The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30

Ridley Parker is home on a vacation from
Amherst College, where he Is in his junior
year. 60 Ed. Ennis is home from Mont
pelier, sick. 60 Benjamin Tenney Is on
flying trip to visit his parents He has
responsible position in hospital in Boston.
60 David Harvey of Woodward hill has
been very sick with peritonits; his brother
Joseph has the grip, and their father now
has pneumonia-an afflicted family. But
this is hardly more than specimen case.
Sumner Blaisdell and wife and hired man
have all been quite sick with grip, and Mrs.
Blaisdell is threatened with pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs @. K. Wyman are both sick
with the same disease, Mrs. Wyman being
quite i'll. Ed. Seabury and family at Mill
Village are all down with the malady, as
are Fred Grout and wife of the same place.
Among the other victims of grip are Mrs.
o. e. Scott, Morris Montgomery, several in
Mr.. Mansfield's family, Mrs. Jesse Pike and
her aunt, Mrs. Sargent. 1t seems as If more
people were sick now than at any former
time, and it is difficult for the doctors to at
tend all the patients who are clamoring for
their services, especially as DIR. Hooker has
been quite seriously i'll with the prevailing
epidemic. - Inez Moody is home from
the University of Vermont for the holidays.
She entertains as a guest, on Thursday and
Friday of this week, young lady from the
Moody school at Northfeld, Mass, who
halls from Alaska but is a native of Russia,
and is the first female convert from the
L.
and Mrs. Rice Davenport of Williamstown
have come to spend the winter with their
son, Rev. w. r. Davenport, pastor of the
Methodist church. - Geo. Dumas has
moved to the Calkins house. recently va
Gated by Merrill Griffith. - Lester Wris-
ley is spending short time at his old home.
- Ed. Wells is slowly improving.
- Chas. Commits mother and brother
have moved into the house with Mrs. Lite
Gus Morse, his brother attending the viii
lage school. - Mrs. Sarah Blair has re-
turned home to recuperate, having been
sick at Montpelier with grip. 60 Emery
Town, a wellknown citizen, who had been
seriously ill with pneumonia, died on Mon.
day night. - The Epworth League will
give a free social at the Methodist vestry
next Friday evening. - f. Circuit has
gone to Boston as a clerk in Ryford Broth
ers employment bureau. - Professor X.
A. Furnald Of Boston is visiting his many
friends in town. g The funeral of EN-
cry Town will be held in the Methodist
church on Thursday under the Masonic
order. ID G. G. Warren is recovering
from his attack of the grip.
Waterbury Center.
There is much sickness in the place and
vicinity from the grip and pneumonia
Fred Smith of Minneapolis, Mimi, is
stopping few days with his brother, Frank
n. Smith.
The Free Baptist quarterly meeting will
be held at the Baptist church, commencing
Friday, January 8.
Mrs. Nancy Freeman died Thursday night
after short illness from pneumonia. She
will be greatly missed in her family. The
funeral was attended Sunday afternoon at
the Methodist church. Stetson Post and
the Relief Corps were in attendance.
East Warren.
In common with other towns, Warren is
having its share of the grip, and there is
much sickness from other causes.
One of the most pleasant of Christmas
gatherings was that at George Newcomb's
last Thursday. 1t was family gathering,
with short Christmas exercises, and was
thoroughly enjoyed by all.
Walter E. Barney of Barre spent Christ
mas at Geo. b. Newcomb's. - Stephen
Goodspeed is spending a while with his
daughter, Mrs. NJ. A. Palmer of Waitsfield
- Hosea Towne was called to Barre
last week to attend the funeral of his sister,
Washington.
Christmas was observed by the usual
" tree" speaking, singing, etc, at the
school-house hall last Friday evening. The
speaking was good, the presents numerous,
and good time was enjoyed by all.
The entertainments that have been held
in the school-house hall of late have shown
the need of more seating capacity than is
at present. Boards and sap
buckets look little out of place in a hall as
nice as that one
Quite good audience greeted the phono-
graph on its arrival in town December odd
and were well pleased with the evenings
Messrs. EMERSON and
Clement have one of the largest made, and /
the selections given are very fine.
Rev William Fuller was the recipient of
a nice fur coat from the people of Washing
ton and East Williamstown, on Christmas,
and G.. Eastman was presented with So,
Mrs. g. ID. Tucker with nice lamp, A. G.
Dickey with a photograph album, from
their friends in Washington.
WilIiamstown.
This is week of enforced and unpalata-
BILE idleness with some of our granite boys.
The weather last week could only be
fitted into the almanac for April, and the
last part of it at that.
The school in the Henry Erskine district,
of which Miss Eta Martin was teacher, has
been broken up by diphtheria.
Next Sunday, in the Methodist church,
the first of series of sermons on "The
Work of Creation" will be given.
Through last week the lives of Miss Katie
Erskine and Miss Hood, diphtheria patients,
trembled in the balance. Henry Erskine
was thought to be somewhat better.
Owing to Prof. Willis II. Gales illness
with grip and the prevalence of the disease
the concert planned for Thurs
day evening of this week has been post
poned till further notice.
Denny Briggs, youngest son of Albern
Briggs, and Miss Myrtle, daughter of Jason
Johnson, were married on the evening of
the 25th inst. by Rev. r. l.. Nanton. They
are to live at Mr.. Briggs old home.
Brock Flint of Chelsea, and, later, clerk
of j. X Lynde, is about to go to Montpelier
to work in the hardware store of ID. l.. Full
Ter & Son, better inducements being held
out to him there than here. His friends
will congratulate him on his promotion"
The pastor of the Methodist church was
generously remembered by his parshioners.
After a sickness of three weeks, Mr.. Nan
ton was able to occupy his pulpit on Sunday.
Thanks to Rev. Mr.. Perrin, the services in
the Methodist church were not omitted.
Mrs. Nanton is still quite sick with the grip.
The following officers of the Epworth
League have been elected for another
year President Frank Bailey; vice-presi-
dents, Mrs Oliver Dickinson, Mrs. Gurdon
Martin, Orville Briggs and Mrs. Horace
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