vermont Railway compan.
. is to replace the wooden bridges between
: this city and Montpelier junction will
steel structures this summer, after which, l
8 is reported, the regular passenger trains OF
the main line will be run into this city Il
. leave and take on passengers and tn
!, branch train will only be operated between
! this city and Barre and Williamstown. 1
.. similar change has been made already a
3 Burlington. The train leaving here a
u 10:16 A. M now runs through to Burlington
U instead of st. Albans as formerly and
a through car for St. Albans is cut off at Esse
l. Junction.
= The loss of part of the power at Bolto
- Falls last evening was because the canal a
the north end OF the dam, made for the pur
pose Of keeping the water down 80 worl
can be prosecuted on the dam, and IN
amount of water drawn by the wheels DIRE,
down the head 80 part of the power wa
d lost The dam is now 80 nearly complete
d that the canal will be stopped Today pre-
Ia venting the loss of power again. Becaus
10 OF this the late trips on the electrics wer
= cancelled and the cars we're taken to tn
% barn on storage power.
10 Ernest Jacobsen. the florist, left Tuesda
ID night for New York, and will sail Thur,
10 day on the Fuerst Bismark, OF the Han
IF burgh-American line. for two month";
n visit with his relatives in Hamburg. M
is Jacobsen came from New York to Mon
d pelier in 1894 He worked for Captain Pc
is civsl and subsequently for Mr. Draper,
N the florist business and in 1898 bought oil
" the latter. He has been successful in bus
ness. His friends here wish him a plea
ID ant visit 10 the "Fatherland" and safe r
ie turn, He leaves his business, during h
q, absence, in charge OF John III. Cox Of Bo
IL ton.
~; The representatives OF Washington coul
III ty bar who attended Judge Thompsons 4
neral ~ Irasburg Sunday afternoon, r
turned Monday noon. They drove 10 Mort
Craftsbury Saturday evening, reaohiI
there at nine o'clock, and drove back
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