The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-11-26
Montpelier and Vicinity.
LOCAL HAPPENING

guest OF MI. ana MIS-. >. >. Ballard.
Frank A. Sherburne has transferred
piece of land on First avenue to
George A. Huntington. Considera-
| tion 500.
! The engagement of Harry Clifton
Jones and Una Caroline Huntington is
announced.
Mrs. Frances Jaynes of Swanton is
guest of Mr.. and Mrs NJ H. Collins
of this city.
Miss Zepher Atherton, who has been
visiting Mrs G. H. Bennett for a
week, has returned to her home in
Waterbury.
The engagement is announced of
Katherine A. Kelley and Jack M.
Hannon of Barre.
Hay, the painter, has moved from
Elm street to the Bradley block on
/ East State street.
The west end of the Central Ver-
mont depot platform is being widened
TO the spur track.
Amos Kinson returned to his home
in Williston on Saturday, after a
week S visit here.
Union Thanksgiving services will
be held at Bethany chapel at $3.50
Thursday morning.
Doorkeeper Loomis~J. Knights is
passing a portion of his Thanksgiving
recess at Middlebury.
Aliens Saturday cigar will be on
sale Wednesday of this week for
Thanksgiving trade.
Assistant postmaster d. f. Clark is
confined to his home by threatened
attack of typhoid fever.
Mrs. G. \. Brown of Montpelier
Junction has returned from visit
with her parents at Oakland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fl. Gross,
2nd., of Boston, are expected home to-
night to spend Thanksgiving.
Mrs A E. Cmndall, who has been
visiting in this city and Barre has re-
turned to her home in Jonesville.
Peter Caverzazio will sail from New
York Thursday to spend portion of
the winter in Basel. Switzerland.
Mrs. Minnie Whitney Hodgdor
passed Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. w. Whitney, at Chelsea.
Chester Washington of South Wash
ington had an operation performed
upon his under lip at the Heaton hos
pital last week.
Mrs. G. H. Dodge and children of
Lowell are visiting friends in this city
for a week before her departure fol-
her old home in California
Miss Mildred Tracy has been i'll 70!
several days and Miss Edna McCord
of Barre is assisting at the Telephone
Exchange during her absence.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Harvey spent
Sunday at the home of her parents il
Colchester, and Mrs. Harvey will re.
main there for Thanksgiving.
The public schools will be closed from
Wednesday until Monday for the usual
Thanksgiving vacation, and the Seminary
closes on Tuesday for two weeks,
The regular monthly meeting o.
the Woman S Auxiliary to the Y. NJ
G. A., which should be held on Wed
nesday, is postponed until Saturday.
Charles Bascom, formerly chef al
the Montpelier House and vel know
i'll this city, has accepted position
with the Park View Hotel at St
Albans
John Buley, who has recently en-
tered the employ of Kellogg &5 Jerome
is moving his family from Hinesbure
10 this city They will occupy suit,
at the Hillside.
Miss Bertha Fair, employed in tn,
family of @. j. Berry on Libert,
street, was taken to the Heaton hos
pital Saturday, suffering from IA sligh
attack Of pneumonia.
The Ryle q Mccormick Grant,
|
ment on the A. d. Hollister lot in tn,
Hollister family burying ground a
Marshfield, on Saturday.
Rev. W. f. Armstrong of Rangoon
Burma, gave very interesting ad
dress in the Baptist church yesterda,
morning. He spoke in Barre in til
evening and speaks i'll Groton tonight
Chief of Police Reagan has bee
asked by the selectmen of Fitzwilliam
N. H., to look out for William Smit
and John Berry, wanted there for
murderous assault committed on Nc
vember 10.
Montpelierites are kicking becaus
they have to hand out 50 for each to
of coal they procure while this kin
of fuel is quoted at $8 per ton at Wat
erbury and Burlington and st. Al
bans sell at $S. so. ...4..
The Montpelier council of tn
g Knights of Columbus has an invita-
Y tion to attend the working of the thir
degree in Montreal on Thursday night
/, Quite number Of the local counci
will probably attend
Bert Bishop, formerly proprietor {
I the Bishop House i'll this city, no,
t known as the Exchange hotel, is
s guest of Mrs. George II. Bepnett
Mr. Bishop is a mail clerk, runnin
between Boston and St Albans.
The wedding of Mrs, Mary e. MAJ
ham, of Mather & Temples s store, an
Arthur Poole of this city, will occr
= at the home of Mrs. E.. e.. Joslyn o
g Barre street Wednesday evening, The
u will spend Thanksgiving at Mrs. Ma,
: hams home in Worcester
, There will be special meeting of NJ
Sinai Temple at Rutland next Thursda
evening and special Car will be attache
to the a. m train reaching Rutland
1;50 p. m, and returning will leave at
Ia Al Ia