The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-27

the week have been Warren Anthony
Slade of Providence, r.. l.; Mrs. Emma
Maltzen, New York city; DR., E; A; Whit
Nellie ellison and Nudge ellison of Brooklyn,
| n. Y. 49, Charles II. Stone is spending
the summer in Eastman College. -
Students rooms in the Green Mountain
Seminary are being thoroughly repaired,
WilIiamstown.
While attached to a moving machine,
the leg Of a colt belonging to Gilbert o.
Smith was lately broken.
A visitor in town last week was Richard
Il. Flint, keeper OF the Cottage hotel st.
Johnsbury, and whose wife was Marceline
Hopkins of our place.
Charles O. Barnes came into town last
Friday. He goes to Saratoga this week,
and will return in October to look a ter the
house he Is to build in Barre.
Saturday afternoon, on the ball ground
near the depot, match game of base ball
was played between the South Barre and
| Williamstown boys. The latter were the
victors
Rev. X. L. Nanton made flying visit here
last week, on his way homeward to Norris
| vile from Boston. He will return here a
few weeks later for a longer visit He is
looking finely, and enjoys his new field.
Rev. Idrys Jones, now of Ellsworth
|
in Scranton, Penn. His oldest sister has
lately married a clergyman in Wales, who
has had call to preach in London, Eng
| land.
1t seems that the four Edwards brothers
and Charles JaCkman are to be supplied
with the means to erect stone-sheds and
| polishing shop on the Mrs. X. =. Martin
place, and the boys are wideawake in the
| matter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Colby express
much gratitude to friends here for sympa-
thetic attentions in the burial of their little
boy, last week. Mrs. Colby returns from
Burlington again to-day, to remain here for
| a time.
Mrs. John Adams has returned here to
live on the home farm in the northwest part
of the town, to remain through the fall.
| Her daughter, Miss Emma, Just out of the
Randolph Normal School, is at present in
Burlington for instruction in painting.
Mrs Charles H. Beckett and six-year-o
daughter of New York arrived here Tues
day evening Mrs. Beckett returned on
Friday to sail for Europe with her husband
to-day, to be absent three months. Their
daughter remains here with her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Beckett.
Kengo Moriya, a Japanese student in
Troy Conference Academy at Poultney,
spoke at union service in the Methodist
church last Sunday evening. He comes of
a centures-long line of Shnto priests, and
is warmly commended by certain leading
clergymen in this and New York state.
Dr. Elan G. Lewis, now of Rutland and
the recent purchaser of the Alvah Simons
land near the depot, we understand offers
to give for five years the use of half an acre
OF it, adjacent to the railroad track, for
stone-sheds If the persons occupying the
land will leave the granite chips on the
premises. Who will be first to accept this
offer.
Will the granite manufacturers of Barre
kindly rise and tell us how they reckon
time? 1t has so long been current here
that they were about to cave in " land
then, of course, the lockout and all its dis
agreeable incidents were to follow suit in
caving' that it would oblige us to know
the length of their days and months. Please,
gentlemen sirs!
George w. Robinson, one of Barrels
stone-cutters, who moved on to a farm here
not long ago, is proving himself one of the
busiest and hardest workers in our town.
The expeditions manner in which he did
the haying, last week, on the General E.
Bass farm in our village, is good adver-
tisement for the man. He ought to be in
good demand here.
The news that our branch of the Granite
Cutters Union had unanimously accepted
the proposition of the New England Manu-.
iacturers' Association for settlement was
hardly cold when the "boys' got from
headquarters somewhat liberal INSTALL
ment of back strike-pay. But they spoke
their real sentiments, nevertheless, in their
votes for ending the contest.
AT about two O'Clock Tuesday morning.
Presby Hopkins barn was struck by light
ming. Fifteen to twenty tons of hay were
destroyed At about the same time the
barn OF s. LOOMS, near by but just across
the town line in Berlin, was struck and de-
stroyed. The barn was about half filed
with hay, and it was reported that some six
or atDl AZ head nfn t1a h,,.,
AS Lester Houghton and family of Wash
ington were driving across a bridge near
Gilbert o. Smiths the two middle string
ers gave way, letting the horses through
the plank into the brook some five feet be-
low. Mr.. Houghton and a small child fell
between the struggling horses while Mrs
Houghton and babe were thrown against
log. Assistance came at once, and, provi-
dentially, no one was seriously hurt.
F. S. Capron, travelling passenger agent
of the Grand Trunk railroad, and long
time resident of Chicago, was in town last
week with wife and daughter. A son of
the late Ephraim Capron, he was born
sixty-fve years ago in the house now occu-
pied by Albert r. Martin, and which for
years was the home of the late Rodolphus
Ainsworth, where all his children were
born. Mr.. Capron left here at the age of
eight years, and had not been in town since
till last week. He recognized some familiar
scenes of his childhood, and we Judge en-
joyed his visit.
Clarence Tarbell will teach fall term of
school at Post Mills. - Mrs. p. Elliots
father and mother, who have been visiting
her for little time past, returned home on
Saturday. - Mrs. Charles Nixon arrived
here last week, and the family will occupy
one of the Gale tenements near the stone
sheds. - Mrs. Wesley NJ. Seaver, daugh-
ter of Nathaniel Hall, is with friends at
Round Lake, n. Y, where there is a re-
union of some of her relatives. - Mrs.
Burnham Martin, now of Vergennes, has
been with friends here of late. She has
buried both her father and mother, for
whom she has cared in late years. -
Rev. Carlos Adams, a Methodist preacher,
Is now stationed in Flushing Mich.
Woodbury..
Corliss Osgood, native and former resi-
dent of this town, is visiting relatives and
friends here - The Woodbury. Granite
Company is about to increase its force on
the Mountain quarry. - Freeman Bill
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