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

CONTINUED FROM FIFTH PAgE.l
S. G. - Miss Minnie Arms gladdened
the hearts of her friends by short visit
recently - Mrs. Dan Jones was buried
Tuesday, having died of blood-poison.
80 child of Jesse Canerdy was
buried this week. go Mrs. Hart Moody
squite ill. - Mr.. A. n. Anterior and
wife go to Bristol, Conn, this week, for a
goes to Lebanon, Saturday, to remain for
the winter. = Rev. L.. Tenney and wife
are spending some time in Boston. -
Old Mr.. Town, father of Mrs. John Coffrin
the time. - Frank Evans youngest
child is sick. - The Randall mansion is
closed during the absence OF Senator Ran
dali and family in the West. - Susie
Doty OF Bradford has been guest at w. H.
Ashley's. 80 Frank I.yford looked in on
his old friends for a day, last week. -
Mrs L. b. Crossett has been on the sick
list. - John Russ has come from Dur
keyville to work for the Frarys. 60 Rev.
s. II. Wheeler goes to Georgia next week
for months vacation
Washington.
Mrs. John Barber, who has been visiting
in Canada, has returned.
Ira G. Calef has presented the banl with
$50, which is gratefully acknowledged.
Frank Ainsworth, a Waitsfield boy, was
in town Sunday on his way from Minneap-
oils to Boston.
| Rev. Walter Dole of Barre will preach in
the Universalist church next Sunday. The
hour is not yet announced.
The ladies aid society met last week
Wednesday at G. w. Huntington Be-
tween sixty and seventy were present.
Do not forget the services every Sunday
morning at TO- 30 o'clock in the Union
church, conducted by Rev. William Fuller.
The Washington Choral Union met in
cnhn hal1 fI,,.
are rehearsing for concert to be given in
| the near future.
An auction sale of ancient statuary and
modern works of art will be held in Skin.
ners Hall, Tuesday evening, October 6. Pro
ceeds for the benefit of Washington Cornet
Band.
1t is expected that Rev. j. II. Rabbit, a
former pastor of the Congregational church,
and his wife will be with Rev MIR. Fiske
| the last of the week for few days of much
needed rest. We bespeak for them cordial
welcome. Mr.. Babbitt will preach next
Sunday morning.
The store of F. c. Huntington & Co. was
broken into Thursday night of last week,
| two money drawers pried open, and about
| $40 in change taken. The thief or thieves
! first broke into p. o. Huntington's black
smith shop and obtained there some tools
which were found in the store. Entrance
was effected through large window in the
|
! found.
Town Superintendent A. G. Dickey has
been visiting the schools in town the past
week, and reports them all in the hands of
excellent teachers. The teachers are. Miss
| Abbie Williams in room / and Miss Julia
| Partridge in room 2, district No. 8: Miss
Flora Corwin, district No. Z; Miss Emily
| Carpenter, district No. 81 Miss Rosamond
Fuller, district No. 6; Arthur G. Smith,
district NO. 10. The village district last
year built new school house at an expense
of over "a 900, and yet there are not desks
enough in the primary department, there
being forty-three pupils in that room and
twenty-five in the higher d partment.
WiIliamstown.
Alvah Little, son-in-law of Oliver Daven-
port, has bought the HAL Hatch farm.
| Rev. j. Newton Perrin of Berlin is to
supply the Congregational pulpit here till
| February /, 1892.
The wife of Ed Smith was so i'll on Satur-
day that it seemed as if she could not live
through the day; but the case was more
| hopeful on Monday morning.
1t is said that Thomas Saunders of Massa-
chusetts, the wealthy owner of the Gulf
property, will next year put up a good
house on the site of the old Gulf Spring
house, burned last year.
One who has been resident of Oakland,
Cal, two summers past, tells me that he
| suffered more in Vermont from heat last
week than he ever did in Oakland, though
| the mercury sometimes ascends to 100, or
| more there.
The time of his Scotch apprentices hav-
ing expired last week, John Duffus is TAX
ing on new ones. / Judge Mr.. Duffus is not
alone in making success of the granite
work here Ernest Riddel, the money
| making quarryman, and owner of the Orrin
Walker place, tells me he has great faith
that'he has good quarries on his own farm,
and that within ten or fifteen years granite
will be quarried quite good deal farther
south of the Barre line than is now done,
or than has been supposed to be practicable
The harvest festival at the Congregational
| church on Sunday morning was well al
| tended. Flowers, fruits and vegetables
presented a beautiful appearance, and it
must have been the worshiper's " fault if
they did not awaken gratitude to the
"buuntitul Giver." Younger members of
the Sunday-school took an active and cred
table part in the exercises of the occasion.
! Rev. j. Newton Perrin gave "A brief and
appropriate talk, in which he said he had
never before Witnessed a festival of the
kind. He seemed, however, to enjoy this
one. If there was one thing in this rich dis
! play that seemed to us more beautiful than
anything else, it was the wonderful tints of
the autumnal foliage-such as our own
New England can lay special claim to.
Warren Jillson, now of Manchester,
| n. H., has buried his wife. She died from
apoplexy. Mrs. Leavitt s. Hayward
has been quite i'll, of late, at the home of l..
| III. j. Merrill. - Miss Ella Benedict has
returned to Burlington, to remain for the
| present. - Mrs. Lewis Flint and son
! Walter take their departure for Newark,
| n. j.. this week. where they are to reside.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Prentiss Waldo visited
friends in Cabot last week. - Julian
Hill of Somerville, Mass, has been the
guest of his cousin, Mrs. r. w. Demerritt.
- Charles Lawrence is improving his
| place with new barn. - DR.. Charles
Briggs, son of the late j. Wright Briggs,
now of Rochester, n Y, has been the guest
of his brother, Orville II. Briggs. 60 DR..
| William Hanson of Bradford was in town
last week, as was also Mrs Lester Martin.
SAMUEL w. THORNTON, the Brooklyn
baker, who was supposed to have been
drowned at Coney Island with his sister-in-
law, has Just been heard from. While bath