The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-05-07
Montpelier and ViniCity.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

~ QduRHIbT was DOTH W MI. duu
Mrs George Blanchard Thursday.
Nod e. Smith and Lena May Pat
tersun, both of Johnson, were mar
ried in this city, Thursday, by Rev.
j. Edward Wright.
Chief of Police Mcmahon has APP
pointed Special Joseph Fitzgerald to
do regular police duty on the Berlin
side for a few weeks Fitzgerald
went on duty Friday
Eight couples from this city attend
ed the dance at the hotel in MiddleseX
Thursday, going in single teams.
A supper was served in the hotel and
Wilder's orchestra of this city fur
nished music for the dance.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Turner, Mr..
and Mrs. B. @. Sterling, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles James and J. L. SpaldiDg of
Warren were in the city Thursday
to attend the production Of David
Harum" at the opera house.
Hon. Frank Kenfeld of Morrisville,
department commander of the Grand
Army of Vermont, and Capt. B. f.
Bowm of Randolph were in the city
Thursday, making arrangements for
campment at San Francisco next
August.
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siXty-four years, the widow of Curtis
Turner, occurred Friday morning at her
home at 5 Barre street. Mrs Turner
has had several shocks and has been
confined to her bed Tor the past year.
She was the mother of James Turner,
a painter i'll this city.
The following class day speakers
at Montpelier Seminary have been
chosen: Glass grafton, Charles A.
Wing; address of welcome, j. NJ.
Tebhetts, president of class; class
prophecies, Delta A. Collins; class
historian, Mary E. McClafiin; class
poet, Alice K. Chedle; presentation
The design has been selected and the
order placed for the bronze tablet
which Lafayette Chapter, d. A. r.,
will place upon the Pavilion to COM
memorate the visit of Lafayette to
this city. The tablet will be COM
pleted by August, but it is thought
that the exercises attending it's dedi-
cation will not be held until Septem-
Der.
Denman Thompson of old Home
stead fame, who has been appearing
in that play in various Vermont and
New Hampshire cities and towns, was
stricken with neuralgia of the heart
at Olaremont, n. H., Thursday after
noon and all his New England dates
and engagements in Brooklyn and
New York have been cancelled. Mr.
Thompson appeared in Barre April "a
Granite men in the city will prob
ably be interested to learn that the
Woodbury. Granite Company Of Hard
wick has been making preparations to
build new shed $50 feet long. 1t has
been known for some time that the
company were intending either to
build new shed or buy large one
which could be used by them to ad-
vantage. The Woodbury. Granite
Company is the ne which received
the contract recently for furnishing
the stone in the new $4,000, 600 cap
itol TO be built at Harrisburg, Pa.
The death of Thomas W. Wood,
the Montpelier artist. says the st.
Johnsbury Caledonian, recalls the
fact that The Athenaeum art gallery
possesses several of his paintings.
One, a copy Of Rosa Bonheur's, wal
presented to the art gallery by Mr.
Wood, and is the only copy of thai
distinguished artist in the gallery
Mr.. Woods own paintings are en-
titled On Guard and The Argu
ment' and were painted to order il
his New York studio in 1874. One o.
Mr.. Woods nearest relatives was hi
cousin, Mrs. Il. M. Howard, of thi
place.