The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-13

is i'll with typhoid fever and not expected
TO recover. Mrs Lester Sanborn has been
i'll with lung trouble
DR.. Warner has purchased the house of
Rodney Clough lately occupied by Mr..
Rowell.
The village school Miss Maggie Carri-
gan, teacher) closed last Friday. A number |
of the parents and friends of the pupils at
tended the closing exercises and expressed |
themselves pleased with the appearance of
the school Miss Carrigan is graduate of |
the Randolph Normal School aud is an en-
ergetic, wide-awake teacher We notice
great awakening of interest among the
youngest pupils We hope the committee |
will Not fail to secure her services for the |
winter term, and in this we feel sure we
shall be joined by all those who have the
interest Of the school at heart.
Miss p. A. Thompson of Goddard Sem
mary was in town Sunday. - Mrs. DIR. |
Dean of Tunbridge has been spending the
past week with her mother, Mrs. e. "
Powers. 80 Mr.. Ira and Miss Lucy Calef
have returned from three weeks visit to
Boston. -= Mrs Winslow Flint is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. Spencer in Gardner
Mass. -- Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Pepper went
to Williamstown last week to attend the
funeral of Elton Burnham, a nephew of
Mrs. Peppers. 80 Annis Dickey has re-
turned from Corinth, where she has been
at work for several weeks. ==-= Miss
Salie Huntoon of Lisbon, N. H.. has been
visiting in town, being called here to attend
the funeral of her brother-in-law, George
Richardson.
Williamstown.
On Thursday last Joel Jersey and Mrs.
Pittsley of Washington were married by
II. A. White, Esq, Of Washington.
Cable & Cassie, grante-working firm in
Barre, have just begun quarrying on J. NJ.
Bass land They hope to develop a sheet
quarry there
In the last of the items in last weeks
WATCHMAN read arena" for avenue"
where that word occurs, and you will have
the item as it was written.
Our old townsman, j. Foster Wilder, was
buried last week Monday from the home of
his son-in-law, Thomas Broughton of
Washington. He was the last of his family.
Henry II. Martin, the owner of the j. NJ.
Palmer farm, bought the Squire Benedict
farm at auction last Saturday, paying $500
for il. This place was sold thirteen years
ago for $4,000.
Messrs. Ophr S. Martin, Henry Lasell
and Oliver S. Walker are buying poultry
hereabouts. 1t is said dealer wants Mr..
Martin and Mr.. Lasell to go West to buy
poultry for him.
The Congregationalist ladies will give a
sociabe at Town Hall this "wednesday
evening. An attractive feature will be
readings by Joel A. Bass. Refreshments
Will Dt StINtU. All are tOIuldlly lnNlItt 10
attend.
Whoever else may complain of dull times
surely those who are competent and willing
to work hereahOutS would seem to have no
reason for complaint. Such persons are in
demand at good, or even high wages, both
in and out of doors.
An out-of-town ship timber buyer has
been here looking for maple trees that will
make sticks foity feet long and some
eighteen or twenty inches square Such
sticks command high prices. He is said to
have found four on one farm here.
Rev. f. +. Dawson, formerly pastor of
the Free Baptist church in St. Johnsbury,
closed a two weeks series of meetings at
the Free Bap list church here last Friday
evening. We hear only words of com
mendaton of the man and his methods.
Friends of Rev r. ID. Miller. who went
from here last year with impaired health,
! will be glad to learn he is better, and that
he is pleasantly situated at Melrose High
lands, Mass. He lives with his only son,
who is said to be prospecting finely in bust
ness in Boston.
! We are told that some wel-to-do man has
bought lot of deserted houses in Ely (the
once booming copper town of this county,
| for less than the doors cost, and is to re-
move them in sections to the now booming
granite district hereabouts He has pur-
chased land in East Barre, on which some
looking for other sites. Williamstown Of
fers him as many as he wants.
Rev. |. Jones and father returned from
their western trip on Saturday last The
latter preached last Sunday morning in the
Congregational church. giving his hearers a
rich feast. lie will preach there again next
! Sabbath. On Monday next he will start
for Wales. By urgent invita- ion he will
| give lecture on Thursday evening of this
week, at the Congregational church, begin
ming at half-past seven o'clock. Subject,
"Glimpses of Wales and the Welsh" We
Judge this lecture will be interesting and in
structive enough to make it a treat rarely
offered our citizens. Let the speaker be
greeted with full house. Admission, only
fifteen cents
Mrs. j. Wright Briggs, now of Rochester,
n. Y, after "A stay of some months here
abouts, left this week for Jersey City, n.
j., where she will be for a little time with
the family of DR.. Scion Briggs. She was
accompanied by Mrs Leavitt S. Hayward.
| - Miss Lucy White, now of Melrose,
Mass, is visiting friends in town. -
Mrs. DIR. f. b. Watson is visiting her old
home in Waitsfed. -" All" House,
son of Henry G. House, is making a first
class polisher in Lynde & Cheney's granite
polishing shop. - Joel A. Bass goes to
New Hampshire next week as a profess
siona reader, 1t is to be hoped that towns
hereabonts may have the pleasure and
profit of some of his time the coming season,
for can assure them he is not without
honor in his own country and among his own
friends as a reader - Miss Bernice Sib-
ley, though quite i'll in the last week, is
thought to be on the way to health. 80
Friends of Stella Martin one of our most
estmable young ladies, are panied because
of her continued i'll health. The trouble is
bronchial.
Essex County-Island Pond.