The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-06-03
MONTPELIER. BRIEFS.

Mrs, Mary Miller, who has been quite
i'll for several weeks. is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Searle A. Nash have
been visiting in st. Adams recently. |
The regular meeting of the Apollo
club will be held on Thursday even
ing.
Miss Nellie Tromblee is the guest
of Mrs. G.. T. Lincoln, her sister, in |
Newton, Mass.
Fred W. Huntington is visiting in
town, the guest of Mrs. Hattie Hunting
TN, his mother.
Christ Church Kings Daughters meet
next Monday with Mrs. c. c. Roberts
on Berlin street.
Mrs. R K. Peck has gone to Lynn,
Mass, to spend the month with her son,
DR.. NJ. w. Peck.
Mrs. c. D. Edgerton OF Mortified has
been attending the Congregational confer
ence OF Bethany church.
The band concert which was postponed
last week on account of aain, will be given
Thursday evening instead
H. D. Hopkins is to assist at
concert to be given by the Barre
quartette June 4th, Friday evening.
Miss Mary Bates of Essex Junction,
engrossing clerk for State Secretary G..
w. Bailey, is in town on work at the
state house
James 7. Sabin was in Cambridge
last Monday to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Jennie Waite Steens, his sister
in-law.
A dress rehearsal of the playlets
and sketches to be given Friday
night at the auditorium is to be held
Thurdsay evening.
Trinity Sunday school children are
preparing for Children's Sunday. A
re- earsal will be held Thursday at 4
O'Clock at the church.
Rev. j. Edward Wright was one CT the
list of speakers at the Unversalist
convention on Tuesday in Mortified.
The association was the guest OF the
UnversaliSt church of No.thheld.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur S. Martin
and son of Barre and Mrs. C. E.
Perrin of this city have returned
from trip to Boston by automobile.
The trip was of weeks duration.
Richard Ballard, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. S. Ballard of this city, won
silver cup in tennis tournament
at Washington Naval school which
he is attending. There were Is con-
testants.
Cecil G.. Egg will give his 10th
organ recital the first Of the Satur-
, day afternoon series at 4.30 June 5th
at Christ church. The public is
e cordially invited. Mr.. Egg will in
|. terpret compositions by Bach, Gull
mant, Gounod and Mendelssohn.
These recitals should be attended by
every music lover who has the op-
: portunity No collections.
Stow H. Jerd was the recent guest oil
. his son, P. A.. 'Jerd. Mr.. Jerd was a
. printer in the early days of the Vermont
Waterman and remembers many interest
: ing events which happened in the olden
0 days. On one occasion, H. d. Hopkins,
= Sr. a frequent contributor to the
d paper wrote up wedding. According
! to the olden custom, a generous portion o.
n the wedding cake was sent to the office
II Ter the dedication of the staff, but unfcr-
q 'unately, Mr.. Hopkins, Sr., didn't receive
his share He alluded to this fact in his
t write-up, by saying that he couldn'
IS testify as to the good qualities of the cake
IS as the printers devil or some other dew
IS had consumed the delicacy. After few
Us papers had been run off, the alusion wa.
% noted 10 the office and daring printer
re changed the lines to read, in the remain
l. der of the edition, that H D. H. or some
Is other demons had consumed the cake.
- And this is the story of the two
- little girls and the one little boy
- who didn't mind their mamas who
"a told them never, never to go fishing
Of And the two little girls and the one
xt little boy, named, I think, Dodge
,e Treado and Bliss, did not heed the
t. parental warning and, alas, dis
Mt Obeyed woefully. The two little girls
ie and the one little boy trudged to &
C. nice, deep spot and one of the two
IS little girls promptly met her punish
.e ment by falling into the water. Now
AZ the usual thing would have been fol
- the other little girl and the one lit
40 tie boy to run but such was not the
&c case. The other little girl jumped