The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-15
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOOAL HAPPENINGS.

Mrs. N. @. Tabor has returned from Cali
| fornia, where she passed the winter.
o.. X. Keith of Chicago is the guest of
Mrs. Roxsna Dodge for a few weeks.
| Rev. G. W. Hunt of st. Johnsbury will
address union temperance meeting to be
held at the Church OF the Messiah next Sum-
day evening.
V. l.. Slayton, ID. l.. Sanders, +. e. Grout
and w. IT, Waterman are attending the
annual sessions OF the Grand Lodge and
encampment, L. o. o. F., being held at
Bradford.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Wednesday afternoon at
half-past two o'clock with Miss Amy B.
Fisk. kindergarten work and unfinished
business will constitute the program.
M. II. Farrer has been engaged as caterer
for the State convention, Foresters of Amer
lea, 20 be held at Montpelier on Thursday,
May 16. Daniel Hayes is delegate from
Court Ethan Allen to the State convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Poole left Tuesday to
attend the annual meeting of the Grand
Lodge and Grand encempment of Odd Fell
lows at Bradford. Earl r. Greene is in
charge Of Mr.. Poole's store in the mean
time,
The engagement OF A. G. Booth, mana
ger of the Henderson Drug Company of
Burlington, and Miss Emma Harkness OF
that city, has been announced. Miss Hark-
this city
T. Menard, Mitchell Menard, Paul Ter
riault, g. N. White and g. Courel have
been appointed a committee from the st.
Jean de Baptist society to arrange for cell
ebration on st. Johns Day, which falls on
Monday, June a.
Fred L. Gray, for several years travelling
salesman for the Flsnders-Pierce Company
Of this city, severed his connection with
that concern Satu day, and is to take q
similar position with Wholesale saddlery
house in Boston.
James Kelly, aged sixty-eight, who re-
sides on Court street, has been suffering
from gsngrene in the right leg. The leg
was amputated on Friday below the knee,
and today the patient is as comfortable as
could be expected.
Something must be wrong with the filter
at the reservoir at Berlin pond, for a water
pipe, which had become clngged at the Pa
vilion, was found to contain q good sized
| frog. A snake was also exuded from a wa
! ter pipe at John O'Grady's house.
The annual meeting OF the Ladies Aid
Society connected with Trinity church v i'll
| be held Wednesday afternoon at three
o'clock with Mrs. Amos p. Hartwel on
Barre street Officers for the ensuing year
are TO be elected and full attendance is
desired.
Letters are advanced at the post office
today for the following parties: e. e.
Bailey, George A. Hill, @. f. Lenard, w.
e. Nichols, Phoenix Mfg. Co., s. Ran
dolph, Mrs. Matilda Bssconar, Mrs. j. e.
Celley, Mrs. 7. Cleminger, Miss Barbara
G. Livingston, Carrie Well.
Tie twenty-second birthday OF NJ. X.
Wheeler occurred Saturday and on that
evening Mr.. and Mrs. E. K. Davis cele-
brated the event by giving Mr.. Wheeler a
pleasant surprise party at their home at 159
Berlin street. About twenty-five guests
were present and the evening was enjoya-
bly, spent in cards. Refreshments were
served.
Patch & Company are placing a derrick
at the granite works of Ryle 81 Mccormick
for the purpose OF making it more conveu-
lent to load and unload granite from the
cars. While at work on this derrick Fri
day afternoon, Charles Lawrence sustained
painful accident. The middle finger OF
his right hand was caught in the mechanism
and the end badly crushed.
The Montpelier bookstore was sold at
auction on Monday as advertised, by M.
A. Kent, auctioneer. A. j. Howe pur-
chased the stock, as the highest bidder, for
$3.50, William Rivers being the second high
est bidder, at $640. Mr. Howe bought the
store for w. A. Rice Of Nashua, N. H, who
will open the store at once and close out
the stock at retail under the management
Of NJ. Ii. Rice, his brother.
Fred W. Frink. the barber, was instantly
killed Saturday afternoon at Angola, N. Y,
by falling through railway trestle. Mr..
Frink was taking horse to Titusville, Pa,
for j. M. Boutwell,. At Angola the freight
train on which he was riding stopped to
take water. The car containing the horse
and Mr.. Frink stopped over a high trestle.
1t is supposed he stepped from the car and
fell to the rocks below. j. Il. Tuttle went
to Angola and brought the body to Mont
peler.
70 ba aIO Iaot MIN ~
DIR. g. W. Jacobs of Richmond and Della
f., wife OF Senator Rufus e. Brown of Bur
lington, was seen in Chittenden county
court on Friday, when both Senator Brown
and Mrs. Jacobs were granted divorces on
the ground OF adultery. In the Jacobs case
hearing was held upon the question of
almony, and the interest OF Dr. Jacobs ia
the place at Richmond WIS decreed to Mrs.
Jacobs. Charles Jacobs, who has claim
against his brother, the doctor, appeared in
support of that claim.
The Pastime team returned on Saturday
from the bowling tournament at Rutland.
The members loudly praise the royal hospi-
| tality extended to them by the Rutland
team, every court sy being extended to
hem, The Rutland team won the frat
prize and the Pastlmes stood second and the
Sandy Hill team third. The indivdd al
prize was brought home by the Pastimes,
| Henry Alexander winning it. The prize is
a beautiful silver loving cup eleven inches
high and OF special bowling design.
Mention was made in the DAILY JOUR.
NAL recently of change in the running OF
mail trains on the lower roads which, II ex-
tended to the Central Vermont, would bring
the afternoon mail into Montpelier about
two O'clock This change, we understand,
has been effected with reference to the low
or roads and the Passumpsc division Of the
| Boston ~ Maine. Postmaster Shedd has ap
piled to Mr.. Ryan OF Boston, superintend-
ent Of mails for this division, TO have the
same change extended to the Central YER
mont line, II arrangements can be made for
a corresponding change in tho time OF run
ming OF the trains, matter that is under
| consideration.
PERRY'S AGENCY,