The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-08-20

fifty years.
II. NJ. Blanchard is repairing his mill.
He will put in new and larger water
wheel and be ready for business in the fall.
Brookfield.
The board of civil authority will hold an
adjourned meeting in Library hall on Satur-
day, August 30
Henry Freeman post, twenty-three in
number (R. w Walbridge, commander), at
tended the national encampment at Boston
last week.
The Central Vermont Pomona Grange
will hold its third quarterly meeting here
Thursday, September 4. The public is cor
daily invited to attend the afternoon ses-
sion.
Mrs Hattie A. Bishop will give one of her
recitals at the First church tomorrow
Thursday evening The Hartford C0urdnt
says Of her: Mrs Bishop is an artist of fine
merit and culture and can not fail to please"
Mrs Marcus Peck and Miss Marcia Peck
go to Peaks Island this week, where they
are to spend a few weeks. - Mr.. and
Mrs. A. l.. Follansbee are at Kennebunk-
port. - Mrs. William G. Clark took an
| early train last Sunday morning to visit her
uncle in Brooklyn n. Y. who is danger
ously i'll. - DIR. f. j. Partridge, who
has been taking vacation in town, re-
turned to Uxbridge, Mass, last Monday.
- Mrs NJ. A. Crane and Miss Katie
| Crane of Morrisville made brief visit in
| town recently. Miss Crane expects to re-
turn to Omaha soon, to resume her position
as teacher. - Anna Clark, who is soon
to return to st. Johnsbury, to continue her
course of study, gave reception to about
sixty of her friends last Thursday evening.
Cabot.
The first frost of the season occurred
Saturday morning last
At Danville, last Saturday, the Cabots
won in the ball-game by score of sixteen
to thirteen.
The hay crop has been secured, with full
an average yield. Potatoes at present are
looking finely.
The checklist is hanging at the door of
the town clerks Office for the inspection of
the voters. Please take due notice.
The schools at the village will begin the
fall term next Monday, with Miss Myrtle
Boy les and Miss Josie Beedle as teachers.
The people of Waterbury are to be con-
| graduated on securing the services of Miss
! Alice NJ. Hancock of Hardwick as one of
| the teachers in their Graded School. She
has been very popular and successful
teacher in this town for the past two and
one-haf years.
Mr.. L. L. Smith of Montpelier occupied
the desk of the Congregational church last
! Sunday, giving a very able sermon in the
morning. and in the evening an interesting
| talk upon home missions. Mr.. Smiths an
cestors have been active members of this
church. His great-grandfather, Captain
Joseph Smith, eighty-five years ago was
one of its strongest and most active
members
DIR. Arthur Marsh of Oriskany Falls, n.
! Y, is visiting in town. 60 Mr.. George
Knight of Orlando, Florida, is visiting his
grandmother, Mrs. Lora Knight. - Mrs.
! g. f. Clark died last Sunday, after a long
and painful sickness. - Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Wiley of New York city are stop
ping at G. A. Willey's. - Mrs. p. NJ.
Hoyt is at Harpswell beach, Maine. -
Franklin Hoyt of Rochester, Wis, visited
this town last week. He left Cabot nearly
| fifty years ago - George f. Damon and
family of Kansas City are spending a few
weeks with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. II.
! Damon. - Our venerable citizen, E. w.
Harrington, suffered slight shock of par
alysis last Friday morning.
Chelsea.
Mrs. RoXana l.. NJ. Douglass died very
suddenly, of heart disease, on Thursday
evening of last week. Mrs. Douglass was
| the eleventh of twelve children of Richard
H. and Ruth Cochran Little, who came to
this town from Lebanon, n. H., in 1898, and
was born on the farm now occupied by
Richard Kennedy, April o, 1916. In 1874
she was married to Rev. Daniel G. Mason
a Baptist clergyman, who died in 1862, and
| in 1871 she became the second wife of the
late Josiah Douglass. She was woman of
vigorous mind and of sterling Christian
character. Her only son, Rev. John H.
Mason of New Haven, Conn, was present
at the funeral services on Sunday, con-
Quoted by Rev. Mr.. Sherman, and the body
was taken to Keene, n. H., where her first
husband was buried. Two sisters survive
her-Mrs. Charlotte Emerson, aged ninety
four, the oldest person in town, and Mrs.
Mary Kimball aged seventy-eight. In a
month just past there have been six deaths
| hn of hahn
respectively seventy-nine, eighty-seven,
eighty-three, eighty-tive, seventy-nine and
seventy-four years.
Rev. DIR. William II. Davis of Detroit,
Mich is here for a short vacation.
Gilbert e. Hood of Lawrence, Mass, son of
the late Dea. Harvey Hood, was here over
Sunday.
East Corinth.
Miss Lola Morey of Manchester, n. H.
was the guest last week of Miss Lizzie Hatch.
- Miss Mabel Dvoll returned to her
home in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday.
- p. Crafts and G.. X. johnson started
last week Tuesday for Magalloway, Maine,
where they are to fish.
East Montpelier.
The Center team beat the North village
nine at game of baseball last Thursday
scoring II to s. They play together again
Saturday at the North village.
Mrs. Fanny Richards died last week Sun
day, after brief illness. The funeral was
held the following Tuesday at the residence
of her brother-in-law, Joel Ormsbee, Rev.
Lester Warren officiating.
Fanny Waldo is to teach in the Mutt dis
trict - Elmer Ormsbee returned last
Saturday from a weeks visit to Worcester
Mass. - Fred Cummings arrived Sat
urday from Massachusetts on a visit to his
parents. - II. b. Woodwards young
est daughter has been dangerously i'll, but
is little more comfortable - Mr.. and
Mrs. e. w. Ormsbee went last week Mon.
day to Craftsbury on visit. 60 Frank
LeBarron has been granted pension of 81
per month and 1888 back pay 60 Captain
Dwight Keton is visiting his brother, f. p
Kelton, 60 Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Blanchard of Iowa are visiting at e. p Nor.
cross.
East Gilmore.
James Swift of Blackstone, Mass. is Wis
iting his uncle, William Swift. - Miss
Bessie Silloway is spending her vacation al
Peak s Island Maine.
North Fayston.
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