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

Pease and wife return from their vacation
Wednesday, 80 Ed. Pierce and Miss
Lizzie Woodbury. were married in Lowell,
Vt, last week Wednesday. j. A.
Hadley of Lowell, Mass, was in town last
week.
An elegant soda fountain has been set up
at KimbalPs drugstore.
1t is reported that A. ID. Kimball, Esq,
young lawyer of Plainfield, has decided to
open a law Office here.
j. b. Livingston of East Hardwick has
begun the erection of new building for his
business upon the Porter lot near the river
bridge.
j. II. McLoud & Co hold the agency for
the newly-selected school books, and have
received full supply for introduction and
exchange
Louis Martin has purchased a lot on the
Bridgman meadow adjoining and north of
DR.. Daring's new residence, and intends
erecting house upon It this season.
The Methodists have purchased the land
and premises between the church building
and railroad of Mrs. Il. X. Cross of st.
Johnsbury. We understand they intend to
convert the old house into a woodshed and
move or reconstruct some of the sheds.
Mr.. A. G. Hooker is putting in the founda-
ton walls of his tenement-house. This is
the second cellar wall in town constructed
OF concrete. If these walls prove all that
is claimed for them they will be hereafter
largely used, being much cheaper than
granite.
Elmer f. Hall met with a serious acct
dent at r. f. Carter's Porter" quarry on
Friday the 18th, resulting in the breaking
of one leg below the knee and other serious
bruises. He was at work at the top of the
ledge, and by the slipping of a bar fell down
the cliff, distance of nearly twenty feet.
The grading of the new quarry railroad is
practically completed to the proposed ter
minus at the Buffalo" road The work
oflaying the iron will soon begin, under the
supervision of Mr.. Fred o. Shipman of this
place, the efficient foreman of the section
west from this village for several years past.
The prospectus of Hardwick Academy
and Graded School for the coming school
year has made its appearance. The fall
term begins Wednesday, August % and
will be of twelve weeks in the two higher
departments and ten weeks in the primary.
This school is now well supplied with appa-
ratus, charts and reference books, and under
the efficient management expected must
commend itself to public support.
Joel Foster of Montpelier has made pre-
| liminary survey for the new proposed water
works of Mr.. Aiken. We hear that owners
of land upon the stream above where Mr.
Aiken proposes to take out the water are
in effect obstructing the enterprise by what
seems to many people unjust demands. 1t
is hoped the matter will yet be satisfactorily
adjusted, so that an adequate water supply
for this village may be speedily assured.
The crop prospects for the season, so far
as can be determined, are about as follows
Hay, good in quantity and quality oats,
late, light growth, rusted early in season,
! investigations showing that the apparent
rusting was largely due to vermn or in
| sects-this crop must be much less than an
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usual on account of late spring and dis
! couragement from poor crops for several
| years past and is mostly of light growth,
with prospects of a light yield; corn, but
| little planted, except for forage, late, and
will require a month of most favorable
! weather to mature a fair crop; potatoes
promise well, early varieties are ripening
a good crop and later varieties are growing
! rapidly, with no signs of rusting A dry
August generally makes the potato crop.
! Pastures and second crop of grass are
shorter than usual, owing to the prevalence
| of hot, dry weather for several weeks past.
Marshfield.
See call for town caucus on first page.
Another squad of campers went to Groton
| pond last week.
Alva Cole has bought the old barn of S.
w. Cole and will take it down and put it up
on his land near Edson's shop.
Some one has been throwing dead pigs
| into the river. Such persons are referred
to section 1926 of the Revised Laws.
The ladies of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will hold their annual
business meeting with Mrs. Eli Edison on
| Friday, August %, at two O'Clock p. NJ. All
members of the union are requested to be
present.
The checklist is started toward compile
ton. The last and final meeting of the
r 1, L
gust 30 Saturday of next week. at Ban
croft's hotel, at one o'clock z. M, and those
whose names are not on the list must attend
to the matter at that time. Legal voters
who have never taken the freeman's oath
can call on Justice Ira II. Edison at any
time between now and August 80 and have
the oath administered to them.
Vena Henderson has gone to Woodstock
to live in the family of Rev. o. ID. ClapI
and attend school. - Leon, son of Will
lam Wilson, came home from Chicago, last
Tuesday, for visit. He has been absent
seven years and is express messenger be.
tween Chicago and Minneapolis. -
Rosa Pease is visiting in town She came
home from Massachusetts, where she has
been at work. - Fred Preston was in
town last week. John Warren Of
Holyoke, Mass, formerly of Hardwick, Wis
tied at E. l.. Spencer's last Monday. -
M. Ii. Eddy of st. Johnsbury has been Wis.
lung MS ldlHtI, d. Il. EuuN' MI
and Mrs Charles Twiss of Wolcott have
been visiting their daughter, Mrs. o. ID
Cole.
Middlesex.
Rev. l.. Warren is to preach in Middle
sex village next Sunday, August "a, at one
o'clock p NJ.
Putnamsville.
William Hancock of Minnesota, a former
resident, is visiting here. 60 The remains
! of al hon fo,
burial. She was stopping with her daugh
ter, Mrs. Udall in Craftsbury and was one
of the oldest residents of the town.