The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-06-30
ONTPELIER And VICINITY
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

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of Thayer Academy, Braintree, Mass,
at Heaton Hospital on Thursday last.
Many relatives and friends of Levi
Strong were present in the Berlin
church on Wednesday June %, at 30
O'Clock to pay their last respects to his
memory Rev. J. w. Coffin of1iciated
at the funeral and burial was in the
Berlin cemetery.
Rev. William Spencer, for the past
year principal of Brigham Academy,
Bakersfield, and family, arrived in
town last week to visit for a few
weeks his sister and mother of this
city. Mr.. Spencer will not return to
Bakersfield the coming year.
George E. Ryder, formerly of
Randolph, who has been working in
the office of the Barre Telegram for
the past two months, has been pro-
NOTED to the position of foreman on
that p and will assume his duties
next Monday.
A reception was given to Mr.. and
Mrs. e. f. Durham in Barre on We'd
nesday evening by members of the
Barre Chapter of the Eastern Star.
Mrs, Durham was elected grand
matron at the recent convention of
the order in st. Johnsbury. a most
enjoyable evening was spent which
closed with a banquet.
H. julius Volholm was on Wednes-
day elected delegate to the national
Democratic convention to be held in
St. Louis on July Z, from the second
district. Mr.. Volholm will leave
Montpelier on July 2, for Greenfield,
Mass, from there he will go to
Buffalo and from Buffalo to St. Louis /;
after the convention he will go to
Grand Rapids, Mich, to attend the
Publishers Exposition returning from
that place to his home.
The friends of Mrs. Mary Walton
Dewey, in Montpelier, will be pleased
to know that she is improving daily.
She was recently driven from Cam
bridge to Harvard, Mass, enjoyed the
ride very much and was none the
worse for the effort. "No Vermont
for me, this summer" Mrs. Dewey
says, in a recent letter, and that
makes many people sad who have been
accustomed to her CHEEKY society here
during the outing season.
Miss Grace Leonora Moulton was
married on Tuesday evening in Christ
church to Edwin Colby Lewis, by Rev.
A. N. Lewis. Both parties are resi-
dents of Montpelier, where they have
a wide circle of friends. Drusilla
W. Bailey of Barre was maid of honor
and Fred l.. White of Barre officiated
in the capacity of best man. The
bridal couple went ON Wednesday to
Willoughby Lake for a weeks stay,
and on their return will live on Elm
street. ),ra
T. S. Cummings, while at his
favnrite summer home, Camp Com
FORT" in Woodbury., on Wednesday
last, succeeded in breaking all previ.
Gus records in capturing large fish.
With his nine ounce fishing rod, hook
and line to match, and without land
ing net, safely landed in boat a black
bass, weighing 81 pounds. Mr.. Gum
mings being no novice in this line,
has no doubt acquired the art of cap
turing these monsters such as all the
boys do not possess.
The Orange County Telephone Com
pany, recently organized, petitioned
the city council at it's regular meet
ing on Wednesday evening for privi-
lege to erect poles to string wires
from it's main line to the following
named stockholders: Johonotts &
Hall. l.. Bart Gross, William Miller,
Wheelock q Dawley, Marvin & Sher-
burne, Peck Bros, E. W. Bailey &
Co., r. NJ. Harvey, E. d. Hyde. The
petition was referred to the license
committee to report at it's next meet.
ing.
Essays prepared in competition for
the thirty prizes offered to the public
school pupils of Vermont, by the
Department of Vermont, Grand Army
of the Republic, through the State
superintendent of education, on sub
jects relating to patriotic citizenship,
are beginning to come in. The
money for this purpose is contributed
mainly by the past department. COM
manders of Vermont, the movement
originating with the chief aide of the
commandments, G. A. r., De-
partment of Vermont. and in charge
of the department of patriotic instruc-
tor, Comrade Goulding of Whining
ton. =
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