The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-29
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SONS.
V. V. Henderson, the local produce
dealer, will load car of potatoes the last
ef the week. Price paid, eighty-fve cents.
And now we are all to have our pictures
taken, as 1t can be done at a small price
and the work is satisfactory. Look out for
signs beyond the little hotel.
Bert Wallace left for Boston yesterday.
Upon his return a fine line of goods may be
expected at Wyman & Wallace's. All are
cordially invited to call and examine the
new goods.
Martin Mcintosh has been improving the
grounds about his place by removing the
line fence on the north side and also cutting
down several old apple trees. He expects
to move his old house this week.
NJ. M. Knight has been in Boston for the
past week. - Miss Blanche Burleigh is
very i'll with pneumonia. - II. NJ.
Bruce has been repairing his house. -
j. A. Mcintosh has been very ill for the
past week. - George j. Burnham has
been improving his rooms with a new hard
wood floor, new ceiling and a coat of
paint - Dean Nichols is TO live in the
house owned by Charles Griffith and for
merly occupied by Don Turner. &C. Mrs.
j. A. Bellows Of Winsted, Conn, is Wis
iting her brother, l.. H. Haines. - Will
Moody began work at the state farm on
Monday. - j. S. Batcheder began
uONluR W his new mousse on stowe street
on Monday. - l.. II. Haines returned
from a short visit at Winsted, Conn, Sat
urday. - g. z. Sherman and wife are i'll
with the bronchitis.
Williamstown.
j. X. Lynde is in Boston for "new
goods"
B. f, Sibley notifies his customers that he
shall discontinue the sale of milk after this
week.
George l.. Edison has recently bought a
building lot of his mother. 1t lies along the
Brookfeld road.
Some one says the season eight or nine
years ago, toward the last of May, was not
more forward than this present one.
Sixteen bicycists of Barre were in our
village with their wheels on Sunday last.
They are doubtless " seventh day men.
Thomas Poland has brought the lot on
which the late Mr.. Enoch Howe's black
smith shop stood, and will erect two-story
dwelling house thereon.
The very sad news comes to us of the
probably fatal illness of Lucy M, daughter
of the late Calvin Ainsworth and wife OF
Doctor I. d. Strong, formerly of Montpelier,
and now of Westfield, n. Y.
Some time ago, G. G. Barnes bought six
building lots not far from Chubbs meadow
Barre, for SS3 33 each. He built on one of
are worth $500 each.
One of our townsmen approached Levi j
Bolster of Barre, on Monday last for the
purchase of the Enoch property lately
bought by Mr.. Bolster. The latter asked al
advance of only thirty per cent on the cost.
Miss Eta Martin is teaching in the j. NJ
Bass district; Miss Hattie, daughter of Har
rison Bancroft, Barre, in the George Will
Jams district; Mrs. Ida NJ. Drury Whitcoml
,,, Ln Il Nn1l Il.
Williams will teach in the David Gale
district.
The following veritable incident relates
not to some Hardshell Baptist minister o
| Kentucky, as one might suppose, but to one
who was stationed in one of our bright Yer
mont towns. The wife herself of the min
| lister lifted the curtain of night upon tn,
incident, else it had likely never seen day
light 1t was dark, stormy night. TIL,
| elements did so rage that the minister
wife not only could not sleep, but in he
terror imagined the day of doom might hav'
come, and awoke her sleeping partner fol
consolation. To her frightened inquiry con
corning the state of things, logically ant
consolingly he replied. Don't be an ass
How could the day of doom come in tn
mqhtP
Fred A. Ainsworth finds satisfactory worl
in Concord N. II. - Fred Webster, nov
of northern New York, and of canned
goods fame, recently visited his mother an,
brother here. - Melvin Burnham ha
moved into the old elijah Kathan tenement
- We hear that Lucius b. Wright, son
in-law of l.. III. j. Merrill, will move to j
b. Brockway's Dexter farm. - Charles
son of the late John Staples, who was 81
severely injured in New Hampshire, wa
able recently to visit friends here. 80 b
f. Sibley returned last week from bust
ness trip to Warsaw, Wisconsin. - Mrs
Laura Work Dennis and family have move'
from Wyoming to Cheney, Washington
- Thomas X. Work, now of Middle
town, Conn, who has been in very poo
health of late, is thought to be improving
- Windsor Ditty, while working
granite polisher, received piece of stee
near the sight of the eye, requiring Dr
Watson's aid in its removal. - Clayton
Il. Ditty is at the Methodist seminary
Montpelier. David Jeffords ha
moved to the Ordway farm in Brookfeld
- Mrs. Chester Martin expects tn
pleasure in the near future of visit fror
her daughter Mrs. DIR. George K. Maloy
and children, of Glencoe, Minnesota.
Worcester.
j. r. Wilson is home from Boston.
The next grange meeting will be at |.
Wheeler's.
The funeral of Mrs. Susan Bailey OF WOOD
bury was held here Sunday, Rev. M. II
Ryan officiating.
George Hall and George Morse both re
ceived broken legs the past week Will