The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-23
and the sacrament of the Lords supper will


be celebrated.
Tuesday evening party of twenty drove
to Jonesville and took supper with Mine
Host Gillett of the Jonesvile house. The
latter part of the evening was spent in hav-
ing general good time.
Messrs. Cheney and Graves, state agents
of the Washington Life Insurance Com
pany, have opened an office in the Water
bury hotel, in the room formerly occupied
by Mrs. Wilson, who has removed her
business to Bethel.
Two very enjoyable parties were given to
the young people last week-one by Miss
Minnie Malally, who is stopping at the hotel
FOR the summer, the other by Miss Carrie
Washburn, in honor of her guest, Miss
Lord of Burlington.
Gamaiel Washburn has purchased the
stock in trade of jewelry-store on Warren
street in Roxbury, Mass, and embarked in
business for himself. The location is re-
garded as desirable and the bargain an
exceptionally good one.
Last Friday horse attached to the meat
cart of II. e. Boyce took fright and ran
away. Considerable damage was done to
the wagon before the animal could be
stopped. This is the fifth runaway Mr.
Boyce has had within few weeks.
E. f. Moore of Bristol, N. H., is in town,
and is at work with gang of men putting
in an eXtention of the concrete sidewalks
Walks will be put in on Main street, ex
tending on one side probably as far as the
house Of Dr. James The flagstone in front
of Watts block will be replaced by con-
crete, and several new crossings are to be
laid.
Miss Jessie Hooker is at home on a vaca-
ton - Mrs. f. B. Taylor is sick with
the diphtheria. - Marion Scott is at
home after a two months vacation in
Chelmsford and Lowell, Mass. Her cousin,
Mr., Henry Farr of Lowell, has returned
with her for a brief visit in Waterbury
80 Charlie Frary has been visiting the
Frary Brothers for few days. Mr.. Frary
is now employed in Wanamaker's, Phila-
! delphia - Mr.. r.. S. Gibbs of Palatne,
| ILL.,, and family have been stopping with
Mrs j. &. Griggs.
Williamstown.
Mrs. j. X. Lynde gives an "afternoon
| coffee " to-day
Jerry NJ. Hutchinson of Barre is reported
to have bought the John Lynde farm,
Thus far our place is rising from the ashes
of its late fires much improved in appear
! anCe.
The late Myron II. Bass is said to have
! left an estate of $50, 600 to his wife, three
sons and daughter.
A nonresident capitalist is reported as
saying he wants the Gulf Spring hotel prop
erty, and that he would erect a good house
| there.
Corn is backward, potatoes are looking
WELL and the fruit crop promises well. The
| great need of rain was partially met on Sat
urday last.
Mrs. John Adams and her daughter, Miss
Emma, are on their way home from Cali
fornia At present they are visiting Rev.
| Carlos Adams at his home in Michigan.
Appeals in two or three instances were
taken from our listers appraisal of real es
tate in the village last month. Quite
number of villagers feel aggrieved by the APP
praisal.
Landlord Durham has been notified to
have his hotel ready for more occupants,
the order pointing to the work of filling the
trestles-or is it, possibly, the extension of
the railroad to the lime kilns?
A larger number of men is said to be work
ing in our granite sheds than ever before,
and several more could get work here just
now. If only the Delaware & Hudson Rail
road Company would worm itself in here
we could make faces at our neighbors.
A noticeable feature of this latter-day
farming here is the great increase in the
average of corn. However, none of the
farmers share in the disappointment of our
old townsman, Martin Burnham of Martin
ton, ILL.,, this season, because, at last ac-
counts, he had been able to put in but sew
enty-tive acres of corn, ON account of the
wet weather.
Gulf Spring hotel last week. Landlord Ry-
der was absent at the time. his wife and one
child alone being in the house at the time
the fire started. Thomas Saunders of Ha-
verhll, Mass, owner of the building, had
100 insurance. Landlord Ryder is said
to have had some insurance on the house
furnishings. For the third time in the last
year Landlord Durham suffered loss by
this fire.
Fred, son of the late George W. Banch-
ard, and student in Oberlin College, is
visiting friends in Chicago just now. He
will come home in August - Miss Alice
Martin is summering at the White Noun
tains. - The widow of Elder Friend
Blood, Baptist preacher here forty to fifty
years ago, was in town last week. She is
eighty-two years of age. Only daughter is
left to her, with whom she lives in West
Randolph. - Mrs Lucinda Robinson
Poole and Mrs. Harriet Robinson Wheeler
are in town. They will return West i'll the
latter part of the summer. - George
Crane is said TO be very sick with rheumatic
fever. - Adna Downs oldest son has ty-
phoid fever. James =. Bass, Oldest
son of j. NJ. Bass, and for years past a resi-
dent of Texas, is visiting family friends
hereabOuts. He purposes to return to Texas
before the 10Th of August. == Joel A,
Bass is staying in b ston. - Mrs Mel
vim Burnham was summoned to Montpelier
last week by the illness of her husband.
Mr.. Burnham's sickness proves to be
diphtheria, though as yet only in a
mild form He came home on Saturday.
- Mr. George Bixby of the PlattS
burgh On, W Republican was the guest OF
his sister, Mrs. Oliver S. Walker, last week.
- DR.. Lester w. Hanson, now of Brad
ford, was at the old home here last week.
- Mrs. Thomas SpoOner, with some OF
her children, is visiting friends about Bur
lington. - Charles Edison has left Nor
folk, Neb. and pitched his tent in Sterling
the same state. - Mrs. Durham Mar
tin, now of Vergennes, is visiting friends
hereabouts.
Woodbury..
Jackson Lawson and John Warren OF
South Hadley Falls, Mass, are visiting al
j. w. Walton's. 60 Mrs. Gilman Bill h Is
returned from Lowell, Mass, where she