The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-30

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tickets sold to the fair ground last week
was eight hundred sixty-nne. -= G. G.
Davis has moved into Mrs. Bliss house on
Summer street - Rev. j. II. Bartlett
has been engaged by the Vermont Grand
| Lodge of Good Templars as state organizer,
and it is expected that he will begin his
work next week. - George III. Rich
mond and wife of Brooklyn are spending a
couple of weeks in town, having arrived last
week Tuesday. =- II. II. Brown went to
! Burke last Friday, and will return this
week with his wife. == The ladies of tle
! Womans Christian Temperance Union had
a booth at the fair for the sale of refresh
ments, and their receipts were something
over $40 - Tuesday afternoon Alden
Boyce and George Rising of Braintree were
arrested by Justice Holton on the way from
| Montpelier, in q state of intoXiCation, and
placed in the lookup. They are to be taken
before a justice this Wednesday, morningat at
the office of Frank Plumley, Esq, for dis
closure. - A valuable COW belonging to
Thomas Averill died recently of milk fever.
This is the third one Mr.. Averill has lost
within a few years. == The ladies' circle
of the Universalist society will meet with
Mrs. e. Pope, on Main street, Thursday after
non and evening of this week. A full attend
ance is desired. - A. Pearsons has sold
his four-years-old bay to party in Massa-
chusetts. - List of letters uncalled for
in the postoflice at Northfeld (vt( for
the week ending September 29;th Mrs.
Lucinda Gould, Hon. e. f. Handy, Joseph
A. Shiney (D, j. l.. Sanford A. c
Brown, G.: e. Arms George. II. Wright
William Wiley, Miss Il. G. Waite,
(Signed.) II. l.. Kenyon, Postmaster. ==
G. IT, Crane is in Boston this week buying
his fall stock and his wife is visiting their
daughter, Mrs. Small, at Northwood, n. II.
- Mr.. and Mrs. James Pike of South
Royalton visited at ID. p. Kings last week.
- Mrs. Harriet Bugbee went to Hard
wick, Tuesday to visit friends. - Mrs.
Knapp and her daughter, Miss Lizzie, left
Tuesday morning for an absence of two
, months in Massachusetts, New York and
New Jersey. - Mrs. Nathaniel Westgate
of Haverhill, n. H., has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. j. X. Egerton, the past week.
Another sister, Mrs. Ellen Lowering OF
| Claremont, n. H., is now here. = W. f
Latham, late offensive partisan post
master at White Cloud, Mimi, is spending
a vacation in town. - Newell Byam
and wife of Bethel were at II. II. Keyes
last week. - Willie E. Pearsons started
, on Tuesday for Trinidad Colorado, where
, he has good situation
f GRADED SCHOOL NOTES.
MD-TERM examinations are to he held
; this week Friday. 60 Miss Alice Me
Clearn was unable to attend school last
week on account of sickness. - Owing
I to the storm Wednesday, Thursday anC
part of Friday was granted to the fair-seek
ers. 60 Teachers, as well as pupils have
: attended the Indian exhibition the pas
, week.
Waitsfield.
:, THREE days of thepast week snow was Wis
q ibe on the hills and mountains and winter
/ clothing was donned. Sunday was as warn
p as a July day. - Mrs. Calista Joslii
n celebrated her eighty-fourth birthday by re
p ceiving numerous friends, who remembered
:, her with appropriate gifts. - Fred Car
"a roll is laid by with sore eyes. - Severa
# stiff arms appear among our towns-people, il
n consequence of their endeavors to ward OF
a smallpox - Rev. Mr.. Taplin spent th
h Sabbath in town. - Albert Richardson
l., has moved to the Common, going on to hi
a mothers place, who is to make her hom
n with him.
e REV. Mr.. WILLIAMS has been holding
l. series of meetings here the past week
n They were well attended and considerabl
y interest was manifested. - Harry Porte
!, was so unfortunate as to lose his pocket
It book while returning from Waitsfeld, on
2. day last week. 1t contained about $40 i
money. - Everett Pierce started drov
of two hundred thirty head of cattle t
& Massachusetts last Friday, f. II. Edgerto
p and b. Robinson accompanied him. --
;. Mrs. n. h. Bradeen returned to her home i
" Maine last Saturday - Frank Steele
IT visiting his parents a few days. - Mrs
e w. p. Smith of East Bethel is visiting he
,. sister, Mrs. Laura Cuthbert.
n Waterbury.
a PETER A. SHoNEo shot a large grey will
goose at Bolton Falls last Saturday.
E. measured six feet and three inches from ii
Y, to tip. - Sam Morris house on CrosSet
d Hill was consumed by fire last week Tue.
l. day night. He saved but a small quantit
r of his household goods. The fire originate
st through a defective chimney. The buiC
ings were insured for 5000 and the house
hold furniture for $3.50. 60 Arms
,r Hanes had car loaded with meal broke
/. into last week Wednesday night, and abou
n one thousand pounds We're stolen. No clu
10 to the thieves has yet been discovered
a although several places have been searched
r - w. IL. Billings is not to rebuild hi
r mill permanently but is to erect ten
| porary building suitable for saving an
N dressing what lumber he has on hanC
,e - AS one of our merchants was waitin
v on a man, evidently democrat, they got I
r. talking over the political situation. Th
N merchant said to the democrat: Didn't yo
n know | was a democrat?" and went immt
st dately to another part of the store !
< drummer, who sat near by, heard the tall
le and said to the democrat in very low tone
n Is that fellow you was talking with
" democrat?' The democrat Strengthened II
~ and said: Z" No, sir; he is not democrat
y he is mighty good fellow, that's what h
is" - Ed. Chesley has closed his labor
as clerk for Mr.. Ashley, and is now at wor
g for Arms & Haines Melvin Hoadley take
e his place with Mr.. Ashley. -= Mrs. Bet
Is sey Stanley, aged siXty-seven years, die
er last Sunday morning of typhoid fever. Sh
d had been living with her nephew, Waite
ID Guptil for many years past. - Mr.. Gi
m son, who has been foreman on c. G. WA
: ren's farm, has got through and gone on t
st the G. f, Clough farm, near the Center
" - c. +. Wyman went TO Boston las
" week. - Mabel Wells and Abbie Haine
II started on Tuesday morning for OswegC
1t n. Y, to attend the state normal schoo
Is - Hon. George NJ. Dewey's lecture o
N temperance, last Saturday evening, wa
k sound and practical. He said 1--WE mus
Il educate generation up to total abstinenc
and then commence legislation, for to legi.
late before is beginning at the wrong end.
'e Waterbury Center.
>, Mrs. p. Il. SMITH of this place picked Il
u a silk handkerchief and bead watch-cas
:. 80 on the fair ground, which she would d
10 very glad to restore to the owners. -=
70 The ladies aid society meets this (Wednes
d day evening with Mrs w, Il. Marshal
~ Everybody invited. - The ladies of tn
=, ~ river society realized about SIS at their ice
lo cream festival at c. c. Montgomery's, las
10 Thursday evening. = 1t is expected tina
- there will be communion service at tn
Baptist church next Sunday. = Rev. MI
Wheeler of Barre is expected to preach a
4 the Methodist church next Sabbath
is Worcester.
~ ARTHUR EMERY, who has been at wor
" ON the railroad, fell from freight car, II
y Gently, incapacitatng him for labor 70