The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-10


standing fifteen to seven at the end of the
seventh inning, when the game was called.
The Montpeliers played a good uphill
game. The two teams divided S25 between
them. The officers at the park were the
following gentlemen;, Marshal, A. b. La
violette; aides, Fred Bruce and George
Quigley; judges, George Lamson and
George Mackie; referee, William Barclay.
Berlin.
William Brown is filling his new silo this
week.
Mr.. Henry Dustin returned to his home
in Manistee, Mich, on Wednesday of last
week. He was accompanied by Miss Hat
tie Perrin, who is to spend a week with
friends in Michigan and by George r..
Bosworth, who is to remain in Manstee.
60 Mr. and Mrs. b. II. Allbee of SPRING
field Vt, were guests of j. n Perrin, Jr.,
during the past week. Mr.. Allbee is editor
of The Teachers journal and foreman of the
publishing rooms of the Springfield Reporter.
- Miss Bertha Kingsley of East Here
ford, p. O., student in the Vermont Meth
odist Seminary, spent the Sabbath with
Mrs. w. II. Turner. - Miss Efiie Turner
began term of school in Woodbury. on Mon
day of this week.
Braintree.
Few went from this place on the excur-
sion to Ausable Chasm on Saturday, but
those who did go are enthusiastic in praise
of the place.
Quite delegation from Snowsvlle grange
attended the Pomona grange meeting at
Brookfield. They report one of the best
meetings they ever attended, and the largest
attendance. The next meeting will be with
Eagle grange, Berlin December 4.
Farmers are digging their potatoes, and
some report first-rate yield, while others
call it only fair, with but very few rotten
ones. j. ID. Laporte dug thirty bushels
from one-eighth of an acre. He had one
potato that weighed one pound and fifteen
ounces.
Martha Howard has gone to Wiliamstown
to attend school. - Mrs. Charles San
ford, who has been sick, is recovering.
- Austin Howard is to be in town this
week to see about surveying and buying
lumber - o. S. Thayer has moved to his
farm, where he is building new house. A.
Jerd has bought the house recently vacated
by Mr.. Thayer.
Brookfield
Rev A. j. Lyman returned to Brooklyn
last Saturday. The week previous he, with
his family, took a carriage drive to Mount
Mansfield, spending Sunday on the noun
tain. good number of the people of the
town manifested their esteem for him by
making him farewell call on Friday even
ing. {" Mrs. Lucy Upham Partridge has
returned to her home in UXbridge, Mass.
- Mrs Orlando Ralph is visiting her
son in Concord. 60 Mrs. j. w. Parmen-
ter and daughter Winnie, and Minnie
Smith and Mamie Goodrich went on the
excursion to Ausable Chasm last Saturday.
They report a very pleasant time. -
Mrs. Henry Fulam and Mrs. Frank Aims
worth have been on the sck-list the past
week. - Miss Almra Fisk is visit
ing friends in Barre. - Mrs. Earl Gay
lord is spending few weeks with friends
in Massachusetts
NJ. d. Wells returned from the beach last
week.
Nearly all the summer visitors left town
| last week.
No democratic representative had been
elected from this town for twenty-one years
| until this year. The result was due to a
division in the republican party, largely
owing to locality. On the first ballot about
| forty republicans voted for the democratic
candidate, and on the second seven pro-
hibitionists voted with them and elected
their candidate.
East Calais.
Mrs. Cynthia Cross has sold her house to
Will Richard.
w. L. Pierce has just shipped six tons of
maple sugar to parties in New York.
The meetings of Moscow Lodge of Good
Templars will be held at half-past seven in
stead of the usual hour the remainder of
this month.
A good deal of anxiety is manifested
among the farmers over the potato crop,
and there is much discussion as to the best
preventive of rot. Some farmers are al
ready losing heavily.
Fred Bancroft and wife of Pawtucllet,
r. l., are stopping at John Bancroft's.
- Mrs. G. A. Murray and three chill
dren from Lawrence, Mass, are visiting at
| A. ID. pearce's.
Chelsea.
John G. Allen has decided to try his for
tunes in Chicago as hOrse-car conductor.
George H. Hutchins has sold the meat
market to Forris f. Hood and Eugene H.
Kennedy, who have taken possession.
John NJ. Atwood has gone to Saxton's
| River to attend Vermont Academy. Miss
! Nellie S. Locke returns to the same school.
The band serenaded our Representatives
elect on Wednesday evening, and it, with
many other citizens, enjoyed pleasant re-
ception.
w. r. Cree, son-in-law of c. o. Burn
ham, who lately removed here from Val
ley Falls r. l., has bought f. B. Hutchins
interest in the livery-stable, and the firm is
now Burnham & Cree.
The personal effects of the late John
Allen were sold at auction Wednesday
| those of the late Amos S. Hatch on Satur-
| udy anu lnOSe Ol llt ldle II. L. DlADy are
advertised to be sold next Saturday. The
John Allen farm was not sold on Wednes-
day, but its sale was adjourned to Monday
of this week,
Another of our aged people has gone-Hi-
ram II. Davis, who died on Tuesday of last
week at the age of eighty-fve. He was a
native of Derry, n H., and located in town
in 1926. Funeral services We're held on
Thursday at the house of his daughter Mrs
Clough, with whom he had lived, Rev. Mr.
Reynolds officiating
Our freeman's meeting was rather eX-
citing, and lasted till about half-past eleven
at night. There was no republican caucus
and any prophecy of the result was rather
difficult On the first ballot j. X. Darling
had 81 votes; William Robbins (democraD
As; f. n. Bacon, Az j. b. Bacon, %; and
various others 26 votes in all. The scatter
ing votes disappeared at once and those for
j. b, Bacon shortly, and Il, n. Bacon lead
from the second ballot to the sixth. On the
seventh ballot Mr.. Darling took the lead
but lost il on the two next ballots, coming
again TO the front on the tenth. This POI
sition he retained, making considerable
gains from time to time. After the fifteenth
ballot Mr.. Bacon withdrew his name, and
on the sixteenth Mr.. Darling's vote in'
creased from IA IN 76 and that of Mr.. Rob.