The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-09-02
peler, last Wednesday, to see President
Harrison.
WaitsfipId.

"ditShtlus
Several from this place "took in " the
president at Montpelier.
A meeting on the foreclosure of the hotel
property was held here Friday.
The Ladies' Home Circle meets with Mrs.
David Gleason this wednesday, evening.
| The teachers examination at village
school-house, Friday and Saturday, was
attended by several of the teachers in this
town and Warren.
The wedding o. William Palmer and Miss
Lovina Carroll occurred at the home of the
| bride on Tuesday evening, August 20.
| They have the best wishes of the COM
| munity.
o. j. Gale of Boston, Mass, is spending a
| short time in town. 60 w. II. Kew, who
is connected with the police force in Lowell,
Mass, has been visiting i'm town. -
Miss Josie G. Wilder, Fred Fassett, Walter
Jones and Ell. Jones started for st. Johns
| bury, Monday, where they will attend
school - Romeo and Harvey McAllis-
! ter, julius Davis and Julius MOriarty at
tended the horse breeders meeting at White
River Junction, last week.
Washington.
The recently organized society, called
the Choral Union, will meet for rehearsal at
the Baptist church, next Friday evening.
The Williamstown Glee Club, Messrs.
John L.ynde, Jr., George Lynde, Willis
Gale, Harvey Cheney, j. Bailey, Mark
Smith and John Duffus, accompanied by
Mrs. Cheney, Mrs. George Lynde, Mrs.
Duffus, Mrs. Bailey and Miss Work. the ac-
companist, spent Saturday afternoon at S.
f. Carpenters, and the evening at DR.. War
ner's. The club is composed of good mu-
sicians, and under the able direction of Cap
tain Lynde will soon be able to execute
difficult music in highly acceptable man
ner.
Miss Louise Roby of Newark. n. j., who
has Dppu VISITING relatives i'm r,.turna1
home last Monday. 60 Mrs. j. Edgerton
and two daughters of Newton, Mass, left
for home on Monday. 60 L. f. Thurber,
Mrs. Thurber and son. George, of Nashua,
n. IL, have been visiting at =. o. Hunting
toms. - Mark Calef has returned to
Goddard for the fall term Of school. -
Miss Julia Partridge, teacher of the primary
department of the village school, is IN town.
- Mrs, Almon Ingraham and two chill
dren OF birmingham, Mass, are visiting at
Lyman Peppers.
"illiamstown.
The wet weather is said to be doing dam
age to potatoes.
Bert Briggs and Mrs John York of Barre
were married last evening.
Walter Reed recently found one of his
! horses dead in the pasture.
A son was born on Saturday night to Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Colby, now of Burlington.
Mason jenkins had fall in his barn. re-
Gently, which resulted in broken bone of
an arm and dislocated shoulder
Central Vermont Pomona Grange will
meet here September 9. The public is in
vited to attend the afternoon meeting.
There ought soon to he field here for
some of the surplus carpenters of other
| places, with the building to be done this
| season.
William Bissett, brother of the firm of
! Bissett Brothers, has just come with his
family from Maine to live here. A hearty
welcome to them.
The school committee III the Calvin
Flint district is ying to secure again the
services of Miss Mary Abbott as a school
teacher for the fall term.
The increasing number of scholars in our
village school district requires an extra
teacher and Miss Bernice Sibey is to assist
Miss Ella Martin in her fall term of school
work.
Mrs, Joseph Crane, formerly resident
here, now of Morrisville, was at the Con-
gregational church last Sunday. She was
accompanied by daughter, who is
teacher in the West, and her son Will, who
has been for years a resident of South
America. Mr. Cranes wife was also of the
party.
Rev. j. j. Lewis of Boston gave superb
| illustrated lecture on The Passion Play"
| on Wednesday evening. A lady acquaint-
ance who witnessed the play last year and
who has listened to Rev. Mr.. Lewis lee.
ture, pronounces it fine in its representa-
ton of the play Both his lectures deserve
very wide hearing.
The Young Peoples Christian Endeavor
meeting at the Congregational church, on
Sunday evening, was addressed by Rev.
j. Newton Perrin of Berlin, who gave an
interesting account of the recent meeting
| at Minneapolis, to which he was a Wash
ington county delegate. The church was
tastefully adorned with flowers on the
occasion.
Two years ago. Herbert l.. Plat planted
the eleven eyes of small potato known as
the Rural New Yorker No. - The first
years yield was sixteen and one-half
pounds, one potato weighing two pounds.
The second years crop was fit Ell
| bushels. Last spring found him with eight
bushels of sound potatoes. This year he
has a halfacre of them, which promise
finely. II is "A good potato, and about two
weeks later than the Early Rose.
James Bissett, of the Scotch-granite firm
of Bissett Brothers, went to Boston, Friday
| night, to meet Miss Nellie Walker of A ber-
deem, Scotland, who was expected to arrive
on Saturday from Scotland. They were mar
ried in Montpelier by Rev. G.. w. Gallagher
and returned here ON Monday evening. Five
years have passed since they last met in
! Scotland. Here's to a long aud happy
welded life, filed with all that makes life
worth living" John McKissor accom-
! panied MIR. Bissett to Boston.
Mrs. Ida Drury Whitcomb is to teach the
fall term of school in the w. H. Pratt dis
trict 60 Mrs Charles r. Benedict is Wis
iting friends in Burlington, from which place
her daughter Ella has just returned. -
Mr.. Benedict is TO assist j. X, Lynde at the
coming fairs in Waitsfield and Waterbury.
- Miss Nellie Colby is taking vaca-
ton from work in Burlington. Her mother,
Mrs. John Colby, is with the family of her
| brother, Jude Towne of Barre. - John
! Walker was at home a few days last week
from Washington, ID. c., on account of the
| ill-health of his mother. - The MEM
beers of the Male Glee Club, with their wives,
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Sol Car
penter and DR.. f. A. Warner of Washing
ton, Saturday afternoon and evening last.
They report delightful time. - Arthur
Simons has returned from Illinois. -
Mrs. Daniel c.. Townsend is in ill.health.
- l.. G. Kidder and wife attended the
camp-meeting at Essex Junction, last week.
A CURE FOR CHRONIC DIARRHGA.-Mrs.
| r.. Gleason of Salem, Dent county, Missouri