The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-11
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.


Mrs. j. H. Watson left Tuesday fol
Hanover, N. H to attend her son,
Henry, senior at Dartmouth College
who is i'll.
Mrs @. H. More las been ill with
bronchitis for several days. Relief
from this disease was followed by an
attack of neuralgia from which she is
still suffering.
The funeral of Mrs. A. W. Lane
was held In South Barre on Tuesday
afternoon, Rev. Effie K. M. Jones off
ciating. Burial was in Elmwood
cemetery in Barre.
Several couples are already plan
ming to attend the dance to be given
in Plsinfield Quite likely a party
will be formed to make the trip.
The dance will be given on February
10 and good time is promised,
The mercury rose, with the wind,
on Sunday evening. At midnight it
registered from 45 degrees TO fifty de-
grees above zero. Then it began to
drop and OH Monday reports ranged
from 10 degrees above to degrees
below.
Local talent will present King
Jollity' in Barre three nights this
week, beginning with Thursday
night. From all reports it viii be
an entertainment that the name i'm
plies and jollity" will reign
supreme.
Emily Hooker, wife of Alfred W.
Lane, the we'll known architect. di g
Feb. 7. The funeral was held Oil
Tuesday afternoon at l o'clock from
her late home in South Barre. She
leaves large circle of relatives and
friends to mourn her loss
The new glass cases for use in the
State cabinet are in place at the State
House. They are finished in quar-
tered oak. Four of them are for the
butterflies and other insects and the
fifth is for the skeleton of the fossil
whale. They are perfectly adapted to
their use.
@. Def. Bancroft has just COM
pleted the annual school census in
Montpelier. The returns show that
there are LAG children in the city
between the ages of five and eighteen
years inclusive. This number is lar
ger, by seventy five, than was the
last previous enumeration.
A large party of the friends of
Charles Jack gave him surprise
party at his home ON Downing street,
on Monday evening. The 8th of Feb.
ruary marked his steenth," or some
other birthday. The evening was
pleasantly passed and the guests de-
parted leaving marks of their esteem.
J. Newton Wilson, aged fifty-six
years, died Feb. 10 in the house in
which he was born situated ON the
is survived by wife and no children.
The funeral will take place on Friday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock and burial wall
be in the Wilson cemetery near his
home.
Thirty. i've friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
O. E. Young No. 1873 Barre street,
very unexpectedly called last evening
to remind Mr.. Young of his birthday,
leaving as their token of esteem very
nice fur coat, pair OF gloves and $40
in money. The evening was very
pleasantly spent in card playing, and
refreshments were served.
The friends of Seth W. Corse have
suggested him as candidate for AL
derman from Ward A. On Monday
Mr.. Corse, when asked stated he was
not prepared to say that he would be
candidate. Mr.. Corse has been in
business here in Montpelier for many
years and his friends say he is we'll
acquainted with city affairs and
would make good alderman.
DR.. Ralph W. Newton Of Barre, SON.
in-law of h. M. HarN ey, of this city,
will leave this week for. Fort Douglas,
Utah. He will sail in March with
the 18th u. S. infantry for the Phil
ippines, as surgeon with the rank of
1st lieutenant. He was surgeon in
the army two years ago and was in
the Philippines. His wife died about
six months ago,
The Woman's Home Missionary
Society of Trinity church will meet
in its Epworth League room at the
church on Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock Boxes will be filled for IA
poor family in the South and for the
Kent's school for giIis recently des-
troyed by fire. Gifts of sheets, pill
low slips, towels and comfortables are
solicited, as well as clothing for girls.
Henry Dunbar, who has bce9 run.
ming as conductor on the ,i1ucbon
train for the past few months, LETT for
his home in st. Albans on Monday to