The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-04
Montpelier and vInicity.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Will be nelu at tne pOst OInce Oh July g.
A liveryman said Tuesday that
$1S per ton is now the price for hay
which was selling at $40 few weeks
ago--a measure of the severity of the
drought.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Day and
daughter Marjorie and Miss Belle Hol-
der, who have been visiting at Arthur
D. Lamson's, returned to st. Johns
bury on Monday.
The employees of the Montpelier
d Wells River and Central Vermont
railroads, in Barre played game of
base bal on Saturday. which resulted
in victory for the former by score
of 30 to 27.
Montpelier Seminary second base
bali team went to Waterbury in one
of E. /. Putney's teams on Monday,
where game with the Waterbury
high school resulted in the defeat of
the latter by score of 12 to 6.
Senator William P. Dillingham; was
one of the receiving party at recep-
tion given by Governor Mccullough
at North Bennington on Saturday af-
ternoon. The Senator represented the
Sons of the American Revolution.
The Pre- Memorial exercises in Miss
Julia Fishers room, the first grade,
were particularly interesting. Forty
visitors were present and the program
of recitations and singing was ad-
mirably carried out by the children.
The following letters are advertised
at the post office, for the week ending
June /; Mrs. F Divere, Miss Helen
Keefe, Thomas Day, Chas. Foster,
Nelson Miller, Arthur Melvin, VIM.
Pierson, E. N. Perkins, Robert Will
kins.
Mrs. Effie E. Webster Of Lynn,
Mass, viii. speak for the Montpelier
Spiritualist society on Sunday, June
7, in G. A. r. hall at 2.30 and p.
IN. Mrs. Webster is a very able
speaker and a fine test medium. All
invited.
The Washington county medical So
ciety will meet at Waterbury on Tues.
day june 3. The State tuberculosis
commission will be present at the
meeting and tuberculosis will be one
of the chief topics of discussion. Dr.
A. B. Bisbee of this city will present
one of the papers.
Mrs. f. A. Standish has rented the
boarding house Oh School street which
is to be vacated by Mrs. l. @. Vail.
The library trustees will make some
repairs which will include an enlarge
ment of the dining room. Mrs. Stand
lsh expects to take possession next
week.
The Montpelier high school base
field high school team on the latter
ground Friday afternoon by a score of
% to 8, A large number of rooters
from the high school here was in at
tendance but did not have much op-
portunity for voice exercises.
The young clerks of this city were
defeated in the base ball game by the
Northfield high school in that town
Saturday afternoon by score of 10 to
ba in hn frc
two innings after which the visitors
held their opponents down to few
runs.
Rev. J. A. Ward, pastor of the
Peoples church of this city, left. on
Wednesday forW Woodsville, N. H., where
he is to assist Rev. f. e. Talbee of
Bristol, r. l., and Rev. NJ e. Perry
of Woodsville in revival meetings
which begin on Friday. Mrs. A. r.
Craig of Boston will supply the pull
pit during his Absence
The school in the Cummings dis
trice in East Montpelier held Pre-
Memorial exercises, on Friday after
noon, May 30, with appropriate sing
ing, recitations, dialogues, drills,
etc after which the children accom-
panied by their teacher marched to
the Cutler cemetery and decorated the
graves OF the soldiers with flowers,
A search party undertook hunt in
Waterbury ON Sunday Tor f. M. Wat
erman who mysteriously disappeared
week ago Friday morning. 1t was
thought rhy, some of his friends that
he migl lave been taken suddenly
insane and committed suicide. On
this theory, the search party was
formed. No trace was found OF the
missing man.
Twenty former pupils of Miss Lila
Isham, the popular stenographic and
type writing teacher at the Seminary,
all OF whom have positions in Mont
pelier and Barre, presented her OIL
Friday afternoon with handsome