The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
Waterbury.

THE young ladies of the Congregational soci-
ETY. gave, q few weeks ago, an entertainment
Of novel character. 1t was so popular that
calls were made at the time for its repetition.
They will give similar entertainment at the
church this wednesday, evening, varying the
programme somewhat, but reproducing the at
tractive parts OF the former performance Give
the girls benefit.
W. P. DILLINGHAM; and family went on Mon
day to st. Leon Springs for a short stay. Mr..
and Mrs. Curtis Wells and Master Karl of Bur
lington are spending week with old friends
and relatives Mrs Lucius Cooley OF Hoosick,
N. Y, Mrs. Eli Johnson of Burlington, Ahira
Richardson and family of Boston are visiting
relatives In this village. Mr.. and Mrs. w. p.
Mason returned to Highlandville on Monday.
SOME sneak thieves made free with the con-
tents of the larders of several housekeepers
Wednesday evening. The houses Of George
Atkins and J. II. Elliott were entered, some
provisions taken and at the former place q
suit Of old clothes was exchanged for suit
belonging to Fred Atkins. The marauders
were around other premises. The Free Press
veracious chronicer OF current events here re.
ported ian old hen and thirty chickens"
taken from Christopher Corse-a libel on
Crit" who would not impose on any hen,
old or young, the care Of such brood. 1t Is
said that thieves took pan of yeast from Mr..
Corse's house, and possibly some Of the spume
got into the reporter narrative His tales are
apt to be a little frothy.
The lawn party by the ladies of the Congre-
gational society Wednesday evening WAS a
very pleasant and successful entertainment.
The party was given under the trees in the
spacious grounds around Mr.. G. w. Hutchins'
| house--a place finely adapted to AN entertain
ment of this kind. The grounds were illumin-
ated, the trees hung with Chinese lanterns,
the weather god was propitious and merry
| time was had. Ice cream, cake and hot coffee
were served Music was kindly furnished by
Messrs. Clark, Carpenter, Scott and Trow-
bridge of the Waterbury band and by Car.
penter organ from the store of j. g. GIiggs
placed in the grounds by the courtesy Of Mr.
| Long. In a tent under the trees, Mr. James Z
Mari and Miss Eta Straw, in the guise Of
| gypsies, disclosed the future to the curious
| Many capital hits were made, and the fortune
tellers were the strong attraction of the even
ing. To the musicians especially, by whos'
kindness the browning attraction of the even
| ing was furnished, the ladies of the society arr
deeply grateful Altogether the affair wal
enc of exceptional pleasure and success, ne
receipts being about S26.
A FRENCH woman with child Of her owl
and two children Of Jack Blais living in tn,
old reform school tenement, started down TIT
track Wednesday forenoon to pick raspberrie
on the Duxbury side of the river. Whil
crossing the iron bridge the party was over
taken by passenger train. The woman hat
succeeded in getting two of the children of
the track on to the iron girders, but the third
Joseph Blais, a lad about eight years old, wa
struck by the train, instantly killed, and hi
body knocked into the river. He got outsid
the rails, squatted down, and the engin
passed him, but either by attempting to rise o
by his nearness to the track, his head wa
struck by the step of the engine or by som
part of the train, just how the terror-stricke
woman cannot tell. His skull was crushe
and death was instantaneous. His body wa
Immediately recovered and brought back t
the village Dy an engine following the train
This bridge Is built on curve, is quite Ion
one, and the engineer did not discover til
group in time to stop the train. 1t is sal
their parents reluctantly consented to let the
children go with the woman and that the lit
boy was 80 pleased with the permission to
, that he knelt down by his mother and said h
, prayers just before leaving.