The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-02
Montpelier and Vicinity.
Local Happenings.

II6u CHtDuIu VI NEW 4 OIk is NlSlJlll2 III
town for few days
A daughter was born on Sunday to Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Pierce.
Roy Morse and George Parmenter are
home from the University of Vermont fol-
the Easter vacation
Mrs. A. o. Cummins went to Ben.
nington Saturday to visit Mrs. F. E..
Howe, her daughter.
Trinity ch lrch reading club Will hold
Red Letter Day exercises in the churcl
vestry next Friday evening.
The Garnet eal Circle will meet Friday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock i'm the trustees
room of the Kellogg-Hubbard library.
The Ladies' Guild of Christ church will
| meet Thursday afternoon at two o'clock
with Mrs. {. j. Gleason at the Riverside.
Miss Eva Fuller went Tuesday to Bar
ton where she is to be stenographer
in the law office of Hon. f. w. Bald
win.
| will meet for work on Wednesday af-
ternoon with Mrs. @. II, Heaton on
State street.
~. Allard has taken possession Of the
| Allard-Martell barber shop on South Main
street, he having purchased Mr.. Martells
! interest therein
Arthur Conlin, who is visiting in
Buffalo, N. Y, for few weeks, is to
marry Miss Julia Knauss of that city
this week.
Mrs. E. A. Mutt went Tuesd ay to
Guildhall to report the April term of
Essex county court, over which Judge
w. P. Stafford is to preside.
Samuel Smith was plowing last Satur-
| day at his farm near Barre Transfer. He
found no frost, and the land was dry
enough to work TO good advantage.
DR. Charles Wheeler of Bratteboro. who
| came to MOntI elier to attend the Brock
Carpenter wedding, is making brief visit
at the home of l.. :. Wheeler his father
The federal government wants an audit
ing and disbursing clerk for the Philip
! pine service at a saary of 5l,oC0 per year,
| ID. f. Clark at the post-of1Ce viii give
| particulars
Edmund J Dubuc has arrived in town
from Nashua, n. H., to act as time-Ee per
for the men, " no are to work on the new
| ST. AugustiIes church. The work will be
| begun next week.
The fifth anniversary of the marriage of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. g. Cory occurred on
| Sunday They celebrated it quietly by
| giving dinner to twenty members of
| their parents families
Miss Ethel Webb wentTu esday to her
home in Bradford for vacation of
| four weeks from her duties as ST en-
| ographer at the Office of the National
Life Insurance Company.
About $50 was realized fro N the
dance given by the orchestra in Arm.
ory hall on Monday evening. The
band will give social hop at the
same place on Saturday evening.
The Capitol City Gas Company plans to
employ about 100 Italians in laying its gas
mains through the principal streets of the
city in order to rush the work and have
everything IN operation by the first of
August.
The infant daughter iof MIR. and Mrs. j.
r Mitchell was baptized at Christ church
on Saturday aft 5rnoon and on Sunday
afternoon the same rites were pei formed
| upon the infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. G. Bancroft.
A meeting of creditors in the bank
rupt estate of A. E. Niles was held on
Monday before Referee Marshall
Montgomery of St. Johnsbury in the
office of F. A. Bailey. B. E. Bailey
was elected trustee.
On Sunday, the physicians discover
ed that the collar bone of Frank
| Townsen, who was injured by an eX-
plosion at Northfeld last week, was
fractured and on Monday that one of
his ribs was broken.
Postmaster Shedd has made arrange
ments for closed mail pouch for East
Montpelier and another for Groton on the
4:10 P. NJ. train daily from Montpelier.
Mail for these stations must be in the
Montpelier post-offlce by 3:55 p. NJ.
The annual Easter sale given by the
Ladies Guild of Christ church will be
held on Thursday afternoon and even.
ing, April 10, at the parish house.
An excellent supper will be served
from five to half past seven O'Clock
Because of frost coming out of the
ground end the condition of the soil Road
Commissioner Roberts was today Obliged
to close Heaton avenue from East Liberty
street TO HeatOn hospital. Teams driving
to the hospital must go around by College
street.
Rev. J. f. Ward, the new pastor of
with his family arrived from Kings
field, Me-, and is to occupy the tene-
ment on the second floor of the resi-
dence of Miss Eliza Crossett, at SO
Berlin street
F. H. Puffer, fol merly local agent
for the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York, has been appoint
ed district agent for the Travellers
Life and Accident Insurance Com
pany of Hartford for Washington and
| Orange counties.
The Ladies Union of the Montpelier
! Spriritualist association will have a
baked bean supper on Wednesday even
ing, Apr. 2, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilman Scribner. Supper will
be served from half past five until
half past seven followed by whist.
The federal government wants librar-
! ian for the government library at Manila
at Il salary of Sl,4O0 per annum, junior
architectural. craftsman at Se4O year,
| an examiner Of surveys at So per day and
twelve marine craftsmen. ID. f. Clark
at the postoffice will give full particulars
The violin solo played ut Trinity church
Sunday evening by Fred Whittier was
much enjoyed by the large congregation
present. The playing OF this young artist
shows much Improvement since his study
undt l. the best masters in Boston. bril-
liant future is confidently predicted for
him
The recent transfers received at the
city clerks Office are j. w. Brock,
administrator of the S. @. Woolson
estate tn lydia WOolsOn, the home