The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-08

ter will soon be brought more fully TO the at
tention of the churches. 80 John Walker
returned Thursday from a stay OF several
weeks in Washington, ID. G. IL was a for
tunate coincidence that he arrived on the
very day telegram was sent him to come
home on account Of the serious illness of
his mother. - Dr. G. w. Bailey of Mont
pelier was called here Friday to counsel
with DR.. Watson in the case of Mrs Olive
3: walker, who is sick with spinal menin-
gitus AT this writing Mrs. Walker seems
to be convaleScent. 60 DR. Packer of
Barre came ont last week to counsel with
Or. Watson in the sickness of Mrs. Charles
X. Benedict. The result was hopeful; al
though Mrs. Benedict has been an invalid
for so long. = Mrs. Herbert Platt is in
very, poor health and has given up active
work. - Flora Erskine is teaching in
the A. ID. Camp district, South Barre, and
Miss Bertha Sprague in the W. u. Pratt
district - Nellie House, lust recover
ing from diphtheria, had a present last Fri
day OF trout caught in the mill.pond by
" Hal Cheney and weighing a pound and
quarter. - Mrs. Leavitt HAYWARD has
left the old farm, which is to be occupied f,
henceforth by her son Charles. -
Messrs. Lynde & Cheney are about to add
more granite-polishing facilities to their
establishment. - The widow of the
late Norman Davis has seemed to be
falling OF late and on Saturday was
n
ming the engine at the Wetmore & Morse
Granite Company's works in Barre. - A
wonderful curiosity is a watch which we
saw at the store Of Perley Chandler, Barre,
last week. 1t was made in 1868, and prob
ably in England, from which country it
was brought. The case is a hunter. of
brass. The watch is about one and one
fourth inches in thickness and two inches
in diameter. There is but one hand,
marking only the hours. There is no crys-
tai and no hair-sprng, and in place of a
ilsee-chain is cord of catgut. 1t still runs,
put loses half an hour daily. A number
IN the watch indicates that it is the
second one made by its manufacturer,
and the present owner regards it the
oldest one in this country.
Asa Harrington of Barre, formerly of
WILLIAMSBURG, is about building his eighth
house. He knows how good it is to have a
handsome income from rents. CLAW
ton r. Ditty has hired to NJ. C. Rowell Of
Randolph for year at twenty -four dollars
per month. - Ida Ainsworth's husband
died at their home in Wisconsin April oath
She is left with three children. - George
Beckett returns from New York city this
week - Charles Hayward is to have
the farm OF his father, the late Leavitt S.
Hayward, and has moved on to it.
Mrs Leavitt s. Hayward is visiting in North
teld Tor a few weeks - Mrs DIR. G. w
McClearn was out from Goddard Seminary,
Saturday, making preparations for the en-
tertainment " A Japanese Wedding" to be
given by students here in a week or two.
- Quarterly meeting was held at the
Methodist church last Sabbath. Presiding
Elder Truax was here through the day.
- Farmers are apprehensive of too
long-continued dry weather. - The ad-
ministrators of the estate of the late Robert
Seaver got bid at Saturdays auction of
only thousand dollars for the old Lyman
A. Work farm" and did not sell. -
School or entertainment programmes in
neat designs at the WATcHMAN job office.
- At a second school meeting in the j g.
III. Walbridge district it was voted to have
summer term of school. Mr.. Walbridge
has been securing this place and Barre to
find teacher, and at last accounts h ad not
succeeded.