The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
Montpelier and vinicity.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

I engaged as clerk In Il. M Oorry s
store.
Mrs. George U. Annas and daughter,
Nathalie. went on Monday to Port.
land, Me-, for visit of several weeks.
T. B. Wiley and son, Carl, of st.
Johnsbury Centre are the guests of
Mrs. George Brainard and Mrs. Fred
E. Smith.
| Willard Hutchinson arrived Satur-
day and is visiting his parents, Capt.
and Mrs. L. M. Hutchinson, for a
few days,
Mrs. j. @. Bancroft and daughter,
Jane, left on Monday for Old Orchard
Beach. Me-, to spend a months vaca-
tion at the seashore,
Mrs. Andrew Bigelow and Mrs.
Charles Newcomb OF Waitsfield are
visiting at the home Of Mrs. E. E.
Joslyn on Barre street,
| A civil service examination for the
position of dairy inspector in the de-
partment of agriculture will be held
at the postoffice on August 1.
Miss Daisy l.. Pattee returned from
Boston on Saturday night. She went to
attend the wedding of Miss Bertha
Pratt, formerly of this place
Miss S. Geneva Burnham, who has
been teaching at Pittsfield, N. H, ar
rived on Saturday evening and will
spend her vacation in this city.
Races will be held on the Granite
City Trotting Park in Barre en- July
3 and under the direction of the
Gentlemen's Driving Club. Purses
amounting to 81, $50 will be competed
for.
George Anderson, Harry Pratt, Jo-
seph Blakely and Arthur Colby went
to Groton pond on Monday to spend
a week tenting and fishing Chester
Cleaves joined the party later in
the week.
@. E. Keegan commenced work as
mail agent on the Montpelier and
| Wells River railroad on Monday, to
take the place of A. A. Bovce who
has been transferred to the run from
st. Albans to Boston on the Central
| Vermont.
At the semi annual meeting of the
directors of the First National Bank
held Monday morning the usual per
cent dividend was declared although
the bank has earned more than that,
The Capital stock of the bank is
5000, 600.
Sheriff William Sprague of East
Brookfeld went through this city Mon
day in charge of two boys to be taken
to Rdtland to the house of correction
at Rutland for one year term, for
breaking into summer cottage at
Fairlee Lake.
The degree team of Ivy Rebekah
Lodge. l. o. o. F., went to Water
bury on Saturday evening and con-
ferred the degree on six candidates.
After the work banquet was served.
The Montpelier party numbered thirty
four members.
The Automobile Club of Vermont,
which was organized in this city q
few weeks ago, will have meeting al
White River Junction on Thursday OF
this week. 1t is expected that from
twenty to thirty members will be
present, each coming with machine.
A party of fifty young people Of
Barre serenaded Fred Eaton and Clar-
ence Lease at their respective homes
in Barre Tuesday evening. both gentle
men having recently severed their con
nection with the bachelors frater
nifty Mr.. Lease was formerly of this
city.
Prof. #. E. Hillery of Bethlehem
Pa, was visitor in the city Tuesday
, Prof. Hillery is former graduate O
, Montpelier Seminary, entering Wes
leyan University from that school
5 He will spend the summer vacation
| in Barre with the family of hi
brother-in. law, e. r. Davis.
; Patrick Mcmahon, the Central Yer
mont yard man who was severely in
jured in the yard at Barre about tel
days ago, returned to work for tn
:, first time ON Monday. The acoi
! dent occurred while Mr.. Mcmahon
was at work under car when an
: other car bunted into it, doublin
him up and injuring his back quit
a severely.
Q Advertised letters at the Mont
4 pelier postoffice this week are a
Q follows: Miss Ada O. BatcheldeI
Mrs. Nellie NJ. Christy, Mrs Haiti
o Smith, Grace Tucker, Mrs, Edit
y Young, Burton Albie, e. L. Gross
t H. e. Anderson, Jos. M. Amiss, Rs