The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-30

Grams and Womans Relief Corps were in
attendance.
STAFFORD.
JOHN G. BLAY and wife have conveyed
their property, real and personal, to Phi
lander Searle, recently of Tunbridge, re-
ceiving therefor life support, 60 Albert
X. Kittridge has bought the George Sargent
place near Kittridge Corner. Oliver Ken
dali has sold his farm to Harvey Delano and
has purchased the residence of Squire
Powers at South STAFFORD. - Rev Mr..
Moulton commenced his labors with the Adj
vent Society last Sunday. He will move his
family to this place in few weeks. -
Decoration day will be duly observed by
the Grand Army Post and our citizens.
We depend entirely upon home talent for
eloquence. Rev. j. ID. Wickham speaks in
Town Hall this forenoon, and Rev. II. Cum
mings, Rev. Mr.. Moulton, ID. G. Hyde, Esq,
and Judge Burnham speak at South Straf-
ford this afternoon.
South STAFFORD.
REV. JOHN KIMBALL of Bethel will preach
in this place at the usual hour next Sunday
forenoon in exchange with Rev. S. A.
Parker.
Tunbrjdge.
REV. S. A. PARKER of Bethel is to preach
at the North Village next Sunday afternoon.
- The Grand Army Post and the Re-
lief Corps attended the union memorial
services held at the Congregational church
last Sunday, Rev. Mr.. Hubbard preaching
from Exodus xiii: 9, 10 very able and
interesting sermon. - Mansel Nelson
was thrown from his wagon last Saturday
and Will Jones have been drawn as jurors
- w. p Brown is better. - James
Doyle is working for II. w. and A. p. Cush-
man. - Mrs. Emily Egan has been visit
ing her brother, f. c. Sleeper, a few days.
:" Fewer acres of ground are being
roads are in very bad shape and need i'm
mediate attention - Minnie Allen has
been sick for few days. - A petition
asking for the appointment of Carrie Lyman
as postmistress has been in circulation here.
- The Jones Brothers are shipping
large quantities of potatoes. - Albert
Walcott of Rochester has been at NJ X.
Griffith's for a few days
North Tunbridge.
REV. JOHN KIMBALL of Bethel will preach
in this place at two O'Clock next Sunday
afternoon in exchange with the pastor.
WilIiamstown.
THE union memorial service at the Meth
odist church next Sabbath is to be held in
the morning, instead of afternoon, as printed
by mistake in the WATCHMAN of last week.
II is so seldom our citizens have the oppor-
tunity of hearing their former townsman,
Rev. Walter r. Davenport, now of Water
bury, they will surely want to improve this
one. But beyond the desire to hear any
speaker on such an occasion should there
not be the one to honor the memory of
those who showed, by laying down their
lives, that love of country than which
there can be no greater?' We are not
likely to be reminded too often how largely
because of our boys in blue the living
and the dead
1--WE sit here in the promised land
That flows with freedoms honey and milk;
But twas they won it, sword in hand"
g. Ere long, we trust, our people are to
welcome the return of Mrs. circuit Abbott
and daughter to their home for the summer
- One of the occasional mistakes Incl
dent to the best-intentioned reporting oc-
cured in these items last week concerning
Miss Anna M. Benedict, now in Oakland,
Cal, who is looking forward only to teach
ing. Her sister, Miss Alma Benedict, is
serving as sort of private secretary to a
leading physician in Middletown, Conn,
helped in some measure, perhaps, by her
! lately-acquired knowledge of stenography.
1t is pleasure to chronicle the success of
both these ladies', and any others like them
who, with brave hearts and untiring effort,
are making their own way in the world.
- Olney f. Seaver is about to greatly
! improve his dwelling-house. He has been
drawn as a juror for the June term of the
Orange county court. - Mrs. Luman j..
| Hersey and children will remain here till
! NONellDtT, With IneN expect 10 JOIN lHe
husband and father in Colorado - Two
OF the widely-scattered WATcHMAN family
Mrs. Lucy NJ. Curtis and Mrs. Betsey
Dickerman Perkins daughters of the late
Mr.. Russell Martin)-recently experienced
an earthquake shock in their home in Alta,
| Cal. Although it shook the house to the
foundations, they would call it slight, pos
sibly, compared with an earlier one that
emptied the cupboard of its dishes
and grounded the wood-pile. - George
| Poole finds employment with Kimball
! Blanchard, son-n-law of Lyman A. Work,
- Mrs. X. p. Martin, now of North
field, is visiting friends in Barre and
Willamstown. - Mrs. Henry Lasell,
who has been very poorly in health in the
last few months, is again better. - After
some investigation Charles Scott is very
| hopeful of finding granite on his farm Uhe
old Daniel Townshend place.. He is ready
! to make what he considers a fair offer to
any persons who will take hold to develop
it. If any one had ventured the prediction
some years ago that part of his old house
| would now be in demand at rental of 81
per month, and that by workman on a
| quarry in Barre, his credentials as a prophet
would have been wanted. A worthy family
of Swedes at present lives in the house.
| - w. III. Scott is in an apiary at Bris-
! toll The owner of it has some eight hun
| dred swarms of bees. - Town Treas
urer George Beckett is ready to receive
taxes according TO the law of the common
wealth. There are ninety days from the
oath instant in which our Taxpayers can
get the benefit of a discount by payment OF
said taxes. == The selectmen are thrice
pettioned for new roads A score and more
of names are on the petition for a new road
| from the old Lyman Capron place NOW
Olney f. Seaver's) to Henry Huse's place.
This road would avoid two railroad cross
ings in that distance Another change is
wanted in the Gilbert o. Smith district and
one also in the old Judge Paine district
- DIR. j. Henry jackson of Barre is
building a house to rent in the quarry dis
trict. He is said to own the land bought
from the Winslow Flint farm for granite
purposes by William Comes of East Barre
year or two ago. We do not recall any
other physician as having an eve TO the