The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-03
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HE DOuy VI MARY mO1ld1IN OF EaSI w ar
rem was brought here for burial on Tuesday.
CoNDUcToR CHAMBERLIN's many frien6s
are glad to see him making his regular triIs
again.
e, HUNTLEY has put into his store an
eight-foot nickeled showcase, which is
handsome affair.
No service was held at the Universalist
church last Sunday, the pastor, Rev. 1. p.
Booth, being at Wolcott.
AN exchange was made Sunday by Rev.
w. S. Hazen and Rev. G.. IL. Smith of the
Union church at Warren.
THE Methodists hold a sociable at their
vestry this Wednesday, afternoon and even
ing, and the Episcopalians at their rooms
Thursday.
G. l.. EMERSON paid an election bet, Sat-
urday afternoon, by wheeling All Smith
through Main, South and Central streets
and across the common.
AT an auction on the common, Saturday
afternoon, the personal property of the es-
| tate of the late Ezekiel Buzzell was sold by
| the administrator, F. A. Preston.
TIMOTHY REED, an old resident, familarly
known as "Uncle Tim y, died at the resi-
| dence of his son at the Center, last Friday,
and the remains were taken to Waitsfield
| for burial Monday.
| A DRAMA, entitled Rebecca's Triumph"
is in preparation by the young ladies of the
| high school, and will be given about Christ
mas. The proceeds will be used in buying
| books for the school library.
| THE ladies of the Congregational society
| will hold sociable at Howe's hall this
| "wednesday afternoon and evening. The
| regular monthly meeting of the church will
| be on Friday afternoon at half-past two
| o'clock.
Mrs. LYMAN WRIGHT a longtime resident
| of this town, died at her home on Union
| street Sunday afternoon. Funeral services
| were held at the house Tuesday morning at
| ten o'clock, Rev. /. p. Booth officiating, and
| the body was inferred in the old Wright
| burying-ground in Berlin.
A CHANGE of time in the running of trains
took place Monday. The principal changes
| are that the morning mail going south leaves
at 0: 81 and the local passenger going north
at 9: 10. A new mixed train has been put
on from Montpelier to White River juno
ton, passing here at 4: II P. NJ.
MARY CHAMBERLIN, a niece of Mrs. Jane
Ellis, died Sunday morning of typhoid fever
at the residence of Jacob Flanders. Funeral
services were held Tuesday afternoon at
one o'clock, Rev. j. o. Sherburne officiating.
| The girls parents live at the Wiley House,
in New Hampshire, and the body will be
taken there for burial
TEACHERS have been engaged for the
winter terms as follows No. /, Loomis dis
trict, Josie Covill of Berlin; No. 2, Orcutt
district Kate McCarty; No. g. Center, Eta
j. Moore; No o. South Village, Minnie e.
Smith; No. 6, Joel Winch district Inez
Kent; No. 7, Holton district, Susie Kent;
No. 8, Harlow Bridge district Lena Fuller;
No. 9, Jason Dole district Martha Fisk; No.
} 10, -Four Corners, Hattie f. Dexter of Will
liamstown No. -, Gouldsville, E. j. Ed
munds of Lowell, Mass, and Addie E. Cob
leigh; No. H. Rabbit Hollow, Katie Baird
of Roxbury; No. 10, Dunsmoor district,
Matte Johnston; No. 16, Deacon Winch
district, no school; No. 90, O'Neill district,
Simon Ryan. Nos II, II and 10 are unre-
ported. w. w. Holden will teach at East
} Roxbury.
, THE Catholic fair closed Saturday evening
and was very successful. The prizes were
drawn as follows: Easy chair, j. O'Grady;
; doll, Mary Hurley; hanging lamp, G. G.
Maxham; silver castor, William z. Cannon /;
; one-half dozen of silver knives and forks,
: William Graney; cake basket, j. Stack;
album, Annie Richardson; cross, John
Ryan; silver pickle dish, E. G. Beurse; bed
quilt, Mrs Barry; motto, Mrs. Barry; one
half dozen of teaspoons, j. c. Hurley; clock,
Mrs. Mary Sploid, table cloth and napkins,
, j. w. Charboneau; barrel of flour, G. e.
| McCarty; cord of wood John Tabor; tub
p, of butter, Matthias Cannon; ten bushels of
g potatoes, Mrs. Frank Eastman; sleigh,
e George III. Richmond, An organette, given
l by G.. II. Richmond, was contested for by
2 Anna McCarty and Alice Gay. The former
1 won, her friends subscribing S7S4 against
e $3.50 The principal contest of the fair was
l for a tlting silver ice-pitcher and resulted
5 as follows; Frank Gosselin $3.50; DIR. w.
b. Mayo, S16.70 Charles McCarty, S112.N.
Miss MARY BoYNToN of Pepperill, Mass, a
q sister of Captain Boynton and Mrs. Moseley,
p is in town and will remain through the
= | winter - DR.. NJ. McClearn and Mr.. and
! Mrs. l.. E. Tupper We're in town Thanksgiv-
q ing. - Mrs f. T. Stockwell will spend
! | the winter in Kansas with sister. -
: Mrs. j. o. Batchelder was in town last Fri
|, | day on her way to Manchester, n. H., to
Z join her husband, who has a situation in the
. | Mirror office. - Madame Hazen and Miss
7 Frances started on Friday for Middletown,
q Conn, where they will spend the winter.
}, - Hon. w. p. Dillingham; was in town
: Friday and Judge Stanton Saturday. -
J. DR.. Nichols and family spent Thanksgiving
; | with Colonel Fred Il. Smith at Montpelier.
= - Miss Flora Averill returns this week
. from Boston, to remain through the winter
! She will be open during her stay to engage.
;. ments as a public reader or private instruc-
J., | tor in elocution. - Miss Nida Quinby
i will return Saturday TO her school at Bel
4 lows Falls.