The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-05-25
Davis tenement, and will remove his fam
Waterbury Center.

Davis tenement, and will remove his fam
lily here.
Waterbury Center.
Professor p. II. Dale will preach the
Memorial sermon here, next Sunday, and
Rev. w. S. Hazen of Mortified will deliver
the address Decoration day. Mr.. Dale will
deliver the address at Whitefeld, N. II.
Mrs. Harriet Hunter, who has been spend
ing the winter in the West, returned last
week. 80 Mrs. Mars was called to Mil
ton, last week, by the death of her mother
- Miss Jennie Maddin of White River
junction is visiting at l.. II. Huntleys.
- Mrs. G. NJ. Webster of Boston and
Mrs. M. j. Anthony Of Providence arrived
last week. They are to spend the summer
at w. e. Marshall's.
GREEN MOUNTAIN SEMINARY NOTES.
Oral examination of classes during the
day, Wednesday, to which the public are
cordially invited.
Class exercises will be at ten o'clock A. NJ,
Thursday, June q at two o'clock p. NJ. will
occur the graduating exercises.
Thursday evening grand concert will be
given by the Montpelier Military Band or
chestra, assisted by f. w. Bancroft.
Friday evening, June 3, the annual meet
ing and banquet of the Alumni Association
will be held at the Green Mountain Lodge.
The sermon before the graduating class
of lewiston Maine, Sunday, May 20, at two
o'clock p. NJ, in the Baptist church.
Miss Colley will give a reception to the
graduating class and their friends, Tuesday
evening, May 81, at the Green Mountain
Lodge.
Williamstown.
1t looked, last week, as if May had been
telescoped by December.
Mrs. Charles Staples has been painfully
i'll of late with rheumatic trouble.
Three Scotch granite boys left for St.
Louis, Mo-, last Friday, owing to the lock-
out here.
Preparations are making for the observ-
ance of Children's day, June u, at both the
Methodist and Congregational churches.
There will be union Memorial service at
the Methodist church, next Sunday, to
which everybody is invited. Rev. Mr.. Rey-
nolds will preach.
Rev. j. N. Perrin was unable to occupy
his pulpit, last Sunday, and Charles Hay
ward of the senior class st. Johnsbury
academy, again oficiated in his place.
Joe Sartorelli, an Italian who has for
nearly year been doing faithful service in
the stone-shed of John Duffus, has been sick
with rheumatism in Barre for few weeks
past.
George Wilbur, now of Pawtucket, r. l.,
q, X. +,
Wilbur has half-interest in store there
and we judge is doing a successful bust
ness.
A farmer on West hill tells us of measur-
ing snowfall of three inches, on Friday
last, which disappeared, and was followed
by another one in the same place, that meas
ured five inches in depth on Sunday.
Johnnie Mari, having been thrown out
of granite work by the lockout, improves
the time to visit his home in Aberdeenshire,
Scotland. Members of some of our scotch
families are talking of an early return to
Scotland for similar cause.
The hills hereabouts were white with
snow, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday last
The fact brought out this "reminiscences from
Rice Davenport: On May IA, 1884, he
planted corn all day. During the following
night, snow fell to the depth of two feet
and it continued to fall through the 10Th.
When the rebellion broke out, our old
townsman, j. ID. White now of Alabama
cast in his fortunes with the South. Having
served in Colts armory at Hartford, Conn.
he went South Gt is said with some $25 ,0O0)
and was employed by the confederacy in
the manufacture of firearms. He now has
receptacle containing many thousand dol
lars of confederate money, to show mainly
for his old time shekels and sympathy with
the lost cause.
nest, and its parayzing effects are grow
ing more visible. What and when the
end shall be, it is idle to speculate. The
employers seem determined not to yield
their point, claiming that it is the only
method of representation. The same po-
sition is taken by the cutters union. Much
interest will naturally be taken in the CO.
operative experiment it is said the cutters
union will inaugurate in Barre, this week
namely, the starting of quite number of
sheds, thus making its members employers.
One thing, however, may safely be said to
the large public affected by this labor
trouble, and that is that there is much more
involved in 1t than appears on the surface.
Until both sides of it are thoroughly under
stood, large measure of patience, for
bearance and charity is rightfully called for.
Meantime, every interest involved demands
that when settlement of the trouble does
come, it shall be on basis that affords hope
of more permanent peace than we have
had here for one while.
Miss Marie Roberts accompanied the
family OF Rev r. l.. Nanton to Morrisvlle,
where she will remain for the present.
- John Roberts has been in West
Pawlet for some weeks for the treatment of
his hand by Welsh surgeon, and hopes it
may now heal. - S. Il. Perrin continues
to have trouble with his heart. - Will
Croudis, who is yet laid aside from work by
an injured hand, has been visiting his
brothers in Boston. - Mrs. Caroline
Hixon of Iowa is in town, the guest of her
sister, Mrs Asa g. Wilbur. Mrs. j.
X Lynde goes to Montpelier for kinder
garten instruction for use in her family.
- Mrs. George Quigley, daughter of
X. p. Blanchard, has pneumonia.
James Quigley improves the lockout to
visit his old home in Maine.
Woodbury.
George Wells has moved in with Fred
Hoyt on the Carroll Mcknight place.
Harvey Benjamin has been quite i'll the
past week, being threatened with bilious
fever.
Rev. j. G. Wright who recently hired the
Gilman Bill farm, has decided to move else
where.
Frank Batchelder is negotiating for the
Elias Heath farm now owned by Samuel
Daniels.
The improvements on the cemetery have
had help, financially, from F. NJ. Bill OF
Lowell, Mass, by check of S25; the
ladies aid society, $40; Nathan Batchelder,
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GEORGE s. LAWRENEE,s E &SE II T,cr
The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Probate Court he District of Washing