The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-22

Mass, and Mrs. Clay and family OF Mont |
pelier, are spending the summer at Green
Mountain Lodge. They are delighted with
the house and scenery.
East Warren.
Miss Abbie Wiley, who has been sick a
long time, is no better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Towne and son,
fr ON Waltham, Mass, are visiting in town
Among the sick in this place are Mrs.
Thomas Pierce, Mr.. Alonzo Ralph and
George Catchapan.
Mr.. Gideon Goodspeed is seriously i'll.
His daughter, Mrs. l.. M. Learned OF
Waitsfield, spent portion of last week
assisting in caring for him.
williamstown.
Frank Boyce has lately lost horse.
George Edison has been having rheuma-
tism, and otherwise is not well.
Rev. r. l.. Nanton will exchange next
Sunday with Rev. M. H. Ryan OF Worcester.
There seem to be some pleasant sur
prises for the farmers in the amount of the
yield of hay.
Sherman Winchester will soon lease the
Colby clearinghouse, and return to James
Martins house to live.
Oliver N. Smith, now supplying the Uni
versalist churches in West Burke and
Burke, visits home this week and will ex-
change with Rev. l.. Z. Williams next
Sunday.
The Methodist Sunday school of Barre
will hold picnic in the Enoch Howe woods
here on Thursday OF this week.
Rev. L. B. Tenney, now OF Jericho Center,
supplied the Congregational pulpit last Sun
day, in the place Of his father.
The three village churches will soon APP
pear in new coats of paint, that of the Uni
versalist church having been already COM
pleted.
John McKissor, superintendent Of Lynde
& Cheneys granite polishing works, has
been laid aside from work OF late by a much
afflicted hand.
Judson Burnham, son of the late Deacon
Enoch Burnham, after a years stay in
Barre has gone to Boston, and is with James
Wood, who was years ago with the family
of the late Mr.. Sanford Hatch
Will Prize, a bright, intelligent young
Scotchman, decides to remain with the Bis
sett Brothers in their granite-shop, for the
coming two years, for which we are glad.
Thomas Spooner, who has had rheumatic
fever OF late, was taken much worse one
day last week, and for time his life was
in much danger, the rheumatism having
gone to the heart.
Forty-two persons, all told, were dined at
the new hotel one day last week. A party
of Wisconsin people, travelling for pleas
ure, were among the very first guests Of
Messrs. Clark & Son. 1t puts a new aspect
on our village-the opening of the hotel.
There were over two hundred persons in
attendance at the picnic in the Euoch Howe
woods, last Wednesday, held by the Barre
Congregational Sunday-school. Superin-
tendent G. S. Wallace expresses much salts
faction with the day, and desires to thank
the owners of the grove for the courtesy
shown them.
1t makes us think of certain Of the old
PARKWAY Williamstown boys whose eyes
may rest on this item-the fish that have
lately been caught in the Z" Branch /" by the
Welsh granite boys, Arthur Buckley and
Robert Williams. There were ten or q
dozen of them, and large ones-one, al
least, weighing pound and half.
Though by no means rare, what is pleas
anter than to come upon an unheralded
hidden, unsupported instance of heroism in
common life!" Our eye occasionally falls
upon hearty, CHEEKY nottingham, as he
comes and goes in the almost ceaseles'
round of his everyday work. Homeless, a.
an age when many of his fellows have
made homes for themselves, though seem
ingly well fitted for worthy home-maker
few about him, perhaps, suspect the noble
purpose that now rules his life so largely
and is likely to do 50 for some time to come
In a PARKWAY land lives his widowed
mother, with children that are not able t,
render her the care and support she needs
and who has been the object of his warn
affection and filial care for years. By din
of hard work and economy, he is laborin
to supply not only her passing needs, bu
lay by a sum of money that, with he
added efforts, shall make her independent
: Then he will turn his attention to the sup
ply of his own wants in the coming years
The manly, hopeful way with no fus
about it," in which he is doing all this
stamps him as one of the large guild o
earth's uncrowned kings in common life
Leslie Crane, son of George Crane, VIII,
seems to be making a fine success in tn
marble works at Proctor, recently visitet
his parents here. - Miss Fannie, daugh
ter OF Lucius s. Simons, has returned iron
the West. - Miss Minnie Perrin cam
home from Des Moines, Iowa, last week
- Mrs Charles Moore and Mrs. Will
lam Grearson are about to visit for mont
their old home, St. George, New Bruins
wick. - Mrs. John Macke and childre
> of Barre are the guests of Mrs. Henri
dren are visiting her parents in Barre 70
the week. - Mrs. NJ. j. White Of Me
rose Mass, is with the family of Mr.. Lu
> cious Edson-brought here by Miss Alic
! Edson's sickness. - Fred Blanchard
. son of the late George Blanchard, is a
home for vacation from Oberlin College
: He will take a full course there. -
a Rev. William Schofeld is in town. -
n Mrs. Joseph Burnham of Barre is visitin
!, her daughter, Mrs. Gurdon Martin. -
; Leslie Stephens of the late granite firm G
4 Henderson & Stephens, Barre, is taking
: vacation with his Scotch friend, Ernes
+ Riddle, who now owns the Orrin Wake
farm.