The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-07-25
NUMBER 30.

Ice-cream and cake was served by the lodge
of Good Templars. - A prominent
democrat, returning from the proceedings
at Roxbury last Saturday evening, truly
said. " We raised our flag and we raised the
ID"
Gouldsville.
EBES GAYNoR is visiting his parents in
Boston. 80 David Rich has so far re-
covered from his recent illness that he re-
turned home Monday. 60 Mrs. Sarah
Priest of Cambridgeport, Mass, is visiting
her mother, Mrs Bach.
Roxbury.
PREPARATIONS are to be made for the
annual reunion of Company II, Sixth Yer
mont Regiment, on August Il. - The
republicans intend to put out a Harrison
and Morton flag soon. - Mrs. William
Russ and son Of Chicago were in town last
week, the guests of A. 4. Richardson.
- The hoodlums came out late Satur-
day night and played few pranks. The
gang was composed of out-of-town parties
and they may hear from town in way that
! will not be pleasant. - w. f. Edwards
is executor of the will of the late Samuel
Edwards and Z. S. Stanton and ". B.
Orcutt appraisers and commissioners of the
estate. - Mrs. Loren Fuller is critically
i'll at the residence of her daughter in South
Northiield. - The democrats hung out
a flag on Saturday. Messrs. Shurtleff of
Montpelier and McGettrick of st. Albans
made addresses on the occasion.
Waitsfield.
A LARGE delegation from this place will
| attend the republican rally at Burlington
| - The opportunity club is to have a
! sociabe, with ice-cream and cake, at the
| Congregational vestry Wednesday evening,
August |. - William Graves, for thirty
six years foreman in Rogers straw works,
Marshfield, Mass, accompanied by his
grandson, William g. Smith, made short
visit last week with his schoolmate of boy
hood days, G. F. Ramsay. Mr.. Graves had
! purchased a " Reindeer " mare in Marshied
that was good one and was making
detour through the state for a summer vaca-
ton. = The Waitsfield cornet band is a
thing of the past AT the last regular meet
| ing it was voted to dissolve and to sell the
band instruments at auction. - Report
from Clesson Wilder at Burlington hospital
are to the effect that he is recovering. -
Frank Long of Fayston well-known in this
| place, died Monday, the 10th, of consump-
ton. - Miss Ursula f. Bates, who is
learning stenography at Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, reports fair progress, being able in
three weeks to " take " seventy-nine words
a minute. 80 The road-machne started
last week to repair the roads damaged by
! rain. - Many of the farmers finished
hayng last week. The hay crop is ex-
ceptionally good. - Rev. Howard f.
| Hill of Montpelier intends to hold services
at the school-house at Irasville Sunday af-
ternoon, soon after four o'clock. -
Don't forget to attend the republican caucus
next Monday evening. - The Waits
field and Fayston republican club in this
place is growing institution. The people
seem awake to the fact that somebody is
tampering with our rights as American
citizens and the republican party has
proved itself a safe guardian of those rights;
therefore the enthusiasm. - Mr.. and
Mrs. James Newcomb have been made
happy by family reunion, including Mr..
and Mrs. Eddy of St. Johnsbury and Mr..
and Mrs. j. Gordon Bushnell of Thompson
vile, Conn. -. Quite number of farm
ers have finished haying and nearly all re-
port good crop. - Miss Eta Thomp-
son of the WATCHMAN Office is at home
sick with erysipelas. - The arkansas
Clipper has an account of the recent death
of f. w. Smith in Arkansas He was
son of the late Levi Smith of this town and
is noticed as one of the able, aged and hon
orable citizens of the county in which he
lived. He had made speech at an agri-
cultural meeting at DeGray, Ark, July ..
While at the house of a friend he suffered
what is supposed to be rupture of blood
vessel in the head and died in week or two.
Warren,
THE Womans Christian Temperance
| Union will meet with Mrs Whitney next
| Tuesday afternoon. - DIR. .. ID. Greene
has moved into the house recently vacated
by Pliny Parker.
Waterbury.
PROFESSOR f. a. BISHOP, AM, princ-
pal of the Vermont Methodist Seminary at
Montpelier, will preach at the Methodist
Episcopal church in this place next Sunday
morning at the usual hour. - Rev w.
r. Davenport will preach at Ridleys next
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. -
The hotel is now quite full of regular and
transient guests. - The trustees of the
library request that persons interested hand
in the lists of desirable books, so that the
| arI ha oil 1.l Iii I'D; al
selection of volumes. - At the Congre-
gational church, Sunday evening, Rev.
| Stewart Sheldon, secretary of the Congre-
gational Union, supplemented the regular
eXercies with talk on church extension in
the West. - a second party made trip
to the Hump Friday and remained over
night on the summit. The members were
Messrs. Sheldon, Hobson, Knight and How
land; Misses Ropes, BiXby. Merriam, Ash
ley and Kimball and Mrs. Dillingham;. The
campfire and some fireworks sent off in the
evening were plainly seen by persons be-
low. a fine view was had in the morning.
| 60 At meeting of the republican club
Saturday evening it was decided to attend
the rally at Burlington in body, and the
| services of the band We're engaged. 1t is
expected that about two hundred will be
present from this vicinity, and flags exceed
| ing that number were ordered by the COM
mttee. - \ republican caucus is called
for next Monday, the 30th, at 1890 O'Clock
4i NhO ulhS db ' llldSt lldll' lOl INC pul-
pose of electing delegates to the county
| convention and town committee.
Waterbury Center.
S1LAs LOOMS died at his home July -,
after brief illness. He was in his eighty
ninth year. was a native of this place and
one of the oldest persons in town. - Mrs.
| Cleaveland of Washington, ID. c., and Mrs.
Slade and son Of Providence are spending
the summer at W. K. Marshal's. - w.
L. Marshall took party up Mount Mans
field the 22d.
Woodbury..
DAVID LYFoRD died very suddenly Satur-
day while in the bayfield,. The funeral
services were held Sunday afternoon at the
Center, conducted by Rev. y. b. Wheeler
assisted by Rev. Mr., lockwood, Mr.. Lyford
was ninety-three years old was among the
first settlers of the town, was one of the
veterans who enlisted for service in the
battle of Plattsburg in 1872, was one of the
men who helped to clear the land and toiled
hard to till the soil in early life. He was
honest and industrious, good neighbor
and kind father, and, up to his death, was
an active man. 60 Winslow Rollins was
taken suddenly i'll at the funeral services
! of MIR, I,yfOrd and started for the door hut