The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-03-20
MONTPELIER And VICINITY.
LOOAL HAPPENINGS.

| @. N. Arms went to dinner at the Mont
pelier house on Sunday for the first time in |
six weeks.
Miss Florence Hill Is confined to the |
| house by q sprained knee sustained by slip |
| ping on the ice.
DR.. and Mrs. George May OF Newton Cen
| ter Mass, are the guests Of Hon. and Mrs. |
Hiram A. Huse.
Rev.lC. o. Judkins aud Rev. L. X. Will |
lisms of Waterbury will exchange next
| Sunday morning.
| A. W. Ferrin leaves today for New York. |
| From there he will go on several weeks |
business trip through the west.
Fred II. @, Thompson has taken the |
| agency of the Union Pacific Tea Company |
| OF Rutland and will canvass Montpelier |
| soon.
Rev. j. e. Wright has appointments to |
preach in the Morse school-house, East |
Montpelier, on March "a and April 81, at |
| 2:15 P. M.
At the meeting OF the Kings Daughters
held on Monday afternoon with Mrs. George |
Branerd, $40 was appropriated for chsrit- |
able work.
T. 7. Ranney has finished work as clerk |
in the Racquet store. AS yet he has no
plane as to what business he will engage in
in the future.
No services were held at the Evangelical
| church on Sunday. Rev. E. L. Hutchins,
the pastor, is in Boston attending the an
nual New England Conference.
The local lodge OF knights OF Pythias Is
to work the first and second rank upon Dr..
Grimes next Thursday evening. COLA
tion will be served following the work.
George H. Wilder offers prize Of gold
watch to the boy or girl who sells the largest
number of tickets for the symphony concert
to be given in Montpelier on Wednesday,
Eleven new members will be initiated
into Stannard lodge. New England Order
Of Protection on Thursday evening. A
banquet will follow the work Of the even
ing
Judge W. E. Barney of Barre was in town
today CLOSING up certain law cases, prepar-
story to his departure for Florida. He has
purchased an orange farm at Alvs, Fla, and
will 60 there to reside.
Local theatre goers will have two nights
OF Shakesperan plays this week. Edouard
D'Oize and his troupe will present The
Merchant of Venice" Friday night and
Hamlet" Saturday night.
The jury in the Gueiseppeni case attend
ed divine service at Trinity church Sunday
morning in charge OF Deputy Ben Gates
In the afternoon they attended the concert
at the rooms of the Apollo club.
James Coughlin, formerly of this city,
now with the army in the Philippines, as
been discharged from Company d, Forty
sixth volunteers, and is now member OF
the metropolitan police force at Manila.
! The Ladies Reading OF Bethany church
: will observe Red Letter Day at the home
of Mrs. II. s. Boardman on Wednesday
, evening from 1880 until ten o'clock. Not
!. Tuesday evening as given out on Sunday.
Mrs. Benjamin Roberts, wife OF the first
t violinist in Wilder's Orchestral club, re-
= ceved notice on Monday that she has won
800 by solving puzzle sent out by the
It Century Medicine Company of New York
o Edward e. Hills, a Montpelier contractor
and builder, has filed a voluntary petition
in insolvency. His unsecured liabilities
are said to he S945.14 and his assets S796.22
OF which S546 % is exempt, because OF debts
due.
, The Garnet Seal Circle will meet mex,
y Friday afternoon aU 220 O'Clock in the
. trustees room of the Kellogg-Hubbard
l. library. Magazine reading, March number,
"The Rivalry of Nations" and "a Reading
d Journey in the Orient"
u "St. Patrick's day in the morning" ws'
the bright, particular day OF the spring one
J. of the old type of March days that used tc
% be associated with copious flow Of sap be
!, fore these degenerate times of forest cater
Il pillars and.otf seasons generally.
I. Some idea Of the extent of the farmers
d trade in this city is gained by the canvass
~ made by onr OF the local merchants today
le in placing advertising matter in each visit
~ ing farmers team, There were 152 teams IL
town, which probably means 200 farmers.
u JAc'- HoSets has rec ived letter from e
8. Meigs in which he states On at he will sal
with bis regiment, the Forty sixth, from
Manila for San Francisco on the transport
Sherman, the first of April. He will prob
ably arrive in Montpelier early in May,
Mrs Charles Smith, aged seventy-fou
years, died at her home in Worcester OF
I'D sunday, after brief illness. A HUSBAND
OF survives her. The funeral was hell
~ from the house al ten o'clock ruesda!
is morning The burial was al Worcester
n Corner.
George Day OF Newport, who was al
=; rested for intoxication Saturday afternoo
Nv Nv by Chief DemerTit Pile ded guilty in cit
81 court Monday. He disclosed on some rive
u drivers he met at Braintree. He was fine
u. $13.l9 and not having the cash was give
eu ten days in jail.
20 Nearly every "Shriner" in Montpeie
te and man, from surrounding towns attenC
no cd the special conclave OF Mount Sint
he Temple held Friday evening in the Barr
NJ opera house. Twenty-Five candidates weI
conducted across the sands. At the bar
Ve quet which followed music was furnishe
OF by Wilder's orchestra.
en- The Universalist aud Unit aran mini
he ters of Washington county were entertsine
Tx ON Monday afternoon by Rev j. Edwar
d. Wright at his home on Baldwin stree
nd Among those present were Rev. Effie X.
it Jones Of Barre, Rev. A. M. Smith Of Was
ington, Rev. Francis Kimball OF Sout
Barre and Rev, Anna b. Add ich OF Ea
Montpelier.
James r. Dewey has just been appointe
lb- one OF the associate editors of the week
err paper published by the Worcester acal
270 emy. This appointment reflects cred
'he upon Mr.. Dewey's ability, as the seecuC
to is made after series of sharp competition
600 in the preparation Of original articles pu
ed lished in the paper, the choice being maC
ity from those whose work is superior
ne, A party I forty-seven Knights of ColuI
sen bus took in the excursion TO st. Johnsbu
Sunday attend the installation OF the {
ess hcers OF the council there. There we
IAN thirty-two Knights from Barre and flftei
ur- from this city. A most enjoyable trip is r
cid ported The second and third degrees we
lty- worked in addition to the installation. II
party arrived home at about eleven o'clo'
I'M, Sunday evening
~ill Rev. w. j. Oloues devoted part OF Il
uH Sunday evening service at the Bapti
III III church as a memorial to the prominel
, GU part taken by the late ex-President Har
s9u M son in Christian work. Mr.. Harrison W