The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-04

promises to be very large. - Rev, s. A.
Parker of Bethel preached at the Union
church last Sunday. - The republican
club met last Saturday evening. -
George e. Wood is visiting his soldier
friends in this town. He has thirty days
furlough from the Soldiers Home. -
w. w. Swan of the North Village has been
appointed secretary of the Union Agricul-
tural Society He has been assistant secre-
tary for some years. 60 The commits
sioners on John Walton's estate met at the
hotel Tuesday of last week. Charles II.
Heath, Esq, of Montpelier was present as
counsel for S. A. f. Walton. 80 John
NJ. Kibby has been elected committee in
school district No. 49, vice 4. o. Lyman,
deceased.
Washington.
Mr.. IRA G. CALEF and Miss Rebecca
Saunders of Providence arrived in town
last Saturday. - Mrs. A, G. Day of
Barre spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs.
S. Brown. - Mrs. II. NJ. Harvey and
Mrs; Hight Of Topsham were in town last
visiting friends in Chelsea. - L. p. Bar
ron, w. f. Worthley, p. G. Huntington
and Alba Bohonan were delegates to tn
county convention at Chelsea. - DIR.
Will and Fred Braley were in town last
week. - The Aid Society met with Mrs.
Frank Jeffords last Wednesday. All re-
port a pleasant time. - Miss Maria
White of Montpelier visited her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. T. G. White. last week.
Williamstown.
Miss LUcINA II. BURNHAM, only daughter
of Elisha X. Burnham, was married on
Wednesday evening of last week to Rev.
Edwin Kingsbury Dexter, formerly of
Sharon Mr.. Dexter is recent graduate
of Brown University, Providence, r. l.,
and is to preach the coming year for the
Baptist church in Montgomery Center.
There were the usual gifts to the bride, in
whose departure from us the place loses
very worthy lady. - Ex-Governor Smith
was in town on Friday last looking after
railroad affairs. He assures our citizens,
we hear, that freight trains shall be rum
ming not later than next Monday, and pas
senger trains as early, at least, as Monday
of the week following. 60 William u.
Pratt lost good horse, not very long ago,
with which he was narrowing. tug got
| twisted about one of the horses legs, and
! by some movement of the horse Though it
| did not throw itself the leg was broken, re-
! quiring the killing of the animal. Mr..
| Pratt is putting the finishing touches on to
the third house on his farm which he rents
to workers on the quarries. AS usual at
the present time in the quarry districts, we
! judge the rents bring him handsome inter-
est on the amount invested. - There
were some small beginnings of haying here
last week, but the showery weather was un-
favorable for much work of the kind. A
large crop of hay is predicted. An unusual
amount of old hay is being carried over in
these parts. Mr.. Wesley Demeritt on
the old Edison Martin farm, has some fine
looking specimens of Northern Spy apples
of last years crop that have been kept by
packing in buckwheat hulls. - James
Martin and sister, Mrs. Charles Erskine,
are visiting their step-mother, Mrs. David
Martin, in Morgan. - Hiram Smith,
living on the old Orrin Walker place, has
been gladdened by news of his only son.
Charles, who went to the Pacific coast few
years ago, but from whom no tidings had
come in a long while. He is now in Port
land, Colorado, and has hired for nine
months on farm at $500. - 1t is told
us that block of granite was recently taken
from bowlder on j, NJ. Bass place of
quality that brought large per cent more
than the quoted price for the usual first
class granite. We are glad to hear of the
prospective development of a new quarry
quite distance south of anything yet
opened in town. - Predictions of the
future growth of an industry are likely to
be taken for what they are worth, but we
are tCld that one of the very wealthy and
prominent business men of the state re-
Gently said that within ten years the ship
ment of Barre granite, which name also
covers the granite of Williamstown thus
far quarried, will be a hundred car
loads daily. OF course with this he pre-
diets a local (town) growth surpass-
, ing anything else in the state. -
Mrs. l4aban c. Norris was eghty-one years
old last December. In her eighty-tirst year
she braided one hundred and fifty straw
hats. In her eighty-second year she
made ninety-tive-and all this in addition
to other work. - A student OF one OF
the leading academies of the state tells us
that a teacher there claims to have found
that the coffee e-and-tea-drinking students in
her classes fall behind the others in study.
, - Miss Sarah Adams, who came home
, from Burlington not very long ago, is in
very poor health She is staying at the
, farm of Wilbur F. Adams (the old Asa S.
, Simonds place. and is being cared for by her
, cousin, Mrs. Abbie Bean. Her case seems
TO be "a very critical one. - DR.. Solon
Briggs (son of Mr.. j. Wright Briggs and
wife, whose home at present is Jersey City,
! \. j., are visiting their brothers, DR.. j. G.
: Briggs of Barre and Orville II. Briggs of
: : this place. =" Town Treasurer George
Beckett notifies the public here that the
tax-lists have been placed in his hands and
, there are ninety days from May "A in which
. to pay the highway tax of thirty-tive cents
, on the dollar and ninety days from June
% in which to pay the tax of one hundred
cents on the dollar additional Voted by the
town in March, and get the four per cent dis
: count. - George w. Lynde, A. o.
q Blanchard and Frank Martin were dele
9 gates to the state, and Warren S. Covel
= Nelson Carleton and John Farnham to the
: district, conventions in Montpelier last
week. Delegates to the county convention
in Chelsea this week are Warren 5. Covel,
- ! VIII II, hdIIln, EuW III y. Dullll, w dllci
Granger and William Hanson. - Mrs
! Laban G.. Norris died on Sunday last just
= five weeks after the death of her husband
Her long life (she was past eighty-one years
= old had been lived here in town and seems
to have been a blameless one. 80 Miss
Fanny f. Waldo returned to Montpelier
this week to pass her vacation in DR.. q. III
Bailey's family. - Don Earle is lunning
9 the engine in the steam laundry at Barre
: - Norman G. Davis, one of our best
A farmers, has had the misfortune to lose sew
/. eral calves this season from some unknown
S cause. Other farmers on the West Hill
. have suffered in similar way. - Fred
e NJ, Blanchard has been at home of late, sick
4 with diphtheria, but is convalescent -
The click of the granite-hammers ON rail
road work has been heard constantly in ouI
village of late, and of course it is hoped tC
I. be the first drops " of a perennial shower
S of the same. 80 Messrs. John Perry and
p Henry Poole have in hand the repairs o.
t the old Simons Il Gale store-bulding which
II in short time will show marked improve
h ment inside and out. - a lesson worthy
a of study, il seems TO us, may be found IN
G the remark Qately repeated to us) of a small