The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-23
Washington County.
Barre.

Barre.
A. Il. COOPER has bought a building lot of
Wallace Parker = Forty persons went
on the Old Orchard excursion. - The
band has received its new uniforms, and
will play in the park Saturday afternoon,
from five to half-past six o'clock. -
Miss Kimball of Chicago will speak in the
Methodist Episcopal church next Sunday on
Sunday-school work. G. III. Jackson
purchased the Miller house, at the auction,
for $1,000 and Oscar Smith the Bartlett
house for S525. - Goddard Seminary
has one hundred twenty students. - l..
j. Mack has painted several very tasty signs
lately, among them one for the new print
ing-office of Thomas II. Cave.
Berlin.
G.. W. DUSTIN reports eight hundred
twenty-five bushels of oats as the produc-
ton of ten acres of land. == Potatoes
have rotted to greater extent than was at
first expected, some farmers who have large
fields not considering it best to dig them.
80 Mary l.. Bosworth is teaching in
Northfield and Myrtle Benjamin in Barre.
- Miss Lou ID. Andrews of Pittsford,
who taught in district No. / two terms last
year, has returned to teach the fall and win
ter terms.
Calais.
4 SHORT account of the reunion of Com
pany /, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, held
in North Calais, will be found in the Soldiers
Budget on the third page. - We had a
sharp frost last Monday night Many corn
fields were not forward enough TO escape
injury But few pieces are as yet cut up.
G.. a. Watson filed his forty-ton
silo last week with Sanford corn-fodder. I.
T. Lamphere has one that will hold about
sixty tons. 60 Potatoes are mostly dug
and the crop is below the average. They
have rotted badly in some localities. -
Wheat is yielding well this fall, most farm
., =.
Quite number of our towns-people will at
tend the fair at Morrisvlle this week.
East Calais.
FREEMAN GRAY has bought OF A. p.
Wheelock that part of his farm known as
the Smile Bancroft place, and intends to
begin, as soon as possible, fitting the build
ings for occupancy. 60 Next Sunday is
the last day Mr.. A. n. Bliss will preach in
our church this season, as he will go away
soon. 1t is deeply to be regretted that he
cannot be engaged for longer time, for his
sermons have been of more than ordinary in
terest, showing careful study and deep
thought. He has been universally liked.
- Last Thursday several of the near
relatives and friends of A. ID. Pearce joined
in celebrating, with him, his siXtieth birth
day, by ride and picnic dinner on the
shore of the Nelson pond, in Woodbury..
The spot selected for the dinner was on the
farm where Mrs. Pearcc was born and where
she spent the earlier years of her life. The
day was perfect for the time of the year and
filled with hearty enjoyment and when the
company separated it was with the wish
that there might be many happy returns OF
the day. -= The band will give prom
enade concert in Gray's hall next Saturday
evening. The ladies are to serve cake and
coffee. The proceeds go to aid the band
- w. Ii. Rideout of Boston has been
spending his vacation here. VIII is looking
hale and hearty, and is tine-loolling speci-
men of the police force. - Mrs. Mary
Williams of French Corral, Cal, has beer
visiting her cousins, the Dwinells, the past
week. - f. b. Fay has gone back to
Harvard. - Charley Wing has so far re-
covered from his injuries as to go this week
to Fairhaven to work in tin.shop. -
Mr.. and Mrs w. E. Laird are stopping il
Barre for few weeks. Mrs. Laird is board
ing while her husband canvasses the towr
for Grants book.
North Montpelier.
Mrs EPHRAM PRAY is very low and al
the present writing there is little hope o.
her recovery. - The skating rink is tc
be open this week Saturday evening. The
Plaintield cOrnet band furnishes music
III. f. Nye starts for Boston, thi.
week, to continue his musical studie:
through the fall and winter months
- Miss Kittie Little, who has been Wis
iting with friends and relatives in thi!
place, returned to her home in Putney las
week Saturday. - We We're very mucl
! pleased, several days ago, by receiving
short visit from our old friend and eX
townsman, Byron Reynolds. Some tifteer
or eighteen years ago Mr.. Reynolds emi
grated to Oregon and located several mile,
out of the city of Portland, where he ha:
been quite extensively engaged since tina
| time in farming. The present year he ha
| kept dairy of eighty-two cows, what but
ter he makes from them being contracted t,
! parties in the city of Portland at fifty cent
per pound. If we may judge from Mr.. Rey
nolds appearance (he weighing over tw'
hundred fifty pounds, the state of Oregon il
| a good place to emigrate 20. - The small
poX scare has caused very general vaccina
ton in this town. - Vague rumorS com
to our ears from neighboring town of &
double wedding at no distant day, in which
the Freds and Minnies are quite strangel,
mixed up. = The Hammett Brother
have purchased the Davis farm whicl
joins the old Hammett place on the east
| This makes them a farm of about two hun
dred fifty acres. 1t is their intention t.
carry on the stock-raising business, particu
larly that of horses.
Fayston.
The school on the German Flats has beel
closed on account of a smallpox scare, bu
good authority says it is nothing but tn
wind. - Our correspondent says tn
friends OF JOSIAH Smith complain about tn
report of the case of McAllister as. Smith il
last weeks WATCHMAN So far as we know
the report of the case was intended to b
impartial; and it is not our purpose TO pub
lish any report or statement that is no
based upon actual fact. If there was an,
error in the report referred to we regret it,
North Fayston.
On Friday afternoon several of MI
Browns neighbors made visit to his corn
field, and when they left his corn was al
cut and stocked. - Clayton Henry, VIII
has been sick with typhoid fever, is improv
ing. - Mrs. Maria Fisher, who has bee
quite sick, is recovering. - Mrs. Davi
Brown is quite i'll with erysipelas and in
tlammation of the bowels. - Winni
Brown has typhoid fever.
South Fayston.
THE bright days of the past week hav
made the farmer look upon his corn Gro
with little more hope of a fair yield
80 The recent breaking down of
bridge has aroused the selectmen to see t
the rest of the bridges, and the public ca
now travel with more comfort and safety
- X. j. Patterson has gone to Ware
to work on S. &. Patterson's barn. Mr. Pa
terson is thorough workman.
Marshfield.
REV. Mr.. WELLS exchanged last Sunda
with Rev. Mr. Sherburn of Plaintield. =--
The band boys visited g. G. Bent last FIR
day night, by invitation, and were hanC
somely RECALLED with apples and other ed
bes which Clark always has ready for hi
friends, - Some twenty-six of the friend
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