The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-30

Mckinley bill or the fish hatchery, your
correspondent knoweth not.
G. e. Jones of waitsfeld bought fine
Shropshire ram of William Chaplin last
week.
Lumbermen are beginning to cut logs,
and the sawmill men are looking sharply
after spruce timbered lands.
The late warm weather has ripened
second crop of raspberries in many places.
Your correspondent found fine, freshly
ripened backberries on an abandoned
farm in Bear Swamp, September "a.
Moretown.
Nearly one hundred and twenty-five, in
Guiding old and young, took supper at the
town hall on the evening of the Goth Nearly
fifteen dollars was realized.
George NJ. Fletcher picked cluster of
ripe straw berries on his farm over the river,
September 90, and they were on exhibition
at the harvest supper at the town hall that
evening.
A couple of confidence men interviewed
Roswell Child on the common, a short time
since, under pretence of wishing to pur-
chase his farm. Mr.. Child showed them
all over the farm and through his house,
but to their proposition to play cards Mr..
Child did not tumble kindly. They found
him to be the wrong man to work their lit
tie game on successfully.
A boy was born the night of the 25th in
slant to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Pierce. -
Joseph H. Sawyer and his brother Willie
have gone into partnership in the harness
business.
j. A. Gilmore and Burney Gray have
gone to Portland, Maine, to attend a bust
ness college. - w. o. Persons has
rented his farm to John Crow, and will go
to st. Johnsbury to live. - Grain is
good but was harvested in wet weather.
Potatoes are rotting badly. - Mrs. H..
\, Bartlett is gaining slowly Mrs. Annie
Taylor Waite has been stopping with her.
Northfeld.
Rev. w. S. Hazen exchanged Sunday
with Rev. f.. S. Fiske, pastor of the Congre-
gational church at Waitsfield.
The Markham place on Union street has
been sold to Mrs. Henry Wiley of Mont
pelier for 1900 1t will be rented for the
present.
C. II. Wrights horse, Abraham End,
won the 2:50 race at Barre Saturday, his
best time being given as 9: 40 ~, although
it was said that he actually trotted in 2: 80.
The fall term of Norwich University
opened Thursday with an attendance of
sixty. There are twenty-five in the fresh
man class, of whom about half are of this
town. Work is being pushed on Dodge
Hall, the new building
Will Tilden went to Boston Wednesday,
where he has situation in drug store and
will attend school of pharmacy. His
father, G. B. Tilden, went with him.
d. 7. Averill and his daughter, Mrs. Huff,
went to Brockton, Mass. Tuesday, to re-
main through the winter. - j. NJ. Bull
lock from Montpelier is working in Nc
Intoshs photograph rooms. - Mrs.
Anna Clark of Stoneham, Mass, is visiting
in town. - John II. Judkns left town
Saturday and will attend a medical school
drug store is taken by W. II. Sprague of
Brookfield - Elijah Rugg of London
derry visited at the South Village last week.
- Frank Moriarty ofDorchester, Mass,
is visiting in town. - John II. Judkins
left town Saturday and will attend med.
ical school at Baltimore, Md. His place in
Porter's drug store is taken by w. H.
Sprague of Brookteld. - Elijah Rugg
of Londonderry visited at the South vii
lage last week. - Frank Moriarty OF
Dorchester, Mass, is at home on a visit.
- Mrs. Kate Baine from Waltham,
Mass, has been in town the past week.
- Miss Adde Cobleigh went to Mont
pelier, Monday, to take lessons in painting
- Miss Emma jackson, with her little
sister, Ruby, went to Springfield, Mass,
Monday.
North Pomfret.
Asa Aldrich and family from Lisbon, n.
H., visited Mrs. Aldrich's parents last
visiting old neighbors and friends here.
- Miss Bertha Hewitt is at work in the
family of DR.. Mcintyre at West Randolph
- Annie Sherburn begins her collegiate
course at Burlington this week. - Rose
Mayo is at home. - Ryal Adams is very
sick.
West Randolph.
for III. NJ. Wires has gone to Montpelier to
work as bookkeeper, and Allen Morse is
taking his place in Mr. Wires store. -
w. III. Messer has closed his labors as book
keeper at Abbott's mill. - Frank
Thomas and j. F. Hobart have rented JUS
tin Holman's new house on Highland ave-
nue., and will move in soon. - George
Slack left, Thursday, for Hillsdale, Mich,
where he will work in the depot -
Hale Flint and his mother, Mrs. Drury,
have gone to Chicago. - The postoffice
is now lighted by lamps instead of gas.
= Mrs, F. c. Flint is very sick -
ID. b. Fisk has rented his house on Central
street to Frank Barnes - Galen Fisk
will go to Detroit soon, to attend school.
- The stone foundation for the new
iron bridge on Forest street is completed,
and the bridge will be in place soon. -
George Scott has gone to Baltimore, Md, to
attend college. - James Albin received
the sad news Saturday morning, that his
father, who went to Boston with his daugh-
ter short time ago. had died very suddenly,
Friday evening, of heart disease. The
funeral was held here Sunday, Rev. L.
Gerry conducting the services. The de-
ceased leaves bereaved wife, two sons and
two daughters.
RoXbury.
The Universalist sewing-society met with
Mrs. Emily Bean last Thursday afternoon,
large number being present.
G. G. Warren has sent five hundred fish,
caught in the streams of Waterbury, to
the tish-hatchery. Visitors report the spring,
fish, etc, at the hatchery to be something
well worth seeing.
The Dramatic Club gave an entertain.
ment Saturday evening consisting of two
farces, " Sarah's Young Man" and Pump
kin Ridge" after which cake and ice-cream
were served. The hall was well filled, and
both acting and refreshments were duly
appreciated
The many friends of Rev. G. w. Ellison
will be interested to learn that he has re-
ceved and accepted call to the First Bap-
fist church at Waldoboro, Me-, having a
church membership of one hundred and
seventy-tive, with an average attendance of
three hundred and fifty.
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