The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
Montpelier and Vicinity.
Local Happenings.

Il. A. Sherburne has sold TO Lester ii
Cam eron cottage house on Tracy street.
Mrs Joseph A. DeBoer and daughters
Minnie and Bertha and Mr. and Mrs. &. l..
Pitkin are visiting i'll Boston
The Montpelier Military Band and Com
pany ii will give an assembly at Armory
hall on Monday evening, March 81.
Sheriff Graves took David Bean to state
prison Saturday TO serve the sentence
imposed on Thursday in Supreme Court.
mThe Montpelier Savings Bank aud
Trust Company has decided to w. y.
Standish house and lot at % Sibley
street for $500.
The Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
Company has adjusted Mrs Mae Dewing's
loss from the Hillside fire at $40 SO. She
was insured for S409
D, A. Guptil was able to be down town
Friday afternoon for the first time after
seven Weeks' confinement from bronchitis
and congestion of the lungs.
The scholars of grade of the Union
SC hool enjoyed ride to Waterbury in j.
Q. Adams four horse barge on Friday
evening, having supper at the waterbury
h otel before returning.
Shambo & Buck have the contract for
building the foundations for two tene-
ment houses which q. E. Gay, con-
tractor and builder of Barton Landing, is
to erect at the corner of Sibley and Foster
st reefs.
Patrick Murphy, a member of Com
pany H, during the late unpl easant-
ness with Spain, has return ed from
East st. Louis, Mo-, and is at work
in Hardwick at his trade as granite
cutter.
Rev Guy G. Lamson of West Cornwall
has accepted the call of the First Baptist
church to become its pastor and will be
gin his duties the first of April Mr. Lam
son will preach at this church Oh Sunday,
March 8
A j Huse and John b Fisk of Ran
dolph and Gibson i Loveland of North
field We're candidates upon whom the
Order OF the Temple were conferred at
the stated coucave of Mount Zion Com
mandery, held on Friday evening.
Mrs f.. c. Coleman's collar bone was
fractured i'll the runaway accident on
State street on Thursday, when she and
Miss Kelley, her guest, were thrown from
the sleigh. She is reported as being as
comfortable us could be expected
Company Ii has arranged with the
Alonzo Hatch Electro-Photo Musical
Company to give an entertainment ut the
Armory on the evening of March %. The
enterta inment will consist of high-class
moving pictures and illustrated songs
j. S. Viles has four hens at his farm at
Montpelier junction which beat the incu-
The hens are the proud mothers of a
brood of forty-five chickens and it is not
an exceptional year for chickens either
The Kings Daughters have appropriated
SO toward relieving the necessities OF
those burned out i'll the Hillside fire last
Sunday morning, and who carried no
insurance. AS soon as committee is ap-
pointed this money will be turned over TO
Some idea of the marble craze prev
alent amongt the youth of the city
this spring can be gained, when it is
known that the sales at the New Cen
fury Bargain Store averaged 5000
marbles daily last week except on
Saturday when they jumped to 5000
The hearing on the case of e. H Deavitt
against Walter L. Ring, administrator, of
Huntington, which has been in progress
this week at Burlington before u. S. STAN
completed Tuesday evening. MIR. Deavitt
appeared for himself and Brown & Ma
comber of Burlington for defendant.
There is some apprehension felt
that our macadam streets are going
backward from constant wear and
heavy teaming and lack of repairs. J.
M. Boutwell, expressed an opinion Fri
day that the expense of placing our
streets back in as good condition as
they were year ago would be So, 900.
Patrick Black, a former employee of
Ward & Douglass, who has been con-
fined in Jail here for the past ten
months on the charge of bastardy,
was released from custody on Wednes-
day afternoon by consent of the mother
f the petitioner. His counsel was
w. A. Lord. Dillingam, Huse and
Rowland appeared for the petitioner.
Courts convened this week in six
counties of the state. Judge start comes
to Montpelier, Judge Tyler goes to st AL
bans, Judge Stafford to Burlington, Judge
Rowell TO Newfane, Judge Watson to
Rutland and Judge Munson to Newport
Chief Judge TAFT will preside at the term
at Guildhall, which opens later in the
month.
The engagement of Miss Elizabeth NJ
Packard of Marshfield to Ralph w Dewey
of south Framingham, Mass, has been
announced. Miss Packard is acting as
contralto in the Bethany church choir of
this city. Mr.. Dewey is son of ii. II.
Dewey of East Montpelier, and is one of
the publishers of the daily evening News
at South birmingham
s. $. Ballard, general agent for the Ma
tional Life Insurance Company, forward
ed Wednesday to VIM. Robbins of Chelsea,
administrator, check for 81, 900 i'll settle
ment of the death claim of Il. Hyde Rob
DlnS OF tnau UOWn. HrOO1S OF ueatn Ill tnlS
case were submitted last Friday-another
evidence of the promptness with which
the National Life meets its obligations.
A change in time went into effect on the
Central Vermont railway after March 2,
which Montpelerites who wish to spend
the day in Burlington will appreciate.
The north and south bound morning
passenger trains are to meet at the juno
tion passengers for each leaving this city
at IA. III. The north bound train form
erly leaving here at 10.15 IA. m, will now
arrive in Burlington at 1857 instead of at
noon.
The consolidated lighting company to-
day put III the two extra street lights or
dered by the city council to be placed at
the corner of River and Wheelock streets
and on River street opposite the 9. ii.
More granite shed They are not per-
manently set but will be as soon as the
ground is in condition to set the poles
This makes ninety street lamps, which the
city now has
A new candidate for postmaster is now
in the field i'll the person of Carlos c.
Bancroft. Mr.. Bancroft is young man,
a native of Montpelier, and has the es-