The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-24
VERMONT wTCAN STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY MARCH 3D. 1856

- At the social gathering to be held on
Friday evening at the Congregational ves-
| try, maple sugar will be served with other
refreshments All will be made welcome.
waitsfeld.
MISSES MARY AND HATTIE FISK, having
sold their farm and stock to Dan. Bean of
Fayston, moved to Montpelier last Satur-
day. 60 Josiah Smith went to the head
last week, when he sawed forty cords of
hardwood in one day and three hours, with
one-horse ST. Adams machine, for James
Baird, 4th. 60 There will be a sugar
party at the vestry of the Congregational
church on Tuesday evening, March 30. All
are cordially invited.
Warren.
A socABLE was held at j. C. Gleason's
last Thursday evening. About thirty were
in attendance. All report good time.
- 1t is expected that Professor ODER
will hold a musical convention in the town
hall next week. - Mr.. George Colby has
rented G. d. Williams farm for one year.
60 Mrs. e. A. Edredge and Lizzie Bragg
are no better. - Rev. G. H. Smith is
spending the week with his parents in Brat
tleboro. - Mrs. Lizzie Hubbard and
daughter are visiting Mrs. Susan Way, Mrs.
Hibbard's mother. 80 A sister of Mrs.
9. e. Ford from Salisbury is stopping with
| her for a few weeks.
Waterbury.
THE meeting Of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will take place on Satur-
day afternoon, March 9th, with Miss Inez
Moody. The topic before the meeting will
be " Young Woman's Work" A special
invitation is extended to all young ladies' to
attend this meeting. - The quarterly
union temperance meeting will be held
under the auspices of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union on Sunday next. There
! will be union services in the morning at the
| nf Of oil, -, 81.
Congregational church. Both meetings will
be addressed by Mrs. j. L. Perkins of St.
| Johnsbury, president of the State Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Perkins
| comes highly recommended, and for those
who have not heard her, as well as for those
| who have, rich treat is in store. 1t is re-
| quested that each one should bring their
| Gospel Hymns. 60 j. G. Griggs received
his first lot of new maple syrup last Satur-
day. This fine lot came from Henry Coban's
sugar orchard. - Whitmore Clark's
minstrels gave their entertainment to a five
hundred house on Friday evening last.
| Strange to say, they draw the usual full
house when the entertainments of much
higher order do not get enough for cor
porals guard. NJ. o. Evans closed his
drugstore on Wednesday to attend his
fathers funeral in Moretown. - Graves,
the patent right man, has bought the Colby
mansion. Consideration, all the territory
south of Mason & Dixon's line. - NJ. w.
Hill of Ackley, Iowa, and Sidney Brown,
Esq, of Ogdensburg, n. y, formerly of
this place, are making short visit here.
- Cynthia Stearns, who is now living
with her brother, o. w. Stearns, fell and
broke her wrist one day last week
Waterbury Center.
BETSY, wife of John Brown, was buried
March 10th. She had been ill for MANY
years. - Some of our sugar-makers were
little previous in tapping their sugar
places last week, as but little sap was OBJ
tanned The equinoctial " is giving sugar
ing setback. - DIR. NJ. w. Hill and
son, Harold, of Ackley, Iowa, made flying
visit in town last Monday and Tuesday
The doctor is as genial as ever, and was
greeted by host of old friends. - W.
f. Bracket and wife of Lynn, Mass, who
have been stopping for the last seven weeks
with Mrs. Brackets parents, Mr.. and Mrs
j. II. Parcher, returned to their home last
week Tuesday - Last Saturday Miss
Cynthia Stearns fell and broke her arm near
the wrist. - w. F. Minard, a graduate
of the Seminary, who is attending lectures
in the Homeopathic Medical College at
Philadelphia, was in the place few days
last week. - Truman Murray has moved
to his farm recently purchased of c. r.
Town, and &. G. Larkin has taken the place
vacated by Murray on the James Demeritt
place. - The Ladies' Aid Society met
with Mrs. w. e. Marshall, last week Wednes-
day evening, and were treated to warm sugar
on snow - Miss Lizzie Cooley, who has
been in dressmaker's shop in Burlington
for some time past has hired rooms in r. N
Demeritt's Humphrey house, where she is
to open shop. - Vernon Dillingham;
has moved from the Lord house to the house
recently vacated by Henry Carpenter at the
Street. - Mr.. and Miss Howe of Rox-
bury visited their brother, who is attending
school here, last week.
Woodbury..
| The lumbermen have done good bust
having been got off the mountain. The
granite business does not progress very
rapidly. Quite number are getting ready
| for sugaring, which seems to be near at
hand - Travel on back roads is difficult.
The drifts caused by the last blizzard pre-
vent the use of wagons, and in many places
the snow is all blown off and sleighs cannot
be used. - +. S. Bill, who has been in
Illinois, has returned with his wife, and
will remain on the old farm with his father
for the present - Ira Batchelder is Wis
| iting friends in town. - Miss Cora Dan
iels will return to her studies in Montpelier
the coming week.
Putnamsville.
WILL. CULVER has been quite i'll with a
quinsy-sore. Henry Kent has also been
sick, but is now on the gain. - G. C.
| Putnam & Son have an unusually large
number of logs at their mills. - j. w.
| Dillon, postmaster and clerk at the store,
has again returned to duty.