The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-25

The smoke of the political battle is clear
! ing up. The wounded are cared for and
those mentally sound are again resuming
their usual labor We hope never to have
another family quarrel This town sent
| Woodbury. delegates but it was decidedly
for Page.
Waterbury.
Tom Farrell is on a vacation, visiting
friends in Philadelphia.
S. Ridley Parker is at home from Amherst
| for the summer vacation.
The class of 80 of the High School has
been photographed by Dale.
Rev. Mr.. Wheeler and family have
taken rooms at Mrs. Sanborn's for the
| summer.
Mrs. W. p. Dillingham; and f. A. How
! land attend the commencement exercises at
Dartmouth this week
The repairs on the Congregational church
are nearly completed, and the regular serv-
ices will be resumed on Sunday next.
Miss Helen Willoughby who has been
! visiting friends in this vicinity during the
past week, left for her home on Monday.
George II. Frary is on a business trip to
Boston and New York city, at the close of
| which he will be present at the reunion of
his class, 'SS, at the Worcester Institute Of
| Technology.
Frank Evans has purchased a new re-
! volving barber chair, with necessary para
! phernalia to accompany it, and is now pre-
pared to attend to all customers in the ton
serial line who may call at the drugstore of
NJ. o. Evans
! f. l.. Knight spent last week in St.
| Johnsbury, attending the commencement
| exercises of the st. JOhnsbury Academy.
! Dan G. Richardson was also present at the
union of the class of 81. The exercises
and banquet of the class were held at the
! Avenue House.
AT the recent prize speaking at the Mont
| pelier Methodist Seminary the first prize
was awarded to Miss Josephine Taylor and
second to Miss Mary Moody Eva Burleigh
and Myrtle Huntley were among the gradu-
ates, the latter taking the highest honors of
! the class. Laura l.. Ropes also took high
| est honors at the graduating exercises of
the Montpelier Graded School held last
week. This is a record which speaks well
! for the Waterbury girls.
West FairIee
Mrs. A. M. Simpson of West Fairlee, who
had for many years very acceptably served
| the WATCHMAN as correspondent, died on
the 18th instant She was a woman of great
intelligence, and always did her newspaper
work with entire satisfaction to the pub
fishers.
Williamstown.
Miss Stella Martin has improved much in
! health.
Mrs. S. Talcott Perrin is in very poor
health.
Mrs. George Beckett is visiting her son in
New York city
Leslie Gale attended the recent Rutland
musical festival.
Mrs. Leavitt S. Hayward is with friends
| in Waukegan, III.
/. ID. Robinson of Moretown moved to
our village last week
Contractor John Perry employs nine men
in his house building.
Perkins Bass is said to be i'll at his sum-
mer home in Peterboro, n. H.
A council is called for Tuesday of next
week to consider the resignation Of Rev. |.
| Jones.
Melvin Burnham will soon move his fam.
lily to Montpelier where he finds congenial
! employment
Henry Jillson has returned from Bratte-
boro, and is boarding with Mr. Cornelius
| Perrin of Barre.
S. M. Barnes of Boston, accom- panied by
his wife, visited his brother, c. G. Barnes
of our place, last week.
Mrs. George A. Ainsworth, accompanied
| by Mrs. Perley Chandler of Barre is taking
an outing on Cape Cod, Mass.
Cyrus U. Lathrop has retired from
the Willamstown Granite Company and
George W. Lynde takes his place.
| Alvin Smith, son of David NJ. Smith, is
! preparing for the Unversalist ministry at
the Canton, n. Y, Theological Seminary
The Free Baptist quarterly meeting ended
with full house on Sunday afternoon, Rev
Charles Davis of West Topsham preaching.
Rev. X. l.. Nanton's theme for Sunday
next will be, in the forenoon, 4" The Bible
| True" in the evening, Bible Difficulties
! Considered"
Bert Bailey, son of Joshua f. Bailey, of
the graduating class of the Methodist Sem
| mary at Montpelier, was the winner of the
! first prize for senior declarations.
A shrewd business man. having expert
ence in granite matters thinks our place
offers extraordinary opportunities for a cap
italst to invest in the granite business.
Mrs. Charlotte Persons Ellis, daughter of
| the late Mr.. Aaron Persons, was buried on
Friday last, at the age of eighty-three She
was the possessor of meek and quiet
spirit"
| Mrs. Chester Martin, who has been with
| her daughter, Mrs. DIR. George e. Maloy of
Glencoe, Minnesota, for some months past,
has started homeward. She will tarry with
| friends in Wisconsin and Illinois through
| the summer.
our granite companies James Bissett, of the
old firm of Greason and Bissett, having
gone into partnership with George Edwards.
His interest in the old firm is taken by
Charles Moore.
From Bradford man we recently learned
something of David Blakely, well-known
hereabouts, years ago, as a singer and
teacher of music. He married daughter
of the late Asa Low of Bradford and has
given the family name to the new hotel of
that town, which he visits occasionally. For
some years past his wife and children have
spent much time in Europe. He is judged
| to be the possessor of a good income He
has business in Chicago, III.
Tracy l.. Jeffords, clerk of the house dis
trict committee, was married recently at
Millersburgh, Ohio, to Miss Eta Corinne
Stilwell, the daughter of Judge Stilwell,
prominent citizen of that city. Many pres
ents were sent by the numerous friends of
the groom in Washington The district
committee presented the bride with an ex-
ceedingly handsome set of silver. After "A
short wedding trip Mr.. and Mrs. Jeffords
will settle down for the rest of the session
| at the Hotel Fredonia.
OF our old townsman, the late Myron III.
| Bass, an Evanston, H., paper says; d" He
was a man univ ersally respected and loved
| by his wide circle of friends and associates
His warm heart and quiet Christian nobility
of character won for him the devoted love
| ~ Of nd MI fri