Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-05-09
WiIliamstewn Items.

Fred Martin went to Mortified last week.
Just what business he would take up there he
was not certain when he left here, he said.
....Harvey Cheney took possession Of the
tenement occupied heretofore by Fred Martin
lover his store room AS soon as the lat.
ter vacated II. This tenement IL now connected
with j.. X Lynde's store by telephone.
Miss Jennie Fuller has engaged 10 teach for the
coming year at Randolph Center, and began her
school on Monday last She purchased Car
penter organ just before going 10 Randolph,
which she took with her to sweeten the solitude
OF housekeeping with four other young ladies' at
tendants at the Normal. Micah French has
traded his hotel here-the Hubbard Housewife
Charles Templeton OF Barre for property In
Barre This gives us brotherly feeling for Mr.
TempletoD Frank Godfrey will run the hotel as
before. Willis Gale Is hired " sing at the Uni
yersalist house In Barre the coming year Barre
has taken quite little OF the musical overflow OF
our town, In one way or another, II pleases us TO
say. lady residing In this place for but two or
three years past thinks The finds an unusual con-
alteration for aged people here. How well mer-
tied this compliment may be, we must leave to
others to decide, but It Is surely great one to be
able TO pay any place Pullman, Illinois, that
phenomenal suburb Of Chicago boasts Of school
teachers are employed. Daniel Martin, a Will
Jamestown boy, and son OF the late L. Moaely Mar
tin, Is at the head Of this school Fred Webster,
now Of Danyers. Mass. Is visiting his brother
Charles here. Some weeks ago friends OF Mrs.
Marcia Hubbard Briggs twife Of Ebert Briggs,
formerly Of this place., received word that she
could not probably live more than twenty -four
hours, her disease being cancer But soon after,
to their great joy and surprise, word came Of
seeming change for the better, and they are hop
log with trembling for a permanent change for the
better. Mr. and Mrs Elijah Kathan have been
staying In Fayston some weeks. Two Of our
musical ladies had the pleasure Of attending the
May festival OF the Handel and Haydn society In
Boston last week. Mrs. Doctor James Bailey OF
Ticonderoga N Y, also came on to this festival.
Herbert Martin Is a great sufferer from what
bis physician calls nervous dyspepsia. Barnet
Goodrich supposed he went west when he went 10
Grinnell, Iowa, Bot his experience is like that OF
:" the man from Indiana, who took his bundle In
his hand" and came this way, hunting for
Down East" He says he hears more about go
ing west from there than he did here. Miss Sa-
bra Sheridan IL getting to be an expert at typo
setting In the Freeman office at Montpelier. =.
Old winter has departed, but he leaves many
straggler behind, here, In the form OF banks and
patches Of snow. Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Flint had
lived fifty years Of married life,-years filed up
with hard work and economy,-and gained a COM
potency, and had planned to take life more easily
when, some weeks ago, all their plans were sud
denly frustrated by the sudden death OF Mrs
Flint. Mr.. Flint Immediately went to Manches-
ter, N. H., to visit bis children there and regain
bis own health. He has just returned here, a
sadly afflicted man. Surely men in such circum-
stances deserve warm sympathy. Fernando
Davenport Is preparing to build house this sea-
son. ...J. NJ Seaver Son are fitting up a number
OF horses for market. :. Dr. Bailey has reduced
his stock to one handsome Arabian horse.
Ophei g. Martin has Just sold fine large horse
for something over 500. Rev. G. L. Wells will
preach two sermons each Sunday henceforth e..
Dexter Jones has drawn pension and back pay
pay to the amount OF over $500. Albert Pierce
has gone to California.