The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16
From Town Correspondents.
Calais.

to secure the same teacherS-MisS Alma
Leonard and Mrs. Carrie Il. Towne--for the
winter term.
The usual service was held at Maple Cor
ner on Sunday evening by Rev. j. 9.
Wright. There is to be service there next
Sunday evening at GAS o'clock, and Rev.
Joseph Hamilton of st. Johnsbury is ex-
pected TO preach.
Misses Flora and Clara Bliss of West
Braintree have been visiting their aunt,
Mrs. Lucy Kent, recently - Mrs. Lura
Bancroft has fine new piano.
East Calais.
Rev. l.. Warren will preach next Sunday
morning at 10:45.
The dressmaking rooms of Miss Inez M.
Pearce will be closed next week.
Postmaster Pearce received notice, last
week, that this Office was to be made a
money-Order office but owing to the coming
change in the administration there will
probably be nothing done about it at present.
Mrs. Aurlla King met with bad acct
dent, last Thursday, falling in such a man
ner as to injure one hip and render her per-
fectly helpless. She is over seventy years
of age, and the chances of her recovery are
small. She will be crippled for the re-
mainder of her life. She has the sympathy
of the entire community
Chelsea.
the alarm is over.
Our presidential vote was as follows
Harrison 159, Cleveland "A, Bidwell 10.
We hear general satisfaction expressed
over the passage of the town school bill.
Rev B. b. Sherman is attending the con-
vention of Christian Workers in Boston.
The fall term of Chelsea Academy closes
Friday of this week, and the winter term
will begin Monday, December D.
Mrs. Carlton Slack, who has been a great
sufferer with cancer, died Saturday even
ing. The funeral services were held Mon
day morning.
Colonel II. o. Bixby has returned to town
to make an active canvass for the postmas.
tership. j. B. Atwood and George Hutch
inson are also in the field, and Miss Nellie
G. Cooley, the present efficient assistant in
the post-ottice, would like promotion. There
is not particle of dissatisfaction in town
with the administration of the present post
master, w. p. Townsend, and everyone
will agree that the patrons of the office
have had the best service during the last
three years that the town has ever seen.
If either political party had been faithful
heretofore to its pledges of civil service re-
form, the present scramble for the spoils
could not take place. When the people
demand civil service reform in earnest,
they are bound to have it. May the time
soon come
B. III. Adams, Jr., has begun housekeep-
ing in Alvah Robinson's house. - Miss
Ella n. Jones, who has been very i'll of
typhoid fever in New Hampshire, is con-
valescing at Mrs. Mary Tracy's. - Bur-
leigh II Smith of Strafford, father of DIR. A.
B. Smith, is here to spend the winter.
Irwin Bowin has returned to the farm on the
West Hill where he formerly resided -
Mrs. Mabel NJ. (Allen) Foster of Burlington
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Hyde, with her
two children.
Corinth.
Good turkeys are selling for twenty-one
cents a pound. - Lyman Porter has
bought the sawmill at Corinth Corner.
60 A nephew of the late Amos Merrill
preached at the Corner, last Sunday.
East Montpelier.
Four members were added to the Uni
versalist church, last Sunday.
Several journeymen stone-cutters from
Barre are employed at the sheds of Jarvis
| Brothers.
Charles Dudley has about 400 turkeys that
he intends shipping to the Boston market
for Thanksgiving.
The weekly prayer-meetings of the East
Montpelier Christian Endeavor society are
to be discontinued for the present.
Clark Sibley has sold building lot to
| George Daniels, who will in the spring
erect double tenement thereon.
Most of the citizens here are feeling lit
tie sore over the result of the election, but
there are few hilarious democrats.
Jarvis Bros. are running their polishing
shop fifteen hours a day at present, and
their business generally seems very pros
porous.
Postmaster j. NJ, Willard, feeling reason
| ably assured of the reelection of President
Harrison, wagered an oyster supper on the
| general result. Suffice 1t TO say that last
Saturday evening John set up" the oys
ters and other things too numerous to men.
ton TO party OF ten.
The school in district No. 9, taught by
Miss Eta NJ. Jones, closed last Friday
Pupils not absent: Alice Cullum, Car
! Sibley and George Sployd not tardy Lena
Clark, Mabel Coburn, Florence Coburn
Annie Cullum, Alice Cullum, Ella Dudley,
Mary Kelton. Mabel Lebarron Carrie
Parnenter, Maud Parmenter, Florence
Wheeler, Laura Worcester, Arthur Clark
Ernest Clark, Bernie Cullum, Clarence
Dudley, George Foster, Raymond kelton
Carl Sibley, Brock Sployd, George Sployd
Albert Wheeler.
Groton.
What is the matter with the democrats il
town? A little crazy.
Rev. Mr. Senter breaches next Sunday
at the Baptist church.
Poultry train rms next Friday afternoon
| arriving at Groton at / 05.
A. w Coffrn has opened his barber shoI
and store for the first time for four weeks
Peter Carpenter, while working on the
railroad track, got his fingers badly jammeC
between two rails.
The gathering at the Methodist church
last Friday night, for the benefit of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Keenan,, was well attended.
Joseph Kicker, an old citizen of thi.
place, died last Thursday Mr.. Kicker haC
been sick a year, but it was thought a month
ago that he was gaining.
Mrs. Orrin Crown died last Monday morn
ing. Mrs Crown had been sick for the pass
eight months, and passed away very sud
denly at last. She was member of the
Methodist church.
The celebrated boy orator, Ralph Bing
ham, will give an entertainment in school
bouse hall, next Thursday night He comes
here highly recommended. We hope ht
will have full house.
A good, honest republican had a COW tC
sell, and was offered $50 for it the day be
| fore election. On Wednesday democrat
offered 50 for it. The owner was obliged tc
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