The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-12
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Royalton.
Rev. Levi Wild of Ferrisburgh is in town
for short vacation.
We are glad to hear that A. w.
Kenny is recovering, and hope he will be
! out soon.
Il. NJ. Gallaudett and family have been
stopping at the old DR.. Denison place this
summer. Two of the boys, Eddie and Her
bert, have been quite sick for some time
with typhoid fever.
Stowe.
Rev. L. II. Elliot occupied the desk at the
| Congregational church on Sunday.
Chauncey Newell has rented his farm and
will soon move to Barre, where he has en-
| gagged as a stone-cutter. - II. G. Faunce,
Mrs w. II. II. Moulton, and Mrs. Mayo and
| daughter have gone to New York on the
excursion 60 Rev. Mr. Hazen of North
field will preach at the Congregational
church next Sunday. - Miss Annie
Bigelow is on visit to Salem Mass. -
Esquire Moody now occupies rooms in the
| Slayton tenement. - Tinkham, the
stage-driver, has rented the hotel and stable
at the lower village and has moved thereto.
North Thetford.
Frank Brown and wife start for Califor-
MIA this week. They will spend the winter
there for his benefit - Fred Thickett,
from Sharon, is in town for few days. He
is talking some of returning to his old shop
here. - Frank MarstoD, from the Beth
lehem house, was in town visiting old
friends last week. - Mr.. Howe has
been dangerously sick for number of
weeks, but is at present little more COM
Portable. - large party drove to Brad
ford last Wednesday evening to the Emer-
son concert. 80 Mrs. M. n. Benjamin
went to her home in Binghamton, n. Y,
last week-the last of our summer friends.
Topsham
William Carruth died at his home in
Topsham village, Friday, September 30,
aged fifty-four years, eight months and two
days. He had for several years been
great sufferer from consumption. He was
born in Greenoch Scotland, in 1888. When
small child he came to this country with his
parents, and spent the remainder of his life
in this and adjoining towns. He leaves
wife and six children.
Mrs. Laurette Emerson is i'll. -
| Mrs. A. Scranton is in poor health -
Miss Eliza Whicher is very dangerously i'll
with dropsy and heart difficulty. ID.
G. Holt, I'd, is pushing work on his new
dwelling house. - Mrs. f. II. Walker,
with her infant daughter, and Miss Walker
returned last week to Philadelphia.
Warren.
There is to be a tve-cent sociabe at j.
l.. Spalding's this evening. - g. e.
Moore is teaching school in South Lincoln.
- Mrs. James Cardell is visiting in
Iowa. - Miss Cherrie Stoddard of Waits
field, who is teaching school in this town,
spent Sunday at home.
East Warren.
The Ladies' Mite Society will meet on
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. w, p. Har-
mon.
There will be quarterly meeting services
here next Sunday. Rev. A. B. Truax
will be present and will preach Saturday
evening.
NJ ond Mrs po,uall Cbilds ~ Moratoxyu
visited in town last week. - Ezra
| Kingsbury is quite sick. - Nearly every
one is suffering from colds.
Williamstown.
Thomas Thorp arrived from Adrian,
Mich, last Saturday.
One of our townsmen in the South writes
of the hard times there. AS a farmer, he is
able to get but cent and half pound for
live beef.
George Beckett has bought of the Will
Jamestown Granite Company the Enoch
Howe meadow and woods, east of the rail-
road and depot.
Waverly Murray a stone-cutter, and Miss
Nina Cameron were married on Sunday.
Miss Murray is granddaughter OF the late
Warren Morse, we believe.
Mrs John S. Greene died at her home in
Brookfield on Sunday evening last of con-
sumption of the lungs and bowels. She
will be buried in Northhed.
Columbus day is to be observed at the
town hall in the afternoon by the scholars
of the place. 1t will doubtless be made an
occasion of much profit and interest.
The Universalist Ladies' Society will
hold socable at the home of their newly
elected president, Mrs. Newell h. Farnham,
on Thursday evening of next week, Octo-
Der 20.
Scion Preston was injured at the granite
quarries on Monday, while drilling out " a
Il. E,.l I NntGt hn
escape from worse injuries than he received
was narrow one indeed. AS it was, he is
hurt badly enough in the face and eyes
a recent visitor to our town is the widow
of worthy mechanic. She was left with
about $50 after the burial of her husband.
OF an inventive turn, he had patented an
improvement on an axe, the royalty from
which brought the widow some $4,000
later on.
An addition to the late very generous gift
to the Congregational church and society
has just been made, in the provision for
more lamps and window-shades for the
main room of the church, as also for new
roof for the same. A third coat of paint for
the entire outside of the building has been
provided for.
Burnham Seaver was in town over Sun
day, Mrs. Liberty Jeffords was called
to Montpelier last week by the illness of
her granddaughter, Mrs. Augustus Holt
- Will o. Martin, now of Boston, was
at home over Sunday. - Mrs. John
Lynde is slowly recovering from her recent
severe illness. - William Clark re-
turned from the West last Friday, and will
go to work for the Grearson, Moore IL Com
pany granite firm. - Will Croudis has
given up his blacksmith shop in Gran
iteville by reason of the injury to his hand
last spring. 60 Mrs. Elizabeth Under
wood, daughter of the late Rev. Samuel
Delano, and now resident OF Menasha
Wis, has been visiting in town OF late
- Rev. George L.. Wells and wife, who
left here nine years ago, We're visiting their
son, William Wells, last week. - Robbie
Williams and Arthur b. Jones are to move
from the new stone-shed to John Dutfus'
shed.
Woodbury..
The Congregationalists at the south village