The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

night John Hartwell of Bradford
was in town few days last week. -
Chester Hutchins has gone into the south
ern part of the state and into New Hamp-
shire, attending to his patent bit.
Tunbridge.
Liberty grange installed officers last
Thursday evening.
Professor ODER will have another singing
school, Thursday OF this week.
Mrs Kate Kenison remains very low. A
council of physicians was held last Friday.
Pomona grange will meet at North Tun-
bridge on Saturday of this week. The
afternoon session will be an open one.
Miss Van Dyke, teacher in district No. IS,
attended the graduating exercises at Ran
dolph Normal School, last week, and her
school was closed in the meantime.
Vershire.
New horse sheds have been built at the
Advent church.
School at the Lower village has been
stopped ON account Of sickness.
Elder E e. Aubrey has three services on
| the sabbath and a prayer meeting every
evening in the week-oue at STAFFORD and
the others in various places in Vershire.
Three aged residents of Vershire died in
December,-Mr. William Prescott, Mr..
Hiram Lathrop and Mrs. Harrison Grant,
all of whom were over seventy years of age.
Waitsfield.
The week of prayer was observed by
union services
There was no school in No 8, two days
of last week, on account of illness of the
teacher Miss Bushnell.
The death rate has exceeded the births in
this town the past year. There were six
| teen deaths and eight births
No services were held Sunday morning
| in the Congregational church, on account of
the illness of Rev. Mr.. Flske.
The State Board of Agriculture will meet
| here January 81 and %. Let's give them "a
big reception and have good social time
The lumbermen begin to long for snow,
An unusually large amount of timber has
been cut, and only awaits snow to be moved.
Mrs. Levi Willard, one of the oldest
women in town, died Friday evening. She
| leaves husband eighty-two years old,
very feeble, and daughter, Mrs. Joseph
| Lapoint
The Congregational Sunday-school re-
organized January 3, as follows: Superin-
tendent, George w. Wallis; assistant SUI
perintendent, b. ID. Bisbee; secretary and
treasurer, Edwin Lewis; librarian, Ella
Kennedy.
Hon. j. II. Hastings is again in town,
- Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Lewis have been
away visiting friends in Lebanon N. H.,
and Randolph.
East Warren.
Mrs. Lewis Cardell is dangerously i'll with
| pneumonia.
The widow Freeman, aged over eighty
years, died Monday, Of old age.
e. Grandy, aged about forty-fve and un-
married, is dead of pneumonia following
an attack of the grip.
AT no time within the last thirty years has
there been so much sickness in town as at
present, and deaths are frequent.
The ladies of the Mite Society are to
meet with Mrs. William p. Harmon next
Thursday afternoon. All are invited.
Uncle Lewis Cardell died at the breakfast
table last Sunday morning Mrs. Leonard
Freeman and Ed Grandy also died last Sun
day.
j. p. Greenwood was called to Provi-
dence, X. l., about week ago, to see his
mother, who was dangerously i'll with
pneumonia. She has since died.
Mrs. X. e johnson died last Friday
evening" aged sixty-four years. The funeral
! services were at the house, Sunday after