The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-20

| served as usual. j. X. Darling OF Chelsea is
to deliver the address.
1t is expected that the school in No.
| will have to close soon for time as only
one pupil has ever had the measles and
they have all been exposed.
Mrs. Benjamin Tucker is in Chelsea.
- Laura Farnham has the measles.
- Hattie Hayward fell into the river
while fishing last Friday, but was soon
rescued 60 Mrs Kate Cushman and her
in town. - Mrs Kate Kenison is i'll
- Harry Dean is visiting his father in
Keene, N. II.
East Warren.
Mrs. Peter Moriarty is quite sick and her
daughter Lucy has come from Waltham to
take care of her. 60 r. G. Greenwood
from Boston is stopping few days with j.
g. Gleason. - Miss Bertha Howe has
been quite sick with the grip but is getting
better Quite a number OF cases OF it in
town lately. - w. =. g. Hammond is at
home from Massachusetts,.
Waterbury.
A new house is building on Railroad ave-
nue. by II. d. Brown and w. f. Minard.
The Sons of Veterans met in the Grand
Army hall on Monday night to reorganize
their order.
Crayon pictures of the former presidents
of the Waterbury National Bank have been
placed upon its walls.
A team belonging to Luke Roberts of
Colbyville got frightened and ran, recently,
doing but slight damage.
The monthly social of the young people
announced for Friday evening has been
postponed for the present.
Several bicycles have been received in
town during the past week. People must
be on the lookout or they may be run down.
as the riders are little uncertain in their
movements at present
Henry Smith, the oldest son of Orson
Smith, who has been confined to the house
with consumption for some months past,
died rather suddenly at his home Saturday
evening. He was in his nineteenth year,
and although his face is not familiar to
many of us, he will be sadly missed by
those who have been better acquainted with
him. A short prayer will be offered at the
house this morning at eleven o'clock, when
his remains will be taken to Stowe, where
services will be held at the church.
Thomas Grantield and family have moved
to the Priestage house, their farm having
been let for some time. - A. A. Ather-
ton is visiting in town - j. Dillingham;
returned to his duties on Monday. -
j. e. Shepe returned from Albany, N. Y,
last Thursday. Mrs. WILDER Henry
and daughter and Mrs. Stowell left town
for Albany, N. Y, on Tuesday. The house
is to be occupied by Fred Luce and wife
| y. DOlSStllt anu family are sOOu "
remove to town. - Miss Annie Palmer
! who has been confined to the house during
the winter by sickness, died very suddenly
at her home on Sunday. An obituary notice
appears in another column. - The fam
lily of Mr.. Shipman, the farmer at the
asylum, arrived in town on Monday. They
are to live in the Corse house.
Waterbury Center.
Vernon Dillingham; has moved to Mrs
= Mobiles house.
Miss Elizabeth Colley spent few days il
, Barton last week
Memorial services will be held in tn,
i, Methodist church next Sabbath.
: Childrens day was observed in the Bap
: fist church last Sunday. Professor Buke
a preached to the children in the morning
Sunday-school concert in the evening. TIT
rain on Saturday prevented them from get
ting wild flowers and evergreens, but tn,
: church was prettily decorated with hous
plants.
r The spring term of Green Mountain Sem
b. mary will close on Thursday, May 81 Their
will be written examinations on Tuesda
n and Wednesday, On Wednesday evening
o there will be speaking by the junior ant
middle classes, and presentation of diplC
a mas to graduates of the Minard Commerce.
q School. On Thursday will occur the ora
examinations, and on Thursday evening
concert and reading by Professor Dale.
"illiamstown.
The "pnk-eye" prevails to some exter
here among horses.
The Congregational minister of East Do
l., set preached here last Sunday.
n Mrs. Anna Benedict Frankum's husban
q arrived here from California last week III
health is not yet firmly established.
10 William Prize, native of Aberdeenshir
At Scotland, has just gone to work in one
oul,1 10 nit Ia
name.
Z. Levi j. Bolster, evel-headed bushes
m man of Barre, predicts that within ten yeal
II our population will be three times what it
)" at present
q The granite business here is in flourish
of ing condition, and now that the strike at I'll
If quarries is ended we look for a great il
q crease of business generally.
On account of the age and infirm healt
m of Mr. snd Mrs. Moses Persons DAM
is Clark whose wife is a niece of Mrs. Pc
IS sons, will live with them during their live
rt Thomas X. Work died week before la
r. at his home in Middletown, Conn, al II
$. age of siXty-three. He had suffered fro
I'd disease of the kidneys and liver for son
or time, but was thought to be convalescen
He leaves a wife, two sons, and a daughte
Among the prosperous citizens of Bar
Mt who have gone from our town Is Asa
Harrington, who has just laid the found
st ton of his thirteenth Cor more) house. /
has also just been improving the fine hou
in which he lives by an additional story
part of it,
n, Walter b. Baker second son of the la
d. Mrs. Nancy Carpenter Baker, died lately
H. Columbia Falls, Montana, where he Ia
rt Just established a newspaper, of whi'
"a there had been but three issues. He W
u some twenty-five years of age. His dea
VI was caused by the grip.
Il ~ On Sunday the anniversary of the f
~, worth League was observed by a cOnce
Is in the Methodist church. The music was Il
no by Mr. Erwin COville with Miss Robinst
ho as organist and Mrs. and Miss Johnson Mi
ne Alice Covile, Mrs. and Mr.. o. Briggs Mi
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