The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-12-24
occupy Mrs. woodburys house on North
street.
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| anu JHe COnBreBaJOnailSuS on lnurSudy
| evening.
George Leavitt has taken his family to
Worcester, where he has engaged a logging
! job for the winter. - s. l.. Gilman has
moved 10 the house in the village pur-
chased of II. III. Dewey
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has adopted the following resolu-
ton of thanks to the late legislature
" Whereas, the Womans Christian Temper
ance Union of Plainfeld is strongly OPP
posed to egaiziug the liquor traffic; there
fore, be it ReSolDed, That we, as a band of
temperance workers, tender sincere thanks
! TO the legislature of Vermont for its wise
disposal of the high license bill"
North Pomfret.
Shedding is fine and teams are busy.
r.. Darroch has sold good pair of oxen
for 500
There will be Christmas exercises at
North and South Pomfret.
Our postmaster has in stock large va
| riety of goods for the holiday trade.
Mr.. Spencer Doten is again quite sick
60 G. II. Vaughan is in Boston being
treated for an abscess. 80 Mr.. Josiah
Cobb was in town on business recently.
60 Miss Persis Hewitt is home for a
short vacation.
West Randolph.
About ninety attended the sociable at
Will Hibbard's last Friday evening.
Holiday trade as usual has been very
| large during the past week. The stores are
| looking trim and attractive in their Christ
mas attire
The Congregationalists hold their next
meeting at Dubois & Gays hall next Sun
! day. The Christmas services will be held
| Wednesday evening in the new vestry.
The first brigade band will shortly dis
band unless something is done at once to
relieve it of its Indebtedness For several
years this band has supported itself. 1t
| costs over $3.50 per annum, sum which
has come directly from the members of that
organization. They do not feel like con-
| tinung in this manner, and unless the vii
lage lends a helping hand West Randolph
| will be without band Let the public
| spirit of this village assert itself and liber-
ally contribute to the support of an organ
ization which has added honor to the town.
Grace Sanford from Princeton College
is at home - Gilman Wheeler from
Philadelphia Dental College is at home.
- A. G.. Bradish and his daughters,
May and Grace, are in Boston. - Miss
Matte Holdridge is spending her vacation
at her home in Irasburg. - Harold
Thompson is visiting in Lebanon, n. IL.
South Royalton.
A masquerade party will be held at Wood
ards hall, Saturday evening" January 3,
for the purpose of raising funds to pay for
new school apparatus.
Charles Woodland and NJ. S. Adams are in
Boston this week. - Miss Dugar of
Montpelier is visiting at Mrs. r. B. Blake's.
- Mrs. Orrin Foster of Keene, n. II
is the guest of Mrs Charles Southgate.
- G. p Tarbell was at Woodstock last
week.
Tunbridge.
w. w. Swan will be at Kings store next
Saturday to receive taxes.
The Good Tempars will have Christ.
mas tree at the Grange hall.
There was preaching at the Baptist church
last Sunday, Rev. Mr.. Kibby of Dartmouth
officiating.
Mrs. Nellie Bixby Rich died. of consump
ton last week Monday at the home of her
uncle, l.. Fifeld.
The scholars from Chelsea Academy come
home tonight, as there will be no more
school this week.
The Farnham estate has succeeded in
settling with II. Il. Hayward, for what he
had done for his father-in-law for $500.
George Durkee has not had pneumonia
as the Argus correspondent had it, but he
is in very poor health with bad cough and
many other troubles. - Rob Smith was
in Vershire the last of last week. - Fred
Noyes has moved to Vershire. - Frank
fuller is at work for Hayward and Kibby
- e. f. Howe has been confined to hi,
house for three weeks. 60 The Jurors
from this town are Albert Whitney and f
Moody. - Miss Nellie Grant, from
Lowell, Mass, is staying with her amt
Mrs. Nelson. She is in poor health. -
Mr.. Briggs the shoemaker will move int
the house north of the bridge owned by S
/ Noyes. - Sarah Adams is visiting il
Hartford. - Joseph Gay of Cavendisl
is in town visiting his daughters. He is go
ing to Tennessee to spend the winter will
one of his sons.
Waitsfield.
The measles is somewhat prevalent il
town.
The farmers are improving the shedding
hauling wood, logs, ice, etc.
ID. II. Skinner is getting out lumber pre-
paratory to building large barn in tb
spring.
Waitsfeld Lodge of Good Templars hel,
: its twenty second annual supper and re
union at w. III. HaZelton's, by invitation o
Grace.
A cantata, entitled Santa Claus Bundl
, of Sticks" will be rendered by the Sunday
,, school of the Congregational church oil
Christmas eve.
, That school law is the cause of consider
able hard talk around the store stoves ant
1 " they say" il means three extra weeks Q
school this year.
The hardest blow of the season occurre
| thursday night ana friday morning. In
roads were badly drifted, and everything
: was at a standstll till the roads wer
= opened.
The lecture on Wednesday evening, ell
titled the Country Parson," by Rev. A. j
HOugh, was well attended. Every one-th
:, p rson, choir and hearers were alik
: touched by his witty hits.
). Joseph LaPointe, formerly of Montpelier
}. has opened carriage. shop in the buildin
!, near the grist-mill formerly occupied b
William Wilder. - Matt Jones fror
- Dartmouth College, Herbert T. Fisher {
. st. Johnsbury Academy and Alice M. Busl
. nell of Connecticut are at home for tn
II holidays
Waits River.
II Several loads of potatoes were shipped I
O Bradford, at seventy-tive cents per bushe
last Friday.
l. The village Sunday-school is to have
= Christmas tree, with appropriate literar
i exercises, on Christmas eve.
= A. X. Evans died at the home of his PAL
q ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Salmon Davis, Decen
o Der l3, aged twenty-eight years. He col
J. tracted his disease in Mexico while a raj
n way conductor, suffering much exposul
Q and Overwork Returning to the home