The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-08-15

Mrs Harvey l.. Cheney are at the Lynde &
Mayo cottage on the shore of Mirror Lake,
Berlin. - Nash Simons, superintendent
of carpet yarn mandatory in Will
ton, n. H.. was at the old home here re-
Gently. lie does not appear to like the
Mills tariff bill very well-at least so far as
it affects the interests of his own line of
business 80 A nonresident is informed
that the cars leave for Montpelier at 7: 40
o'clock A. NJ. and reach here at D: 40 p. M
The station agent desires that butter be de-
livered at the station from six to seven p. NJ.
on Mondays until depot shall have been
built. - The Central Vermont Railroad
Company weeks ago received the last in
stallment of bonds guaranteed them by the
town. but fail to come up to the contract with
the railroad commissioners to furnish two
trains daily each way. - The checklist
of voters having been prepared by the au-
thorities, it behooves every one who has the
right to vote at the freemen's meeting, near
at hand, to see to it that his name is on the
list. = Rev Idrys Jones of Wales
preached again at the Congregational church
last Sunday. Coming with good recon-
mendations, he is so well liked here that
he has been engaged to preach for some
months TO come. He is a young man. a
graduate of a college in Wales and of the
Yale Divinity School New Haven, Conn.
go DIR. Dana Dickinson, native of this
place, and for many years past successful
dentist in Boston, died here Wednesday Of
last week. A brain trouble compelled him
to give mp business some time ago and since
last fall he has been staying in town, with
the hope of benefit to his health. He was
buried in the village cemetery. His widow
will return to Massachusetts to live. He
also leaves two sons, DR.. John ID. Dickin-
son of Boston and Colonel Edward b.
Dickinson of New York, the secretary of
the democratic national committee. =-
Charles Smith, son of the late Captain Abial
G,,,ffh f.I .g l, Il,
Milwaukee, Wis, June 10, aged nearly
seventy-three years. He left a wife, four
sons and three daughters. He went from
here to Racine, Wis, in 1896. In 1919 he
went to California, where he stayed two or
more years. At the breaking out of the re-
bellion he took an active part in raising
troops in Wisconsin. He was the last of his
fathers family, well known here in years
past. 60 Henry Waldo recently killed a
hen-hawk that measured three feet four
inches from tip to tip of wings. - Pro-
fessor Willis II. Gale has returned to Nor
folk, Neb - Fred Martin of South
Barre is about to put an addition to his stone
building. From this it is presumable that
he is prospecting. - DIR. Gideon Dicken-
son, while riding through the Gulf during
his recent visit here, lost his pocket-b book
containing some $3.50, which was picked up
later by Randolph man and returned to
him. - The lower portion of the new
road to the Notwithstanding near Henry
Houses place-was begun last week. -
Rev. +. w. Hamblin is just now supplying
the pulpit on Brookiield branch every Sun.
day afternoon. He has been called several
times this summer TO officiate at funerals in
families of others than his own denomina.
ton here. His life and work here com
mend him to all who know him. -
| Norman Davenport is so nearly blind that
in travelling on the road he is hardly able tC
see fellow-travelers-a painful fact that he
desires to be known, since otherwise he
might seem to be totally regardless of the
convenience or the safety of others. -
The board of civil authority will meet al
Town Hall August IS, at 900 o'clock A. NJ.
| to correct the checklist.