The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-03-07

shire, estimated at 275 acres. - Rev.
Mr.. Parsons, the evangelist, expects to
the 18th instant Myron j. Prescott
and Mrs. b. f. Kendall are very low with
consumption. 80 DIR. f. F. Chaffee has
bought of Hiram Barrett the tannery prop
erty at South STAFFORD - Mrs. Clarssa
Gould has conveyed all her property, real
and personal, to John II. Clogston for the
consideration of her support and main
tenance. - Edgar j. Wood has bought
the Matilda Perkins farm. - Hiram
Barrett has purchased the II. G. Hatch, or
Howe, farm and the brick store property.
South STAFFORD.
REV. S. A. PARKER will preach here at
the usual hour next Sunday forenoon. Sub
ject, The Gospel JOY"
North Thetford.
MR.. AND Mrs. III. Holt and Postmaster
Cobleigh have the humps. - Mrs.
Hiram Barnes is still in Boston with her
son, who is sick at Hotel Brunswick. -
The young people devote most of their spare
time to lyceums, singing-schoos and candy
pulls. - Frank Wilcox arrived home
from California last week. - An old
folks concert and supper will be given in
the hall next week.
Tunbridge.
JOHN FOLSOM of Chelsea was run into by
f. II. Wells team Tuesday OF last week.
was no driver with them. Young Folsom
received severe injuries and his sleigh was
reduced to kindling-wood - 1t is said
that some books and pencils have been
stolen from the school-house in district
No IS. - Rev. Mr.. Hurd of the Baptist
church will move to New Hampshire soon.
- Charles Hartwell has moved to Roy
alton. - Ann Howe is attending school
in Randolph. - There are no new cases
of measles here. - The Changers had
very pleasant time at their oyster-supper
| last week. - Frank Northrop has been
very sick but is now convalescent He had
pneumonia. Issachar Adams is very low.
- S. Farrar of Berlin has been visiting
in town. - Charles Cushman is visiting
his sisters at A. p Woodlands. - c. l..
Howe has moved into his mothers house
and will take care of her She is nearly
| blind.
Washington.
MRS Lucy CHENEY celebrated her eighty
| fifth birthday February IS, when nineteen
of her relatives assembled at her residence,
bringing refreshments with them. The af-
| fair was a complete surprise to Mrs. Cheney.
| A bountiful repast was served and none
of the younger members of the party stepped
around more lively than "Aunt Lucy"
She was also agreeably surprised by the re-
ceipt of a letter Containing presently from
| a daughter, Mrs. Cotton of East Hampton,
! Mass All present pronounced the occasion
an enjoyable one, and departed wishing the
venerable lady many years of health and
happiness. - The convention held here
last week by A. c. Dickey was decided
success 1t closed Friday evening with a
concert, the programme of which consisted
Of choruses, quartettes duets and solos. Mr..
! Dickey made an excellent director, winning
| the approval of all musicians present. The
concert was well attended by our own peo-
| pie and those from adjoining towns. -
| The Baptist society intends to give an old
| fOllks pOnpprt in a few wpp<s - Rpmpm-
Der the masquerade at the Washington
| House Thursday evening. - Will East
man, who has been in the employ of L. ID. Til
lotson the past year, has severed his connec-
ton with that firm and will probably leave
| town. - Mrs. e. +. Brown is in Elmore
having been called there by the dangerous
| illness of her sister. - Mrs. Il. f. S.
Thurber is in Corinth visiting her sister,
Mrs. Carter, and Hitty Huntington is visit
ing in Barre. r. Ransom Dickey is home
West Fairlee.
IT will require quite a sum of money and
some time to make the village of Ely habit
able again. There is hardly house in the
place in which the glass remains in the win
dows and many are without either windows
or doors. The Catholic church, handsome
and costly one for country place. has not
escaped broken glass. Small articles of
metal are not to he found, while the nuts
and bolts. screws, etc, have all been re-
moved from the machinery, and rubber
belt costing several hundred dollars, has
been cut and ruined. Such vandalism
ought to be punished. Repairs have al
ready been commenced. Mr.. Cain will oc-
cupy the house where f. p. johnson lived.
The widest rumors are atioat concerning
the former payroll and the amount of help
required. The future workmen will prob
ably be German, and it will be useless for
others TO flock in there for work at present
al lpaGt Mr. (lazin and family bpa a.
ing at the Eagle Hotel in this village.
Williamstown.
Miss ADDIE FIELD is going to Salem
Mass, to work the coming year with heI
brother-in-law, Return S. Davis. - Mrs
William G. Putnam was quite seriously
hurt, as it proves, by being thrown from a
sleigh in our village not long ago. severe
injury was done an arm between the elbow
and shoulder. - Albern Briggs is again
in poor health A seemingly alarming
symptom in his case is the numbness with
which he is troubled. - Norman b
Davenport is said TO be totally blind al
present For years he has not been able tt
see with the right eye, and last week, as he
was working on his wood, a chip struck the
, other one, causing at least temporary loss
, of sight. - Rev. Peter Mcmillan is tC
lecture at Town Hall this "Wednesday
evening under the auspices of the Village
Lyceum. Subject, " Objectionable People,
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who hear him speak occasionally. -
Miss Nettie Gale is about to 90 to Norfolk
Neb., where her brother, Professor Willis
H. Gale, is in business. The Nor-folks viii
= be sure of at least one good pianist witt
D Miss Gale in their town. - Jessie Poo
( has bought the Sumner f. Wheatley farm
= for 81 800 1t was sold some ten years ag
1 for S3,OOO or more. 80 Sumner II, Wheat
t ley has moved his family TO East Brool1tield
t Both himself and wife and his children
3, Mr. and Mrs. Haden Jeffords, are employees
$ this year by Frank Dyer of that place
a - Frank Walker, student of the VeI
{ mont Academy, Saxton's River, is the bus
k ness manager of The AthengUn, publishe
h by the AthenHum Society of the institution
d 1t is monthly, presenting very creditabl
/. appearance, and has a good advertiser
l. patronage. - A recent Illinois pape
II pays high compliment to our ex-townsmar
4 George b. Harrington, superintendent {
|. the schools of Bureau county in that STATE
It He is also a member Of the Illinoi
Q State Board of Education. -- wi
e bur #. Adams finds employment in Cal
% fornia on the ranch of his uncle, Alph