The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-22

several fine yokes of oxen in town last |
week to ship to Connecticut.
East Orange.
JOSEPH EASTMAN has been confined to the |
house for several days with a lameness. |
Aunt Judith Smith has also been quite sick |
the past week. 60 Merrill Fish has been
appointed assistant postmaster and the |
office moved to his residence. - Charles |
Clark is soon to leave for Lowell, Mass,
where ne has secured situation. 60
Waldo Patterson has rented the parsonage, |
recently occupied by Mr.. Clark. -
| Haines j. Paine is to move on to the Mer-
rill Dickey farm, which he has rented for a
| year. - 1t is expected that Elder Rey-
nolds of Waits River will locate here the
coming season.
North Randolph.
THE stage headquarters have been moved
from the East Village to this place. A Pc
tition is in circulation to see Il the route
| can not be extended to Wlliamstown.
- Belle and Mary Camp have each
! finished their terms of school, The former
taught in East Montpelier and the latter in
Brookfield. Emma Camp has gone to Mont
! pelier to work at dress-making. 80 John
Flannery's people are sick.
West Randolph.
A MUSICAL festival will be held here
March 7, and 9, under the leadership of
Professor ODER, assisted by Beedle's or
All lovers of good music are cordially
invited
West Topsham.
School closed last week. Whether or not
there is to be a spring term has not yet been
decided. 60 There was IA socable at the
hall Friday evening for the purpose of rails
ing money to continue the singing-schools
awhile longer. Another will be held at
w. b. Carpe nter's next Thursday evening
for the same purpose. - Mr.: Lunt from
Il. ~
house. - Mr.. Davis has moved from the
King place on to the David Elmer place in
Orange. 60 f. p Cunningham has traded
with Meeker & Tubbs for their store and
goods Tubbs says he is going to farming
and dealing in horses.
TuDbridge.
A. A. NoRTHRop has been very sick.
- Martin Davis of Chelsea visited at
II. r. Hayward's last week. - Mrs. A,
j. Wills has been i'll for some weeks. -
A. C.. Adams had one eye badly injured two
weeks ago and is now unable to use either
eye very much. - II. Il. Hayward Wis
tied Waterson Post, Chelsea, last Friday
evening. - Miss Sarah Adams teacher
in district No. 49, gave her pupils party
last Friday evening. - George w.
Durkee has been granted pension. -
The remains of Mrs. Laura (Hutchins)
Farnham were brought here and funeral
services were held at the Congregational
mousse sunday. one was SeNtujy-SeNeu
years old. - Rev. C. +. Hurd is visiting
in New Hampshire. -: II. King is at s.
) A. Deans sick with measles. - Whit
ney Post will hold fair soon. - There
will be sugar-party at o. Whitneys this
, wednesday, evening - Mrs. Deborah
Cowdery is very sick. - Mrs. F. c.
Lucas goes to st. Johnsbury this week to
} visit her son. - Lillian Titus has gone
to Manchester.
Williamstown.
PROFESSOR ODER will close his musical
labors here next week with three days
q. convention, beginning on Tuesday. Out
side help is expected All singers in town
5 and elsewhere who desire to take part in
the convention will be cordially welcomed.
l 60 Mrs Charles c. Barnes returned
? home last Thursday, after an absence of
some months in Pennsylvania and Massa-
2 chusetts. Her daughter, Miss Gertie who
has been attending school in Massachusetts,
| came back with her. - Charles G..
! Barnes has been working of late in Newark,
| n. j. - Frank Barnes was at home
l from Montpelier over Sunday. - There
has been a widespread epidemic of colds
and many hereabouts are suffering. If it
escapes being an ill wind it must be in
part because it " blows good " to the doctors.
- +. n. HyZer of this county, who
started the late Barre Herald some years
: ago, and has been known, we believe, as the
champion checker-player of the state, has
: taken up the trowel. He is said to WELD it
{ very successfully. He was employed by
: George W. Lynde on his new house, and,
we hear, did very fine job. He has just
been plastering Mr.. Rice Davenports new
two years on account of i'll health, is to
5 carry on his farm himself the coming year.
S He has hired Martin Erskine, son of
Charles NJ. Erskine, for the year. -
Robinson Templeton has bought Mrs.
Aaron Kinsman's farm and is about to move
on to it, - There is to be union serv-
, ice next Sunday evening at the Methodist
n church. Rev. f. W. Hambin will address
the young people, taking as his theme
was given Landlord Durham at the Gulf
/ House last Friday evening. We judge it
= may have been well attended. - The
members of the physiology class in the vii
= lage school, which closed last Friday, were
: to visit Goddard Seminary on Saturday.
They were Hospitality entertained on the
q occasion. - Perkins Bass and family
n are wintering in Boston. - We have
y seldom heard of more tip-oVers hereabouts
4 than are occurring this season. Mrs.
! II. w. Demertt has badly-spained wrist
from being thrown from sleigh. -
One of our old citizens, contrasting the past
with the present tells of having taught the
q village school some fifty years ago or more for
S14 a month, boarding himself. There were
i fifty to sixty scholars at the time. 80
a One of our farmers, who has one of the best
q grass farms IN town, Is ADVISED TO press ms
hay and send il TO the Boston market, since
# he is hardly able to have the care of farming
d in the usual way. Now that machines for
>, pressing hay are readily taken about from
y place to place IL is an easy matter, compare
h lively, for farmers thus TO ship their hay
n - Our venerable townswoman, Mrs
d Euoch Howe, is in poor health. - The
l., alcer on General f. Bass foot seems to resist
q successfully all efforts to check its (slow
# growth-as has been the case from the be-
|. ginning, last fall If at times there are
l. hopeful indications of healing, they are APT
:, to prove but temporary. = Work Is Il
v be resumed this week on the railroad at g
n point north of David Gales. We hear thai
q forty men were to have been put at work
# on Monday but for the storm - Will
n JAMESTOWN could hardly stand by as a dis
: interested spectator of the shoU of battle
" going ON in Barre between the railroad com
= panies (the Central Vermont and the Wells
River in the matter of a railroad to the
quarres. OF the three prophecies-tha
l. there will be no road, or but one, or likely