The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-22

O. s. and G.. II. Richmond are camping at |
Berlin pond this week.
A little girl of s. A. Hatch was quite i'll !
with diphthera, last week, but is reported
to be better.
w. e. Nichols has completed the repairs
and improvements on his house on Vine
street by tasty coat of paint
The Good Templars will have a sociable
at their.hall Friday evening of this week, in
stead of the regular meeting.
Company f is to have several mess tents
at BENIN gton next month, and has engaged
to board about sixty knights Templar from
Windsor.
Rev. s. L. Bates OF Burlington preached
at the Congregational church, Sunday, and
his pulpit at Manchester was filled by Rev.
w. s. Hazen.
The young ladies of the Congregational
church are rep airing and refurnishing the
church parlor, for which they have about
800 to expend.
At the adjourned village meeting last
week Tuesday evening, the project of
system of water works was voted down,
sixty-four to thirty-two.
The corps of teachers for the graded
school, next year, has been engaged, as fol-
lows: No. /, Miss Lbbie Whitmarsh No. 2,
Mrs. A. w. Holton; No. 3, Mrs. w. K. Shep-
ard; No. 4, Miss Mamie Wooster; No. 5, Miss
Angie Badger; preceptress, Miss Katharine
Brainerd of st. Adams; assistant, Miss
Agnes Dooley. The fall term will probably
open the first week in September.
Miss Anna Langdon went to Block Island,
last week, with j. r. Langdon's party.
60 Fred Webster visited his sister at
West Randolph last week. - Mr.. and
Mrs. Plumley went to their camp at North
Hero last Wednesday. - Mrs. w. j.
Walker, with two children, from Chicago, is
visiting her father, Edmund Pope. - G.
II. Richmond came on from New York Sat
urday night. - The Ne,os Office force
and some of their friends enjoyed picnic
at Berlin pond last Friday. u. d.
Snow of Walpole, N. H., is in town for a
few days. - Fred Dole returned Satur-
day from Lowell, Mass, where he has a
situation as book-keeper. His sister came
with him. - Mrs. HARDWOOD and her
daughter, Mrs. Holton, returned from the
White Mountains on Saturday. - Miss
Louise Richardson came from Boston, Satur-
day, to spend her vacation at home. -
Miss Grace Haselton of Waitsfeld has COM
pleted her apprenticeship in type-setting at
the Netcs office, and goes next week to work
in the Times Office at Bellows Falls:
Misses Mamie Doheny and Vira Pingree are
at work in the Neps job office on the cat
alogue Of the Graded School, which is soon to
be issued.
Z. G. Peake was called to Montpelier
Sunday, on account of the illness of his
daughter, Miss Cora Peake.
A little child came to Alden Freeman's,
recently, claiming home; also little girl
to Mr.. Hartman, living on Frank Gales
farm
r. P. Camp was thrown from his carriage
some weeks since, and has not fully recov-
cred from the injuries he received.
Plainfleld.
Mrs. DR.. Smith had a night-blooming
cereus blossom last Sunday in the daytime.
Bert Gale has removed his family from
Montpelier to the house he formerly occu-
pied on his fathers farm, near the village.
Rev. j. j. Lewis will give course of
four illustrated lectures, consisting of
"Glimpses of European Life, Past and
Present" in the Universalist church, Sat
urday evenings, August 7, IA, 81 and %.
Aunt Lydia Gunnison, whose decease was
briefly noticed last week, was eighty-one
years of age. For many years she had cared
for the sick in numerous homes, where she
will not soon be forgotten. The funeral was
largely attended, and many expressions of
kind regard were given, among which were
some beautiful flowers from Mrs. Dennis
Lane of Montpelier. The lonely daughter
Mrs. Morse, whose bereavements have been
many in recent years, has the sympathy oil
all.
Mrs. Clucas and son of Boston are the
guests of Mr.. aud Mrs. A. e. Snow. -
Rev. @. III. Shinn and little son, Paul. of
Omaha, visited at L. F. Fortney's. -
Mrs. Ida (Marsh) Hazen and little son
Ray, of Sioux City, Iowa, are the guests Of
| DIR. and Mrs. d. b. Smith. - Charles
Gale and wife of Florida are visiting hi;
parents and other friends here.
Pittsfleld.
Ethan Allen is slowly recovering from hi.
injuries. 1t is feared he will lose his left eye
Crops are looking very thrifty. The grass
| crop is not quite up to what it was last year
Haying is booming.
While Frank e. Durkee was preparing t.
draw few logs to his mill, last Thursday,
heavy stick fell, striking him across his fac
and breaking his nose. He is doing well,
West Randolph.
Repairs on the depot, which are mucl
needed, will soon be made.
Tailor Denny of Montpelier has been il
town in connection with his business.
Colonel X. w. Morse will attend tn
twelfth annual encampment of the Sons @
Veterans at Minneapolis, August 242S.
A. B. Manchester and son have surveye,
a one-half mile track on the muster ground
Work will be begun after the crops hav
been harvested.
There are about twenty-five of our pee
people at Camp Randolph" Highgat
Springs. Four acres of land, bordering o
the lake, are owned by parties here. 1t i
the best locatian of any. Greensboro pom
is another place where West Randolp
people spend several weeks during the sun
mer months, and some the entire season
Cottages owned there by Salisbury Brotl
ers, Professor Whitehill and j. ID. Wheeler
in point of location, are among the bes
of any in that immediate vicinity.
Miss Nellie Hastings and Miss May BraC
ish are at Greensboro pond. - b. l
Wilcox and wife are at St. Adams Bay &c
two weeks - Mrs. George Dumas an
Miss Sarah Battro are in Richmond. g.
Miss Estelle S. Conant of Providence, II. l
is the guest of DR.. Stimson and wife. -
Ed. Sault, wife and son, Ernest, are visi
ing in Lynn, Mass - Charles Nicho
and wife have returned to Providence,
L., Mrs. Byron Manchester accompanyin
! them. - William Messer, book -keept
in Tewksbury's store, is in Newbury takiu
his annual vacation. 80 George M. Ii
,, son of Maiden, Mass, is with his CRANE
mother for few weeks. - Miss &c
trude Seevey of Dorchester, Mass. is ii
guest of j. II. Lamson and family. -
Mrs. John Hill of Troy, N. Y, and Nil
Belle Demont OF Washington, ID. c., are
= the Red Lion Inn for a few weeks.
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