The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-12
Montpelier and Vniciity.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

j. N. Roseman of Bristol was in
the city on Monday.
Miss Eva Fuller of Waterbury spent
Sunday with her parents in the city
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Holmes, Friday, March 6.
President j. A, DeBoer returned
this morning from western business
trip.
Walter E. Nutting of Burlington
was the guest of Fred E. Everett on
Sunday.
Representative o. A. Blanchard of
Williamstown was in the city on
Tuesday.
Senator John II. Walbridge from
Concord in Essex county is in town
Monday on business
Mrs. S. M. Nelson of Calais is Wis
iting her son, Byron II. Nelson, on
First avenue this week.
@. III. Deming, of the firm Brooks
& Deming, left on Saturday for a
business trip to New York.
James @. Cullen, who has been i'll
for the past two weeks with typhoid
fever, is rapidly recovering.
Misses Blanche and Sadie Finn of
st. Albans spent Sunday with their
sister, Lizzie Finn, in this city.
H. S. Perkins of Burlington and
George D. Hyzer and H. B. Salisbury
of Randolph were in the city on Sat-
urday.
Mrs. Frank Carpenter went to Hav-
GRILL, NH =, on Friday, being called
there by the serious illness of rela-
tive.
George Vincent and son Harry Of
East Montpelier were called to Or
we'll Saturday to attend the funeral of
Dr. Vincent.
Arthur Springer of Portland, Me-,
stopped in the city for few hours on
Monday He is visiting his brother
in Worcester.
Mrs. Hugh Phillips returned on Sat
urday night from two weeks visit
in Vergennes, accompanied by hel
mother, Mrs. B. f. Field.
Walter E. Ranger went to Ran.
dolph on Monday, to be present at
the installation of @. H. Morrill, as
principal of the Normal school.
Col. G. H. Joyce, who has beer
spending several weeks with his sis.
ter, Mrs. M. d. Fowler, returned to
his home in Rutland on Friday.
L. B. Dow, who is travelling for the
Excel Machinery Company, spent Sun
day with his family in the city. He
left this morning for Allentown, N. Y.
The local coal supply is now suffic-
lent and except in the event of q
March blizzard no further shortage il
expected The price remains at So 81
a ton.
John Ford, decorator on the new
Catholic church, completed his worl
ON Friday and, in company with his
wife, left for his home in Boston, Sat
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles @. Baldwin
and 9. n. Kenyon, proprietors of th'
Boston Bargain Store, left Monday
for a business trip to New York anC
Boston.
Mrs. Maud Huntington Benjamin
who has been visiting Mr.. and Mrs
II. D. Hopkins at their home on Sem
mary Hill for the past two weeks re
turned to Boston on Monday.
Charles Taft, who has been EN-
ployed in Marvin & Sherburne's store
for long time, has finished worl
there and is to turn his attention t(
the wood and lumber business.
A forty-five party in honor of Alan
son Luce, who is eighty-seven years of
age on Sunday was held at the resi-
dence of Gill Luce, his son, at No. e.
Corse street, Tuesday evening.
Negotiations are being made b,
Bruce Mcdonald, the veteran sho,
clerk in G. II. Shipman's store, 70
the purchase of the John A. Goodwin
& Co., shoe stock on State street.
E., @. Blanchard, agent of the Yer
mont Mutual Fire Insurance Compan.
of Newport, was in the city on Fri
day, on his way to Jamaica wher
he is going for his wife's health.
Letters advertised at the Montpelie
postoffice are as follows: Alb
bic Bagger, Mrs T. Clenienger, Mis-
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