The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
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Mr.. Deal will have his new house ready
for occupancy in about two weeks time,
when Dr. Grout will remove from his pres.
ent location and take up his quarters
therein. Mr.. Deal has a house which is
thoroughly constructed, decidedly conve-
nient, finely finished and eligibly located.
1t is wired for electric lights.
The officers of the asylum are as follows:
Superintendent, w E. Sylvester, NJ. D.;
clerk, f. III. Wheeler; storekeeper, George
II. Grout; farmer, j. +. Shipman; chief
engineer, o. A. Briggs. The assistant ply
stefan is not yet engaged, and Dr. Sylvester
would be glad to receive applications from
those qualified to fill the position. There
are now six attendants and one supervisor
in active service, and more engaged to COM
mence when other wards are filed. When
the full quota of inmates has been received,
| there will be twenty attendants and three
night-watchmen There are now twenty
nine patients, including one female. The
two circular wards are ready for occupancy,
and will accommodate fifty.two male pa
tients. They cannot be filed however, I'M
til after the Bennington centennial, as no
cars can be spared at present. In two or
three weeks, the three-story ward will be in
| readiness to receive the seventy-hve female
patients to be brought from Brattleboro.
After these numbers arrive, new patients
will be received from Washington, Lamolle.
Chittenden and Grand Isle counties, until
all rooms are full. Those who have seen
| Ut. sylvester are thoroughly convinced
| that he is the man for the place, and shows
a mastery of details as well as comprehen-
sive grasp of the situation that renders him
| highly efficient in his responsible position.
Besides this, he and his accomplished wife
will prove great addition to the society Of
the place.
Fred Summerville is booked to play the
cornet at the Washington County Sunday
school Association at Trinity church, Mont
! pelier, September and 3. - William S.
| Davenport of Providence has been visiting
at the Methodist parsonage. 80 A party
of young men got lost coming down Cancels
| Hump, last week, and reached the highway
at Bolton instead of North DuXbury. 80
! Mrs. w. p. Dillingham; and son Paul are with
| Colonel Charles Dillingham; at Breezy Hill
House, Lisbon, n. H. Governor Dillng-
ham spent Sunday at the same place. That
popular hostelry is at present under the eff
cient management of Professor f. A. Fer
maid. - Mr. and Mrs. Rice Davenport
of Williamstown visited their son, Rev. w.
r. Davenport, last week. = Mrs. Elisha
Moody's sister has returned to Rutland
- The Methodist mission Sunday
school at Duxbury Corners is increasing in
attendance and interest beyond the most san
guine expectation of its promoters. 60
Willie Seabury is to attend school at the
Methodist Seminary at Montpelier the COM
! ing term. - Burt Yaw from the Method
list Seminary is spending a few days at w.
r. Elliops. He made fine addition to the
| Methodist choir last Sunday. =- Rev S.
H. Wheeler goes away next week on his an
nual vacation. During his absence he is to
| testify in an important will case -- Mrs.
| c. f. Wyman has re urned from an extended
! stay at Swanton. =- Deacon Hodgden of
| Campton, y. H., is spending a few days with
his daughter, Mrs. l.. II. Elliot. 80 O.
| Ct. Harris has returned from Chicago, and
rented rooms at Ed. Shipleys. - Ira
Oaks of Montpelier, deputy county clerk,
spent Sunday as the guest of DR.. and Mrs.
| Sylvester. - Miss LOCKWOOD who has
been spending few weeks with Mrs. Syl-
vester, returned to New York Monday
morning. - The trustees of the asylum
held meeting last Friday night - S.
w. Bates formerly of North DuXbury and
later of Montpelier, has removed to Rutland,
having secured lucrative position there.
- Mrs Harvey Henry's father and
mother have returned to Schenectady.
They will be much missed here. == Mr..
and Mrs. Burt Wallace are rejoicing over
the birth of a boy. Congratulations. -
Mrs. Douglass of Mill Village is very i'll.
- Mrs. l.. b. Lord and daughter and
Frank Lord of Burlington are stopping
at Mrs. DR.. Washburn's. 60 Mr., and
Mrs G.. E. Moody and visiting friends went
up Mt. Mansfield, last week Friday. 60
Clerk Wheeler at the asylum had to ofliciate
as cook, for few days, until the arrival of
the regular appointee
Williamstown.
Charles Briggs is to pay c. Z. Lathrop
$1,000 for his farm
\ few of our citizens propose to take in "
the centennial at Bennington, this week,
There will be no service at the Methodist
church next Sunday, on account of the camp
meeting
c. L. Lathrop and James Hopkins have
purchased building lots on the Enoch Howe
meadow, and will put up houses for their
own use that will add much to our village.
Myron Flint son of the late Lewis Flint
now of Newark, y. j., is stopping with his
mother in Barre, at whose home he was
married last week. The bride is a Newark
lady.
Miss Catherine Bass returns to Peterboro
n. H., this week. She will remain in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts for a few
weeks before her return to her Chicago
home.
Henry n. Jison now boarding in Barre.
fell on the sidewalk and broke his jaw bone
in two places. The injury is very severe
one, but he is said to bear it with great
patience.
sLandlords Clark are having quite a
rush " of patronage at their new hotel.
Henry A. Ainsworth, wife and daughter of
Moline H., and Miss Katie Bass of Chicago,
are guests of the house. just now.
The Presbyterians of Barre, like the
Methodists and Baptists of the same place,
were compelled to fOTego their picnic here,
as the Central Vermont Railroad Company
was unable to furnish them cars.
Mrs. Hiram Dexter, formerly an esteemed
resident of this town, died recently at the
home of her son, John L. Dexter, in Brook
line, Mass, at the age of seyenty-eight. She
was buried at Vineyard Haven.
John Lynde, Esq, gives dinner at the
hotel to-day to numerous family friends,
his special guests being the family of his
nephew, Henry Ainsworth. Mr.. Ainsworth
starts for his Illinois home on Thursday.
Ernest Riddle and John Ellis have dis
solved partnership in the granite quarrying
business. A native Of Scotland, Mr.. Riddle
is born rustler," and would prove the
peer of Westerner of our own land in that
respect.
Henry Nixon and Joseph Ossola have
dissolved partnership in the gra. bust
ness and the latter may likely le. the
place. Our town shares in the dullness
that is complained of in these parts, just
now, in this business.
viii S. Davenport, who is an under
foreman in the establishment of Brown &
Sharp of Providence, Il. L., has been visit
inc his narants Mr. and Mrs Rice Davan-