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


FIVE OF our young ladies in town are at
tending school at Morrisville. - Petty
thievlng has began again, and some gardens
have been stripped of everything of any
worth. Apple trees, Corn-fields and turniD
patches all lose their share. - Potatoes
in the east part of the town promise an
abundant yield, but they are rotting badly,
some of the early varieties eing almost
worthless. 80 Miss Cora Whitcomb is at
tending school at the Pond and boarding
with her mother Mrs. Preston Peake.
- Bradley Hutchings and wife who,
after an absence OF twenty-one years, have
been in town on a visit to relatives, have re-
turned to their home in Massachusetts.
East Gilmore.
JOSIE FIsKE is at Beach Island, Maine.
- Several young people of this place
are attending school at Hardwick this fall
Hyde Park.
Miss FANNY BEECHER, whose illness was
mentioned last week, died at the house of
her father, in Johnson, Monday evening
August 31st, aged twenty-eight years.
About seventy from this place attended her
funeral, which was held the following
Wednesday. 80 six-years-old girl of v
A. Gilmore's fell from the high beams in her
fathers barn last week Tuesday, striking
on the rear end of a hand-cart which broke
her fall, so that she slipped from that on to
the floor, without receiving any serious in
jury. - The " Rustics =" of this place
went to johnson last Friday, to play the
third, or rubber, game of ball with the
&C No Names" of Morrsville. But after get
ting on the ground the :" No Names /" re-
fused to play, in consequence of the " Rus
tics - having new man to take the place
of their catcher, who had left town AL
though the new man belongs in town and
had regularly joined the club, they refused
to play, and the Rustics " claim the game
as forfeited. - School commenced at the
academy the I'd instant, with about sew
enty-fve scholars.
Morrisville.
THE fall term of school at Morrisville Acad-
envy opened on Wednesday of last week,
with a large attendance in all departments.
- A large number from town will attend
the state fair at Burlington this week. -
A large new organ of the Mason & Hamln
make has been placed in the Congregational
church. Although not pipe organ, it works
with pump, has three decks of keys and
over thirty stops. - The " No Name "
base ball team played with the North Hyde
Park team on Saturday, gaining a victory by
a score of twenty-four to fifteen. - The
democratic brethren are getting more and
more into trouble over the Morrisville post
office, and street corner harangues, with sad
falling-out scenes, between those who have
grown gray in the democratic service
are everyday occurrences. j. G. Robinson,
the present incumbent has served faithfully
in that capacity for some over twenty-three
years, but to relieve our people it seems a
grave necessity that he should be called
upon to step down and out Charles H.
Rich, Albert G. Small, ID. Albion Gilbert
and &. j. Slayton are very actively in the
field for the position of postmaster. Each
one thinks himself the more deserving and
the better fitted for the appointment. The
supporters of Mr.. Small seem to be getting
desperate over the long delay and have
posted numerous calls for meeting of the
democratic voters of the town, to find the
choice of the party in the matter. But it is
claimed that the call is a fraud, being
signed "by the order of the town com
mttee," when it is claimed that the town
committee have given no such order or
consented to any such move. If the meeting
is held as is expected, next Saturday even
ing, considerable excitement is expected,
and the result will probably be a still wider
difference of opinion in regard to who is the
right man, as the candidates are canvassing
the town. urging their signers to !" stick"
- Miss Flora Terrill has returned to
Montpelier. where she is preceptress in the
Union School, Miss S. Carrie Chase has re-
turned to Mortified, where she is precep-
tress in the high school, and Professor w.
II. Terrill has returned to his professorship
in the Methodist Seminary at Montpelier.
- Mrs. S. G. Sanborn is reported in a
very critical condition.
Wolcott.
Mrs. FERRIN, on East HILL had a slight
paralytic shock one day last week. -
Colby Wells died last Thursday, aged about
eighty-seven years. - NJ. G. Wheeler is
doing good job filling up the low ground
at the side of his shop. 80 Timothy Ar
buckle is building dam for his repair shop
- William Grout has barganed for a
monument to be set ON his cemetery lot.
- Lewis Strong has traded his horse
with l.. a. Tillotson for top buggy.