The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
Montpelier and VinIclty.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

People are glad to see W. A. Lord
ON the street again, after being con-
fined to the house by illness for some
! weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs Theophilus Fountain
have issued cards announcing the mar
riage of their daughter, Marie j., to
Lawrence f. Grady. The wedding is
to take place at st. Augustine's S church
on Tuesday, October 6, at IL O'Clock.
Harry r. Bolles and r. E.. Battles
returned on Saturday from Proctor.
They attended the State Y. M. O. A.
meeting at the Proctor Institute.
They report an instructive and enjoy
able meeting.
The water in the Winooski is so
low that the Cotton Manufacturing
Company was obliged to shut down
at O'Clock on Monday afternoon, and
at noon Tuesday. The water in the
river is much lower than it has been
for several years.
Charles f. Lowe has purchased of
Harry M. Cutler his house on Spring
street and will take possession when
Mr. Cutler moves to his recent pur-'
chase, the J. O. Houghton house
which he expects do about November
1. In this deal Mr.. Lowe gets one of
the finest places i'll the city.
Letters are advertised at the Mont
pelier post office this week as follows:
Mrs. Florence Cutler, Mrs. Marion
Emery, Miss Dora Marsh, Mrs. Will
liam Peterson, Miss Mary Simmons,
Henry w. Carr, NJ. G.. Fawsett, Eu-
gene G.. Holmes, H. f. Jackson, Jo-
seph Scabia, and Mr.. Tute.
The problem of selecting mail
boxes must be difficult one for pat
rons of rural delivery routes AT the
post office there is displayed list of
107 boxes of various kinds that have
been approved by the government.
These range in price from eighty five
| cents to SO.
John Tarpie, the man who was
| brocght here from Barre and was
afterwards discharged only to become
ward of the city, has been little
talked about of late but he is still at
the town farm. His health is some,
what improved and he is less trouble
than formerly but is still a great care.
! ,I
have issued invitations to the marriage
of their daughter, Lucie Helen, to
Mr.. E. Selwyn Stone of Hartford,
Connecticut, on Wednesday, October
IA at four o'clock in the afternoon, at
their home on Guernsey avenue. Mr..
and Mrs. Stone will reside in Hart
ford.
George E White and Edwin S.
Meigs leave on Saturday for hunt
ing excursion in northern Maine.
They will enter the State in the
north western region from Canada
and will be stationed in camp over
hundred miles from any railway,
near the head waters of the st. Johns
river. They will hunt deer and
moose and will be absent about two
weeks.
J William Henry Harrison Pattee
died Sept. 2, in Perry, la. Mr.. Pat
tee was the son of Lorime Pattee, a
soldier of the revolution, serving in
one OF the regiments under Washing.
ton. Henry Harrison Pattee was born
in Georgia. Franklin county, Ver-
mont, March 81, 1912. March 10,
1881, he married Caroline Fay, now
living at the age of eighty-six years.
In March last, the venerable couple
celebrated the 9th anniversary Of
their marriage. Capain Pattee and
others of the name in Montpelier are
relatives
That the Montpelier license commits
sioners and officials have been doing
their duty in enforcing the new liquor
law is shown by the fact that six ille-
gal sellars are now serving terms at
Rutland and one is in Jail here await
ing trial. 1t is quite certain, however,
that illegal sales are being made in
spite of the officers vigilance. There
is ready market for this contraband
liquor, as che list of those to whom
the license holders will pot sell is a
large and growing one, and the busi-
ness is profitable because the thirsty
ones who cannot buy according to law
are glad to pay big price for cheap
stuff. In one case Investigated it was
found that purchaser had willingly
paid just three times the ordinary
cost OF the liquor. The officials say,
however, that there is less illegal
selling than formerly.