The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-22
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

l.. P. Gleason left on Friday after
noon for business trip in New York.
Charles Root has returned to his
home in Waterbury, from the Mt,
Pleasant House in the White Noun
tains. where he has been employed for
the summer.
The Cotton featuring Com
pany's goods are becoming renowned
for excellence outside the borders of
the United States. Recently they
received large order from Vancou-
yer, British Columbia.
Announcement is made of the en-
gagement of Miss Anne Bolend Reed,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Charles
A. Reed of Chicago, aud John Har
wood, Esq, OF Boston. Miss Reed is
bright daughter of Montpelier, and
Mr.. Harwood is promising young
attorney in the city Of his residence.
City Engineer Z. S. Smith has been
eudeavoring to survey Berlin street of
late, according to the old line laid
out in 1894, but finds so much cleo
tricity from pipes and wires under
ground and overhead that the needle
will not work The result of the sur
vey took him about thirty feet in the
river and the prospect of the survey
is considered by him impracticable.
A fine portrait of Rev. Walter II.
Davenport, formerly principal of
Montpelier Seminary, now adorns the
Epworth League rooms of Hedding
Methodist church in Barre. 1t was
presented at meeting held on Wed
nesday evening by Mr.. Bugbee, a
former president of the league. Mr..
Davenport was formerly pastor of
Hedding church and was present at
the presentation
Mrs. Belle Spalding Lounsbury of
Hartford, Conn, is the guest Of her
cousin, Mrs Josephine Reed Poland.
at the Jewett house, lower State
street. Mrs. Lounsbury is former
Montpelier lady, the daughter Of DR..
Spalding, an eminent physician in the
Montpelier of a former generation.
Mrs. Lounsbury has not been fire.
quent visitor here in late years but
is we'll and very pleasantly remem-
bered by her surviving contemporaries
who give her cordial greeting.
Stephen p. Black died at the home
of George Lothrop in Berlin at noon
on Wednesday after an illness which
had confined him to the bed for the
two weeks previous. Mr.. Black was
born in Berlin siXty-nine years ago.
He was the son of Lorenzo Black and
has two brothres, Volney and Byron,
living in Berlin. In the sixties Mr..
Black was a prosperous hotel man in
Hartford, Conn, but since sickness
compelled him to give up work he has
been a charge on his native town.
There will be funeral services in the
Wright cemetery at 10 O'Clock on Fri
day, Rev. J. W. Coffin of Berlin Cor
ner officiating, and the burial will be
beside his wife who died many years
ago.
George E. Megrath returned on Fri
day night from business and pleas
ure trip to Boston. Mr.. Megrath at.
tended the great base ball game which
eliminated the series of games be-
tween the champion of the National
League pittsburgh and the champion
of the American League Boston,
which resulted in victory for the
latter team by score of to and
gave them the championship of Amer
ica. The noise at the game exceeded
anything MI. Megrath had ever
heard either at the gun club or else.
where. For a whole day after the
game the din echoed in his ears.
Mrs r. B. Lille of this city died
at one O'Clock Friday afternoon at the
home of E. A. Earle in Middlesex