The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-31

little boy cut off one of his fingers on a
scythe last week. Will Hatch and
family and Lucius Bailey have gone to
Maine on a visit.
Orange County.
BRooKFIELD Professor w. w. Cooke Of
Burlington is to deliver free lecture on
The Short Course of the Agricultural Col
leges," at Union Hall, on Friday evening.
80 Il. f. Palmer is to canvass the
town this week in the interest of the Bible
cause, selling Bibles at cost to those wish
ing to purchase and supplying without cost
any not able to pay - Mrs. A. l.. Hardy
is spending some weeks with her father, A.
S. Allis - Among the arrivals of the
past week were Il. G. Wheatley and family
of Meriden, Conn, boarders at William G.
Clark's, Miss Susan Christian of Utica, n.
Y, guest OF ID. A. Morse, and Miss May Nc
Intire of Rutland at Marcus Peck's. -
Miss Corre Frink is very low. - Miss
Una Buxton is to teach term of school on
the West Hill in Wiliamstown, commencing
this week. - Farmers make slow prog
ress in finishing haying, on account of the
rainy weather.
CHELsEA-A reunion OF the family of
Erastus Bugbee, held with him last Wednes-
day, was in some ways a noteworthy one.
Mr.. Bugbee is the father of eighteen chill
dren, of whom fourteen are living and were
present on this occasion, as follows. Free
man A., Wilton, n. H.; May F. (Tewks-
bury, Franklin, n. II. Mile G. Godfrey,
Concord, N H.. George L., Nashua, n.
H.; Truman g., Sheboygan, Wis; Emma
II. (Wyman), Winthrop, Mass; Warren
L., Hartford, VT; Henry p, Scion d.
and Walter H., Concord, n. H.; Herman
j., Bradford, Vt; Jenness o., Jennie o.
and Albert p, living at home with their
parents. Most of the older sons and daugh-
ters are married, and brought their wives
and husbands with them. Fourteen grand
children were also on the ground, and the
whole company, consisting almost entirely
of near relatives, numbered sxty-four in
all. - Messrs. Foley and Ekstrom, al
legged burglars, were removed to Windsor
for safe keeping last week. - Thomas
g. Dearborn has begun clerking for Town
send x Dickinson. - Lucius l.. Clarks
widow has secured pension. 80 Mrs.
DR.. Goss went to Washington lat week to
organzea Woman's Relief Corps. - The
fall term of Chelsea Academy will open on
Monday, August 26, with the old board of
teachers, with the exception of Miss Ella
n. Jones, who resigns to accept position
at Brookline, n. II. Her place is not vet
filled. - George Pfoss a nine-year-
old fresh-air boy at II. l.. Bixby's fell from
a horse, last Friday, and broke an arm. He
is doing well. The other fresh-air children
returned to New York on Tuesday.
NEwBURY.- Samuel A. Eastman. while
going to the field with mowing-machine
was thrown from the seat and run over,
one wheel passing over his head cutting
two long gashes. The accident is a great
mystery to himself. He did not intend to
NOW any that morning and has no recollec-
ton of hitching the horses to the machine
and starting for the field - Rev Mr..
Love, stopping at Riverside farm, lost
child, July 81, by diphtheria. - Rev.
MIR. Upper, missionary spoke at the
Congregational church Sunday, July p,
giving an interesting account of his labors
a hn fafr tt-hi e
and Tennessee. Over thirty dollars was con-
tributed to buy a chest of carpenters tools
for his industrial school for boys
Haying is very uphill business, it raining
as often as every other day. There is
double the hay to cut usual at this time.
- A boy appeared at the house of Mr..
and Mrs. Cobb July "A. - Mrs. Darling
OF Cambridge, Mass, and family have
arrived to spend the summer with her
father, Richard Doe. - Mrs. Titus of
Boston is visiting at j. b. Lawrie's. -
j. e. Wesener of Akron, Ohio, proprietor
of Montebello Springs, has arrived with his
family.
Berwick, Maine, preached here Sunday j.
b. Brooks of Syracuse, n. Y, was expected
to give talk for the benefit of the Sunday
school in the afternoon, but was unable TO
be present - Miss Josie Eastman of
Barre has returned home on account of the
Reuben Crooke and Mrs. f. c. Woodman of
Boston are visiting Mrs. E. c. Colby. -
w. n. Jewell returned to his home in Chel-
sea, Mass, Saturday, after spending two
weeks with his parents. - There is to
be meeting of the building committee Of
the church next Saturday evening at the
vestry. - Haying is progressing slowly.
WEST RANDoLPH.-Rev. Smith Baker
preached at the Congregational church
Sunday. The farmers are finishing
haying. The other crops are in fine condi-
ton. - May Thompson is visiting in
Lebanon n. II. - Edgar Salisbury and
Louis Atwood have returned from Green's
boro pond. - Nellie Joiner of the
Herad Office attended the funeral of her
aunt in Royalton one day last week. -
The steeple of the Congregational church is
undergoing repairs. - There is grand
excursion to Burlington and Providence
Island to-day. - The " concrete men >
are here again They are to extend the
sidewalk on Main street to the bridge, and
are now concreting the walks on Randolph
avenue - Charles Grswod and wife of
Gardner, Mass, have been in town. -
Gardner Brewer has returned to Boston
- Rev. Mr.. Palmer preached at the
Christian church Sunday. Mr. and
Mrs. Tilson and son Will of Boston are in
town for the summer. - Union serv-
ices were held at the Christian church Sum
day, Rev. V. NJ. Hardy preaching. -
Mrs. Abble Phillips, wife of Frank A. Phil
lips, died July % of paralysis. - Mr.
and Mrs. Story of Philadelphia are at
" ldleton Cottage" Professor A
l.. Hardy and wife of ST. Johnsbury are at
Rev. " NJ. Hardy's.
SOUTH STRAFFoRD.-Mr. and Mrs. G. A.
Jones of Manchester, n. H., are spending
few days at the Barrett house. 80 c. w.
Perkins and wife of Lebanon, N. H., spent
the Sabbath at this place.
VERsHIRE.-The hay crop is thought to
be about an average, but the weather so far
has been unfavorable for securing it. -
Fred Smith, who graduated at Hanover in
June, is stopping at home. - Mrs. Bxby
mother of DIR. Mark Bixby, died July II
aged about eighty years Her remains were
taken to East COrinth for burial. -
Raspberries are abundant and blackberries
promise to be so. There will be but few
apples. - Professor A. l.. Fuller of
Adelbert College, Ohio, is spending the
summer vacation at his fathers in this
place. - There have been no services at
the Congregational church for two Sab
baths Rev, Mr. Thomas, who has minis
tered so faithfully TO this church for the past
nine years, is, we hear, about to seek another
field of labor. His removal will be "A loss to
the town and community, as well as to the