The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-12
Williamstown.

MISS CARRrK HILL is visiting friends in
Burlington.
Miss EFFIE HOUSE has recently been
home on a vacation from hospital work in
Rhode Island.
OUR worthy ex-townsman, John Poor OF
Wolcott, has been visiting here. Mr. and
Mrs. Poor have family OF seven children.
LITTLE MISS Rosa HERsEY, whose pleasant
ways win for her the good will of all who
know her, Is, we hear, very sick with pneu-
monia.
ADNA Downs has the western fever"
and wants to sell out and go west, and this
though he claims to be getting ahead finan-
cially here.
ORvILLE BRIGGS last season sowed twelve
bushels of oats on four acres of ground, and
harvested two hundred eighty-eight bushels
OF heavy oats.
REvs. SHERBURNE of Barre and Webster
OF this place exchanged pulpit-work last
Sabbath. The Congregationalists are yet
without minister.
Miss CYNTHIA MERRILL takes her vacation
between her schools in Braintree, here in
town. We see her fall term well spoken of
in the West Randolph paper.
OUR townsman, ebert" Briggs, who has
been blacksmithng in Barre, has just
| moved to Mortified Center, where he will
| follow his trade. Here's to his success.
Miss GERTIE BARNES is sick with typhoid
| fever and Miss Blanche Bailey is very sick
with acute. Bright's disease and congestion
| of the lungs. Both are patients of DR.. Nc
Clearn.
CHARLES G. BARNES was called home from
his work in Canada, last week, by the sick
| ness of his daughter Gertie. He had been
there since August working largely in Mon
| treal and Quebec.
| DIR. JASON G. BRIGGS goes this week to
| visit his father and brothers at Newark,
! New York. He will be absent from his
dental office, in Barre about two weeks.
| He hopes to be accompanied by his brother,
| Orville j. Briggs, of this place.
Mr.. AND Mrs. BARNET GooDRICH left for
| Boston on Monday, where Mrs. Goodrich is
| to have surgical treatment. Though it is
said that four out of five such cases are sue
cessfully treated, much sympathetic interest
| will be felt in the result in this case, which
| a few days will doubtless decide.
Miss BLANcHARD's select school unites
with Miss Anna Martins village district
school in a free entertainment at the town
| hall, on Friday evening of this week, to con-
| sist of literary exercises and music, in which
only the pupils of these schools will take
part. The public is cordially invited to
| attend.
THE late father of our townsman, George
| Nichols, must have been remarkable
| physical specimen of a man. Some one has
| just told us Of seeing him turn complete
| somersault on the floor, striking upon his
| feet; and also perform similar trick, about
| bar resting on the shoulders of two men
and this at eighty years OF age.
A GOOD farmer friend, who has just served
| a third term as juror in one of our county
| courts, recently said to us that this expert
| ence has been good school to him in
| teaching him to keep out of lawsuits. He
| thinks most of the cases in his last term
might have been better settled by arbitra-
ton. He is for arbitration, first and last.
OUR old townsman, j. Wright Briggs
| now OF Newark, New York, was eighty
one years old last fourth of July
| OF his nine children, six are now liv-
| ing, and a family reunion is about to be held
We are told that about thirty years have
elapsed since the entire family were together
and the occasion will surely be pleasant
| one.
THE Methodist Episcopal church in
Weston, VT, to which our young towns
man, Rev. Walter Davenport, ministers
judged a sermon on temperance, preached
October II, worthy to be published by the
church. This has been done in a neat and
convenient manner, and it would be bless
ing if it could be put into all the homes il
our state. The sermon has the ring of some
of the old-time, grand old Methodist
preachers.
On Thursday evening of week before last
Mrs. j. X. Lynde gave an organ recital il
North Brooktield for the benefit of the
Ladies' Aid Society connected with tina
church. Thirteen of her Brooktield pupils
took part in the instrumental music. Voca
music was lnterspersed, IN winch Mrs Lynd'
was assisted by Miss Lucy Upham and Mr.
Charles Bigelow. Some fourteen dollars
were realized for the society
Middlesex.-The church at the village il
undergoing repairs A vestry is being con
structed of the gallery and the house is be
ing shngled - A short time since
while at work on his mill dam, Joseph New
hall fell and broke his collar bone. He ha
since sold his mill and machinery in More
town to G.. w. Putnam & Son for 81, 200
Messrs. Putnam are intending to continue
the manufacture of butter tubs, and also ge
out chair stock for manufacturing firm il
Gardner, Mass The village school
taught by Miss Ursula E. Bates OF Waits
: field, closed last week Friday. Whole mum
Der of scholars, thirty-two. Those having
neither absent nor tardy marks are Jessi
, Gilbert Silloway and Carl Sawyer. Other
? not having tardy marks are, Edwin. Mar
and Maria Bartlett, Monroe Backus, Jessie
Grace and Addie Leonard, Jennie Miles
, Roy McMurphy, Mabel McElroy, Netti
+ Nntting, Joseph Pascal, Wayne Silloway
t Emma Styles and Fred Steele. Absen
= one-half day, Verona Leonard, Mabel Nc
? Elroy; one day Wayne Silloway and Pin
Chase. - Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Willie
are grateful for the many kind acts an
words of sympathy of their neghbors an
friends called forth by the sickness an
death of their daughter Hattie
East Calais.-Horace Pike has move
, into the tenement over b. 7. Whites store
- Henry Richard has moved into til
) Remington house. - There was a boz
} fire and a little burning of powder last Sal
urday evening over the reported election {
Cleveland. - The public eXaminatio
I of teachers for this town will be held o
| Saturday, November 18th, at the schoo
A | house at No. 10. - Last Thursday nigh
g yearling hefer belonging to George Parke
| was found dead in the pasture with Il bulle
r hole in its forehead. No clue has been OF
tanned to the perpetrator of the deed. TIL
r following officers were installed in Mosco'
i, Lodge of Good Templars last Friday nigh
g Worthy chief templar, III. w. Bullock
:. worthy vice templar, Kate Peck; worth
l secretary, Ada NJ. Bliss worthy assistar
: cial secretary, Omer Provost; worthy treai
f urer, Ella III. Dwinell; worthy chaplain,
Y Dwinell; worthy marshal, A. n. George
worthy deputy marshal, Fanny Prevos
worthy sentinel, George Wheelock; worth
4 guard, Alice George worthy right han
i supporter, Hattie Wells worthy left han
/. | supporter, Inez Pearce.
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n Cabot.-Quarterly meeting was held 6
: the Methodist church last Sunday. In tn
v absence of Presiding Elder Spencer, Re-
r John Currier OBLIGATED. He gave remin