The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-02

MIR. and Mrs. r.. f. Brown entertained a
number of their friends in a pleasant and
informal way on Friday evening last. .=-=
Mrs. G. II. Smith and son Everett left town
| on Thursday to spend the winter with rela-
/ tivcs in Tracy, MINI. =--= Our irrepres-
sible merchant-miller, Mr.. Hunter, has
leased the blaCksmith-shop of Jerry Year
taw and employs the latter to operate the
business. -===== " Mine host - Worthey of
the Washington house opened his han for
New Years ball on Tuesday evening ,Janu-
/ airy ] =- The Ladies' Mite Society meets
with Mrs. G. G. McAllister to-day (Wednes-
/ day. $500 Mr.. and Mrs. Ostrandcr and
/ daughter, formerly residents here, are Wis
Ting at Mr. Winslow Flint's. == Rev.
/ Lyman Sargent, who has been visiting with
/ relatives in Orange for some months, has
returned - DR. Warner opens a sing
/ ing-school AT the village school-house this
week, to continue through the winter.
MARsHFIELD-C Twist, with his wife
and child, spent New Years day with his
sister Mrs o. ID. Cole. =- The ladies of
/ the Methodist church hold an entertain
ment at their vestry next Friday evening
=- The Week Of Prayer win be OBJ
/ served al the Methodist church, beginning
next Sunday. Rev. A. b. Truax will be
present during the week. - Appropriate
] Christmas services were held mt the
/ churches last week Tuesday evening. At the
! Congregational church, the music and speak
/ ing were excellent and the presents of
/ greater value than have been seen for Sow
/ cra years. At the Methodist church, the
| exercises were of the same high character
/ Rev. &. H. FaTnsworth and wife Of Plain
/ field were present =- The higher depart-
ment Of the village school has not been in
session during the past week, owing TO the
sickness of Mr.. Clark who was obliged TO
/ cancel his engagement The committee is
/ cndeavoring to find teacher and will no
/ doubt succeed before the close of the week
- Carcel Bemis is cutting logs ON Dex-
/ ter Ide'S land and has moved into the Speu-
/ Ger house 70 be near his work. =- There
/ was considerable evidence of the presence
of rum in town last week Those who
/ know what this means will do well TO go
slow. The people are neither dead nor
/ slumberiug. == Bert Shepard was home
from Montpelier Christmas day. =- The
Methodist Sunday-school remembered Ger
tie Smith in her sickness Christmas day, and
sent her Bible to remind her that she was
not forgotten by them. II was presented
Tuesday by her pastor, but she did not live
| long to use il, as her death occurred Thursday
morning at eight o'clock. She had been i'll
since last summer with consumption. She
had been Il member of the Sabbath-sChoOl
since four years of age, this being the first
Christmas that she was not in her class Her
. funeral was held al the church Saturday
and the densely packed audenCe-roOm at
tested the esteem in which she was held by
all. Rev. o. ID. Ciapp offciated. Nh.
arrived in season to be present at the
. funeral services.
HARDwICK. T. Jennings has sold
his saw-mill at Nichols pond, with house
and a few acres of land connected with il,
to George II. Smile and George Whitney Of
/ Montpelier Price reported is 81 600. =-
/ The ice cleared from the river during the
recent thaw, wrecking Brush's and Ship
mans ot-bridges. -- Wheeler x Ship
man are building the two new snow-rollers
ordered by the town at its last annual meet
. ing. They are larger than those built last
season and are intended for use on the river
and Alder brook roads mainly. - Mr..
and Mrs. Pember Still have moved from
/ their house at the Center to this village,
| where they will remain for the winter.
80 Christmas was observed here by a
Christmas tree festival at the Meth
odst church. There was a large attend
auce and it was enjoyed. 60 NJ. f. Tucker
contemplates putting machinery into his
dressing-mill here for preparing chair stock.
60 The barn of Stevens johnson in
West Woodbury. was burned on the morn
ing of December 26, together with horse,
considerable hay and other property. The
fire is saidt have been caused by Mr.. John
sons father falling from a ladder with a
lantern. The accident resulted from the
breaking of the round on which he was
standing. The property was insured in the
Union Mutual of Montpelier, the building
alent in the village and vicinity at the pres
ent time, but no serious cases are yet re-
ported. -- The town voted at its recent
meeting to raise a tax OF Sl.7j on the dollar
of the grand list. This includes a state tax
. of twenty cents, county of eight cents and
state school of ten cents, leaving Sl.37 for
strictly town purposes == There is to be
a change in the personnel of the firm of j.
II. McLoud 4 Co. at the beginning of the
new year, the Idle Brothers retiring and
place in the store. Miss Edmunds is TO re-
main as assistant - a change in rail-
road time went into effect December 81.
The mail train, going east now passes here
al 1882 A.. NJ; going west, l;17 p. NJ. The
Hyde Park mixed is discontinued
WAIrsFIELD-The Christian Endealor
Society held largey-attended temperance
social in the Congreg ational vestry last
Wednesday evening. The hall was deco
rated with notices and sprays of evergreen.
The Good TemplarS' choir furnished the
music. DIR. C.. j. Allen, by means of
colored plates and vivid word-paiuting,
briefly demonstrated to the audience the
effects of Incorporate habits upon the
physical system. The speaker claimed that
I alcohol is not an unmiXed evil being useful
in arts and as a medicine, but where one
life is saved by its use thousands are de-
stroyed by its abuse. George Wallis read
! extracts from the writings of missionaries,
I showing the condition of things in Africa
| and India, where the efforts of so-Called
christian countries to ciyilize the natives
have made one thousand drunkards to one
convert to Christ. Facts were also given
showing the responsibility of the United
| States government for the prevalence of
drunkenness in Africa. The addresses were
followed by violin and organ duets by ID. a.
Kneeland and Genie l.. Boyce and recita-
tions by Althea Kneeand, Cora Kennedy
and Clare Allen. At the close of the eXer-
cises the members remained for short
social gathering. - Christmas was OBJ
served in an unusually happy way this year
by the Sabbath school of the Methodist
church. On Sunday the young people gave
a concert. On Tuesday the school gathered
in the vestry for a Christmas dinner. About
two hundred, old and young, including
nearly every member of the school, sur
rounded the well-flled tables. Directly
after dinner the children were invited to
the audience-room above, where a beautiful
tree, laden with the fruits of the season, had
been prepared It's gifts We're distributed
among them, many older ones receiving a
share The pastor and wife We're generously
remembered. - Mr.. and Mrs. h. a.
Maxwell gave TO their immediate relatives
a delightful Christmas dinner. The unveil-
/ inc n a wall-laH tree WAS "a UrpaT traat 10