The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-30

minders of the very high esteem in which
they are held by all who know them.
G. I. Wooster is here from the West
being called here by the death of his
mother, Mrs Stephen Wooster. =-
Misses Carrie Sibley, Emma Foster, Julia
HOLSTER and Bertha Nye, and Messrs
Van Bennett and Rodney Willard Of
Goddard Seminary, were at home over
Christmas. =- Mr.. and Mrs l.. G. Ham
nett John Willard, and several others, are
sick with the grip.
Marshfield.
Mrs Maud Mears Carleton went to Bos-
ton last Saturday to make short visit.
Hon G. w. II. Dwinell and daughter,
| Mrs. Kelley, were sick all last week and are
not fully recovered yet.
Much interest is manifested in the sing
| ing.schools which are held in the school
house hall ON Tuesday evenings, with g. f.
| Dudley as the teacher.
| Besides the Christmas tree at the Meth
odist church last Thursday evening, there
was family tree at w. II. III. Mears', the
| work of his daughter Maud, and on Friday
| evening there was one at the house of Rev.
| j. f. Whitney.
Mrs. j. S. Wooster died last Monday
morning and funeral services were held at
the Uuiversalist church on Wednesday, with
interment at the village cemetery. Her
children were all present. Mr.. j. S. Woos-
ter expects to sell his farm and return West
| with his children.
Never was there known so much sick
ness in our vicinity as at the present time.
Whole families are down with the " grip"
and business in some places has been wholly
| stopped. Among those who are having a
severe time with grip and pneumonia are
Mrs. Melissa Stearns, Mrs. Theresa Wood
cock, Mrs Hiram Cole and others,
ID. B. Wooster and wife of Northfeld were
in town last Wednesday. - E. L. Smith
of Sioux Falls, former town clerk came to
town last Saturday to return home with his
wife. 80 Miss Hattie Wells was home
from Barre last week to spend Christmas
holidays. - Alvi T. Davis came home
from Northied last week to spend short
vacation. 1t is his first visit home since he
went there to work last September.
Middlesex.
Rev. J. Edward Wright is to preach in the
village church at half past one next Sunday
| afternoon.
The remains of the son of George p.
Miles, eleven weeks old, arrived here last
Wednesday from Chicago in charge of
George A. Tapln. Funeral services were
held at the house of III. L.. Taplin, the
grandfather of the child, on Thursday, and
the body was inferred in the family lot at
the Center cemetery.
Mrs. Nancy j. Miles has gone to Chicago
to care for her son, who is ill. - George
A. Tapln returns next Saturday to his
home in Chicago. - Rufus Leland moves
to the Moses house, near the station.
Moretown.
Elmore had no dancing school last Satur-
day, but did the week before, with an at
tendance of thirteen couples.
A pair of boilers weighing nearly FIVE
tons each went through town last week to
the Waitsfed lumber company.
Mrs. r. G. Holden died at the residence
I'll De- N.aIrrx oil f1.n
goth. The funeral was held on the Odd and
the body was buried in Middlesex Center
cemetery.
There was not large attendance at the
town hall on Christmas eve, because so
many were sick with influenza or the grip.
The singing and speaking by the children,
and the numerous presents on the tree,
made the little ones happy.
; II. o. Ward has been very i'll with the
grip but is reported as improving -
Fred Towle of Westminster, Mass, is in
town visiting his parents. - Old Mr..
Harrington, now living with his son, is very
, ill, and his recovery is doubtful. -
, Lewis Pierce caught four coons last week.
- G. b. Evans spent some time in town
last week.
Lake Seymour is not yet frozen over.
Sadie Flanders, Mabel Cobb and Leslie
Peavey were home for Christmas.
Several persons were drunk and made
, disturbance at the Christmas exercises at the
/ Center The authorities are attending to
I the worst ones, and others will be brought
l to an account unless they carry themselves
pretty straight
Mortified.
The village trustees have had signs placed
! at the corners of the principal streets.
G. H. Rood has bought store in Bethel
hut his wifp will rpmaip here till Sprinp.
. The Congregational society will have a
: New Years visit in Howes hall on Friday
0 with dinner at one o'clock.
The Good Templars will hold sociable
at their hall, Friday evening" in place of the
regular meeting. Each member is to invite
: a friend to be present.
Communion services will be held at the
j. Congregational church next Sunday, and
Il. the preparatory meeting will be on Satur
day at half-past two P. NJ.
2 At the Odd Fellows annual election
t Thursday evening, the following Off
GERS were chosen: n. g., F. l. Harris V
t G., f. h. Ford r. s., c. ID. Edgerton P. S.
Y Il. Huntley; T., l.. p. Harris. Installation
will take place January Z.
4 George S. Pratt died of consumption al
!, his fathers home on Union street, Satur
a day morning. He came home from Chicago
. where he has been employed in clothing
Il store, the 18th inst, and has failed very
!, | rapidly. lie was tWenJy-SeVen years OF age
. and unmarried. Funeral services will bt
y held at the house this "wednesday after
q noon at two o'clock in charge of the Ode
. Fellows lodge, of which he was a member
Mrs. George Clark died very suddenly o
- heart failure about noon, Friday. She wa'
u taken ill Tuesday night, the symptoms be
;; ing similar to those which she had expert
:, enced many times before, and she was no
u supposed to be dangerously i'll till few
hours before her death. The funeral wa
l. held at her home at the Center Sunday af
g ternoon, Rev. |. p. Booth officiating, ant
q the burial took place in Elmwood cemetery
r. Mrs. Clarks maiden name was Frances AID
q die Jones, and her parents were William
II and Martha Jones, She was born in vii
|. Jamestown, on what is now Russell Reed
II farm, January 81, 1874. When she was
:. eleven years old her family moved to Bethel
g where they lived three years, going from
l. there to Swanton where they remained two
n years and then coming to Northfeld. On
II her twenty-third birthday, in 1867, she was
J. married to George w Clark of Northfelt