The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-14
Washington County.


TEE Ladies' Union will hold a sociable at
the vestry of the Universalist church Sat
urday evening. Supper will be served from
half-past five to eight o'clock. There will
be music and reading after supper 60
There was an attendance of about five hum
dred at the Opera Hall Saturday night
to witness the entertainment given by
the school The scholars sustained their
parts well. -= Some twenty-five Italians
or Swedes arrived here last week to work
on the railroad. We hear that there
are about one hundred more TO come as
soon as the season opens. - Mary Bout
well. a maiden lady about eighty-four years
old, died at the residence of Eli Boutwell,
last week. Funeral services were held
Thursday. - The infant children Owins)
of G. l.. Houghton died last week. -
There is to be leap-year sociable at the
vestry of the Methodist church Friday even
ing The gentlemen are to get up the en-
tertainment supper and wait on the tables.
80 Albert Downing and family, who
have been living on Mrs Bancroft's place
for the last year or two, are soon to remove
to Aver, Mass. - Sneak thieves seem to
be putting in some of their work here
lately. shirts, stockings and such goods
having been removed from clothes-lines in
the night at Jockey Hollow and some other
places around the village. - The house,
hold goods of the late Mrs. Alvin Drury
were sold at auction last week Tuesday at
the house on Bridge street. - Homer
Fits of Morrison x Fits went to Boston
and New York last week. - Warren Il.
Barnes of Maiden, Mass is in town for
few days in order to dispose of personal
property and real estate here. = Mrs. III
o. Camp, after long illness, passed away
last Thursday. Nearly week before her
death all delirium ceased and she continued
rational up to the time of her death, The
cloud thus lifting even for a few days, was
of great consolation to her friends. The
funeral was from the house Saturday after
/ Riohia Mo- 10 to for w
G. Jones, driving the bakery cart part of
the time.
Cabot.
Town MEETING passed very quietly. The
reports of the town officers were accepted
and adopted with but little or no comment.
| The Selectmen's report showed a balance in
! the treasury of S62069. This was at first
very satisfactory to the town, but on inter-
rogating the seeCtlnen it was ascertained
that there was an outstanding order of
| 500, which, with the interest, will consid-
erably more than wipe out the surplus.
The report of the overseer of the poor
! showed that it had cost the town to support
paupers on the farm-two in number
! S9S4.67, which was S605 06 more than the
! income of the farm; for paupers not on
! the farm, S447.21 1t will be seen by these
| figures that the town farm is not source
of profit to the town. The road commits
soners had expended $1,5S047. 1t was
voted to raise $3.50 to purchase a town
clock, provided an equal sum should be
raised by contribution 1t was also voted
that the moderator appoint a committee of
three to purchase and put up said clock,
and Rev. H. A. Russell, DR.. Wiswell and
Hiram Wells, Esq, were appointed said com
mittee. - There is quite an amount of
sickness in town, resulting from hard colds.
The family of w. r. Marsh has suffered
quite severely. Mr.. Marsh himself is now
quite sick. William Lyford and family
have all been sick. They have one child
very. i'll with pneumonia. - Emery
Goodwin, who has been engaged as fire.
man on the st. Johnsbury and Lake Cham
plain railroad, is very sick with pneu-
monia. Very little hopes are entertained of
his recovery. - L. II. Lance shipped
two carloads of wool to Boston last week
He is now in that city experimenting the
Preston of Northtield, who were residents
of this town forty years ago, We're in town
last Sunday to attend the funeral of their
brother-in-law, c. NJ. Seabury. D.
Wells and his sister Lillian have gone to
Jaeksqnyile %avt & FloridS ri, They expect to re- e;
Veterans presented Hal. Hazard" at their
entertainment last week. - Rev. Mr..
Knapp was called to Northampton, Mass,
last week to attend the funeral of some of
his friends. - Rev. Mr.. Truax will de-
liver a temperance lecture at one of the
churches next Sabbath evening. - Ed
ward Kimball, who has been sick all win
ter with lung difficulty, which it was
feared might result fatally, is now regaining
his health.-FiSher. - Tuesday evening,
March 20, Mother Goose and her temper
ance family will give an entertainment at
the Congregational church, to be followed
by "pnk tea," all under the auspices of
the young people of the Sabhath-school.
East Montpelier.
THE Boston g. Lowell engine "Aquac-
deker" d" gave out at the station Saturday
afternoon and was "towed " back to Mont
pelier for repairs. il. S. Wheelock has
bought the Sbley place of William A.
Stevens for $500 and proposes to repair and
occupy the same. Rogers has sold his house
to Henry Hathaway. The Daniel Bassett
house and land has been purchased by Mark
Reed of Berlin, - Charles II. Stackpole
has leased his farm for three years and is
moving to Providence, r. l., where he is to
take charge of a stock farm. - William
A. Stevens ha moved to the Davis farm,
now portion of the Hammett stock farm.
Marshfield.
REV. Mr.. ELLINGwooD of Minnesota will
deliver an address on western frontier life
next Sunday night at the Methodist church
- Sylvester Loveland, the oldest man
in town ninety-six years. was buried Mon
day. Rev. Mr.. Fortney preached the funeral
to his bed, having had a relapse AT pres
ent writing he is considered better. - A
large number of our people went to Plain
field last week Wednesday to visit Rev, C.
III. Farnsworth, our former pastor Nothing
but bad going prevents another pastor liv.
ing in Hardwck from the same attack
- Sociable at C.. e. Shepard's Friday
afternoon and evening - There are two
or three cases of measles in town. - Guy
Shepard has gone to j, p. Lamson's in
Cabot to work for year.
Middlesex Center.
ASA CHAPLIN died March Q, aged eighty
years and ten months. He was one of our
Oldest residents having been born here May
Is, 1907, and had always resided in this
town. About 1887 he married Sabrina
Preston, who survives him. He also leaves
two daughters--Mrs. w. III. III. Buck OF
Middlesex and Mrs. Carlos Hatch of Wor-
'cester. Mr. Chaplin had lived more than
fifty years on the same farm and carried il
on himself until within a week of his death
He had the reputation of being a quiet in
dustrious man, good citizen and Chris
tian gentleman. - Mrs. James Supple is
dangerously sick with lung disease.
Plainfield.
LAST Wednesday the Methodist pastor
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