The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-25
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COLDS in various forms and degrees of Sc
verify are quite prevalent
j. G. GALLUP has sold the Eastman farm
at East Roxbury to Hiram, son of John
Henry.
The bell tower on the Catholic chapel has
been taken down and the bell taken to the
church.
Docs can be licensed from now to next
week Wednesday for 81 each. After that it
will cost so.
IT is reported that Rev. j. w. 'Bemis will
return to town this spring from st. Johns
bury Center.
THE ladies of st. Mary's parish hold their
regular society in their rooms Thursday
afternoon and evening.
A MEETING will be held at the school
house in the Holton district at seven o clock
this "wednesday evening.
Ia w. AVERY has been at Montpelier the
past week assisting in taking charge Of the
jury in the Sanders murder trial.
Mrs. RACHEL HoRNER has moved from the
Mead house on Summer street and il living
with her brother, Clarence Webster.
LENTEN services will be held with DR..
Walling on Wednesday, and at the society
rooms on Friday, evening of this week.
REV. S. +. DREW, a son-in-law of Deacon
Daniel Chandler of Berlin, preached at the
Congregational church Sunday morning.
mhs AND Mrs w H. NEWTON CbleDIaUtu
the thirty-ffth anniversary oftheir marriage,
last Friday, by apleasant gathering at their
house.
THE ladies of the Methodist society will
hold a sociable this wednesday, evening at
the residence of Martin Cobleigh, Esq, at
the South Village.
G. ID. WILLIAMS has gone to Burlington,
where he has a situation as invoice clerk
with the Wells & Richardson Company,
wholesale druggists.
THE officers of the graded school district
will meet at the savings bank this (Wednes-
day evening at half-past seven o'clock, for
the abatement of taxes.
THE young ladies of the Universalist So
ciety will give pink tea-party at Concert
Hall Thursday, April 2. Tea at half-past
five. Entertainment at eight o'clock, consist
ing OF travesty, " The Mistletoe Bough,"
farce, tableaux and music.
TENEMENTs are very scarce in this village.
A gentleman who wished to move here from
a neighboring town spent whole day here
this week in trying to find good tenement
for family OF six or eight and was unsuc-
cessful. Some more good tenements would
rent readily at fair prices.
G.. w. KINGsBURY will occupy B. F. An
drus' house on Pearl street. S. l.. ID. Good
ale has moved from the house on DR.. Wall
ing's farm to the Holdsworth house on
North street. H. B. Hardy, who has taken
I
F. G. Cowper has rented the Soper house on
Central street, lately vacated by Mr.. Bel
KNAPP.
"THE Loyal Mountaineers " was played
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings by mem
bers of the Alpha Sigma ri Society of Nor
witch University, assisted by Mr.. Thomas
Averill, Miss Flora Averill, Mrs. j. NJ. Buzz
zell and Misses Fletcher and Mcintosh
Large and appreciative audiences were pres
ent on both evenings. Thursday evening
the play was successfully given at West
Randolph
| LIST of letters uncalled for at the North
! field t)postoffice, March "a, 1885: Ladies'
Hannah NJ. Bemis, Mrs. Martin Davis Miss
Sarah l.. Emerson, Miss Gennie S. Hayden,
Mrs. Jane Herman, Mrs. Flora Kimball
Mrs. James K. Pierce, Mrs Lizzie Patterson,
Mrs. Julia Rice and Miss G. Russell. Cen
Hemen-Nathan Canaan, W. H. Davis,
Joseph Garane, Henry Greene, j. F. Rich
mond and Peter West
j. II. CIRCUIT, Postmaster.
| WILLIAM SARGENT of Thetford stands at
the head in the boy-muscle line, your Will
| JAMESTOWN correspondents claims for Jason
Jeffords notwithstanding. Mr.. Sargent's
four sons together weigh seven hundred
sixty-two and one-half pounds, and stand
twenty-three feet, seven and one-half inches
high all being of large frame and very
muscular. Mr.. Sargent weighs two hundred
| ten pounds and is five feet eleven inches in
!
it is possible that in case of an emergency
they might prove a troublesome group to
handle Nert. H. H. W."
THE following was furnished by one of
! the company " The relatives, including
children and children's children the neigh
bors and friends, to the full capacity of the
house to accommodate, gathered at the
! house of Deacon Daniel Chandler and wife
of Berlin, on st. Patrick's day in the after
noon, to observe the tiftieth anniversary of
their wedding day In accordance with the
| old-time custom, they went early-soon
after dinner-and spent the afternoon WIS.,
iting,' which was evidently well enjoyed by
all and some very pleasant acquaintance
were made. About five o'clock the COM
pany was called to supper. The oysters
and other edibles were evidently modern,
but one table especially was spread with
some ancient crockery and other ware, in
good state of preservation. Mrs. Chandler
took her coffee from china cup that was
her grandmother's, more than century
old The deacon's cup once belonged to
his mother more than half as old. Eleven
cups and saucers and nine plates, of figured
pink, were from the first crockery Mrs.
Chandler had when married. Some pieces
were more modern, of flowing blue; a sugar
bowl over one hundred years old, pewter
platters and bread plate, no age given. The
snowwhite table-linen was homemade,
spun from flax by Mrs. Chandler before her
marriage. There were old-style tin and
earthen pepper boxes, and many other
things-more of which might be in many
families and highly priced, if they had
thought earlier to preserve them. Before
supper all were invited into the parlor, when
a table was brought in and placed before
Deacon and Mrs. Chandler, bearing quite
number of presents, tokens of remembrance,
which We're very neat and appropriate
and remarkably well-selected considering
that they were procured by so many differ
ent persons not knowing what others were
doing. These We're presented by the SON
in-law, Rev. S. f. Drew in an appropriate
address, which was happily responded to, at
the request of the recipients, by Rev. Will
lam S. Hazen. A grandchild, Miss Drew,
read very nicely selection, When This
| Old Ring was New" which was well-chosen,
as Mrs. Chandler had on her well-worn
wedding ring. Prayer was offered by Mr..
| Hazen and many congratulations rendered.
An incident occurred which was highly en-
joyed by all the company when it became
known: One party procured card-receiver,
| which was very pretty and considered suit
able until, upon more critical eXamina-
ton, the device of hearts, spades, ETC.. were
found upon it. The propriety of these in
a deacon's family was doubted and led to
the decision not to present it, Secrets will
out, and the purchase became known to one
or two. Power of persuasion was used and
after considerable curiosity became mani
fest by those not in the secret, the discarded
present was brought forth and put on exhi-
bition, very much TO the enjoyment of all,
| Altogether, the occasion was happily de-
of,.ll a, "A