The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-11

floor, and the meat-market is sheathed with
hard wood In fms and convenience it is
hardly exceled in Orange county.
Lydia Huntington was at home from
Montpelier Seminary over Sunday - G.
A. Bohonon has been visited by the measles
| for the past week. 80 William Cheney
! is slowly failing.
Waterbury.
The prayer-meetngs at Mill Village are
closed for the present, except the regular
Tuesday evening meeting.
just as the new butter is beginning to
come to market the prices are coming
down, which is rather discouraging for the
! farmers
Benjamin Pickett will not move to his
Montpelier farm till after sugaring season
is over. Then his son Frank will take
charge of his Duxbury farm.
The temperance lecture Sunday evening
| in the Congr cgati onal church by Rev. A. j.
| Hough of Montpelier, under the auspices of
| the WUman's Christian Temperance Union,
was well attended and very much enjoyed.
From twenty-five to thirty of the young
people of Colbyville aud Mill Village met
for an oyster supper at the house of Dewitt
Green on Friday evening and had a jolly
| time till the Eve sma' hours of the morn
| ing"
Mrs. Emily p. Marshall, widow of the late
James w Marshall, has received an original
widows pension of eight dollars per month
and two dollars for each of her children be-
low sixteen years of age. L. T. Farrell was
| her attorney.
MIR. Brown of New York and Charles
/ keene have bought over thirty horses dur
ing the last two or three weeks and intend
shipping them to New York this week and
next. The farmers find a ready sale and
good prices for their horses.
The Waterbury Dramatic Club gave it's
play, " In the Enemy's Camp" Friday even
ing in Waitsfeld, and Saturday evening in
Warren 1t had full houses both evenings
Standing room was at a premium. The trip
was a financial success. The club expects
TO go to Stowe soon, and to give one more
entertainment here
Bert Hills of Manchester, N. H., who has
been visiting his aunt Miss Hattie Thorn
son, has returned to his home. 80 John
Cameron had a slight shock of paralysis
Saturday afternoon, but is recovering some
what.
Waterbury Center.
A corrected statement makes the amount
of the donation to Rev. Il. w Collins S2S. 90
and not $40 all in cash." as reported
WilIiamstown.
George Martin, son of II. II. Martin, is to
live on " the Squire Benedict farm" owned
by his father
Charles Moore of the Wi Jamestown Gran
lite Company has been severely sick with
Jne measles III Une ldSJ week,
The Congregational Ladies' Society is
compelled to postpone its public entertain
ment till the last of next week.
John Croudis, a travelling man from Bos-
ton, was the guest of his brother William,
in the granite district last week
Rev. L. Tenney of Waterbury, preacher
to the Congregational church there, was ac-
companied by his wife on uis last visit mere.
Subject of sermon in the Methodist church
next Sunday forenoon, Results in the
World if Christs Teachings were Fol-
lowed"
Some one counts up fifty-seven men at
work in the granite sheds, the polishing
mill and the blacksmith shops here-a good
!, beginning, surely.
George, the youngest son of Enos f.
Walker, has been very sick of late, his life
, having been despaired Of. But at this
, writing he seems convaescent.
Friends and neighbors of Mr.. Harry Fogg
celebrated his SiXtieth birthday, on the 4th
inst, at his home, with genuine surprise,
aud gifts. Cake and coffee were served.
! Our fine new hotel is so near completion
that the matter of the occupancy is one of
much interest. X. p. Blanchard of Barre
. is talked of as possibly to be the proprietor.
Telephone rates from this place have not
been advanced. The rates to it have been.
For Instance, Barre speaks to Williams
e town for fifteen cents, Williamstown to
= Barre, ten cents-the old rate.
Thomas Sheridan has moved his family
from the village to his old home on the
j, south hill. - Charles Woodbury., a SON
I iu-law of |. G. Little and now of one of the
Y Dakotas, returned home last week after a
i short visit here =-= Thomas Poland has
lately been visited by d brother from Massa-
: chusetts. - Mr.. and Mrs. IL. ID. Abbott
. have been in Springfield Mass. in the last
$ week or two. Frank Bartlett of Plainfed
nd mi 10 mia Of Nfps A -,
their house meantime. - Alvin, son of
+ David Nj. Smith, aud theological student
y in Canton, n. Y, preached recently in
X Washington county. 80 Herbert p Mar
e tin has been appointed guardian of Mrs.
Lyman Capron. - James Burnham has
! lost some fifty pounds of flesh during his
! nvalidism. - John Gamble, a stone
= cutter recently from Barre, buried his four
. weeks-old daughter last Sunday,
Worcester.
Miss Merry Seaver is sick and has had TO
S give up her school.
The Womans Relief Corps has prone
= made next Saturday evening.
Rev. Mr.. Ryan exchanged pulpits last
Sunday with Rev. Mr. Barney of Middlesex.
. Aaron Witham, while telling timber last
week, was caught under falling tree and
- received severe injuries about the head and
! shoulders, the latter being badly broken.
n White River Junction.
u Rev. f. T. Crane and his father-in-law,
y Mr.. Robinson, have moved back to Marsh
, field
Bradley Watson of Burke, brakeman on
= the Passumpsc fell between cars and was
q killed at Olcott, Monday. He was twenty.
> five years old.
Waits River
t The friends and relatives gathered at the
4 home of Mr.. and Mrs Il. A. Dickinson tC
e attend the marriage of their daughter.
!, Cora Il. Dickinson and James A. Morrow
Il of Barre were married last Wednesday af
$ ternoon by Rev. s. G. Vail. 1t was very
pleasant occasion. The couple started on
v bridal trip last Friday to spend month
h visiting the groom's friends.