The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-09-17
Montpelier and ViniCity.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

route to his old home In Scotland.
j. G. Brown has received word that
his father Col. A. @. Brown and Mrs.
Ella Brown Bailey, have arrived in
Minneapolis, Minn,. and are the
guests of II. G. Brown in that city.
E. E. Craven, of the firm of Craven
& Co., was in Barre on Saturday and
set q monument for Leonard Bancroft.
He will set one in Green Mount cem-
etery this week for Mrs. Dexter
Moody,
H. M. Marvin of Alburg Springs,
who has been employed in hotel at
the Adirondscks during the summer,
is the guest of Mrs. Thomas Marvin
in the city for few days. Mr.. Mar
win will enter the medical college at
Burlington in January.
Louis Roberts has finished work in
A. j. Allard's barber shop and will
go to Barre to enter the employ of his
brother r-in-law, Mr.. st. Armour, who
is to open fish and meat market in
that city nearly directly over Meirs
barber shop.
Civil service examinations are ad-
vertised at the Montpelier post office
as follows: Civil engineer Phil
lippine service, Sept. %; Chinese in
spector; Interpreter (Roumanian and
Slavic), Oct. 81; mechanical drafts
man, Oct. 21-22.
John @. Prince, who graduated from
Montpelier Seminary last spring, was
married in Boston last week Wednes-
day to Miss Constance Kimbali, also a
former student at the Seminary. Mr..
Prince is employed as a conductor on
the Boston Elevated Street Railway
Both have many friends in the city
who will wish them much happiness.
The first foot ball game at Goddard
Seminary will be played on Friday
afternoon with the Brigham Acad-
emy team. There are sixteen candi-
dates for the Goddard team: Berry,
Benjamin, White, Clark. Thurber,
Hehin, Carley, Durham, Pike,
Knapp, Cannell Brown, Milne,
Turner, Blake and Houghton. The
team will be greatly strengthened by
Milne and Turner.
These letters are advertised at the
Montpelier post office: Miss Saddle
FosseIl, Mrs. Emma Gould, Mrs. P
H. Smith, Miss Emma Wheeler, A. 9
Bullock, Albert Bailey Fred Dupea
l.. @, Doolan, B. r. Ferrin, Franz
A. Goss, George Gilmore, Roger Man
ming, Edd Mossey, Grant Phillips
Eugene II Sleeper, Oscar f. Thomas
Jerry Wilson, Francis Whittemore, j
W. Young.
Miss Eula B. Putnam gave tally
no party to sixteen young ladies ol
Saturday afternoon. They wer
driven TO Putnamsville by E. L, Put
ney where the afternoon was spent il
a social manner. The house was pret
tily decorated with flowers, the piaz
{ "a being particularly attractive wit
decorations of lelianthus, golden gloN
and ferns where dainty refreshment
of college ices, cake and candy wer
served. The party returned about 81
is O'Clock.
% Quite a sizable whirlwind on Hay
a market Square attracted attention TO
!. few seconds on Tuesday afternoon
n 1t made picture stribingly like tn
"a old Geography illustrations of
"a "whirlwind on the DESERT and TO
7, time Montpelier's Sahara was q
II least interesting to look at. Toda
- the dreary waste wears the same oil
ID aspect and the desert sands are bein
a. blown hither and hither by the eve
1t shifting winds, which is probabl.
the only thing that will happen to tn
n ,qnare until the next whirlwin
comes.
nc The Kings Daughters met wit
10 Mrs. F. H. Puffer Monday Afternoon
o and the following delegates wer
"a elected to attend the State Conventio
os to be held in Swanton, Oct. 7. an
!, 8: Mrs. O. A. Best, secretary; Mrs
q f. e Smith, Mrs. Geo. Walton, Mrs
- Edward Deavitt, Mrs Charles Heator
: Mrs. Geo. Brainerd, Mrs. Fran
no Adams; alternates Mrs. Goddard
,,a Mrs. Hunt. Miss CLARA Adams. Mr.
y Vail, Mrs Guernsey. The committt
, on carpet fund reported that abor
fifty members had contributed do
lar each toward the new church ca
pet.
ut The Barre Defenders foot ball tea
al which played Dartmouth second teal
IL on the campus last fall has bega
Il. practice for the opening season. Ale
cd Milne who was captain last year wi
H. hold the same position this fall |
An full back with Walter Scott quart
OF and Dombriskie and Dickie half back
zee Gilbert Phillips is tha manager
BIS the team and ready to arrange gam