The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-05


day evening with Mrs. U. A. Clark, Jr.
East Brookfield.
MISS MINNIE MARSHALL is sick with gas
trio fever. - DIR. Clement Goodrich is
practicing medicine with his brother, DIR. V.
q. Goodrich. - Perk. Flint of West
Randolph was in town, recently, buying
wool - The union religious society OF
this place has secured the services of Rev.
Mr.. Tying of New Hampshire for the coming
year. - Joseph Newell, ESD, has a
niece from Florida visiting at his place.
Chelsea.
The picnic given by the fresh-air children,
in the Douglass grove, was well attended,
and very much enjoyed by the children
Chelsea cornet band furnished the music
- w. II. II. Hall and wife are taking
carriage drive through the Green Noun
tains in the vicinity of Warren, Vt. A
game of base ball was played between the
Chelsea second nine and a club composed
of members from STAFFORD, Hanover, etc,
on Friday last. 1t resulted in victory for
the Stratford combination. - Will John
son got badly injured by runaway horse
recently, his arm being fractured. -
Rev. +. l.. Hatch and wife took carriage
drive to the White Mountains last week.
- M: A. Hatch of Brockton, Mass, is
visiting friends in town. - Mrs. =. =.
Dexter has gone to Tilton, n. H., on visit
to her daughter, Nellie. - w. Z. Towns
end and wife, who have been visiting
friends in Waterbury, have returned home.
Newbury.
SEVERAL houses were broken into few
nights ago by some unknown person or per-
sons. But little plumber was obtained
No clue has yet been discovered by which
the intruders can he identified and brought
to justice. - The heaviest shower of
rain known to our oldest inhabitants oc-
CURED here last Friday. About four inches
of water came down en- mdsse and the
streets for few moments looked like rivers
and the fields like lakes or seas. - Rev.
Orange w. Scott. formerly of this place, has
accepted the principalship of East Green
witch Or. ~ Academy. Ncwbury is Brother
SCOTS native town. He fitted for college
at Newbury Seminary, graduated at the
| Wesleyan University, Middletown Conn.
! and has since been connected with the New
| Hampshire conference, and more recently
and of late with one of the New York confer
ences. 80 Miss Belle Hubbard will have
charge of our village school this fall. -
Miss Alice Stebbins is at home from White
| field, n. H., and is taking lessons of Profess
sor ID. A. French on the piano at the sem
mary - Mrs. William Atkinson and
Belle and Harry Hubbard have gone to the
beach, to be absent few weeks. - Mrs
Edwin and Hattie Reyes are spending the
| summer in town. - Mrs Edward Deant
has so far recovered from her recent sick.
ness as to be able to ride out. - Irs
Brainerd of St. Johnsbury made his friends
here short call last week. He is in much bet
ter health now than last spring. Pro
fessor David A. French will have charge o
| the musical department at the seminary
another year. - Ezekiel Hubbard, who
has been visiting the Poland Springs il
| Maine, returned home short time since
- The young people who have beef
camping at Fairlee pond returned HON,
late Saturday night. They We're in camp
| x-nalT md nTrfa MA
Orange.
A SEVERE rain and hail storm passed owe
the northern portion of this town last Fri
day, breaking some window glass and doin,
considerable damage to crops. - Mis-
Della Nj. Barron, a graduate of Goddar'
seminary, has been engaged to teach tn
fall and winter terms of school in distric
No. /. The fall term begins the first Mon
day in September. - Mrs Isaac viii
liams a former resident of this town, die,
in Groton last week and was buried in tn
Orange cemetery on Wednesday. - Ed
gar Curtis is again driving stage, after hav
ing been laid by ten days with a felon o.
his finger. - A. r. Nelson is unable t
do any work. being troubled with asthma
- Miss Belle Thurber of Washington
closed successful term of school in dstrC
No . last Saturday. Oliver FerriI
wife and seven children, have moved int
the old school-house on the Green" -
The school in district No. 3, taught by Mis-
/ Lena Cutler, closed successful term las
Friday, the parents of the pupils attendin
the closing exercises. Those having no al
sent or tardy marks We're Lillian BrenC
Carrie Loveland. Cora Cults Earl Cutler
Leon Cummings, Earl Cummings, Albert Cow
ley and Frank Cauley. Lula Cummings wa
absent only one day. There were only fou
tardy marks during the term. The teaehe
received numerous presents at the close
the school,
West Randolph.
, THE excursion from this place to Wills
! boro Point, n. Y, this week Thursda,
promises to be well patronized. The priC
, for the round trip is only one dollar. TIL
; train leaves this station at twenty minute
| past seven. The eXcursonists will cross LAX
Champlain in the elegant new steamt
Reindeer" A good band probably or
, from Randolph will furnish music. -
Rev. ID. c. Thatcher of Bethel occupied I'll
Methodist pulpit last Sunday in eXchang
I with Rev. Mr.. Kidder - Rev. j. /
Bartlett and f. NJ. Whitney, editors of I'll
Christian Messenger and the Northfeid Neto
! respectively were in town last Saturda,
r - Frank Butterfield was performing Q
3 horizontal bar, last Sunday, when he fe
and shattered his arm. - DIR. Blancl
! ard was buried with Masonic honors la
a Wednesday. - The Episcopal society
: Randolph Center is having history of IL
: church printed. - Walter Morse
Y BrOokheld commenced clerklng for d.
: Mitchell last week. - John Dubois +
j. Gently fell from his pony and was quite S
verely injured - Miss Hattie Chase
Atlanta, Georgia, formerly teacher in OF
graded school, is visiting friends here. 81
has been meeting with good success in ii
South teaching negro children. - Pri
: cipal Conant of the normal school was
\ Hartford last week. - E. Tracy al
t wife of Chelsea were in town last wee
h Mr.. Tracy contemplates buying place her
# - Colonel Farr of Harold, Dakota, III
= been in town the past week. He
y in company with Fred Beedle in Harrol
e who is a son of Albert Beedle of this plac
n - Mrs. w. G. Carleton, and her sist
:, from Troy. n. Y, will go to Concord,
+ H.. next week to visit a sister - MI
J. l.. p. Thayer has been visiting at Barr
l. - Miss Genie Bancroft of Brooklyn
II in town. - III. G.. Cole of Boston h
\ joined his family at Mrs. +. I. Smith
d - Mrs. f. b. Pratt and son of Bost,
e are stopping at Charles f. Abbott's. -
n Mrs. Belle Manley (nee Emery and husbal
II have returned to Boston. - Ed Soper
Is Northfield was here last Saturday. -
e A Bethel firm offers number eighteen ladie
d shoes for sale. The Bethel ladies have lar
II feet, but we have never seen one wearil
e number eighteens.
n West TOpsham.
At THE hay crop, which is nearly harveste
d is very much better than was anticipate