The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-12
Montpelier and Vicinity.
Local Happenings.

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e. MeGrath rs clerk in his pharmacy.
Mrs. w. e. Terrill is at home from
Boston for visit.
The annual session of the Vermont
Conference will convene at st. Adams
on Thursday, April 10.
Mrs Robert Cook of Cliff street, has
Just received from New York two leeches
such as were used by physicians years ago
in reducing fever
Frank A. Sherburne has sold to Les
ter M. Cameron a house and lot on
Ridge street for 81, 800.
The Ladies Guild of Christ church
will meet with Mrs. O. II. Heaton
Thursday at two p. IN.
The loss of e. j. Hatch at the Hillside
fire has been adjusted by the Union Mu-
tual as total one and $500, the full
amount of the policy allowed.
The Women's Alliance of the Church
of the Messiah, will serve May
breakfast, on Thursday morning, May
1 from six to nine o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Carr, who have
b cen in Morrisville with f. A. Carr
or the past few months, have re-
turned to this city to reside.
At the last meeting of the Kings Daugh
tiers nice comfortable pieced by the lit
tie girls of the Industrial school was com
pleted. 1t is expected this quilt will be
given to some needy family.
D. L. Sanders left Wednesday
for Boulder, Col, where he is to en-
ter the employ of the McAllister Lum-
Der and Supply Co. His family will
join him there later i'll the season.
The Montpelier Seminary basket
ball team played it's last match of this
season with the team at White River
Junction on Thursday evening and
was defeated by score of 36 to ~.
The regular monthly meeting of the
State board of railroad commissioners
was held Wednesday at the State
House Only routine business was
transacted.
Montpelier Seminary closed Wednes-
day for three weeks vacation. Miss
Edith Forest and Miss A. Jennie
Palmer are spending their vacation in
New York and Miss H. Julia Cross in
Boston
Chief Judge II. S. Taft of the Supreme
Court is seriously i'll at his home i'll Bur-
lington. His recovery depends upon COM
plete rest and the other judges lof the
Supreme Court in compliance with the
advice of his physicians have arranged to
relieve him from all court duties for three
months
Mrs. Ellen Nye Gray left on the
noon train Saturday, for Boston, TO attend
the grand opera and hear the great
pianist, Paderewski. She will return next
week i'll time to meet her class in instru-
mental music, as usual, on Friday and
Saturday, at 144 State street.
Mrs. w. E. Terrill who spent
Sunday i'll town, expects to res ume
her work in the Union school next
Ily1rt tln Ind n,- Nf hi
school year she will have charge of
the children's class in physical Gull
ture at the Emerson School of Oratory,
Boston.
A. E. Walker has sold to J. A.
Grandfield house and lot on Berlin
side for ST. 300. The Capital Savings
Bank and Trust Company has decided
to Q. H. Fuller land and buildings on
Gross street for 81 200 and VIM. P.
Gleason to @, A. Best and wife lot
of land on Baldwin street for $500.
Mayor Boutwell, bought an illumin-
ated motto from young lad on which
appeared the text, Love One Anoth-
er. When asked today what he in
tened to do with his purchase, he re-
piled that he thought it might be
good idea to put it in the city coun-
ellis room at the city clerks office.
Two applications for membership
were received at the meeting of the
Vermont lodge Of Odd Fellows held
on Wednesday evening and the second
degree was worked on one candidate.
S. B. Waite of Hyde Park, Grand
Master, will make an official visit to
this lodge next Wednesday evening
when the initiatory degree will be
worked.
The social given at the Baptist YES
try on Friday evening was well at
tended and was a pleasant affair. One
OF the most pleasant features, and one
which had not been planned, was the
presence of Rev. and Mrs. Guy O.
Lamson, of West Cornwall, thus Civ
ing the members Of the congregation
an opportunity to meet and greet their
new pastor i'll an informal way.
The Montpelier Seminary basket ball
team was badly defeated by the Norwich
University team of Northteld on We'd
nesday evening by a score of nineteen to
two, The Seminary team never got a
basket, getting its points on fouls. The
University team took dinner Thursday at
Pavilion going to st. Johnsbury this af-
ternoon, where it played the academy and
Company | teams Thursday and Friday
evenings.
itCNs W. hollOl DulhNJ piOptoAiiB
elder of the st. Johnsbury district, is
confined to the house of Rev. o. E.
Aiken, pastor of the Methodist church
in Cabot. He was in Cabot on Tues
ady to attend the quarterly conference
and upon returning from the church
to the home of Mr.. Aiken in the even
ing slipped in the icy yard and broke
his leg. Mr.. Sherburne was former
pastor of Trinity church of this city.
Miss Sarah Dwyer, stenographerat the
Union Mutual Office, has received notice
from the coffee and tea firm of Chase &
Sanborn that she has been awarded the
prize of the painting, "a Country Store,
offered by them during the food fair in
this city to the person guessing the near
est to the exact number of beans they had
displayed in jar in connection with theil
exhibit, They do not give the exact nun
Der of beans in the jar but Miss Dryers
gusss was 5,5S5.
The members of the Brooks Relief
Corps celebrated the sixteenth ami
versary of it's organization at theil