The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-18

should have to swap her away. But this
season she has fine colt, which she treats
as affectionately as need be, fact that some
other half-discouraged farmer may be glad
to know. 80 One of our townsfolk has
lately been at the farm of Mr.. Reuben Will
bur in Calais for "a short stay, and returns
delighted with what was found there, both
in the kind and courteous family Of Mr..
Wilbur and the fine scenery about there, in
Guiding the view of Sabin's Lake. This
iarm has been the summer resort of sundry
city people in the past. -= Revs II. ID.
Miller and Harvey Webster have had under
consideration the subject of union meetings
in the school-houses in different sections of
the town on Sunday afternoons and it is
hoped that work of this kind may be success
fully carried on. There will be a meeting at
the W. u. Pratt school-house one week from
next Sunday, August 10Th, at four p. NJ. All
who can attend the service will be well
coined. Those who can bring the Moody
and Sankey hymn-books and aid in singing
are desired to do so. - Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed" Colby of Plainfeld were in town
over Sunday. 60 Rev. Alonzo Webster,
now of South Carolina, is visiting his brother,
Rev. Harvey Webster. He preached twice
last Sabbath at the Methodist church.
80 Mrs. Emily Simons Fuller, daughter
of the late Dana Simons of this place, died
few days ago in Bradford of internal can
GER Her body was brought here for burial
last Monday. - Mr.. and Mrs Walter
Newcomb are visiting DR.. Lester w. Han
sons family in Bradford. - John Miller,
the only son of Rev. II. ID. Miller, is at
home from Boston for a vacation. -
" Don Earle is employed in running sta
tionary engine in South Barre. - Joseph
Sanders and Henry Martin recently took
few days and good many more bass and
other fish at Groton pond. - There
were about fifty persons in attendance at
the Hatch picnic on Saturday last,
GpnrUp Wph9tpr nf Rp1l oil 10 t-iut
his father, Rev. Harvey Webster. -
Charles Wolcutt has taken possession of his
William Camp place and his son-in-law,
A. NJ. Bean, lives on the home farm. -
Miss Fanny f. Waldo and Horace Farnham
are to attend the fall term of the Methodist
Seminary in Montpelier. - A dark cloud
hangs over the home of our old townsman,
j. Den" White of Gadsden, Alabama.
The only living child Ia som by his first
wife (our townswoman, nee Miss Eveine $.
Martyn) has been compelled to give up work
in Texas and return home, it is feared to
die soon. The disease is of the lungs.
- Tracy l.. Jefforis accepts call to a
professorship of mathematics from col
lege in Akron, Ohio. He will soon enter
upon his work there. - Our ex-towns-
woman, Mrs \. p. Simons of Rutland, has
given $500 to the Rutland Free Library for
a collection of books as a memorial of her
late husband, a well-known son of this
place - Principal Andrew w. Edison
and wife of Jersey City, n j., were in town
last Saturday at the Hatch reunion. He
will return soon to his work as the head of
the schools in Jersey City for the coming
year. - Mrs. Ophir S. Martin and daugh-
ter Miss Ada, are about to take a trip
West, to be absent six or eight weeks.
- Joel Bass likes the st. Johnsbury
Academy so well that he proposes to attend
1t through the coming school year. -
| Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Winchester move to
| Rarrp wppk a in
Mrs. William Durkee's house - Mrs.
Asa s. Simonds is only waiting for her
nephew, Gilbert Andrews of Roxbury, to
finish repairs of his house, when she will 90
there to live. She is able to ride out quite
often this summer. - Rev. William
Schotield of Irasburgh was in town re-
Gently, for short stay. James S. Alb
bolt was in Boston few days last week.
lie comes back to remain short time prior
to a return to his southern home. -
Principal Daniel r. Martin starts westward
this week. - Mr.. Warren Poole yet re-
mains in a critical condition, with the
chances for recovery against him, perhaps.
His sister, Mrs. William S. Beckett, con-
| tinues very feeble. - Peter Gallant has
bought some sixteen acres of land near the
w. u. Pratt school-house at what would
seem to be bargain in the present granite
boom " in that section. - Frank o.
! Beckett arrived from Washington, ID. c..
last Saturday for vacation among home
| friends. He is not in very firm health
- Mrs. f. A. Hanaford of Chicopee,
Mass, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Heller
| Stickney. Mrs Minnie Clark Rowe
daughter of the late Mr.. Hazen Clark and
husband are living in San Francisco, Cal
We hear that Mrs. Rowe likes there much
- Our Ladies Reading Club will give
their " next day with modern authors /" to
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. These " days
prove pleasant and profitable ones to the
| club