The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-14
Willianstown.

W1lllamSJOWn.
Colds seem to be epidemic hereabouts
Rev. j. n. Perrin is to be ordained here,
next week Tuesday.
Potatoes have been selling for fifty cents
a bushel for shipment
Albert Roberts has postponed his auction
till Saturday of this week.
AFRO A. Reed and Miss Ada NJ. Rowell
were married last Sunday.
1t is rumored that more stone-sheds may
go up on the X. p. Martin place.
Professor Willis II. Gale is to reside in
Barre, and will move there this week.
One or more deer have been seen on the
hills in the northeastern section Of the
town.
Messrs Chris Hood and Barnet Goodrich
have the job of building the Methodist par
sonage.
Mrs. James Burnham is great sufferer
from hay fever, and has been seeking relief
on one of our highest hills.
j. X. Lynde, accompanied by Charles B.
| Benedict and Hal Cheney, is exhibiting his
horses this week at the Waterbury fair
Misses Jessie Bass and Mamie Bush are
pupils of the Barre graded school, going
| from here and returning each day by train.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert P. Martin, on
their recent visit to Rutland, found DR..
Elan g. Lewis and wife both in very poor
health.
Oliver S. Walker is having the pleasure
this week of visit from his son John, a
government employee at Washington, d. G.
| The two are all that are left of a pleasant
family of seven.
For the first time since he was twenty
one years of age, S. Talcott Perrin was this
year away from the polls at freemens meet
ing by reason of i'll health. He is now
about midway the seventies.
AS an amateur photographer, Mrs. John
| Perry is making fine progress, and past and
present residents of the place are getting
views of their old homes that they could
not likely get but for her work.
Treasurer Nash Simons of Wilton, N. H.,
| writes that the manufacturing establish
ment with which he is connected is driven
with orders for carpet yarns and blankets.
Thank the Mckinley bill for this!
The spare room IN the Edwards Brothers &
| Jackman granite sheds is all rented, and a
| force of some fifteen men will be at work
this week. The company starts out with
two polishing machines, and there will be
a further increase of workmen later on.
Two ladies from East Montpelier were re-
Gently journeying to East Brookfield via of
our village. They had hardly reached the
north line of the town when one wheel of
their carriage became set. After delay and
inconvenience and change of vehicles, their
passage was continued.
Charles Jackman, of the new granite firm
Of Edwards Brothers & Jackman, was
caught by set screw on revolving shaft
in their stone-shed last Saturday, and but
for slack belt would doubtless have been
killed. AS it was, his dress was all torn
off except necktie and shoes.
The first attempt at Australian balloting,
last week, was somewhat like first attempt
at bicycling. If its future, so far as this
town is concerned, had depended on vote
before the box was first turned, it might
|, have been ready for Here les" ETC., in a
on in the practice of it, it lost some of its
disagreeableness and many would perhaps
say, "Give it good fair trial in the years
to come" c. U. Lathrop, republican. was
elected representative between the hours of
, nine and ten o'clock A. NJ.
, One of our summer sojourners, this sea.
son, has been Nelson Capron now of Iowa
who left here nearly half-century ago
He was one of large family OF children (oi
, which the late Lyman Capron was one,
born close by our village cemetery. He
learned the blacksmiths trade with the late
Enoch Howe. Later he went to Mononga
hela City, Penn, where he was jeweler
Thence he moved to Iowa, where he fol
lowed farming for some years. He is 6
, genial man, and one who enjoys reminis
cences will find enjoyment in chat with
} him. He will soon return to Iowa.
AS Professor Willis H. Gale was return
ing from Northfield, on Friday last, will
, Miss Angie King, the organist at his con
l cert on that evening, holdback on his har
D ness broke as he was descending the Lynde
hill. The carriage coming upon the horse
a vigorous kicking was begun. The horse
was reined to one side of the road but it,
struggle went on. Both persons jumped
: from the carriage, which was quite badly
a injured. One leg of the horse got so en-
! tangled in the vehicle that it was feared il
must be broken. Miss King ran for help
!. which was found at Mr.. Walkers, ant
peace and quiet soon reigned.
d Mrs. Herbert Colby returned to Burlng
q ton last week - Mrs. John Lynde il
g recovering from her late serious sickness
4 - Miss Ollie Farnham is teaching il
t Berlin. - James Cruickshank ha
o given up work here. and is, with his family
n in Barre. il. NJ. Bass and daughter
g Miss Julia. are visiting friends in Derby
- Mrs. James Bailey of Ticonderoga
r n. Y, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Circuit
> Abbott. - Druggist George Brush i
= having good deal of sickness in his fam
% lily, and has himself been a great sufferer o
~ ~ D. c., is visiting his mother Mrs: Denisol
4 Martin. - Mrs. Lucy Earle Holt is de
" tanned here by the severe illness of he
baby boy. The family is to move from
y Barre to Montpelier - Harry, son o
IL the late George w. Blanchard, is learning
It Woodbury..
:, Calvin Hathaway has bought place i
n Mackville and moved there with his family
l. - Rice & Barry shipped a carload {
y granite to Kalamazoo, Mich, last week
- Rev. Joseph Hamilton Of st. Johns
n bury, presiding elder for this district
a preached to large audience at the Cente
# on Sunday. - The new library for tn
# Methodist Sunday-school arrived Thursda
- evening, and will be ready for distrbuto
next Sunday. - NJ. Il. Fosters younges
- child is quite i'll. - Gilman Bill, VIII
a was quite i'll last week, is slowly convalest
II ing. - Will Carr, being weary of LII
Il of single blessedness has taken unto hin
4 self helpmeet - Elgin Bill commence
- earring potatoes from this section on Tues
day, paying fifty cents per bushel delivere
n at the depot at Hardwick.
:. South Woodbury..
J Mrs. E. A. Wheeler is teaching the IA
4 term of school in this village. - Mrs.
II u Frank Gonyeau of West Milton is visitin
~ at Frank Batchelders. - Albert Burn
: ham has nurchasel another horse and ca