The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-08-20
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lage ana enhance TO tne comfort OF the resi-
dents. Even a iudicious use of more lawn
sprinklers by those having such facilities
would work wonders.
Hon. Carroll S. Page was in town Satur-
day. - Harvey House of Waterbury,
Conn, has been in town buying horses.
He shipped six on the south-bound freight
Monday morning. 80 Among the recent
arrivals at the Waterbury hotel are:
Colonel b. T. Thayer, wife and child of
Boston, Mass, Thomas j. Atkins and wife
and Miss A. G.. Atkins of Brooklyn, n. Y,
l.. n. Hasltins of Lone Rock, Wis, G.. Il.
Cuyhega Falls, Ohio l.. $. Hayes and fam
lily of Bellows Falls, w X. Bgelow and
wife of Salem, Mass, f. W. Orcutt and
wife, j. L. Pitxin, William Pitkin and j.
H. Pitkin, Jr., of Boston, Mass, p. Freed
mon of New York, j. ID. Packard wife and
Chain and Mrs, H. II. Hawkins of Wau-
kesha, Wis.
Waterbury Center.
E. Burnham and wife of Newark visited
Mrs Newell Demeritt last week. -
Among the new arrivals at Green Noun
tain Lodge are Miss A. S. Tobey Of New
Bedford, Mass, Miss Mary Bird and Will
Bird of Boston, A. NJ Marsh of Harvard
College, and DIR. j. f. Holt, professor in
Girard College, Philadelphia DR.. Holt is
taking views of the scenery in this vicinity.
= Mrs. Halcome of Chicago is spending
the summer at Daniel Hopkins
Williamstown.
There was a slight frost here last Saturday
morning.
We have a young watch-repairer here
He can be found at the new drugstore.
The Central is raising its track to Barre
The rise is two or three feet on parts of the
line.
Rev. r. L. Nanton exchanged on Sunday
last with Rev. Mr.. Davenport of Water
bury.
Owing to the camp-meeting now in session,
there will be no service at the Methodist
church next Sunday.
If the new grade crossing near the Henry
House place is going to please our public,
we greatly misjudge.
Merrill Patterson, from one pound of
Burpee's "37 Seeding" has raised sixty
six pounds of potatoes.
The Universalst society contemplates an
outlay upon the church that will materially
improve its appearance.
The high bridge over the railroad, near
Henry Houses place, has been taken down.
a grade crossing will be substituted.
The Gouldsville baseball team played
here with our own nine last Saturday after
noon. The score was twenty-one to seven
in fovor of Gouldsvile.
Rev. Idrys Jones has been taking his va
cation here and will soon go to New
Haven, Conn, for post graduate course in
Yale Theological Seminary.
Mrs Rosette Seaver, wife of Charles NJ.
Patterson, died on Sunday, August 3, at her
home in Chicago. She was the only daugh-
ter of the late Ebenezer Seaver.
Rev. Hollis Jordan will preach his final
sermon here next Sunday. He has been
faithful worker here in the last two months.
He proposes, we believe, to take up evan
gelistic work in the autumn.
Having been told by one who might be ex-
pected to know the facts that subscriptions
| like those pledged towards the building of
our new hotel could not be collected, by
law, we were lately interested in several of
| our state supreme court decisions upon the
subject-which seemed to show, unmistak-
ably, that they are collectible.
Miss Fanny F. Waldo will teach in Mont
pelier the coming fall. Mrs. Ida Drury
Whitcomb is teaching in the w. u. Pratt
district. Miss Katie Erskine will teach in
| the Prentiss Waldo district, Miss Nellie
Williams in the John Farnham district and
Miss Alice Martin in the II. ID. Abbott dis
| trict the coming term Miss Mary Greene
is teaching in the George Crane district
One feature of the Vermont papers now
adays being the losses and gains in popula-
| ton of our towns in the last decade, we
may say that in the seven or eight first
years of it this town lost materially, some
estimating the loss at ten per cent. With
the coming of the railroad and granite
shops there came turn in the tide, with an
increase of perhaps twenty-nine per cent on
that basis.
One of our young ladies' who is a friend
of Miss Annie S. Young, who graduated
with honor from the Vermont Methodist
Seminary at Montpelier two years ago, and
is now engaged in missionary work at
| Kinwha, China, has just received word that
she was severely injured by recent fall
and temporarily laid aside from work. The
accident occurred at large gathering of
missionaries, when some elevated seats, rest
ing on green bamboo poles gave way
Many were dropped to the ground.
Mr.. Lucius Edison is quite ill. - Mr..
were recently the guests of his sister, Mrs
| Chester Martin. - Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Ward of Burlington are making a carriage
tour about the state. They were last week
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. b. f. Sibley
- Joshua Bacon of Iowa, an old towns
man, has lately returned here for few
weeks visit. - Will p. Bowman, now
of Barre, and son-in-law from Lowell
Mass, were in town last week looking at a
| farm. 1t is hoped that Mr.. Bowman's fam
| lily may return here to live. - George
and Catherine Bass are visiting the family
of their brother, Perkins, at his country
residence in Peterboro, n. III. - Mrs
Emma Stoddard White, now of Massachu-
sets, Is with her fathers family here at
present. - Mrs. Luther Davis of Water
bury is with her daughter, Mrs John Duff
fus. - James Hatch, son of the late Mr..
Reuben Hatch, now of Wisconsin, is visit
ing old friends here. == Bert Bailey, it is
said, will canvass for books the coming
year, and may then begin the study of law
- Melvin Burnham has so far recov-
cred that he hopes to move his family to
Montpelier this week Miss Harriet A
Smith will go to Montpelier with them
- Christopher Hood and Orville H.
| Briggs, " old vets" took in the national en-
campment at Boston last week.
South Woodbury..
Sheridan Fair who has been low with
consumption, died on August 7. Funeral
services were held at the house the 9th and
the remains were Inferred in the cemetery
here On the same day the funeral services of
Jane Pearce, who died in East Montpelier
were held at the church here, and her re-
mains were also inferred in this cemetery.
DIR. r. w. Lance has returned from Bos-
| ton, where he has been stopping for a week.
- viii Abbott of Boston is stopping at