The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09


his loss. - Barron Hay and William b.
Stevens have been appointed commission
ers on the estate of the late N. A. Bailey.
Braintree.
MONROE BRUCE, who has lived on the w.
III. Dubois farm, near Randolph Center, has
moved on to the farm in this town owned
by his father-in-law. - Allen Thayer
will sell his stock of hay and farming tools
at auction next Saturday. 80 Ed. Godfrey
has been very sick with pneumonia. but is
now convalescent =-C G. e. Woodward,
Jr., has gone to Grafton, where he is teach
ing in a graded school. - George G.
Hill of Boston was in town, last week, to see
about putting up steam-mil in this place:
- Belle Thayer is teaching the school
in district No. 8, which began last Monday,
and Mrs. Grace Clahin is teaching in dis
trict No. 8. - John A. Smith of Felch-
vile is stopping in town.
Chelsea.
WE have noticed in the papers several
references to the candidacy of Levi b. Villas,
father of Postmaster-general Villas of the
present cabinet, for town representative of
Chelsea in 1850. Levi b. Villas was the dem
ocratc candidate and the late Elihu Hyde
was the wing candidate. The facts, as
shown by the town records, are these On
the first ballot the vote stood 226 for Hyde,
224 for Villas and scattering-a total of 455
votes. The names on the checklist num-
AS there was no election on this ballot
second one was ordered, which resulted as
follows Hyde, 223; Villas, 261; scattering q
As the total vote was 1856 and the checklist
contained only 406 names, it was evident
that fraud of so votes still existed in the
ballot. L. B. Villas was declared elected
however, by the chairman, and notice was
given by the wings of their purpose to con-
test the election. The fraud was very evil
dent when the ballot-box was turned. The
Villas votes were small and neatly written,
and were either placed in the box before the
balloting commenced or were folded in
longer ballots and cast without being exam
ined by the constable Affidavits were i'm
mediately taken of all the wing voters, and
Mr.. Hyde contested the election before the
legislature and obtained his seat. The in
tention to commit fraud was so evident that
Mr.. Villas never put in an appearance at
Montpelier to claim his seat and soon after
moved to Wisconsin. His son, William F.,
was about eleven years of age at that time.
- Miss Fannie Pufer's remains were
brought here for interment last Wednesday
from St. Johnsbury, where she died. Her
funeral took place on Thursday at the
Methodist church - Mrs. G.. X. Bagley
died last week Tuesday and her funeral
took place Friday, Rev. Mr.. Cross officiating.
- William f. Hood and Mrs. Amos X.
Hood went to Lowell, Mass, for visit last
Saturday. Mrs. Hood expects to spend the
winter in Lowell. - Judges Tibbetts
and Lathrop were in town last week Tues
day, looking over the accounts of the county
treasurer and attending to other county
business. - 1t is rumored that j. a.
Twiss is to sell out and move elsewhere.
- Mrs. Charles X. Corwin went to
Beebe Plain, p. O., last week, returning on
Saturday Mr.. Corwin also came home
from Boston on Saturday. - Miss Ella
p. Herrick is home from West Randolph for
a few days. - John M. Comstock went
to Hanover, n. H., last Thursday, return
| ing on Saturday. - Miss Emily Norris is
at home taking care of her mother, who is
| ill. - John c. Clark was in town last
week to attend the funeral of Fannie Puffer
Corinth.
JOHN Fits nearly severed the thumb on
his left hand, recently, by bringing it in con-
tact with circular saw. - An entertain
ment consisting of Rotations etc, will be
held at the Corner on Christmas eve. A
similar one will be held at West Corinth at
the same time. - f. p. Flint had ten
sheep out through the snow-storm of No
vember 18th. They We're found, recently,
snowed-in" under tree.
East Corinth.
REV. II. p. JAMES returned from his
Thanksgiving vacation on Saturday. -
All enjoyed the candy-pull at Kemp's.
- The bills state that there is to be an
auction sale of the personal property of the
late John A. Clark next Saturday. -
Mrs. Sullivan Taplin, while coming in from
the barn, fell and hurt herself quite badly.
- The friends and relatives of Moses
Sawyer gathered, December 1st, to cele-
brate his ninetieth birthday. Presents were
brought in and cake with his age and the
year attracted considerable attention. 1t
was an occasion long to be remembered
and was enjoyed by all.
Newbury.
Wrrr II 10 ,,,lx oh airbt In M
snow along the river, in many places on the
hills it is fully two feet deep. - Corrie
Hodgdon who, by reason of sickness, came
home from her school a few weeks ago, is
better and will return next week. She
| teaches in the town-house district. -
Mrs. John Hale is quite sick. - H. G.
Carley has completed his years labors with
w. III. Silsby, station agent, and gone to his
home in East Calais - Hattie Reyes
is spending the winter at Evanston Ill
- Minnie Chase of Waltham Mass,
has arranged to remain in town this winter
with her sister, Mrs. n. E. Hutchins. -
Myrtle Clark has returned to town. She is
considered first-class dressmaker. -
The singing school taught by Professor ID
A. French is well attended. A good inter
est is manifested by our young people
- Buck Rogers and family have gone
to Florida.
East Randolph.
LAFAYETTE PRIEST died very suddenly
last Saturday morning. He arose in hi.
usual health, which was generally very
good, and was going about his work, wher
he was taken with a coughing spell and dice
of internal hemorrhage before assistance
could be summoned. - The entertain
ment at the hall, last Friday evening, was
well attended. An entertainment for tn,
benefit of the ladies' library is to be helC
soon. - George Hunt has had wei
driven, which gives him water in tn,
kitchen by pumping it. - G. w. Taft /,
making preparations for building a new
barn. - Bigelow Durkee has moved OF
to his sons place, lately vacated by ALDER
Emery.
West Randolph.
REV. V. NJ. HARDY is delivering a series
of very interesting lectures in the Congrega
tional vestry Sunday evenings. - Las
Saturday, while Fayette Priest was cough
ing, he ruptured a blood-vessel and bed t,
death in short time. The deceased wa
about sixty years of age. - Rev j.
Goodall of Essex preached at the Baptis
church last Sunday. He was formerly tn
pastor of this church. We understan,
Rev. r. o. Allen has sent in his resignation
as pastor of the Christian church. TO TAX
place in February. - w. II. Nichols ha
put "A Hall Typewriter into the probat
, office - The reading-room has beef
moved into Wheelers block and the tele
| phone office into Fred Joslyn's store. Dr
w. S. Curtis has the rooms of the former 70
his dental business. - Dana Morse ha
purchased full-blood Holsten bull and
heifer. We believe these are the only Hol
stems in town. They are said to be yer