The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-09

ana son OF DuXDury are at work Tor Captain
Timothy Davis. - Miss Belle M. Her.
sey returned from Mortified last week,
and began teaching in district No on
Monday. - Herbert Stoddard has re
turned to his work in Massachusetts.
w. A. Kelley is attending school on Sem
mary Hill.
East Gilmore.
Isaac Davis has sold his farm in West
Woodbury. to Mr.. Lesterley of Granville,
possession to be given the first of October
IL w. Rivers has contracted to cut
and haul 100000 feet of spruce and hard.
wood logs from the LeBarron lot to George
Morse's lumber mill, for l.. A. Gale. -
Rev. Nj. II. Ryan will on Sunday occupy
Rev ID. p. Braggs pulpit. - Walter
Ward recently shot bird near Gray's
mill-pond that measures six feet from tip
to tip of wings and five feet from its bill to
can name it. - Miss Edith Silloway is
teaching at Island Pond. - Melvin
Morse is attending school at Waterbury.
Fayston
w. @. Kelsey has sold his farm and sugar
apparatus to John Stuart of Moretown for
$1,000. Mr. Kelsey sold his cows at auction on
Monday last. - George III. Kew intends
! to leave town soon. - Hollis Mehuron
is building steam lumber mill on the Ger
man Flats. - John Chase is building
single mill. - The schools are now in
good running order, with the following
teachers; No. 1, Frank w. Wood of Ran
dolph; No. 2, Lillian Porter: No. 8, Gertie
Nerney; No. 4, Flora Goss; No. 8, Miss
Cresey of Waterbury Center No. &, Hattie
Mehuron; No. Z, Clara Folsom: No o. Jen-
ME Shea. - Della Thompson is teaching
in Barre, and Ida Thompson in Moretown.
- Kate Mehuron, Lizzie Maxwell and
II, X. Mehuron are attending the Normal
school at Randolph. - James NJ.
Thompson has gone to Boston, where he has
a job in the lumber business with w. II.
Leatherbee & Sons.
Hyde Park.
Charley Riley has sod his deer to Mr..
| Thayer of Richford. 60 The hotel is near
| ing completion and A, L Goddard's house
is well under way. 1t does not take Mr..
Manley, the contractor, great while to
| build a house. - George w. Stratton
and Mrs. A. V. Wiswell were elected by the
| Union Sunday-school as delegates to the
| county Sunday-school convention at John
son, this week, and M. B. Eaton and Miss
Beulah Waterman are delegates to the
state convention at Newport. Gov
ernor Page and son, Hull, started last Sat.
urday for trip to Dakota and Montana
and possibly they may visit California be-
fore they return. - little grandchild
of Lester Boomhower died at his house last
Saturday.
The patrons of the cheese factory received
sixty-seven cents per hundred pounds for
June milk.
The recent very wet weather has been
| setback to harvesting. Some grain has
sprouted in the fields.
The Baptist society, not to be outdone bv
their neighbors, are to build a new church
is completed, the town will have five good
houses of worship.
Il. q. II. G.. Fullam's chair-shop is up
and being pushed to completion. H. G.
Fullam has gone West and is expected
home in few days with a brde-hs we'd
ding being the chief business of the journey.
The Congregational church is nearing
completion. 1t is fine structure and an
ornament to the town. 1t has been built
mainly through the influence of ID. A.
Head, ESQ.,, of New York city, former
resident. 1t is gratifying to the people of
a town to be so substantially remembered
by its former citizens.
Oats and barley promise large yield, but
little If any wheat has been raised. Rye is
good crop; corn is fair but backward; no.
tatoes are rusting badly, and there is some
complaint of rot. A large yield was antici-
pated until quite recently. Early apples
are plenty, but winter varieties are scarce.
There are but few pear trees in this section,
but these are loaded with fruit
MarshfieId.
The ladies of the Universalist church will
'HNii NiiNiC III uilO NcSlIy lHuTSudy OF
this week.
Rev. Lester Warren of North Montpelier
preached at the Universalist church, last
Sunday, in the absence of Rev. Mr. Miller
Mrs. Laura (HilD Ide, who for year has
been suffering with consumption is falling
e. ID. Dwinelfs life is also slowly ebbing.
The band went to Cabot last week Satur-
day night to play at promenade concert.
Next Saturday night il will have concert
here in Meader's hall.
f. S. Pitkin had a great desire to see the
inside of that cave near the Beckey farm
in Peacham. He took a rope seventv-nine
feet long, tied it around his body under the
arms, took lantern in one hand and a
stone in the other and was let down the
length OF the rope. He then dropped the
stone, and it was several seconds before he
heard it strike. Mr.. Pitkin thinks he was
not halfway down. He could see no side
to the cave, and says it is quite a hole. He
does not care to go down again
-, Mrs. George English and Mrs. Ned
Ihomas went to Burlington, last week, to
visit friends. - Alvah Davis went TO
Mortified, last week, to work in the store
OF j. +. Davis - Benjamin Nowns and
wife have returned from Massachusetts and
are stopping with Samuel Bems.
Ozlas Pltkin, a former resident of this town.
now living at Sioux Falls Dakota buried
his little son, Paul Henry, last week.
X.
Rev. Lester Warren expects TO preach in
MlddleseX next Sunday, at the usual hour.
Mrs. Carrie Foster Drew died at her
home in Barre, last Friday, after brief i'll
ness. Her childhood was passed in this
town, and she had many friends here. The
remains were brought here Sunday, and
the interment was made in the village Gem
etery. - Daniel Ladd and family have
returned TO Philadelphia. g. S. b. Lee
land of Danbury, Conn. is spending few
days with his father, j. c. LELAND. -
Roy Murphy is quite sick with diphtheria
- The village school commenced last
Monday with Miss Cora Miles as teacher |
- Rev. and Mrs. NJ. r. Barney are Wis
iting in Boston.
Moretown.
Potatoes are rotting badly in this vicinity |
- David Loveland and family have re-
moved to Waterbury, where Mr.. Loveland |
has employment with G. G. Warren. -
Dr. Wakefield of Montpelier was in town |
recently, treating one of the pair of Tripp
Tenant Co.'S horses, recently brought |
from New Hampshire. The pair weighs |
$500 pounds. - Mrs. d. G. Holt, after
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