The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20

experimenting the repairs. go Stephen
Noyes has purchased the Gay Brothers
factory and set of roll cards. - Will
lam S. Ballou is said to have recently pur
chased the Ballou homestead. 80 There
was a husking bee, followed by dance, at
Orson Whitney's last Friday evening. -
George Preston and family will 90 West,
probably to Dakota, soon after the auction
at which he is to sell his stock and other
personal property. - Mr.. Il. Lamb and
wife formerly Miss Emily j. Hayward of
Marilla, n. Y, are visiting at n. ii. Hay
wards. - The Gallup house is now
occupied by the &C. o." club evenings.
80 Clayton Noyes is to occupy the
Stephen Noyes house.
WILLIAMSBURG.
Miss MARY BECKETT accompanied Mr..
and Mrs. George Martin on their return to
Washington, ID. c., this week, to remain
there for season. - Martin Erskine,
son of Charles Erskine, is having a mild
run of typhoid fever, - John Perry has
been under physicians care for the past
ten days. 1t is said he has typhoid fever,
which he thinks was caused by drinking OF
| the accursed well water to be found in
some places in Barre, where he has been at
work at his trade He has been a great
| sufferer much of the time, from pain in the
| head and back. - Some of our villagers,
heretofore dependent on outside sources for
a supply of drinking water have just sue
ceeded in driving" wells on their own
! premises. 60 Leslie ID. Gale has returned
| FROM another seasons work in White
| Mountain Hotel. - Leslie Crane, son of
George Crane and nephew of the late n. p.
! Simons, is going to Rutland to work for the
Vermont Marble Company. - Mrs. Philo
| Hubbard last season picked more than eleven
| bushels of garden Strawberries from piece
i of land, hardly two rods square. - D..
| X Prize, of the firm of Wells, Lamson,
& Co., slipped and fell at their quarry, last
week. breaking and splinterng bones in
the right arm. The firm is employing twenty
five hands on their quarry in this town, and
twelve on their Barre quarry. Mr.. Lamson
is grandson of our late townsman, Ariel
Crane, ESQ. 80 DR.. Cornelius " Lynde
has sold out his homeopathic practice in
Stowe, and is about to go West to reside.
AT present he is with his wife. visiting fam
lily friends in town. 60 AT this writing,
Monday morning. we are glad to say b. f.
Sibley seems materially better, with the
prospect of gaining quite rapidly in the
near future. Mrs. George Beckett
went with Mr.. and Mrs George Martin on
their return to Washington, ID. c., Monday
last. She will visit her son in New York
city, before her return home. 70 Rev.
Carlos Adams will conduct religious SER
vice at the w. u. Pratt schoo-house in the
quarry neighborhood, next Sunday evening
at seven o'clock, provided the weather is
pleasant. Will all interested take pains
to circulate this announcement -
Rev. II. X. Grain, pastor OF the Free Bap-
| fist church, has been quite out OF health OF
late. He proposed last Monday week, to
suspend his preaching till decidedly better
A series of weekday services had been
planned to begin soon, but they will likely
await the improvement of his health. 60
The selectinen have lately laid out sixty
four rods of new road, to better accomino
date some of the residents of the Gilbert .
Smith district, in getting to church, school
and town. Mr.. Smith and Albert Norris
have taken the job to build it, 80 Towns
man John Clark and his very sick wife
certainly need, and deserve, the sympathy
of their neghbors and townsfolk. Sucl
sympathy was shown last week Thursday
by about dozen of them, who surprised >
r Mr.. Clark by appearing with necessary
Accomplishments, to get in large telt
of corn for him. Givers and receiver, o
2 course, were blessed in the act 80 There
| is to be an auction sale of cattle in front o
= the house of Gordon Martin, just through
l the Gulf, next Saturday afternoon. -
A We are sorry to say that Mr.. Lyman a
3 Work continues very sick, and much appre
hension is felt for the result. He is grea
sufferer - James II. Walbridge seem
likely to be in demand again, the coming
I season, as a vocal class teacher. Alread
! we hear talk of music class for him soon
i in the Jacob Flint district, where he ha
y taught, we know not how many terms, i
a the past He will hold his first singing
:. school in that district Thursday evening
IL Some eighty or more copies of tn
), Orange County Gazetteer We're subscribe
u for in this place. Price $3.50 per copy
u - DIR. Geo. f.. Bass has formed par
Z nershp with physician of Aurora, Ill.,, an
. has moved TO that city.