The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-04
Orange County.


trict conventions the following were elected:
Delegates to state convention, G. f.. Wood
ard Jr., w. II. Nichols and G. w. Flagg;
alternates, G. NJ. Bass, II. w. Fits and j.
A. French. Delegates to district conven-
ton c. Il. Woodland, Jr., j. G. LOOMS and
T.. n. Hyzer; alternates, A. X. Mclntire,
p. j. Blanchard and NJ. ID. Laport. -
Wild geese were seen going north last week
Saturday. Indications are that we will have
a fairly early spring. - G. f.. Woodland,
Jr., attended the superintendents meeting
at Chelsea yesterday Tuesday. -. Not
much sugar has been made yet - Isaac
Linfeld has bought the Jtotha Howard
place for $500. - James Sargent died of
consumption March %, aged twenty-eight
years. Funeral services were held Wednes-
day of last week. 80 Frank Archer, Jr,
has gone to Williamstown to work for Joel
Hersey. - Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Harwood
are both on the sick-list. 60 c. l.. Smith
has hired O.. p. Dudleys farm for the com
ing year. 60 f. Jane Wellington has re-
turned home after an absence of several
weeks caring for her aunt in Lebanon, n.
II. - Mrs. Mary f. Flagg, aged about
seventy years, started alone for Nebraska
March ~ to visit her son, Waldo j. Flagg.
60 Lucius Trombly was called to High
gate last week Wednesday by a telegram
announcing the death of his father.
Chelsea.
WILLIAM l.. LAIRD, who left town several
years ago, after being admitted to the bar,
has recently been heard from at Ammorilla,
in northwestern Texas, where he is county
clerk of a newly-organized county. 60 l..
l.. Sleeper has moved into II. c. Birch
more's house and Mr.. Birchmore removes
to Washington. 60 W. l.. Sargent re-
mains another year on the town farm and
has rented his farm to Carlton Slack, who
moves on at once. - L. ID. Parkhurst
has moved into Mr. Courtney's house at the
lower end of the village. == Chester D.
Clough has gone to Randolph to work.
- At the republican caucus on Satur-
day c. S. Emery j. X. Darling and S. b.
Hebard were chosen delegates to both the
state and district conventions for the choice
of delegates to the national convention,
with DIR. S. n. Goss, G. p. Dickinson and
f. ID Barnes as aternates. - The fol-
lowing are the prudential committees chosen
at the annual school-meetings last week,
with the amount of tax voted in each
case, except in one district, where your
correspondent has been unable to learn the
tax: No. 1, w. ii. Bugbee, eighteen cents;
No. 2, DR.. S. n. Goss, fifty cents; No. 3, j.
H. Griffin, thirty-tive cents; No. 4, a. III.
Emerson; No. 3, Robert Ramsdel, five
cents No. Z, G. H. Hardy, forty cents:
No. s, G.. f. Reed. twenty-five cents; No. 9,
A. l.. Sprague, fifteen cents; No. 10, Will
lam Laird, thirty cents; No. II, G.. ID. Bates,
forty cents No. u, Warren Stearns, twenty
cents No. 10, Franklin Dearborn, twelve
cents No. Is, G. f. ID. French, thirty cents;
No. IL, i. II. johnson, twenty-eight cents;
No. II. f. ii. Tracy, ten cents; No. IS, G..
b. Roberts, twenty cents. Nos . and -
vote to continue their arrangement with the
academy; No. Is left the matter undecided.
In No. 6 no one present was willing to aC-
cept an election as moderator and no bust
ness was done. - An Easter service by
the children at the Congregational church
on Sunday morning called out large audi
pninVn1
Fast day service at the Congregational
church next Friday morning at eleven
o'clock.
Orange.
THERE will be Fast day services at the
church at eleven o'clock on Friday. -
The personal property of the late Samuel
Kimball was sold at public auction on Sat
urday, March 81. The real estate will be
sold at private sale by the administrator as
soon as a purchaser can be found. -
Reuben Lord has returned from Nashua,
n. II. The many friends of the family will
be pleased to learn that Mrs. Lord is in
fair way to recover. - j. l.. and c. G.
Lord have gone to Newbury to work in a
steam sawmill. - G. NJ Emerson
started for Dakota last week Wednesday
His many friends wish him success in his
far western home.
STAFFORD.
THE series of revival meetings that have
been held here almost continuously since
New Years closed Sunday evening. Be
tween sixty and seventy persons have re-
solved to enter upon the Christian life
- William II. Billiard has conveyed
back to James Thompson the real estate
and property he received of Thompson for a
life support, the contract having been an
nulled - Jedediah Kilburn and John
NJ. Flint have exchanged real estate, Mr..
Klburn going TO the South Village to live
In no fnr
Tunbridge.
SOME farmers are getting very good run
of sap from trees tapped last week. -
The blizzard is to come some of the weather.
wise say. - Butterfied & Brown
shipped another lot of baled hay last week.
- John f. Bennett is the committee in
school district No, 10, Ben Tucker in No. l.,
George w. Flanders in No. 3, T.. o. Lyman
in No. IS, E. S. Folsom in No. II. - The
pewowners of the Congregational church
have appointed a committee to draft articles
of association and will meet at the church
Saturday, April 81. - The delegates to
the state republican convention are ID. f.
Chapman, n. III. Austin and o. =. Cilley.
- Tilton Durrell died suddenly Sun
day morning. He was eighty-tive years
old. - Charles Brown has moved to the
farm lately occupied by Mrs Albert Water
man. - Archie Sargent has pneumonia
and is very sick. Mrs. $. b. Jones is also
very sick. 60 Major Richard Smith OF
Nershire was auctioneer at Brown * Butter
fields last week.
Williamstown.
THE IroqpoiS comfy Qll.) Times brings the
news of the death of Porter NJ. second son
of Martin Burnham, on the 10Th ult. He
died at his home in Martinton, H., of con-
gestion of the brain. The Times says of
him: "He was born in Willamstown,
Orange county, VT, November Is, 1857. He
came West with the family and grew to a
noble manhood on the farm where he died.
He leaves a wife and one child who, with
the sorrowing parents, mourn the loss of a
loving husband and father and a dutiful
son. He was young man of sterling quail
tiles, industrious, honest and kind, man
respected by all who knew him. The re-
mains were buried in the family cemetery"
BY the way, is there another cemetery in
the West where in the same time so many
of our towns-folk have been buried as in this
" family cemetery" containing, as we sup
pose, the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Porter
Martin, five of their children and at least
this one grandchid? 60 Mr.. Enoch Howe
had two or more attacks of hemorrhage of
the kidneys last week, to which he seems
specially liable of late. - Mrs. Major ID.
Flint and Mrs. Charles Perry have recently
been on the siclx-lst. - General Il. Bass
experiences the severe pain incident to the
trouble with his foot. In the progress of the