The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-28

turned to Barre. 60 Rose Fuller has gone
into the factory at Cavendish. - Bertha
Stearns is very sick - Mrs. j. NJ Whit
ney has had a slight shock of paralysis.
ing his vacation at home. -= Mrs. Wight
has closed her house and is working for
Stephen Noyes. == Mrs. Rose Adams is
sick - Baxter Sargent will move into
the j. l.. Hall house this week. - There
was pleasant social gathering at A. j.
Wills last Friday evening.
West Fairlee.
FRED FARNHAM of the Eagle Hotel is
paymaster for the new mining company.
The men are paid once in two weeks. Not
many are employed as yet, owing to the
condition of the mine. Mr.. Cain will soon
be settled at Ely. 80 II. Hutchins, Mrs
Kinney, Mrs. Farnham and some others
on the sick-list are all better. - John
Colby fell off load of wood and was
slightly hurt. 60 A good many from here
attended the recent entertainment at Post
Mills.
Williamstown.
A REPUBLICAN caucus will be held at
Town Hall on Saturday evening of this
week to elect delegates to the state and dis
trict conventions at Burlington and Mont
pelier April and 3. = Miss Anna NJ.
Benedict has left East Pasadena Cal,
and at last accounts was in Oakland where
she hopes for situation as a teacher.
Since going to California her health is
greatly improved May not the readers of
the WATCHMkN hope for more of Miss Bene-
diets letters, wherever on the Pacific coast
she may locate? 60 Mrs. Lewis Flint is
about to go to Montpelier to board her son
Walter who will attend the spring term of
the Methodist Seminary. - Fanny f..
Waldo and Bert Bailey are again students
of the Methodist Seminary at Montpelier.
Miss Waldo is staying in the family of DR..
A Lnu
rented Charles Websters farm for the COM
ing year Mr.. Webster talks OF moving to
our village. - One of the proprietors of
Williamstown quarry tells us that if the
proposed railroad is built from Barre Lower
Village to the quarries he thinks granite can
be shipped in carloads from his quarry to
our village via Barre at lower rates than it
can be hauled by teams. 80 Lorenzo ID.
Smith, whose buildings We're recently
burned, has sold to Newell r. Farnham for
$500 land that was sold by the late Clark
Farnham some twenty-five years ago for
81 $50 The remainder of his small farm
Mr.. Smith has sold to Prescott f. Blanch-
ard. He does not know where next he wi !
pitch his tent. - Some of the friends
made here by Evangelist A. L. Parsons
last fall may be glad to know that he is to
begin a series of meetings in Barre on Tues
day of next week in connection with the
Methodist and Congregational churches.
- At the annual meeting of the
Universalist society last Saturday even
ing (Jobn Lvnde, Jr., chairman) Messrs.
Newell II. Farnham, X. l.. Watson and
Alvin NJ. Smith were chosen prudential
committee for the ensuing year. Frank
Martin was chosen treasurer. - Lewis
Martin son of Herbert p. Martin, has re-
Gently visited his uncle DIR. f. C. Lewis OF
Rutland. - At the solicitation of Mrs
Jason johnson friends of Mrs. Albert Bruce
now totally blind, contributed for the pur-
chase of a nice dress that was presented tC
her, " ready made" last week on the ocCa-
sion of her sixty-sixth birthday. 1t came as
an entire surprise, but it could hardly fail
to greatly gladden. her heart She has long
been one of our Woodworking women, and
her affliction falls very heavily upon her
now that she is laid aside so largely from
labor. - Herbert p. Martin expects tC
carry on his hill farm, rented last year tC
George Bailey of Chelsea. - Miss Alice
Walker and her brother Willard returned
last week from Saxton's River, where they
have been students of the Vermont Acad.
envy. James Hogan, formerly Of
Chelsea, but well known here as a workman
on a farm, was married in Barre last
Wednesday to Clara b. Jones, daughter OF
the late Emery Jones. - Already there
is urgent need of more houses here, and il
would seem from reports that all that hin
ders the erection of some is locations thai
are satisfactory in price, etc. Those having
at heart the growth of the place ought tt
| find way out of this difficulty.
George Holden of Barre is going to NOV,
on to the Robert Seaver farm, in the north
east corner of the town, which he purchased
not long since. General f.. Bass ha!
for sale at his home here in our village hay
of various qualities and prices, from goot
horse-hay down to tirst-class bedding.