The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01

tended picnic at Halls pond Wednesday.
Orange.
A REPUBLICAN caucus has been called at
the town hall for Thursday evening, Sep.
TENDER I'd. - Edith M. Lord opens
select school in the town hall to-day
daughter started for Philadelphia, their
future home, Tuesday. 80 Mrs. Minnie
Beard Manchester of Winchester, Mass,
visited her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. X.
Beard the past week. - Alvin Smith
and family are visiting friends in New
Hampshire. - J. Bartlett of Plainfeld,
agent for the Victor road-machine, will
work one on the road near II. p Lords
mill Friday, September 3D.. He hopes to
sell one to the town some time in the near
future. - Frank Cunningham has com
menced to get out timber to build house
in place of the one burned July 1st.
West Randolph.
| HENRY w. TEwKsBURY has had n Os-
good Snow paint him an oil painting nine
and one-half by twenty feet, 1.-THE Repulse
of Pickett's Charge" to be used in connec-
ton with his lecture, Battle Of Gettys-
burg the coming season. The landscape
is painted from ten photographs and the
furnished by Mr.. Tewksbury This is a
very fine painting. Some pronounce it SUI
perior to the $4,000 picture in the state
house. - The partnership of Flint &
| NlCuOlS, pIODTltbOIb VI bIt INtu lJlOH lnH,
has been dissolved, the former retiring from
the firm on account of very poor health.
- A. G.'Wheeler is doing quite bust
ness with his patent butter Tub cover fast
ener. He talks of building shop and
having steam-power. - A. A. Smith has
rented his fine store to Burlington firm,
who will put in large stock of clothing
| This will make three regular clothing stores
here. - Eta Chamberlin has been en-
gagged as principal of the grammar school
| ILL A
our village people attended camp-meeting
at Northfield. - Brick has been drawn
for a new reservoir on South Pleasant
street. - A large number attended the
Saratoga eecursion.
Washington.
j. w. AND Mrs. WHITE went to Roches-
ter last week to visit Rev. l.. l.. Greene
of Bath, Maine. Mr.. Greene's many friends
will be sorry to learn that his health is not
good, which will prevent his visiting this
place, as he intended. - The mite So
ciety meets with Mrs. Stillman Seaver this
week. - Orvis Curtis, son of William
Curtis, died last Sunday, after long and
painful illness. - Mrs. Edgerton of
Boston, who has has been visiting her pa.
rents Mr.. and Mrs. d. NJ. Flint, returns to
her home this week. - Martha Calef
and Miss Angel, who have been spending
the summer at the Washington House,
went to Saratoga last week. - Cyrus
OIullu ID DullulllB
Williamstown.
NEXT Saturday afternoon, at the town
hall, the board of civil authority will give
one more chance to unregistered voters to
have their names placed on the checklist
Let it not pass unheeded by all concerned
- A republican caucus will be held at
the town hall on Saturday evening next to
nominate candidates for representative and
justices of the peace. A full attendance Is
| Ina lA1 A ri rari.
ences was the hearing read from pulpit
in town on the sea-coast the wish for the
sympathetic interest of the congregation on
the part of one from whose family mem
Der was :" about going to sea-" If any OF
our sister towns about us shall not have
their hands full of their own concerns next
freeman's meeting day, will they kindly
take this town into a little sympathetic
thought? With the memory of the late past
and the present outlook the prospect is
dull and dreary for the election of any one
possibly, as representative. Partly will
united democracy, and divided Edmund:
and anti-Edmunds republicans, and VIZ
know not know many smaller and private
"antis," we are prepared for all sorts o
; "antics," except an election. 6 Ills tru'
: tits pity; it's pity too, tbs true!" - l
is occasion for rejoicing that so many of on
: tOwnsfolk (twenty or more, perhaps) coul'
avail themselves of the opportunity to visi
Saratoga in the excursions of last week
0 the Office of the Gulf Spring House one da
r last week. Landlord Durham sent Sherii
=. William Clark of Brool1field in pursuit of
t suspected party, and with what result will
:. appear in due time. - Our selectmel
G have authorized Chauncey Lougee to d.
: needed work in the cemetery, for which al
. ought to be glad, Who, if not the town
e can or will care for these resting-places il
, the years to come? Mere policy, to sa
f nothing of higher motives, would seem t
| 4 hot h.nr ,1s,a
i pense in this direction. - Suit is said
n have been recently brought by an QUITO
. town party against pensioned soldier her
e who had invested his pension money in
# small place. 1t is claimed that one cannc
a hold homestead in place thus purchased
$ - A friend with legislative experienc
thinks the half-shirers of Orange count
$ prominent among whom are said to be tn
t members of the county barr will not ava
) much in the coming legislature. But 1t wi
$ do no harm for the opponents of this hal'
[. ing to look well to the bars from this tim
X on. Let the real sentiment of all tn
If people of the county come to the light
d some way. - In his talk on life in Ce,
1t Ion Rev. Thomas Smith told us the otht
n day that he lived not in the city but in til
o country, and yet within radius of three c
e four miles from his home there are or
i hundred fifty thousand people, if we mi
:. take not, and is it not, perhaps, merely
l. question of time, however long, when tn
. anu OuueT places dDOuJ us may De JuSu d
g populous? And is it not an interesting queI
IL how far the lives here of to-day may have
Is bearing upon those of that far-off day? -
n Charlie Edison last week finished anotht
o year as clerk in j. X. Lyndes store. II
IS has engaged with Mr.. Lynde for the comm
Y year. He took a vacation last week, visi
e ing Saratoga in the time. - Miss Ann
M. Benedict will attend the fall term
Goddard Seminary, Barre. - Georl
Abbott, while returning from camp-meetiI
"a last week, met with a mishap that mig
a, have proved much more serious than it di,
ie While nearing the tannery here with
d spirited horse, the whitfietree of his bugs
Re broke, letting the thills on to the groun
~ Fortunately the horse was managed so thu
: no harm came to any one of the three in Il
o. buggy. Mrs. Caroline Ainswort
u Waterman and daughter, Miss Mary, a
20 about to return West, after more than
C. years stay here They will reside vii
20 Mrs WATERWAYS son, VIII, who is me
e. chant in Hay Springs, Nebraska. -
e. Silas Stone thinks his neighborhood mf
d bear the PALM in the matter of butte
d. nuts, since trees there have punches OF thi
rs teen each. - Our old townsman, Lore
Oh w. Glysson, now Of Concord, n. H., was
IN town last week. He has a family of thr
+: children, and answers to the name
ol grandpa to three more. All reports of M
Glysson in the years since he left us are We
i'll honorable to him. We have ju
I'll learned that our former townsman, Jol
H. White, son of the late Joshua White is Ii