The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-10-15
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for six months.
John Fowler has rented the blacksmith
shop near the hotel, where he will be glad
to meet his old customers and make the
acquaintance of new ones.
Bert s., son of Erwin and Ophelia Nye.
died OF typhoid fever last Friday, after an
illness of eight days. He was the Youngest
child and about twenty years of age. The
bereaved family have the deep sympathy of
all in their great sorrow
Rev. A. Hitchcock of Mortified spent
sunday here and preached in the afternoon
at the Methodist church. He has had two
pastorates here, and the people who knew
him were glad to see his face. All were
much Interested in his excellent sermon
1t seems as though we might call these
veterans into service.
George w. Whtcher has moved into Mrs.
Spencer's tenement on High street. -
Mr. ana Mrs. o. l.. Hoyt returned to their
week. - Mrs. II. II. Dewey is visiting
at her fathers in Bethel. - Miss Laura
Gale is teaching school in Cabot.
Waitsfield.
William Palmer has bought the property
known as the Mary A. Cutler place
A petition has been circulated and well
signed asking Cyrus Smith and Robert Nc
Allister to desist from making cider.
G. H. Newcomb's white hound was exc
cuted last Thursday at three o'clock, hav-
ing been duly convicted of numbering two
sheep belonging to David Joslin.
a small boy about the usual weight
called at William Bragg's before breakfast
last Thursday morning and seemed quite
at home with them. Will wears very
broad smile.
A couple of cattle buyers from Hudson,
n. Y, have been buying stock-one and
two years old-in this vicinity the past
week. Prices rule very low on that class of
stock this fall.
The Palmer brothers have bought the Mary
Ann Cutler place in this village of G.. Il.
Jones, the administrator of her estate
| Consideration, 800. The boys think this
looks AS though William means business.
A match game of base ball at Irasville
last Saturday afternoon between the Waits
held village " Kids and the Irasvile
" BUFFERS" resulted in a victory for the
kids, the score being thirty-nne to eighteen.
The Waitsfeld Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor will hold social at the
Congregational vestry tonight at which
there will be "a literary entertainment, and
refreshments will be served Tickets, fif-
teen cents.
e, o. Trask in company with his brother
William, from Lynn, Mass, made short
visit at Highgate Springs last week, bring
ing home with them good quantity of
fresh fish, among their catch being one
twelve pound pickerel. 60 Mrs. Prndle
who has been on the sick-list for two or
three weeks, is improving. - James
Baird 4th is at Montpelier serving on the
jury. - Mrs. William Mills, who has
been visiting friends here and at Warren
the past few weeks, was summoned home
last week by telegram announcing the
sickness of her husband at Sodus, n. Y.
- o. &. Eaton shipped twenty barrels
of maple syrup last week to parties in Bur-
lington. - l.. G.. Berry has just been
making soue substantial improvements to
his farm buildings by building an addition
to his horse barn, woodshed, etc. -
w. A. Jones is said to be improving
- G. f. Jones and George Hastings
are the jurors serving on the conspiracy
case from this town. - Hubbard Joslin
well known here, now of Bloomington, is
very low.
Waterbury.
Any one having items of news or interest,
! for the WATCHMAN will please leave them
with Thomas I. Farrell.
Three of DR.. CIRCUITS children had the
mumps last week and several others in
town have come down with them.
Two workmen in the employ of the Davitt
Brothers in the soapStone quarry were
slightly injured last Saturday by prema-
ture explosion.
The attendance at the singng-sChool,
taught by Frank Lyon, numbers about
thirty. Mr. Lyon is supplying % "A long felt
want, and we wish him success.
c. c. Cooke, late of Holyoke Mass, is
fitting up the carriage-shop lately occupied
! by Mr.. Collins for wood turning, scroll
saving, lock repairing, key fitting and light
wood work.
Quite party went over to Mr.. and Mrs.
joe Ashley's last Wednesday evening to
| to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Another company visited Jack Laware and
left substantial reminders of their visit.
A party of thirty or forty gathered at the
Village Hotel to celebrate Mr.. Phillips
birthday and the birthday of his daughter,
Mrs. Fred Towle. The evening was an en-
joyable one and many presents were left.
I. II. Elliott measured Hubbard squash
on the farm of Ed. A. Davis in Fayston,
which meaSu eel five feet eleven inches in
circumference i'll one direction, and six feet
in the other. Weight, 49, pounds. Next.
G.. j. Marion, who came here lately from
Connecticut, is fitting up the second story
of the Collins carriage shop to do all kinds
of fancy painting, frescoing, sign writing,
etc. Mr.. Marion comes well recommended.
He decorated the Blanchard opera-house
and the insurance offices at Montpelier and
Mr.. G. c. Warren's residence in this village.
p. G. Wright, who has been in Iowa for
eighteen months, has returned and will re-
main for the present. - A. G.. Atherton
anu vile nave gone 10 BOSIOu on business.
- K. Moody has gone to Boston on
business. In the last ten days Mr.. Moody
has sent off thirteen carloads of live stock
to market. Farmers who have anything to
sell usually find buyer in Eugene. -
Charles Keene is sending to New York
another carload of horses to-day, making
the third this summer Mr.. Keene is going
himself to New York Thursday evening.
- The road leading past Walter Cup
til's has been closed for a week by the laying
IF new abutments for the bridge at Harvey
Graves, but the road is now open again.
- Rev l.. Tenney has been preaching
in Willlianstown for some time, and at the
Barre quarries Sunday afternoons. 60
Darwin Cooley, who has been in Concord
and Manchester, n. H., during the summer
assisting his father in setting chimney caps,
is at home sick with fever. - Fred Sum
merville clerk for j. G. Griggs, has been at
St. Johnsbury during the past week on "a
visit to his brother. - Mr. and Mrs.
George Kennedy and son have just returned
from three weeks visit to the Adiron-