The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-11-19

weekly rebearsals in preparation for
drama to be presented early in Decem-
Der.
0. II. Smith has purchased the Will
son residence on upper Main street.
Writings for the same were made the
last of the week, land possession is to
be given in the Immediate future.
NJ. e. Beckley and A. T. Davis
were in Plainfield last week making
some changes in the electric light and
telephone wires of the Molly's Falls
Power Company, and while there IN
stalled telephone at the residence of
George King. A similar instrument
was placed at H. p. Martins, Mon
day.
q. e. Halves has moved from the
mill house to Depot Hill into the
house owned by the Montpelier &
Wells River Railroad Company.
George A. Gilman, clerk at the
Adams store, visited friends in Mont
pelier on Sunday.
Hugh Phillips of Montpelier was in
town last Saturday on business for the
Vermont Mutual Insurance Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. George +. Bliss visited
in Montpelier last Wednesday.
Charles Cole of Barre visited at his
home on Sunday.
Miss Florence Burnham, who has
been visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Rnsebrook for the past ten
days, returned to her home in Roxbury
last Saturday.
Miss Lillian G.. Sanborn was in
Montpelier last Saturday.
Mrs. Caroline Robinson has com
pleted the repairs on and about her
dwelling and the improvement is very
noticeable.
Verne r. Hudson has returned from
Lisbon, N. H., and engaged with
George A. Davis to work on his farm.
Miss Fanny Ball, former Marsh
field young lady now with Miss Simp-
son, the milliner, of Montpelier, was
in town Friday evening to attend the
cotillion party.
At the Methodist church last Sun
day evening, the regular church choir
was in attendance and rendered fine
musical programme. The choir was
assisted by Mark A. Davis, and the
church was we'll filed.
The primary department. of the viii
lage school closed last Friday, and the
teacher, Miss Williams. left for Bos-
ton Saturday morning to visit for a
few days.
The show to have been given in
Marshall's hall last Saturday evening
by the Boston Minstrels, was indefi-
nitely postponed, as the company
failed to put in an appearance.
W. E. Lamberton furnished trans
portation for the Rella Medicine Com
pany which moved to Moretown last
Friday for a stay of two weeks in that
town.
j. A. Woodward returned Friday
night from visit of several days with
friends in Compton and Hatley, P. Q.
The Rella Medicine Company, which
has been giving concerts nightly at
Marshall's hall for the past two weeks,
finished their engagement here Thurs
day night with large crowd in at
tendance. The watch was drawn by
Miss Hazel Carr, she receiving the
most votes. The ice pitcher was
drawn by George d. Ormsbee.
The third in the series of cotillion
parties at Marshall's hall under the
auspices of the quartette club occurred
last Friday evening and was attended
by over thirty couples and proved a
most enjoyable event. A fine supper
was served at intermission in the
dining hall by Mrs. Carr.
The next in the series of cotillion
parties will be held on the evening of
Thanksgiving at Marshall's hall and a
turkey supper is to be provided by
Mis-. Carr whose reputation as cater
er is we'll known.
The farm buildings IF Otis Freeman
situated on the West Danville road
about two miles out of this village
were burned to the ground early IN the
evening of last Wednesday. Mr.. Free