The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-25
From Town Correspondents.
George w. Tilden is in Boston.

Barre.
George w. Tilden is in Boston.
Mrs. Nathaniel Wilson is quite ill.,
Mrs. John Plunkett has been i'll for few
days.
Mrs. Vic Curtis is visiting her parents in
Washington.
Frank Eaton is slowly recovering from his
severe illness.
Goddard Seminary is closed for a two
weeks vacation.
A son was born, last Wednesday, to Mr.
and Mrs Denis X. Averill
Mrs. e. T. Raymond leaves this week for
Maine, to spend the winter.
f. A. Slayton has put hack on the road,
with w. o. Walker as operator.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Bacon of Bellows Falls is
visiting j, III. Blaisdell, her brother.
Hugh Philgate foreman at Gazely's quar-
ries, died last Sunday. He left a family.
Mrs. DR.. Steele is visiting her parents in
Mortified. The doctor spent Sunday there.
A new and handsome safe was added
last Monday, to the Granite Savings Bank.
The regular Congregational services, last
Sunday, attracted an attendance of 1913 per-
sons.
James Dartt has closed a summers en-
gagement at the Mears tonsorial establish
ment.
Mrs w. G. Perrin, formerly of Barre,
died at Chicago, November 6, aged nineteen
years.
The wife of Rev. Mr. Ramage of South
Royalton is visiting at the home of Alex
Mathieson.
Over two hundred tickets have been sold
for the concert and ball of the Clan Gordon,
this evening.
DR.. Bigelow has added to his attractive
barn a window in the highest style Of Ital-
ian renaissance.
p. G. Dodge announces that he will inn
mediately begin the publication of week.
ly paper in Barre.
Mrs. Luella Cogswell went to Madrid,
n. Y, last week. Mr.. and Mrs. Cogswell
are to winter in Florida.
w. G. Jones is building a large store at
Thwingville, and has also bought build
ing lot on Eastern avenue.
DIR. III. K. Packer read an interesting pa
per ON the grip, at the annual meeting of
the Vermont Homeopathic Medical Society.
Mrs. Eddy of Goddard Seminary rendered
the faculty and few of the students an
elaborate supper at the City restaurant, last
week.
Jesse, youngest son of Henry Pratt has
been dangerously i'll with pneumonia. He
is now better, and there are hopes of his re-
covery.
" Reclaimed" at the Opera-house, last
Saturday night, attracted vast array of
empty seats. No one knows where the
"show" was reclaimed from.
The Barre Railroad Company is to lay
track from the south end of the bridge in
the rear of John Paine's to the south end
of the bridge on Bridge street
Tickets are on sale at Towne's for the
Remenyi concert at Montpelier, next Fri
day evening. A special train is to be run
over the Montpelier & Wells River railroad.
The dance at the armory, last Friday
night, by the militia, was attended by fair
patronage and an elegant time The Mont
pelier orchestra furnished its customary de-
lightful music
Edward Corcorin was last Friday fined
S10.51 for intoxication. and Terance MeKane
on Saturday was assessed a similar amount
for likewise offence. On Monday George
McFeters and William Woolsey went
through the mill.
The bailiffs are really doing a large
amount of work of late, and words of COM
mendation are heard on every side. 1t is
the purest accident that good share of the
improvements in the sidewalk line are along
land owned by the baliffs.
A union Thanksgiving service is to be
held Thursday, at 10: As A. M, in the Opera
house. The following topics will be dis.
cussed by the various pastors of the village:
Observation and Spirit in Thanksgiving"
Rev. Mr.. Dole; Thanksgiving for our
Harvests," Rev. Mr.. Cummings; Thanks
giving for our Country" Rev. Mr.. Longren;
Thanksgiving for our Homes and Spirit
ual Blessings" Rev. Mr.. Smithers.
While hunting cartridges in Orange, last
week, Walter Emerson was startled by see
ing a wildcat. He threw his gun to his
shoulder. dropped his piercing optic on the
barrel, and fired. Fortunately for him, the
cat was in log trap, and ere the ferocious
beast could get upon him, he poured in
second deadly broadside. 1t didn't leak
out until Waits father came to town, a
couple of days later, that the animal killed
was poor inoffensive house cat.
West Berlin.
Mrs. Phillip Smith, who has been quite
sick, is now convalescent. - Mrs. Oscar
Jones started, last Wednesday night, for
Iowa, where she is to spend the winter.
The body of Mrs Leonard Ellis of
Montpelier, former resident of this place,
was brought here last Saturday for burial.
- G. q. Chandler, who was in ured by
falling from platform at the factory of the
United States Clothes-pin Company, has so
far recovered as to resume his duties there.
- Rev. A. b. Truax, presiding elder of
Montpelier district, preached at the Meth
odist church, last Thursday and Friday
evenings. - Work at the cider mill of
Wilbur Brown has been suspended for the
season. Mr.. Brown has cleaned up over
MY Dusneis OF apple SEED, winch mas been
contracted for by parties in the West.
What an impetus the horticultural industry
of the great West must receive when these
millions of embryo fruit-trees shall spring
forth and assert their right to grow up with
the country. - e. S. Berry has invented
water-wheel which seems to be an i'm
provement on anything of the kind which
has previously been tried One has been in
constant use at Browns mill for several
months; and gives entire satisfaction, re-
curing less water to get the same power
produced by other water wheels. Mr.. Berry