The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-26
LamOille County.
HYDE Park.

hyue INark.
DIR. PETTY is moving into Mrs. Hurl-
Durds house, formerly occupied by g. II.
McNally. G. S. Page is finishing off
the Jewett building into tenements. -
y. IL. McNally has moved on to the Clark
farm, which he recently bought of A. r.
Terrill. - The fall term of the Lamoille
Central Academy will commence Wednes-
day, September I'd, with Professor r. W.
Hurlburd as principal and Miss Stella
Waterman as preceptress. - A boy of
Moses Newcitty's got his hand badly jammed
by getting it caught between the wagon
wheel and a stone with which he was
trigging the wheel. DIR. Holbrook dressed
the wound, which is doing well. -
Colonel Sawyer was in Canada last week,
looking up evidence in pension case.
Stowe.
Mrs. HERBERT STRAW is quite sick with
typhoid fever - Clarence Lamson and
wife from Chicago are visiting at A. G.
Lamson's. - Miss Matte Nutting has
returned home from South birmingham,
Mass, accompanied by Hattie Hodge of that
place. - Charlie Sargent's two children
have been very sick with cholera infantum
for several days. Monday morning one,
boy two or three years of age, died. The
other child is considered trife better at
present writing. - A company of our
young people went to the Notch " last Fri
day, camping They returned on Sunday
80 A few from our Good Templars
lodge attended the county union at Norris
vile Tuesday of this week. il. o.
Plank has left the Mount Mansfield House,
and III. L. Bailey, after Diminishing consider
able of his help, is endeavoring to run the
hotel himself. - Mr.. Horace Hazen and
wife of Illinois, after an absence of thirty
two years, are visiting in town. - Miss
Mary Barnes of Iowa and Mr.. and Mrs.
Spear of Amherst, Mass, are in town.
80 Ira George of Boston has been here.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Crabtree started for
home last Thursday morning. - Some
time in early October there is to be an ex-
cursion from Boston, which H. b. Faunce is
to transport from Waterbury to Cancels
Hump. The party is expected to number
from i've hundred to eight hundred. -
Thursday evening of this week there is to
be an ice-cream festival at the Congrega-
tional church. - Mrs. Hyzer spoke at
the West Branch church ON the 10th, from
! Matthew V: 20. Last Sunday Rev. III. A.
Spencer of Montpelier preached from the
same text. - Last Sunday morning quar-
| terly meeting services were held at the
Methodist church, Presiding-elder II. A.
! Spencer being present. - Sunday even
| ing there was a praise service at the Con-
gregational church. The house was filed
Wolcott.
Mrs. CURTIS BRowN died last week We'd
nesday, after many months of great suffer-
ing from a cancer. - Mr.. and Mrs.
town for short visit. - Last week
Tuesday afternoon Chester Baley's house
and barn We're burned while all the family
We're away but Mrs Bailey. Most of the
furniture was saved. Mrs. Bailey was
| knocked down and quite a cash cut in her
head by door falling on her. Two Portu-
guese, who were at work for Mr.. Bailey, had
their clothing burned, together with thirty
dollars in money. Loss, about $500; in
sured for $500. Cause of fire unknown.
- L. A. Fife has several men at work
on his tenement block, and has got it pretty
| well along. - One day last week Thomas
White and f. NanOrnam hired team of j.
Laraway under false pretence; went to
Woodbury. and drank more than they ought
to, and We're arrested. White settled his
share of breaking the carriage by paying
twenty-seven dollars, and disclosed ON j.
Ainsworth, who was fined ten dollars and
costs. NanOrnam was put under two hun
dred dollars bail until he has his trial.
- Charles Laraway has rented w. w.
Gates house. = Last Friday night light
ming struck Stephen Johnson's house, in the
north part of the town, burning it to the
ground. - The Universalsts had an ice
cream festival last Saturday night. There
was quite a company out. Net profit, ten
dollars. - Peck x Fife have let a job to
George Wells to cut the spruce timber on
sixty acres of land and to get it TO the steam.
mill. They have also let another sixty acres
to Z. Fisher TO cut and get the timber to
the mill. - The masons had quite a
gathering at their district meeting last Fri
day. Ninety-seven took dinner at the hotel