The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-03-18

Berlin. George Edison has bought brother
of the same horse.
The Congregational Ladies' Society will
hold maple sugar festival at the town hall
on Friday evening OF this week. There will
be music, and readings from Longfellow, ON
the OCCASION
Our place is to be favored next Thursday
evening, March 10, with an exhibition OF
the wonderful Edison phonograph, at the
town hall Let no one of our citizens fai!
to see and hear 1t.
An entertainment at the town hall under
the auspices of the Methodists, consisting
OF music, tableaux, Rotations, and lee
ture on the " Tropics" by Rev. X. l.. Nan
ton, was booked for last evening.
Rev. Mr. Blake Of Randolph Center will
preach in the Methodist church next Sun
day, in exchange. On Thursday evening,
March rs, Miss Clara Cushman, a returned
missionary, will lecture in the Methodist
church on Missions" All invited. Rev.
Mr.. Tenney will exchange next Sunday
with Rev. Mr.. Longren of Barre.
On the evening of February 4, the friends
and neighbors of Harry Fogg greatly sur
prised him by appearing in large numbers
at his residence and leaving with him many
tokens OF appreciation The occasion was
his sixtietn birthday, and 1t was a pleasant
one. Mrs. w. W. Sprague's poem of six
stanzas added much to the pleasure, and
OF six ten-cent pieces-a cent for every year
Of his life.
Frank, son Of George Bruce, and pupil
at the Randolph Normal school, has been
very i'll of late with pneumonia, but is con-
valescent - Mrs. Chester Martin was
called suddenly to Burlington last Saturday
by the illness of her granddaughter, Miss
Bernice Sibley. - Mrs. Annie Benedict
Franklin, accompanied by her little daugh-
ter, has recently returned from California
Her husband is yet under treatment in an
asylum there - Miss Alice Martin has
of late been visiting her aunt, Mrs N. =.
Sinons, who spends her winters with her
daughter in New York city. - Frank,
son of the late Charles Adams, is working
| at granite polishing in Barre. 60 Oliver
Martin, son Of the late Kimball p. Martin
and now of Barre having been laid aside
from granite cutting by felon on his hand,
has visited family friends here of late
= George Mari, having resigned the
secretaryship of this branch OF the granite
cutters union, James Quigley, a Maine man,
succeeds him. - Miss Fannie Poor has
returned from Dakota, whittier she went
some months ago to reside with nephews
and nieces. - Elmer Perry moved to
Barre last week. Landlord Durham will
move there this week - q. G. Barnes
and son at late accounts were about to
| take in" Chicago in their work at can
wasting. - Orrin Smith, son Of Marcus
| a olhiIh is sa W leau the present SENIOR
class of Goddard Seminary, Barre. -
John Duffus was called to Waterbury last
Saturday on granite business. - Warren
Goodrich has left his farm, on the east line
Of the town, and moved to Barre,
Worcester.
r. ID. Owen lost one of his work-horse
last week, and Moses Witham lost colt
- Miss Martha King is very sick will
measles and pneumonia, and doubts are an
---t.ined of her recovery - F. D. Over
LCa 4.
was called away to atteia the funeral OF MI
mother the past week. - Solon Emer
son has lost his third child from diphtherii
inside OF a week. - Mary Abbott ant
} Jessie Templeton have gone to Boston Il
complete their studies in type writing anC
shorthand. - George Markham wa
called to Randolph last Sunday to attent
the funeral OF his brother-in-aw.