The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-09

inces, and an employee of one of the granite
companies here.
On the Mortified camp-meeting week
Darwin Goodrich found a nice shawl in the
road and like a " square" man, Is trying to
find the lady owner of it,
Rev. Peter Mcmillan Of Barre will fill
Rev. 1. Jones' appointment at the Clark
Shepard school-hOuse, Barre next Saturday
afternoon at three o'clock.
Mrs. Melvin e. Burnham and Miss Gertie
Barnes have been chosen by the Christian
Endeavor Society here as delegates to the
state convention, to be held in Rutland,
October 30 and 81.
The old Squire Benedict farm " has just
gone back to the estate of the late Aaron
Wales of South Barre, on mortgage of
nearly 81 600, and we hear it is to be sold at
auction some time this fall.
There is to be a reading at the town hall
on Wednesday evening OF next week, Oc-
tober 16, by Miss l.. III. Capron, under the
auspices of the Christian Endeavor Society.
Admission fifteen cents. All are cordially
invited to attend. Miss Capron comes well
recommended as a reader.
Mr.. Curtis Fisk, an old gentlaman from
Braintree, who has been in Ralph Whit
ney's family the past season, while leading
a young animal with a rope to water last
week, was thrown violently to the ground.
and stunned. His escape from more seri-
GUS INJURY Stelltu IL ndIIOW OHt'
In the absence of Pastor Jones last Sun
day good excuse " was given his flock to
listen to Rev. f. w. Hambln at the Meth
odist church. 1t is not alone, perhaps, for
his interesting sermons that said flock love
to listen to Mr. Hamblin but for the spirit
he has always shown here that is not bound
| by any merely UNCONVENTIONAL bands,
0hough decidedly loyal to Methodism), and
which has helped so much to make it easy
" for brethren to dwell together in unity"
Deacon Edwin G. Smith and family are
about to remove to Washington to stay
year at least with the parents of Mrs.
Smith. In their departure the Congrega-
| tional church and society especially will
sustain great loss, and one that we see not
how is to be soon easily repaired. For three
generations Mr.. Smiths family, on both his
fathers and mothers side" have been
worthily, faithfully and helpfully identified
! with this church OF all the number only
| Mr.. Smith and sister remain in connection
with it,
Nelson Carleton's new two.story house,
now building, promises to be not only an
" ornament" but much-needed addition
to our village. And here we may add that
| some one tells us that the applicants in the
| late past for desirable house room in our
| village can be counted by scores. If it be
thus, alas that no quicker way is being
provided to meet this demand. Our in
formant further said it was just as ex-
Governor Smith said of our place, Jumbo
was coming here and we had not the facili-
ties for keeping him over night"
Olney f. Seaver's only son is attending
school in Barre. - Mrs. Judson Seaver
and daughter are to live in s. T. PERKINS,
! family the coming winter. - Mrs. Den
! ison Martin, AT last account, was with her
son Arthur in Kewanee, Ill. - Mrs. j.
T.. and Miss Emma l.. Ainsworth are to
visit Mrs. n. j. White at Melrose, Mass.
and their sister, Mrs. Doctor T. ID. Strong
of Westield, Chautauqua county, n. Y,
| on their homeward western trip. -
After an absence of two years in the West,
Charles Edison returns to work in j. X.
Lyndes store. - Edwin Prescott has
moved into the tenement of George Will
bur's new building. - Miss Celia Will
bur is with friends in Lower Waterford, to
be absent four weeks. - Mrs. Carey l..
Watson, at present with her parents in
| Waitstield, and for some time past quite an
| invalid. is said to he improving in health.
- On Monday last Mrs Chester Martin
started on her western trip, to be absent
| through the winter. - Frank Merrill of
Brookfield, who has been working here for
nearly year past, goes to Tunbridge to work.
- A son was born last week to Princi-
pal Daniel II. Martin, now of Pullman, Ill.
- Clio Tarbell is thought by her physi-
clan to be gaining, though but slowly. -
Harry G.. Elder, son-in-law of Mr. Hawley
Gale, and "a newspaper man" finds EN-
ployment on the GrdRde cutters JOuTndL
published in Barre. - Lawyer Eden
Sprout who has recently died at his home in
Brooklyn, n. Y, will be recalled as son.
in-law of our late townsman, Mr.. William
Brown, his first wife having been Lucy
Brown, so well and favorably known here
abouts. For years past Miss Mary A
Brown has lived in his family.
Caledonia County.
Observation-Disclosures of Burlington i:
putting furnaces into Grants block, Glenn
ents store and residence, and the new resi-
dence of d. Bridgman.
Several of our merchants visit the " Bay
State Cattle Show" at Boston this week.
Mrs. Lydia G. Smith of Lawrence, Mass
formerly of Greensboro has been visiting
her son here the past week.
Rev. A. b. Blake and wife and Edwin
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