The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-08-28
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

dence on Cliff street.
r. G. Bowers and family and Miss Claire
Carpenter are occupying @. A. Bostwick'S
cottage at Cedar Beach,
D. H. Dodge has sold through A. j.
Howe's real estate agency house and lot
on Cliff street to e. h. Plaisted for 81, AGO.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Il. Terrll were sum
moned to Jericho on Thursday evening by
the serious illness Of MIR. Terrill's mother.
Mrs. w. B. Worthing returned Wednes-
day evening from six weeks visit in the
West, including the Pan-American Expo
sition.
Miss Minnie Clarke, teacher OF china
painting from near Boston, arrived at Mrs
A. o. Cummins' on Wednesday. She will
remain until September T.
CO. Barrett Is making several needed
improvements at his cider mill up Worces-
ter branch tGat will greatly tighten the
labor OF the farmer patrons.
John Dobbs, the Pavilion porter, has sold
his horse to Orvile Dewey for $50. Mr..
Dewey has sent the horse he has 30 long
used on his truck team to its long rest, well
earned
The announcement OF the birth OF
daughter on Thursday to Mr.. and Mrs. G:
Z. Wilson Of Chicago has been received
here by Mr.. and Mrs. G. l.. Smith, parents
OF Mrs. Wilson.
MIS-. harrlbJ 5aVhru OF OrOWu IOlutj Ne
Y, has announced the approaching mar
risge OF Miss Louise Savard, her daughter
and Ed, t. Seguin which will occur at her
ZONE early in September.
At regular meeting Of the local council
OF the knights of Columbus on Wednesday
evening, p. II. Ryan was elected Grand
Knight to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation Of +. j. Driscoll.
G. H. Wilder has written a two step en-
Il l.nl. 10 nnth To
be the best h has ever composed. The
piece is in press and the title page will be
illustrated with Gibson golf girl.
George II. Wilder has secured copy OF
the song, Cupid Night Have Been a
Coon" taken from the musical comedy,
1.-THE Explorers" written by Bert H. Tsy-
lor and which has met with great success in
Chicago.
G. II. Wilder is to open a branch music
store at ST. Adams on September under
the management OF Il. A. Brush. Mr.,
Wilder will go there on September / to re-
main week in order TO get the business
under way.
j. A. DeBoer and DR.. A. B. Bisbee went
on Tuesday evening to Buffalo TO attend
the first annual meeting OF the Agents As
ISOLATION of the National Life Insurance
Company, to be held at Hotel Niagara in
that city today and Thursday.
MIS-, hllZh Waterman Tlublu anu uol buu
DR.. George Fiheld, OF Evansville, Wis, who
have been visiting relatives in the city, left
for Burlington Wednesday. MIR. Fitield
lived in this city forty years ago and resided
on Elm street opposite the Hiram Atkins
residence.
Edwin r. Bruce OF Barre is to be director
the coming season OF Wilder's Orchestral
Club and Fred Whittier will play first vio-
lin. The club with nine pieces will open
the season of 1901 ? by giving two concerts
at FrancOnia Inn in the White Mountains
on September go and 80.
In the September number of the Arg0Sy
Harle Oren Cummins has story entitled,
Martin Bradley's Space Annihilstor." II
is a tragic tale OF marvellous invention
and of how the world came &c lose man
who would eclipse Edison in power and
the Vsnderbits in wealth.
BENJAMIN Gates, the efficient and accom-
modsting county clerk, leaves about Sep
TENDER /, for Ann Arbor, Mich, where he
is to enter the law university. His place in
the county clerks Office will be taken by
Stanley g. Wilson, law student in the Office
OF Dillingham;, Huse q Rowland.
Henry Carr OF Barre aud Miss Msud L.
Cushman, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs 8. d.
Cushman OF this city, were married on
Monday evening at the home of the groom
in Barre, Rev. Effie X. Jones OF that city
performing the ceremony. The groom is
employed in Barre as a granite cutter and
the couple will make their home there.
The Boston Morning Journal OF Wednesi
day contained a double column portrait o.
twenty-three years old Willard M. Hutch
inson and his eighty years old bride who
are reunited after twelve months separ'
alton. They are to take house on Fifth
avenue, New York city. 1t is said Willard's
theatrical company is booked to appear in
this city during the coming season.
Fred Whittier of this city, who is to be
one OF the first volinists in Wilder's Or
chestral club the coming season, has made
such rapid progress in his studies at Beth
lehem during the summer that he is now
playing first violin with the Maplewood
orchestra with such artists as Franz Esser
first violinist Of Theodore Thomas orches
ira of Chicago, and Leoher, the celebrated
celist of the Boston symphony orchestra.
Notice has been received by the creditors
OF Walter NJ. Ordway that he became q
bankrupt in Manchester, n. H., on August
s. No statement as TO his assets or lab II
ties is given but the first meeting OF credi'
tors is called for August 80. Mr.. Ordway
was formerly the head OF collection
agency in this city, with rooms in the Law.
renee building, but Of late has been doing
business at Brattleboro and Manchester,
Mrs. Mary P. Pickering aged seventy.
eight years, widow OF the late commodore
G. W. Whipple Pickering, U, 8. N, whose
death occurred on August 16at the Rocking
ham hotel, Portsmouth, N. H., was an aunt
OF G. II. Heston OF this city, being a sister
OF the late Mrs. Homer W. Heston. Mrs.
Pickering will be pleasantly remembered by
many of the older residents OF this city who
formed her acquaintance during her visits
here.
A carpenter named Jacobs, who boards
with Herbert A. Slsyton at 6 Whittier
street, and who has been employed on the
new school building at Barre, is suffering
from painful wound. He was In Barre or
Wednesday doing the italian quarter wher
he was done by an Italian with knife
He returned home in the evening with 6
cash, three inches long and about as deep
cut in the feshy part OF his left hip. He
says he does not know who stabbed him.
The members of the Themas club were
pleasantly entertained from one to FIVE
O'Clock Wednesday by Mrs. @. ii. More
and Miss Ella Bailey who gave them pic
mic in Langdon grove. Queen Olga, the
witch Of Wall street" pitched her tent in
the grove at the request Of the hostesset