The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-31
MONTPELIER AND VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

william Miller went to st, Adams
on Friday on brief business trip.
X. w. Hulburd of Hyde Park will
deliver the Memorial Day Grafton in
Montpelier this year.
A marriage license has been issued
for the marriage of John T. Warner,
of Mortified and Ida May, daughter
of william H. Lindsay, of this city.
Miss Mary Harrington, of Montpelier
and Irving Westover of st Adams
we're recently married at the home of
the bride on East State street.
Rev. l.. f. Reed has so far re-
covered from his recent illness as to be
able to occupy the pulpit at Bethany
church on Sunday morning.
Charles y. Meader, who left M mt
pelier between twenty-five and thirty
years ago, is in the city from the west
Oh short visit. Mr.. Meader worked
in the machine shops here. He will
leave for Los Angeles in few days.
M. @. B. Mason, D. D., of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, corresponding secretary OF
the Freedmen's Aid Society, will
speak on Friday evening of Conference
week. DR.. Mason is a negro orator
of some renown and has been heard in
Vermont before.
Members of the junior class of Yale
-; ius haaY, in
itiated into the fraternal societies in
clude Fred E. Gleason of this city,
who was received into the Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity. This is
an enviable college honor.
Floyd, Crawford e. Co., bankers
and brokers, of New York city, who
have an established office in this city
have met with degree of success be-
You'd their expectations. Mr.. J. S.
Oliver, manager of the local office,
reports that his customers have all
been successful and that the prompt
service and honest treatment accorded
them by his firm has assured him of
their future patronage and friendship.
The steamer Reindeer" which
was sunk in Lake Champlain about
two years ago and was raised last sum-
mer by interested Montpelier persons,
lies at the Central Vermont railroad
dock in Burlington and it is the prize
of victory in race between the water
and the men behind the pump" The
boat is now dismantled and will soon
be taken to Whitehall to be disposed
of.
Joseph Grape, one of Montpelier's
star base ball players. will leave a
week from next Thursday for Fall
River, Mass, with which league team
he has been engaged to hold down
second base the coming season. He
will meet Frank Murphy, another old
Montpelier player, with clean
record, at Bellows Falls and the two
will go together. The season opens
on April II. Their base ball friends
wish them success.
At the last meeting of the ladies'
reading club of Christ church the fol
lowing officers we're elected for the
ensuing year: President, Mrs. Pearl
F. Blodgett; vice president, Miss
Mary G Dewey; treasurer, Mrs. s.
L. Howe; secretary, Mrs. W. L.
Dewey; study committee, chairman,
Mrs. Q. A. Best. social committee,
chairman, Mrs. @. D. Mather. The
last reception will occur on April IA.
The Barre golf club held their an
nual meeting in Barre on Wednesday
evening. The election of officers took
place as follows: n. b. Ballard,
president; Mrs O. H. Kent, secre-
tary; j, Gould More, treasurer; F.
A. Rowland of Montpelier, T. @.
Peters, O. M. Wiley and Miss Alice
Smith, executive committee The
treasurer's report showed balance in
the treasury and the club hope to pay
for the club house this summer.
The Bethany Reading held it's last
meeting for the year early this week
The annual election of officers resulted
as follows: President, Mrs. j. H.
Watson; vice president Mrs. f. ID.
Dewey; secretary, Mrs. E. G. Ham ;
treasurer, Mrs. d. S. Wheatley; study
committee, Mrs. S. o. Shurtleff,
chairman, Mrs. l.. II. Reed, Mrs H.
O. Cotton, Mrs. r. M. Harvey, and
Mre. W. E. Ranger; social committee,
Mrs. III. ]. M. Jones, chairman, Miss
Carrie Gross, Mrs. J. Edward Bailey,
Mrs. j. P. Adams, and Mrs. J. j..
Jackson
Mrs. M. M. Hill left on Thursday
evening for Seattle, Washington, &C.
companied by K. B. Hill whose home
is in that city and who has been visit
insg in Montpelier for the past two
weeks, to attend the funeral Of Il. G..
Hill +. b. Hill was formerly Yer