The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-25


West Randolph.
w. w. MoRToN has sold his grocery bust
ness to II. Tilson and Julius Lamson. They
will take possession the LIST of March.
- The mercury registered 24o to 80 be-
low zero Monday morning. 60 Owing to
the measles 1t was thought best to give the
scholars in the high school a recess of two
weeks. - Why not close the stores
two nights in week? - j. V. Newton
has his large new barn completed and IL is
one of the most convenient in town. -
Cortes Nuttng and family are to move into
the house on Cross street recently vacated
by T.. A. Thomas = At the regular
meeting of Colonel j. b. Mead Camp, Sons
of Veterans, Wednesday evening, January
IS, the following officers were installed by
Commander Il. o. Hubbard of L. s. Grant
Post, G.. A. r.. X. W. Morse, captain; A.
j. Huse, first lieutenant; G. ID. Beedle, sec
ond lieutenant; f. W. Sault, first camp
council; +. A. Grover, second camp coun-
Gil; G. w. Hayward, third camp council;
f. A. Grover, chaplain; b G.. Goodwin,
sergeant; Fred Bryant, color-sergeant; NJ.
o. Bagley, principal musician n. e. Whit
poral of guard; Il. S. Hatch, camp guard;
Eli Sault, picket guard. - f. G.. Coates
and wife of Concord, n. H., are stopping a
few days with his uncle, A. j. Foster. -
A. G. Bradish and family attended the
funeral of his father at Montpelier on Mon
the forming of Republican League Club
here were taken Saturday night. Hon.
James Hutchinson was chosen moderator
and n. j. Whitehll secretary. A com
mittee representing all parts of the town
was appointed, consisting of j. w. Fargo,
n. l.. Boyden, James Hutchinson, j. ID.
Denison, Justin Moulton, ID. II. Morse, A.
p. Salisbury, f.. l.. Williams, A. G.. Osgood,
w. r. Holden and G. w. Blodgett. The
meeting then adj journed for two weeks, when
] Nl,. 1.,1. l.. .I.1...
elected to the State League meeting at
| Montpelier. - Reuben Cole has sold his
| house on Center street to Silas Chadwick
and Lucius Goodhart - Mrs. S. S.
Pierce, the new landlady of the Red Lion
| Inn, has arrived and will take possession
! February !. 60 There will be services at
the Catholic church next Sunday. - DR..
Daniel Eaton of Randolph Center is visit
ing his daughter, Mrs. Alice Danforth of
Reading, Mass, and his sister, Mrs. John
French, who has been very sick at Ran
| dolph, Mass. - Rev. Father Lonergan
has taken rooms at the Red Lion Inn and
will stop there for the present. - Joseph
| Tredo of Holyoke, Mass, is visiting in town.
| 1t is said that he expects to come here to
| live next summer. - The trustees of
the Baptist church received letter from
| Hon. William H. Dubois on Friday last
offering, with their appreciation, to put a
bell into the tower of that church in men,
DRY of his deceased wife, who was an active
member of that church from its organiza-
ton. The offer was promptly accepted by
the trustees. The bell will weigh at least
one thousand pounds and will probably
be cast by the Meneely Bell Company of
Troy, Ny Mr.. Dubois is now in Troy
and hopes to have the bell in its place
within the next two months. 60 A. E.
Kendrick has sold his house at Mortified
for $500. - Emma Ashley went to
White River junction on Saturday. -
Bursts in the water-pipes were the order OF
the day Monday morning. - The IA
nous Hungarian Gypsy Concert Company
will give the eighth and last entertainment
in the lecture course Friday evening Feb
ruary 3. This is the genuine company and
can not fail to please all of our people. -
Twenty-six to thirty degrees below zero
Monday morning. - L. ID. Wheeler and
family returned to their home at White
River junction Monday.
Williamstown.
DIR. j. C. BRIGGS and cousin, Charles
Wheeler, have bought the right to use
dental electric vibrator in New Jersey and
Delaware. -" Don " Earle is going t.
run an engine at the quarries of Messrs
Langdon & Martin in Barre. - Mis-
Nellie Colby is at home and on the sick
list. - Messrs John Lynde and Milton
Martin We're last week reelected directors
of the Montpelier & White River railroad
- Farmers Norman G. Davis, Georg,
w. Lynde and the Whitney Brothers are t.
use heaters for warming water for thei
stock. We understand these heaters are t,
be placed in the water-tubs at their barns
after the manner of the one used by Charlie
NJ. Erskine, and recently described in thes
items, though the heater itself is though
by Mr.. Davis to be an improvement upoi
that of Mr.. Erskne's. We hope soon to b
able to give a description of the article
r - Lucius Flint is said to be so mucl
, out of health that his death may be LOOKED
for any day 60 The first ten-thousand
dollar installment of bonds to be given b.
our town to the Central Vermont Railroad
Company for the extension of the road iron
Barre to this place was paid over to tn
company last week. Considerably NOR
than one-third of the estimated cost of tn
road has already been expended by tn
company on the road. - An out-of-tow
farmer said to us the other day, in speakin
of phosphates for some crop potatoes, pei
haps), that he would as lief have an equa
bulk of bran and salt lat the rate of a quar-
3 of the former to tea-cupful of the latter
+ for a fertilizer. - At the enthusiast
= railroad meeting in Barre last week, for tn
< purpose of securing railroad to the qua
4 ries from that Gncorporated) village,
: speaker is said TO have paid some of on
Y. citizens a compliment in this wise: III
e appealed to his hearers, asking if the
3 were going to let the Williamstow
. farmers run away with them! -
i And just here it may be added that OF
people COulu HdTuly ldll 10 Dc tNtrClstu
3 somewhat over the new phase of tn
g question of a railroad to the quarries
has seemed to them that they (rather tina
Barre) were reasonably sure of the road
built at ALL on account of grades. How
ever, they know that the iron horse in il
ego Ling is amenabe to money, as well a
II the mare of the proverb, and since Barr
n has the longest purse it naturally tel
= on 1.-the breath F" little for the tim
! - Mr. Ashael Pierce, whose wife is
sister of Mrs. Enoch Howe, has recent
died in Chicago, Ill. - One of our town
=, folk living in Nebraska writes that on I'll
: 18th instant the mercury there was twenI
4 degrees below zero through the day Tt
v writer thinks " that half of the time (,
+, over two weeks the mercury has been fro
four to ten degrees below zero all day
- An out-of-town acquaintance h;
Just told MS this incident: Some twent
# years ago a letter was mailed at a town in
;, linois, directed to person bearing the nan
q of a lady here in town, and also that of OF
/ in STAFFORD In the " direction, howeve
II the name of the tolCn was omitted, On
v the state (VermonD was given. The lett
n was started for Vermont Somewhere in /
: course Gt was not known where) someboC
"a Gt was not known who) wrote on the lie
~ ter, "Try Williamstown, and if not u
'a place. try STAFFORD" The letter came her