The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-21

loo.Do' - Ed. Strong is doing q flourish
ing business at Darlington, Dakota. He is
amounts to nearly half million dollars per
year; - About twenty-five pupils of the
Graded School had a sugar-party at Harris
Bass one day last week. - G.. L. He
bard lost good horse recently. 1t is
reported that M. Il. Warrington will become
landlord of the Central Vermont House at
South Royalton. - Miss Kate Gillett of
East Randolph has gone to New York to
learn stenography. - G.. s. Moulton of
New York is making arrangements for ex-
tensive summer work on the Green Noun
tain stock farm here. - Elliot Cushman
has sold the Gee place on Central street to a
Massachusetts man. u. w. Hale will
move his Photographic building near j..
McBride's on to Weston street and convert
1t into dwelling 60 Miss Kate Gladding
of New York is here for the summer. -
Willard Gay and wife and w. b. Wall and
family are on their way home from Thomas
vile, Ca, where they spent the winter
- Judson Fits has moved on to his
farm in Braintree.
Tunbridge.
A PARTIALLY insane tramp came to this
place last Saturday evening. His hair and
beard were very long and of a dirty yellow
color. - Mrs. Fred Starr starts to-day
for Tracy, MINI. 49, William Lee and
family returned to New York last week
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burned arm. - f. A. Tucker has moved
into Mason Farnham's house. - The la
dies of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union hold prayer-meeting at the resi-
dence of Mrs. S. E. Hayward Tuesday even
ing. - n. Underwood has moved into
the tenement formerly occupied by S. A.
Dean. - AT the meeting of the Woman s
Christian Temperance Union, held last Fri
day, arrangements were made for the hold
ing here of the county institute the first
week in June. - The members of the
choir gave j. W. Bright a surprise party
last Saturday evening. They carried with
them small snow bank and plenty of ma
pie strip. - The Bethel campfire, held
last Friday evening, was attended by some
of the members of Whitney Post and the
Relief Corps.
Washington.
The Universalist society have service
for the children next Sunday. Rev. II. f.
Rhoades will not be here, on account of the
Easter service at Barre. - The village
school commences May LIST. Miss Florence
Powers will be the teacher. Jennie Bart
lett will teach in the Enoch Martin district.
- Elder Cross preached the last SER
mon of his year last Sunday at the Baptist
church. - Mr.. Ira c. Calef is at home
for few days.
Williamstown.
THE examination of teachers will be held
OU utAt dJ Jue village SCHOOl-nOuSe,
beginning at nine A. NJ. - Miss Fannie
f. Waldo will teach the summer school in
the Folensby Goodrich district, and Miss
Flora Erskine in the Herbert p. Martin dis
trict. Miss Eta Martin is to teach on the
West Hill in Chelsea. - Elliot Watson
has just returned from his first course of
medical lectures in New York city. -
Messrs. Lynde & Cheney have recently re-
ceived thirteen tons of bran. They seem to
be ready to feed q multitude hereabouts
- Herbert Colby has bargained with
Mrs. Fred Martin for the Septa Simons
farm" His friends will of course let flow
benedictions on the trade. - Rev. r. ID.
Miller last Sunday gave his people an ex.
cellent sermon on the use and abuse of this
worlds goods. - The Eastern Boy
Prentiss," is again to be seen on oul
streets, Harvey L. Cheney holding the lines.
His home is to be with Mr.. Cheney for the
present. - Mrs. j. X. Lynde is again to
SINGERS " of the Congregational choir or
Sundays. We are sometimes asked by hei
old pupils and friends in adjacent towns il
she will not again take up the work OF
teaching music, in which she has given SC
much satisfaction. Her answer is nay
- Our former towns-folk, Mr.. and Mrs
Hosea Patterson, have been with Landlord
Barron in his Florida hotel the past winter
They are about to return North for Whit,
Mountain hotel work the coming season
- Mr.. John Lynde has received tn,
news of the death of his brother, Majo
Isaac Lynde, on the 10th instant, at his
home in Florida. He was about eighty-twC
years of age. He was West Point gradu
ate and, until retired, had always been al
officer in the United States regular army
He leaves an invalid wife (,ee Miss Mar
garet Wight of this place., two sons, tn,
younger of which, " Fred, )" is a surgeon il
the regular army, and two daughters, tn,
n w Is vii pf
His body was taken to Baltimore, Md, TO
burial. - j. b. Brockway, having sole
his former residence to Ralph Dirty, is t.
occupy his new house opposite. -
Sugaring seems to be generally about at al
end. The spring season is unusually for
ward here. - Persons wishing to exam
inc those two-horse farm-wagons that w
have before mentioned in these items will
please see ourself or the manufacturer
James w. Parmenter, at Cleveland's Vii
lage, in Brookfeld. We know not wher
purchasers will find more desirable wagons
! for quality or price. - Miss Haiti
Briggs is to teach the summer term of schoo
in the William Hanson district, Miss Ru
hannah Erskine in the Rodney Seaver dis
trict, and Miss Durham, from the Gul
House, in the H. ID. Abbott district. -
We hear that DIR. c. w. McClearn will thi
season have the care of the land belonging T.
| Mr.. Ruel Covel, not far from the village
- We have just seen letter from on
eX-townsman. Dana p. White. now of Kf
okuk, Iowa. He has been in trade there blu
is about to sell out. - The first bouQue
of our beautiful wild-tiowers will a bette
name ever be found for them than the chill
drens May-tlowers?) graced the table of tn
Congregational church last Sabbath. 1t wa
placed there by Master Willie Sibley. Wha
suggests the happiness of ones childhOo'
days like these wee, modest flowers, il
scanty mantle GLADE" - Principal Oar
iel X. Martins name pullman, Illinois,
the last one added to the list of the g0odl
number of our old towns-folk whom we hop
to have with us again in the SUMMER
Miss Lucy Earle is to teach one of the vi
lage schools III Barre. - Sherman VIII
chester is encouraged by the sales and cure
of the medicine he is selling. Give him
lift, neighbor and reader, as he calls on you
- We are asked about the Hibbar
| House under its new management. a res
dent of another town, who has lived
Landlord Peters family, tells us a kinde
hearted man than Mr.. Peters they ha,
never known" We hear good reports
the table of this house. OF course we a
hope it will prove worthy success, a
honor to its keeper and the town. -
Frank j. Martin (Mrs. Kimball =. Martin
SOM is going TO work, temporarily at leas
in the store of Perry & Camp of Barre.
Caledonia County.