The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-02

GERS are to be elected and other important
business is to be transacted 1t is important
that every member be present
Fred A. Rowland of Minneapolis is
spending three or four weeks in town. He
will meet with cordial reception from all,
and every latch.string will be out when he
calls. His mother from Lisbon, N. H., is
with him, and both are guests at ex-Gov-
ernor Dillngham's.
The merchants will keep the stores open
six nights in the week during December, to
favor customers in the holiday trade. Be
ginning with January 1, the custom of clos
ing Tuesday aud Thursday evenings will be
renewed. The disfavor with which the
closing two nights a week was regarded has
almost entirely abated, and the justice and
wisdom of the movement are generally con-
ceded.
Joel Remington died on Wednesday
morning of last week, after long and ex-
tremely painful illness, which he bore with
Christian fortitude and resignation. Mr..
Remington had long been one of the lead
ing citizens of the town and commanded
universal respect. Everybody spoke of him
as good man, and a multitude will bear
witness to his unobtrusive kindness and
thoughtfulness for others needs For up
wards of fifty years he had been consis-
tent member and honest Office bearer in the
Methodist church, being the last surviving
member OF the first class formed in Water
bury village after the great revival of fifty
two years ago. This makes four of the
leading members of this church who have
died within year past, the others being
Stephen Guptil, Il. j. Morse and Hon. Paul
Dillingham;. Mr.. Remington leaves widow
and one son, Homer e.. who is in business
at Willimantic, Conn. Funeral services
were held at the Methodist church, the SER
mon being preached by his pastor, and the
burial service conducted by the local lodge
OF Masons, of which deceased had been
chaplain. There was very large atten-
dance.
Mrs. Laura Henry and daughter Laura
have gone to Saratoga for the winter. -
Mrs. j. S. Thomson and son Edward, from
Landgrove, have been visiting at the Meth
odist parsonage, Mrs. Thomson being Mrs.
Davenport's mother. - Jonas Stearns
has removed from Perry Hill to Mill Village,
being domiciled in the house vacated by
Mr.. Powell. - Charles and Bert Humph-
rey were home from Barre for Thanksgiv-
ing. - John Duffus and family of Will
Jamestown have been visiting at Luther
Davis. - An auction of live stock be-
longing to Jonas Stearns was advertised to
be held at the stable of G.. Il. Moody, Mon
day afternoon. - A. N. Anterior and
wife spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Fay and
daughter at Montpelier. - The familiar
face of G. N. Arms is seen in town each
Monday forenoon. - John Deal is home
on a visit. - Miss Kimball spent the
Sabbath at her home in Northfeld. 60
Hubert Coffrin is quite i'll with typhoid
pneumonia. - Owen Durkey of Durkey-
Vile is very i'll with pneumonia. - Pro-
fessor Avery recovered sufficiently to go to
his home in STAFFORD, Saturday. He hopes
to gain so as to be ready for school at the
beginning of the term, December 7. -
Mrs. Walter Sheple, attendant at the
asylum. goes. to her home in Waterbury
Center for a short rest. - Mrs Larrabee
supervisor, and Mrs. futile, attendant at
the asylum, have been spending a short va
cation at the home of the latter in Nash
vile. - The news of the death of Pro-
fessor j. w. Spencer of the Northfeld
Graded School was a great shock to his
many friends in this section. - Miss
Fife, assistant in the dinng-room at the
asylum, having partially recovered from
bilious fever, has been removed to her home.
.yilIiamstown.
The first snow of the season, " to speak
of" fell here Friday and Saturday.
Hayden Jeffords has bought the j.
Wright Briggs farm of Silas S. Briggs.
There will be union evening service,
next Sunday, at the Methodist church
The mercury went to eighteen degrees be-
low zero in our village, on Monday morning
Miss Saba Dugar of Worcester will teach
in the Prentiss Waldo district, the coming
winter
Dan Clark, son-in-law of the late
l.aban Morris, has settled with Moses
Persons and returned to his old farm.
Horace Farnham and Lewis Martin have
1ehorned one hundred eighteen head of
cattle, beside their fathers stock, for far
ners hereabouts.
The gift of Perkins Bass to the Congrega
tional church and society, in the way OF i'm
provements in their meeting house. will be
some twelve hundred or more dollars A
superb gift, indeedl
Alvin, son of David NJ. Smith, was at
home over Sunday, and preached at the
Unlversalist church. He is yet pursuing
his theological studies in St. Lawrence Uni
versity at Canton, n. Y.
The tenth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs
Thomas Sherdan's wedding was recently
an occasion for neighborly surprise, with
gifts to the amount of twenty-five or thirty
IOllars, and an evening of pleasant enter
ainment There is heart " in what Mr..
Sheridan's friends do of this kind
Iora Bass, daughter of Mrs. Laura Bass
Field, now of Henry, Illinois, died on the
18th of November, of diphtheria, after an
illness of two weeks. She bore her great
with entire patience, and died in
perfect peace" She was eleven years and
eight months old. About a year ago,
,he united with the Congregational church,
Of cheerful, happy disposition, she was
much beloved, and her death is sincerely
nC urned.
James NJ. Quigley of Maine, secretary of
he Granite Cutters Union here, writes
very pleasantly of Williamstown and work
lere, in the last number of the Granite cut
e,S' journal, published in Concord, n. II.
This branch of the union now numbers
more than at any previous time. Work is
plenty, with the same pay as at Barre,
while living expenses are quite little
cheaper, he thinks. He pays our construc-
ion company compliments for the work it
S doing in building and aiding men to
homes.
Mrs. Mahlon Il. Davis, only daughter of
he late Ira Smith, has returned to Houston,
Texas, to live. One daughter has a fine po-
'iton in the post-offce there and another
$ teaching For the past two or three
years Mrs. Davis has resided at Ann Arbor,
Mich. - Miss Ella Benedict was home
rom Burlington, last week. - John
Duffus' family took their Thanksgiving
Inner in Waterbury. il. Edward