The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-08-06
Montpelier and Vicinity.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

| OuSl1 l't
Harry G. webber is confined to the
house by illness.
Attractive excursion. See advertise
ment on page D.
j. Edward Bailey returned on Sunday
from Hartford, Coun.
stanley Wilson visited relatives in
| Washington over Sunday.
Attractive excursion. See advertise
ment on page D.
Miss Elizabeth Packer is visiting in
Bethel until Saturday.
Mrs. f. A Carr and daughter of Morris
vile are guests of Mrs. f. 4I Bard.
Miss Julia Cochran of Rutland is the
| guest of Mrs. OIvile Pine, her cousin.
Thomas Farrell has purchased the
James T. Sabin residence on Bailey
| Avenue.
F. l.. Cabot of Windsor is in this city
buying driving horses. He has purchased
several.
ttractive excursion See adv, rtise-
me-. t on page 3.
Mrs. John p. Mack aud children are
visiting relatives in Middlesex Center for
a few weeks.
MIS-. Eliza A. Remington of East Suf-
field, Conn, is at the Montpelier House
for several weeks.
The old post office building at Pitkin
court is being improved by the addition
of a new tin roof.
Mrs. Oliver Dobey has entered the Hea-
ton hospital where she will undergo surgi-
cal treatment.
1t is reported that Forepaugh Bros. &
Sells circus will exhibit i'll this city the last
week in this month.
Mrs. j. w Brock and Miss Helen, her
daughter, left Tuesday to stay week at
Old Orchard Beach, Me
j. Edward Bailey's mare, "The Goverl
ness flushed fourth i'll the 2:20 pace
event at Holyoke on Friday.
Hugh Philips of the Vermont Mutual
passed Sunday in VeTgennes as the guest
Of Mr.. and Mrs. b. T. Field.
Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Baldwin of Ball
ston Spa, n. Y, are visiting at Rev. and
urs. Lamson's for few days.
The Montpelier House has new sign
which is placed on that side of the annex
facing the Central Vermont station.
ment on page 3.
Miss Molly Donahue of Concord, N H..
sang at st. Augustine church on Sunday
morning and MRS, Lopez of New York on
Sunday evening.
Mayor II. d. Snyder. U, s. A., and wife
are guests of r. |. Drury and family of
this city for few days Mrs, Snyder is a
niece of Mr.. Drury.
Mrs. Alfred H. Temple who the
offertory at Christ churcn on Sunday, de-
iglhted all who heard her by the eXcep-
tlona beauty of her phrasing.
f. H. Clark of Richford has located in
this city, as the representative of several
casualty Insurance companies, and has
opened an Office in the Exchange hotel.
Miss Dillon the PAGER owned by Page
Brothers of barre, passed through the
city Saturday ON the way to Stanbridge
East, p. O.. where it is ent cred for a race
i'll the 2 ~ class.
William Gallager and his son, Oscar,
of Thayer Academy, South Braintree,
Mass, were in town on Friday. The
son was instructor in Latin and Greek
atMontpelier Seminary in 1889.
Fred Sheldon, formerly of this city
and a member of the Second Vermont
regiment, died in Montreal on Satur.
day. A wife and three children sur
G. II. Wilder has sold his latest musical
composition, Love and Roses" to the
Merrill Piano Manufacturing Campany OF
Lawrence, Mass. 1t is soon to De pub
lished and of the first edition there Will be
5000 copies.
Montpelier furnished the smallest
crowd TO the excursion TO Mssisquoi Park
| today, run under the auspices of Canton
| Vinton, Odd Fellows, OF Barre. There
were 1l5 tickets sold from Williamstown,
lt0 from Barre and thirty from this city,
Peter Crowley, writing from Manila,
states that Fred Desloyer of this city. now
a member of the Eleventh United States
cavalry, had been shot in one leg in re
though confined in the hospital, was doing
well
Clara Bennett Martin. aged seventy
! eight years. widow of the late William
| Martin of Calais, dit d on Sunday at the
home of her daughter, Mrs f. r. Grout
The funeral will be at the house Tuesday
morning at ten o'clock, Rev. j. Edward
| Wright.
Judges Rowell, Muuson and Watson are
in chambers at the Pavilion and will bt
Joined by the other members of the Su.
preme bench to prepare decisions in case,
IT, be rendered AT the coming term of Su
preme Court, which VIII convene in thi,
city on August II.
A meeting of the Local Option part,
was held on Monday evening to deter
mine whether it would or would not &c
into the Republican caucus for city rep
resentative IL was decided that il would
not do so but would, Instead, hold al
Independent caucus on Saturday evening
Thomas w Eagan saws that Frda,
vas the busiest day in his experience
His paving block plant at the quarries wa
burned AT loss of from $4,000 TO S400
with no insurance, he closed the contrae
for furnishing the city of Worcester
Mass, eco 900 paving blocks aud pnrchs,
ed 100000 of the lot III this one day.
Rev. Guy g. Lamson of this city is a de
scendant of William French, the first mar
} tyr of the American Revolution, who wa
snot at Westminster. The Brattlebor
: Chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, of which Mr. Lamson'
mother is member. win soon erect
> memorial tablet at Westminster TO mar
the spot where Mr. French fell
r Tracy, the outlaw, cannot be added /
! list of eminent sons of Vermont heade
= by a man whose name is uniformly oni,
ted when Vermonters are Dragging of th
. big men who have emigrateu from th
Z State, The Hira Tracy, born in Esse,