The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-26

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for the manufacture Of shinet and Mas ene
cfo most influential and esq, sihed e. I jzeHs
MoRETowN. The sewing circle med ,,ia,
Mrs. G.. NJ. Fletcher last week. - Ira
Stevens and daughter from Lon on ard visit
ing relatives in town. == Ethe G osd ifaee
a birthday party December l2to her frNnda
Of this place and Fayston. Among thetg ~
was push-framed mirror from her yilSaoe
friends =- a large number Of visitbrq
were present at the village school. Il m.
day, to listen to the rhetoricals by ne schol
ars of the higher department. Tie pr1
gramme was interesting and well executed\
$500 Fred l.. Moulton goes South thist
time by rail instead of by boat, as formerly.
- Mrs S. ID. Moulton has returned
from Montpelier, where she has been for
some time. - a pleasant event of
last week was the marriage on Tuesday
evening of Willis O. Chapman of Montpeher
to Katie b. Prentiss of this place. About
| twenty-five invited guests witnessed the
ceremony, which took place at the residence
| of the brides parents Rev. Mr.. Deane Off
| cating. 4 large number of costly and beau
| tiful presents were received from their many
| friends. Wednesday morning the couple
/ started for Boston on their wedding tour
| On their return they are to reside in Mont
| pelier -= Ernest Thomas has bought
/ the Harran place for $500. =- G. II. Saw.
! yer and family have been visiting friends in
town for few days past.
WILLGAMsTowN.-- Our townsman Joel A.
] DhSo, Il Sbuutnl III lllt BOSTON SCHOOL OF Ora
! tory, will give a reading at the town hall
| Saturday evening next. We bespeak for
! him a good audience, both from the fact
/ that he is so well and favorably known here
| in his own home and that so many of our
/ citizens enjoy an entertainment of this kind
/ Give him a full house. == There will be
preaching and Sunday at the Uni
/ versalst church the two coming Sabbaths
= clear sky and a temperature of
nearly forty degrees above zero this Mon
/ day. morning augur well for Christmas fes-
rivals in the evening One of the gifts to
/ be presented at our town hall to-day is a
fur coat for Rev. Idrys Jones from the Con-
gregatiOnalists of this place and his congre-
CATION III the granite district at Barre. As
/ Rev. Mr.. Jones is perhaps the only Welsh
man that many Of our citizens have ever
/ personally known, it may be of interest to
/ recall the fact that the small wirv sum
burnt, keen-eyed man." Henry NJ. Stanley
of African fame, is a native of the same
country. - Frank and Miss Alice
/ Walker came home last week from school
| at SaXton's River to remain through the
| holidays. =-- MesSrs. w. II. Dillingham;
and j. II. Jeffords are petit jurors from
here at the Orange county court.
Mrs. Helen Stickney is spending the winter
| with daughters in Massachusetts. 80
Mr. and Mrs, Henry j. Snow are to pass the
winter in Barre with their daughter, Mrs.
Charles Hobbs. == Mr., and Mrs Ed
| Bell are visiting friends in northern New
family of her uncle, Clarence Hersey in
Leadville, Col, attending school. 60
Since VIII II. Dillingham; has been burned
out he has bought the Putney place in
| Northtield, and will move to that place.
- The mercury here went down to
fourteen degrees below zero one day last
week At present, however, there is but
very little snow and travel is mostly on
wheels. - The Central Vermont rail
| road engineers have been at work for some
l time SOutb Of here tlp towards
Royalton. 1t looks as if the company was
| to go on with the extension of the road in
that direction. - Mrs. DIR. j. c. Briggs
is suffering from rheumatism. - A menl-
Der of firm of granite workers in Barre, in
arecent conversation, spoke in high terms of
our new granite firm, the Elliot Brothers.
He puts them in the front rank as stone
cutters, fact that ought to be of much
benefit to our place. 80 1t is not Harry
Denny, as stated last week, but Bert of
South Northfeld, who is clearing timbered
land in the Hiram Davenport neighborhood.
- Judson Seaver has been quite i'll of
late. - The Lynde family are to have a
reunion and Christmas dinner this
year at the house of j. X. Lynde. -
Olney f. Seaver recently sold a COW to a
Connecticut man that from one milking
made pound of butter, and this, we be-
lieve, with little or no meal. - Among
the recent shipments from this place has
been quite lot of pressed hay.
WATERBURY. The following officers of
Edwin Dillingham; Post No. %, G.. a. r.,
were elected at the regular December meet
ing: DR. George c. Washburn, commander;
Daniel Russ, senior vice-cOmmander; I. +.
Dryer, junior vice-commander; |. H. Ell
lot QuartermaSter; Joseph Hutchin-
SON. chaplain: Leonard, Hart, surgeon: G.
o. Humphrey officer of the guard. Ed.
Wells, adiutant: Hartwell Moody and Sea-
Yer Howard, delegates to department en-
campment; |. II. Elliot and +. f. Palmer,
l,1+a Of Ion
treal is spending the holidays with his
daughter, Miss Jessie NJ. Wheeler, at Frank
Joslyn'S. - Governor Dillingham; has
been secured as orator for Memorial day.
80 The condition of Ira Towne of
Waterbury Center continues unchanged,
except that for short intervals he gives
signs of consciousness. - The Christ
mas exercises at the Methodist church were
enjoyed by an audience of old and young
that filled the building to overlooking. The
presents were distributed from ten small
trees so grouped on a large platform as
to present the appearance of being a YER
table grove of evergreens. For the success
of the musical part of the programme
deserved credit was given to Mrs Miller,
Miss Elliot and the orchestra, under the di-
rection of Mr.. Frary. - The proximity
of Waterbury to Burlington and Montpelier
is usually considered advantageous, from
social point of view, owing TO the superior
class of amuSements which can be attended
and means allow occasional excursions to
these points the benefit is evident, but there
is larger class who as a rule, remain at
home. In the case of such persons this
fact operates an injury, since the frac-
ton who look to Montpelier and Burling-
ton for their entertainment take away
enough support to prevent general inter-
est in securing at home the best class of
amusements. To counterfeit this tendency,
and to give further impetus to the line OF
activity stimulated by the establishment OF
the library, il is proposed TO canvass the
town and discover If there is enough inter-
est to warrant the Inauguration of lecture
course. Villages no larger than Waterbury
do not find it a burden to support course
of four or six evenings entertainment. In
addition to enlivening a town which is
rather sleepy during the winter months,
lecture course would furnish instruction
and give bent to the minds of the young
people which is often lacking in small COM
munties. 1t is TO be hoped that this project
will receive the liberal support il deserves
- Luke j. Roberts of the firm of Rob
erts < Deavitt Brothers has purchased the
entire interest of the firm in the mill and
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