The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-27

Miss Cora Streeter of Claremont, N. H.,
is stopping with her mother at GAINESVILLE.
Braintree.
Farmers are nearly through planting,
but neither corn nor potatoes are growing
| fast.
Sheep-owners are making complaint from
losing sheep that were sheared after turn
ing them out to pasture.
All fruit-trees are blossoming very full
this spring, and II the frosts do not kill the
blossoms fruit will be plenty.
Severe frosts are the order of the day.
On Tuesday morning u last week water
froze to the depth of half an inch.
Central Vermont Pomona Grange meets
with Middlesex Grange SHADY RID on
Thursday, June 4. II is hoped there will be
a large attendance.
Some boys, not having the fear OF the law
before their eyes, threw stones through the
windows of Ira Luce's house on Saturday
night. 1t is to be hoped that they will be
caught and made an example Of
V. I. Spear is putting up a thirty by
ninety-foot barn. 10. Burrage is also max
ing preparations to build a barn in the place
of the one recently burned. It is to be
thirty-five by seventy feet and will be much
more convenient than the old one.
Gibson Grain is not able to work. -
Henry Grain has moved to this place to re-
side with his son. - George Williams
has been sick, but is recovering.
Brookfleld.
Henry Hayes died of consumption on
Wednesday of last week.
There was large attendance at the union
memorial servise in the First church last
Sunday. Rev. Mr.. Morse preached an able
and impressive sermon upon the subject,
God in American History"
Rev. G. H. Morse delivered very inter-
esting address at the Second church, last
Sunday evening" upon the work of the New
West Education Commission in Utah and
New Mexico. A collection was taken at the
close of the meeting.
Misses Minnie Clark, Winnie Parmenter
West Randolph high school this week.
- Clarence Fullam went to Boston for
few days last week.
East Calais.
The Universalist Central Association will
meet here on Wednesday and Thursday of
next week.
Sydney Bennett has just had a costly
granite monument placed in the Bennett
| lot in our cemetery and handsome curb
ing around the lot. 1t is attracting much
attention, not only by its beauty but from
| the inscription Mr.. Bennett had carved on
one side. Under his initials are the words
The old nuisance" Mr.. Bennett is known
as the deaf man." and it is to this Attic
ton that he probably refers
G.. B. w. Bliss died suddenly May 81.
He went to bed on Wednesday night appar-
emily as well as usual, but soon after had
some sort of a shock and died about three
o'clock the next morning. He was buried
about sunset on Friday with the funeral
rites OF the Good Templars' order. of which
he was a member. A funeral service was
held at the church on Saturday afternoon,
Rev. j. d. Bailey of South Woodbury. Off
ciating
| Mrs. G. S. Bennett and son from Pierre,
| South Dakota, are visiting at A. Dwinell's.
- Fred Cole of Charlestown, Mass.
spent last week among his Vermont friends.
= q. f. Remission of Eagle Salt Works,
Nevada, has come East to spend the sum-
mer with his brother, Marcus Remission.
- John Hall died Saturday and was
brought here for burial on Monday.
Mrs. j. f. O. Hammond was called to
| Worcester last week to attend the funeral
of her sister, Mrs. Chase.
Chelsea.
Work on the shoe factory is now pro-
crossing rapidly.
Frank /. Whitney has bought of f. r.
Skinner of Montpelier the house next South
of the old academy grounds, and will
rent it.
| Carl H. Corwin is to give up his position
in Kimball Union Academy at the close of
the present term, and has accepted call to
the pastorate of the Congregational church
at Bridgewater.
Memorial day will be observed in the
usual manner. There will be a procession,
with Colonel H. o. Bxby as chief marshal.
Music by the Washington cornet band and
an address at the North Common by Alland
G. Fay, Esq, of Montpelier.
We notice that Dea. Gilbert E. Hood of
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annual meeting of the Massachusetts, Gen
eral Association of Congregational Churches.
| Dea. Hood is a native of Chelsea a son OF
the late Dea. Harvey Hood, and is well
known to our older residents.
A union memorial service was held at the
Methodist church on Sunday morning, at
which Rev. Mr.. Howard preached an ex-
cellent sermon. In the evening union
temperance service under the direction of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
was held at the Congregational church.
The most shocking affair which has hap.
pened in town for many years was the sui.
eide of Arthur NJ Foster on Thursday
morning last, His wife found him hang.
ing to a beam in the barn, and though he
could have been hanging but few minutes
life was found TO be extinct. He was but
twenty-nine years old, with a wife and one
child, and was supposed to be happy in his
domestic relations and to be unusually
in his manner had been noticed, and no sat
isfactory explanation has yet been found
The funeral services were held on Satur
day, Rev. Mr.. Howard officiating
Corinth.
Memorial exercises will be held at Eas
COrinth next Saturday. Address by Hiram
A. Huse of Montpelier.
Rev. Mr.. Ross of Corinth Corner is to sup
ply the pulpit at West Corinth each Sunday
afternoon for the present.
George Banks died last Friday after lonl
suffering from rheumatic fever. He re
covered once so far as TO be able to be abou
town, but had relapse. He leaves an ageC
mother alone with no near relatives in thi
part of the country.
Quite an army of men from this town anC
vicinity went to Windsor last week to at
tend United States court as witnesses il
the Eastman and Barnes moonshiner case
There were twenty-five summoned at first
then another lot of as many or more wer
called afterwards.
George G. Cooke was stricken with apo
plexy on Wednesday morning az he wa
about to get into his carriage to start TO
Bradford. He lived four hours after tn
attack, but was unconscious. The funera
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