The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-18
Waits River.

visited ms uncle, DAVID >. StOrrS, at island
Pond.
Waits River.
An interesting musical and literary enter
tainment, under the auspices of the Ladies'
Aid Society, was held at the school-house
Friday, December &. Professor Dickey aud
wife took a prominent part and did very
efficient service.
Mary e. Chynoweth and William Davis
have gone to Montpelier to attend the win
ter term of school at the Methodist Sem
mary. =- Edwin F. Ball and family have
moved to Barre. -= Rev. ID. f. Palmer
is in town cauvassing for the Bible Society,
and preached an excellent sermon in the
Methodist Episcopal church last Sabbath.
Williamstown.
The new Simons & Gale store is to be
eighty feet in length, and three stories
high, A hall, it is said will be finished off
in the upper story.
An effort will be made to make the music
an entertaining feature of the coming
Christmas festivities at Town Hall on Tues
day evening of next week.
Rev. /. Jones has just learned of his
fathers safe arrival at his home in Wales.
The latter sends back kindly greetings to the
friends he made here in his recent visit.
Mrs Carey Watson is about to join her
husband, now a theological student in An
dover, Mass. They will keep house there,
If the new Andover has all the various
charms of the Andover of thirty years ago
our friends are to be warmly congratulated
on their prospective three years there.
Mr.. Enoch Howe now in his ninety
eighth year, is said to have attained a
greater age than any other person who has
ever lived here. He recently split and
piled three and one-half cords of slab-wood
in some seven days. His wife has been a
helpless and greatly-to-be-pitie invalid
since the summer of 1855
The Williamstown Granite Company has
bought the lot on which Mrs. Lewis Flint's
house stood. IT, as seems probable, they
shall be induced to build new hotel, with
five or six thousand dollars, there will be
some change in the location of that and the
outbuildings from the previous ones. The
main building will be on the corner of Main
and Depot streets with the barn north OF
it, a new road from Main street to the
street passing the depot north and south
and running between the Simons ~ Gale
store and the hotel it is said will be peti.
toned for.
Miss Ella Benedict has returned from
Burlington, where she has been pursuing
her study of painting of late. We hear that
Santa Claus is to make use of her " brush,
for Christmas gifts in Connecticut, and
maybe other states. - An unusual eXpe
rience, we Judge, for Orville IL. Briggs ha,
been his sickness of some weeks past, lay
ing him aside wholly from work. He is
now better - Horace Farnham seem,
to have been very pleasantly disappointed il
his first visit West. He is teaching in Var
Grin, twelve miles from Princeton, Ill
Lewis Martin is teaching eight miles from
Princeton. - We are glad to hear of tn,
prosperity of Dentists j. G. Briggs, now o
Somerville Mass, and Charles Wheeler
now of Ludlow, VT. 60 Miss Stella Mar
tin, who has been seriously i'll for som,
months past, we are glad to hear is though
to be improving in health. =- Joe LON
bard has moved from Mill Village to Groton
where he is said to have bought 100 acres o
land for $50. The land has been cleared o
timber and is destitute of buildings. --
Charles Seaver, our recently burned-ou
merchant has opened a store temperate,
in his fathers Westinghouse.