The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-08
Montpelier and Vicinity.
Local Happenings.

at her nome on the Mutt farm. Her re-
covery is not expected.
II. &, Scott of Chicago arrived Monday
morning for II visit OF about two weeks at
the home of Mrs. j. W. Ellis
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Wednesday afternoon;
January 10, at two O'Clock with Miss Amy
Fisk.
The literary branch of the Woman S
Alliance of the Church of the Messiah
will meet at 2:l5 Tuesday afternoon
at the usual place.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid society is
to give New England dinner in its
vestry Wednesday noon and Il hash
supper i'll the evening.
The ice is now twelve inches thick
and G.. W. Parmenter will begin his
annual ice harvest on Wednesday
morning with force of thirty men.
Miss Margaret Chestnut of Burling-
ton is official reporter for the annual
meeting of the State Dairymen' Asso-
citation which opened Tuesday in
Armory hall.
The fourth and last quarterly confer
ence of the conference year Will be held
Wednesday, Jan. l5 at the Evangelical
chu CHI The presiding elder, Rev. Oshua
Glll OF Boston Will be present and preach
at aud p. NJ
Simeon Bowen, who was convicted
i'll City Court last week of breach of
the peace, was taken to Rutland Mon
day by officer Connors for sojouln
in the house of correction for seventy
two days.
Frank Shorey is in critical condi-
tion at the home Of John Emmons.
He is suffering from boil on the in
side of his throat and his physician
fears grave results should the boil
break.
The Daniel Worcester place, consisting
of buildings and five or SIX acres of land,
in ward six, has been sold, through the
Real Estate Agency of Martin w. Wheel
ock, to Laura NJ and Jessie b. Hopkins.
County Commissioner Worcester reserves
the occupancy of the premises until April
l, next.
The Pavilion and Montpelier House
are well filled with dairymen aud
their wives and every incoming train
brings many new arrivals The pros
poets are bright for the best meeting
in the istory of the State Dairymen's
Association.
marc" is booked to appear at
Blanchard opera house January 16,
under the auspices of the Young
Mems Christian Association. Marc
comes to us well remembered as an ex-
cellent entertainer and many friends
will be pleased to spend the evening
with him.
The annual district meeting of the sixth
Masonic district will be held at Masonic
hall, Barre, on Wednesday, January %,
commencing at 2:UOP NJ. All master Ma
SONS III good standing are invited. Re-
duced rates have been extended by the
Central Vermont and Montpelier and
Wells River railroad, tickets good, return
ing January %
There was Il good attendance on the
session of the saturday afternoon club
held on Saturday afternoon for the first
time since the holidays Prof. A. } Phil
lips rendered solos i'll his usual pleasing
manner. The work of the club will now
be regularly pursued during the remain
der of the winter Next Saturday after
noon Mrs. Clinton n Field of New York
formerly of Barre, will render solos.
The sale of booths for the food fair
30, under the auspices of the Ladies'
Auxiliary of Heaton hospital will
commence on Wednesday moring, Jan
uary s. Secretary McGown and his
assistants will call on the business
men as fast as possible and further ex-
plain matters to them.
The cases against Lieut.. Gov NJ. f.
Allen and Representative j. w. Ketch-
um of Nergennes were continued until
February 10, by Judge Wheeler in
United States court at Rutland on
Monday. Attorneys for the respond
ents begged a continuance on the
ground that they had not had suffi-
| tn
The annual meeting of the Ladies
Aid Association of the Heaton hospi-
tai will be held in the trustees room
of the Kellogg Hubbard library on
| Wednesday afternoon at three O'Clock
| All ladies interested in the hospital
that are not members are invited to
attend the meeting and join the asso-
citation. 1t is expected the calendar
Club will report at this meeting
George H. Wilder has rented the
store in the Walton block, formerly
occupied by the city clerk and treas
urer, for music store, He will open
it February 1, with one of the finest
and best lines of musical instruments
TO be found in the State. Mr. Wilder
makes this change because of more
floor space, better show windows,
! dilu COlllllOlllOuS DdSeIu6nV.
The water heater at the granite
plant of Wells & Lamson, Barre, ex
ploded Sunday evening, shattered sew
eral windows and badly wrecked the
heating apparatus. Frozen pipes wa,
the cause. of the explosion 1t wa
fortunate that no workmen wer,
around as they might have been badly
scalded No one was injured anC
the properly loss is not heavy.
The Independent bowling team
warmed the jackets of the Capito
team in the match played on Monda,
evening at the Pastime alleys by tax
ing three straight games with leac
of l04 pins. The total score of tn
former team was 2123 as against 20l
for the latter, The prize striven TO
was tickets to one of the two theatri
cal performances to be given at tn
opera house this week.
! Fred Whittier goes this week to Bos
, tou to pursue his studies on the violi
! with Emile Greunberg of the Bosto
! Symphony orchestra. He will renal
until June and upon his return Edwi
W. Bruce leader of the local orches