The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-29
Montpelier and Vicinity.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Bemis Phelps of Marshfield was in
town, this morning, on business.
Hon. and Mrs G. II. Stearns of
johnson are guests of w. f.. Ranger.
Mrs W. b. Mayo of Mortified is
the guest of her husband, Senator
Mayo.
Mist Lottie Mcclellan has gone to
her home in Wolcott, called there by
the death of her mother
Harry Harvey, who has been work
ing in this city for some time, has re-
turned home to Waterbury.
The concreters finished work in the
CITY on Tuesday for this season and
have gone to Franklin, N H.
Robert T. Phinney has qualified in
his examinations for Appointment as
second lieutenant in the regular
army. -.,,Y
Madame Grover, Mrs. Charles Gro
yer and Miss Annie Newcomb of
Portland, Me-, are guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel Emery.
Felix Seguin, who has been visiting
relatives in town, left on Thursday
for Willett's Point, \. Y, to join his
company at Fort Totem.
Mrs Everett Kiugsbury and child
of Windham are with Mr. Kingsbury
at No. 3 Cliff street, as is also Mrs
B. M. Newton of Reading.
The school board held brief bust
ness meeting on Tuesday evening
when a requisitiop upon the Ecity
council fo- $4,000 was voted
Laura f. Folsom and Dennis O. Fol
som of Marshtield have sold to Charles
II. Pike of Marshfield the premises at
II Kent street in this city for 81, 400.
The Union printers employed at the
office of the Union Gard Company
went out on strike Thursday, refusing
to do the work which the company had
taken from the Argus office.
G.. + Demeritt is moving to the G.
L Parmenter farm in East Montpe-
lier and Mr.. Parmenter is moving to
Mr.. Demeritt's residence on Vine
street. They exchanged properties
a short time since.
The Central Vermont railway has
issued a local folder showing the time
of trains to and from Montpelier
during session of the Legisl ature.
Copies of same may be obtained at
ticket office in this city.
Twenty-Five applications have thus
far been filed for the privilege Of TAX
ing the bar examinations, which begin
on Oct 2S The examinations will
take place this year at the county
court rooms.
Evelyn, the -years-old daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Friend, of 4
School street fell upon the School
street bridge on Tuesday evening,
while going to meet her father and
fractured the bone Of her left elbow.
Mrs W. H. Moore, Mrs. G. N.
North, Mrs. G. w. Howard and
daughter Florence Miss Emma Brook
ms and Mrs. Baker are spending the
week in Montpelier attending the Co
lonial Danes meeting and other fes-
tivities.
In view of Walter Paines departure
for Pasadena, Cal, next week. his
fellow employees at the Ryle q Nc
Cormick Granite Company's works
have presented him with purse of
$50 and the firm, one of $15, as token
Of their esteem.
Frank Pickets family moved 1on
Tuesday from the Mooney block to
one of the Hillside tenements. Mr..
Pickett has been confined to his bed
for the past nine weeks by sciatic
rheumatism and he had to be moved
to his new home on stretcher.
Chester Taylor, aged eighty-four
years and who was injured recently,
died at his home on the Middlesex
road Thursday. He is survived by
son and daughter, George Taylor
and Mrs. Emily Roberts, both of this
city. The final cause of death was
pneumonia.
Mrs. Ada Burpee Greenwood, aged
seventy-two years, died on October
ID at the home of Marshall Fales in
New London, n. H. The deceased
was well known in this city, being a
sister of James H. Burpee and Mrs.
Fales with whom she resided when
they lived in Montpelier.
T. "A. HlHInan, Instructor at MOnt-
pelier Seminary, has resigned his posi-
ton at that institution and will soon
return to the New York Military
Academy at Cornwall on Hudson,
where he was for two years in charge
of the business and scientific depart
ments. His place at Montpelier Sem
mary will be taken by Prof Good
hue, a graduate of Dartmouth College,
who for the past two years has been
doing postgraduate work in Boston.
Miss Della J. Ayers, daughter of the
well-known storekeeper of West Ber-
lin village, Hiram Ayers, was united
IN marriage on Wednesday to Walter
Q. Reyes of Woodsville, N. H. Rev.
Il. X. Whitman officiated. The guests
were the Immediate connections of the
cOntrantinG nartins Aftnr tac .und-