The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-03-19
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Mrs CALVIN FLINT rode out, recently, for
the first time since her paralytic shock In May
last.
READING and musicale at the town hall this
"wednesday evening. Exercises to begin
promptly at haf-past seven o'clock. Admission
only ten cents.
THERE was pleasant gathering Of young
people at the Methodist parsonage last Satur-
day evening, and they presented Mrs Wells
with hanging lamp
CAREY WATSON (now teaching in Myanet,
illinois,, last week married Miss Prentiss of
Waitsfeld, and returned to Illinois Here's to
their 'ealth and appiness
BAD travelling interfered somewhat with the
oyster supper at the Methodist vestry last
Wednesday evening, but IL was a social time
with those who we're there.
ANNA SoHoFrELD is taking lessons in voice
training of Mrs DR.. Bradley of Barre, and likes
her much. Carrie Hill has been under the
training OF Mrs Briggs Of Montpelier.
MRS. J. X. LyNDE has just taken class OF
six pupils in instrumental music In Brookfeld.
Most Of the lessons are to be given at the resi-
dence of William Clark. They will find her
good teacher.
BARNEY D. FLINT will move his family to his
village home this week He is balancing the
question of going to Barre to take up the stone
cutters trade. The Congregational church will
be very sorry to lose him, II he goes.
THE Congregationalists will hold socabe
at Deacon circuit Abbotts on Friday evening
next full attendance Is desired. IL goes
without saying that there is no peasanter place
to go to, on such an occasion, than to Mr.. Abb
bolts
Nor twelve dollars, as THE WATCHMAN type
incorrectly reported last week, but twenty-one
dollars per month, Is what Frank Jeffords is to
get on a farm this season, and he has not yet
seen his sixteenth birthday, though it is close
| at hand.
OUR stock-buyer, J. NJ. Seaver, thinks he
came the nearest being killed, last week, that
| he ever did in his travels by rail! 1t was at
| Groton, as he was on his way to market. 1t is
| the old story of falling, while attempting to
board the train when it was in motion.
THE weather on Tuesday evening of last
week WAS unfavorable for large attendance
| upon Willis Gales concert. We we're tIeited
| to some as fine music as we remember ever to
| have heard here Mrs j. X Lynde " struck
twelve in her singing, Carrie Hill sang finely,
too, as did Mrs Arthur Ralph, and Mr.. Gales
singing was warmly received. We only wish
many more could have heard it all.
MORE shocking news concerning one of our
| old citizens seldom comes here than that re-
| ceived last Friday and Saturday concerning N.
| p. Simons of Rutland. The only particulars
| that have reached US up to this (Mondav) morn
ing are that on Friday he was walking on the
railroad track, when he saw train approach.
| lug. Luz tIdSh pOiuS a uOuUlo Ouo, nt stopptu
aside on to the other one, on which train was
approaching from the same direction, and
was run over. Both legs were crushed. The
shock was 30 great he sank under it, and died
| Saturday morning. Mr.. Simons was son OF
| the late j. Porter Simons of this town. Hi.
life up to, perhaps, twenty-eight or thirty years
of age, was spent in farming here in town.
| He is remembered as good scholar, good
school-teacher and promising young man.
| He finally decided to leave farming and took
up the study of law, and for time was, WI
believe, associated with Judge Prouty anC
Colonel Walker of Rutland. For some year
past he has been prominently connected will
one or more OF the marble companies of Rut
land Mrs. Simons was a daughter Of the lat,
James Hopkins, Sr, of this place. One chile
Ia daughter) is called, with the mother, to beal
this severe affliction, in Mr.. Simons' death, ant
in which they have the sympathy of friend,
here rs elsewhere. We shall not soon forge
the hospitality of his very pleasant home il
Rutland Further particulars of this sad affai
will be found on the first page.