The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-12-23
Barnard, Sumner & Co.,

week. Its wings from tip to tip measured
over three feet.
There will be Christmas exercises at the
Baptist church, Thursday evening, both
societies uniting.
There will be public installation of Off
GERS and an oyster supper at Grand Army
hall, Friday evening, January 1.
East Warren.
There are to be Christmas exercises here,
Friday evening, December %.
The house occupied by DR.. o. ID. Green
narrowly escaped destruction by fire, last
week Tuesday. A defective chimney was
the cause, and the fire could not be con-
troled until the chimney was taken down.
Judge A. j. Rising, before whom DR..
Graves is being tried for the murder OF Mrs.
Barnabee at Denver Col, is a native of this
town. He may be correctly termed a self
made man, having been a poor boy with no
advantages but the common schools for an
education, compelled to work on the farm
in the summer season, to go to school in the
fall and teach winters. When about twenty
one years of age he commenced reading
law, and in few years went West to try
his fortune. He came East, last fall, to
visit the scenes of his childhood and early
friends, and seemed really delighted to see
the beautiful Green Mountains that had al
ways been so dear to him.
Inc uWelllnB-nOuSe OF stephen GOOu-
speed and occupied by f. g. Lamb and
family, was consumed by fire last Thursday
forenoon. The family were away at the
| time the fire started. Its origin is not
! known. The entire building was soon COM
| pletely enveoped by flames and burned so
| rapidly that few neighbors reached the
scene in season to be of service in clearing
the house. A large quantity of grain, about
| 125 bushels of potatoes, their meat, together
with beds, large quantity of bedding and
! clothing, two barrels of syrup, and other
things too numerous to mention, were
burned. Mr.. Goodspeed had small in
surance, Mr.. Lamb none at all. They have
the sympathy of all.
Mrs. Charles Oahu, and Miss Katie, of
| Readsboio have been visiting their many
friends here, who have been giving them a
hearty welcome. - DR.. o. ID. Green,
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. NJ Heath, Mrs j. j.
Elliott and Eddie Lamb, are on the sick
list. - Miss Anna Averill is teaching
school in Roxbury.
Williamstown.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the mar
| riage of Mr.. and Mrs, Olnev f. Seaver was
| observed by friends last week.
Let every one remember that he is cor.
daily invited to attend the Christmas eXer-
cises at the town hall, ON Thursday evening
| of this week.
Certain young people, largely of the Uni
versalist society, gave "The Stolen Will,
at the town hall, on Thursday and Friday
evenings OF last week.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs John Farnham
Surprised them on Monday evening o.
this week, it being the twenty-ffth anniver
sary of their marriage.
John Duffus and Ernest Riddel will sal
for Scotland on Saturday next, from New
York, on the steamer " Etruria." Mr.. Dut
fus will he absent some six weeks Mr.. Rid
del will be away longer.
DIR. Il. b. Watson thinks the epidemic
prevailing here is the grip AT present
Mrs, Chester Martin, George Beckett, Henr!
Poole, Lucius s. Simons and his son Arthur
Mrs. Newell Farnham, among others, arr
on the sick list.
Diphtheria is still doing its dreadful worl
in Henry Erskine's family. His son Erwin
died on sunday, aged nine years. His daugh
ter Katie, it is thought, cannot live. Mr.
Erskine and another son are also sick. Al