The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-02
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
EOOAL HAPPENINGS.


James F. Dewey went M ndsy to Lowell,
Mass, W here he is to enter three years
course in the Lowell Textile School.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. T. Seguin returned to-
day from their wedding trip and are in
stalled at their new home on Elm street.
Misses A ice and Lottie Dodge, who are
teaching in Plainfeld, spent Sunday with
their grandmother, Mrs. Theodore Dodge.
e. d. Blackwell OF Brandon was in town
over Sunday. He is packing his household
goods and expects to move his family to
Brandon next Saturday.
Mrs. e. A, Mutt went Monday to Guildbsll
to report the October term Of Essex Coun-
ty court which convenes on Tuesday.
Chief Judge r. s. Taft presiding.
M. A. Kent sold at auction last Saturday
the property OF Sarah Noroross OF Eat
Montpelier. Mr.. Kent is at Elmore today
to sell the property Of Edwin James.
Ralph Phillips, who has been employed
in the Office OF the r. O Bowers Granite
Company as scale craftsman, is now in the
employ Of the Columbian Granite Company.
At the Valley fair in Brsttleboro this
week Herman ID. Hopkins won two first,
two second and one third prize on six en-
entries OF high class white Plymouth Rocks.
The regular monthly meeting Of the La
dies Aid Association OF the Heaton hospital
will be held at the residence OF Mrs. Q. IL.
Heaton on Wednesday afternoon at two
o'clock. Work.
Mrs. Adsline Bullock, widow Of the late
Calvin l.. Bullock, is very low at her home
on Winter street. Mrs. Bullock is eighty
years old and has lived in Montpelier forty
seven years.
d. Melville Muzzey, for the past thirty
five years an engineer on the Central Yer
mont branch line, has finished work on the
road anu is soon to go to Cleveland, Ohio,
to reside with his sons.
Rev. ]. j. Lewis of Chicago, whose illus.
trated lectures are household axiom in
this section, says he is to again locate in
Vermont and will soon take up his resi-
dence at Burlington.
James Bass wood OF Northfield was lodged
in Jail Monday afternoon by Chief Of Police
Hutchinson Of that town. He Is serving q
sentence Of ten days for intoxication in lieu
OF payment of the usual fine.
| Next Sunday at all the churches in the
city will be observed rs Hospital Sunday.
Services will be preached along the lines OF
hospital work, and collections in aid of
Heaton hospital will be taken.
The repairs on j. Q. Taplin's block which
are to be commenced within few days
will not interfere with the occupant, w. E..
| Poole. He will keep things moving just the
same and do business all the while.
Chas. Fl. More & Co. have contracts
enough ahead ready to keep their prese MT
force and an additional gang OF cutters
busy until spring. They are putting on
new men as fest as they can get them.
Thomas Stanton, who was injured in a
| fall from building at Berwick, Me-, re-
Gently, is now able to be about on crutches.
1t wPs at first thought Mr.. Stanton would
be crippled for life, but happily this is not
the case.
City Sheriff Bancroft was called to North
field on Friday afternoon to attend the tu-
neral of, Stephen Thomas, his uncle Mr..
Thomas was seventy-four years old, and his
death was caused from apoplexy. A wife
and son survive.
The bright September sunlight and the
banks of blazing color over on Nicholss
hill makes combination Of glory that has
its compensations for the seeson that is
suggestive Of coming frost, snow and
lengthening gloom.
Mrs. g. M. York will remain in Montpel
ier until Dec. l, and will continue to do CHR
opodist work at her rooms in the Adams
House until then. Anyone wishing super
tlous hair removed will do well to call before
she leaves the city.
Miss Minnie Straight of Vslcour, N. Y.
and Mrs. S. II. Barnes Of New York city
were guests of MI and Mrs. II, b. Taplin
today while on their way home from vis
to the White Mountains. Miss Straight is {
cousin of Mrs. Taplin.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Brown returned
Tuesday from Littleion, n. H., where they
were called to attend the burial of Mrs
Browns grandmother, who died at Spring
field lest Friday. The deceased was the
mother Of the late 8. @. Woolson.
Frances, the six-yesrs .old daughter o
Mr.. and Mrs. D. P. KERN, is suffering from
fractured collar bone. The child fell from
piazza last Friday but as 1t made no seri
GUS complaint until Sunday the nature O
its injuries was not discovered until then.
) Fred Downing OF Northfield was com
mitted to the State Hospital for the Insan
at Waterbury on Monday. Mr.. Downing
was for many years in the employ OF K. X
Skinner in this city, and later has kept
store for the sale IF antique furniture IL
Ncrthtield.
The regular monthly meeting OF the
State board of railrord commissioners we
held Tuesday afternoon at the State House
Col III. 8. Bingham of Burlington, and
Nj. Harvey, clerk, were the only member
of the board present. Only routine bust
ness YVES transacted.
3 The local Masonic hall is to be draped il
: mourning for period of thirty days out G
respect to the late President Mckinley
,, The draping will be done under the auspice
OF Mt. Zion Commandery. President Nc
Kinley was the commander OF a command
> cry at Canton, Ohio.
, The Supreme Chancellor OF the Knight
i of Pythias for the United States has ordere
. all lodge room charters drsped for thirt
5 days in honor OF William Mckinley, VIII
8 was a member OF q lodge in Canton, Ohio
In accordance with this order the charter {
Montpelier lodge has been appropriated
draped
The annual meeting of the Montpelie
, Educational and Benevolent Associatio
u is announced for October 4 at 1880 P. M, 6
l. the office OF j. III. Lucia, but it will prol
!, ally be adjourned, without the transactio
u OF business, to Friday evening, October l
:; at the conference room OF the Church of th
u Messiah.
/. j. M. Boutwepls horse, The Maid, whic
- tripped and hurt itself recently on I'll
n home stretch in Hartford, Conn.,, and whic
r. has been In Mr.. Boutwell's stable here fC
a. the past three weeks has fully recovered
ia This horse is celebrated for being the chl n
a pon four-yeaI-old five and eight heat rac'
n in the world.
1t Miss Anna Burke, aged twenty-six year
: died on Monday afternoon at the home
q Mrs. Katherine Burke, Of AZ Court stree