The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-06

day after an illness of but a few days from
heart trouble, grip and pneumonia She
was fifty nine years of age and leaves a
husband, children and grandchildren.
In the absence of Rev. r. l.. Nanton
Rev. j. N. Perrin will preach at the Meth
odist church next Sunday, the services to be
union services. The meetings OF this week
OF PRAYER are to be held each evening at the
Methodist church.
The work of repairing the Congregational
church building, under the care OF j. @.
Emery OF Montpelier, progresses. Enough
has been done already to show how greatly
the house is to be improved, thanks to the
generosity of its benefactor, Mr.. Perkins
Bass.
Annie L., daughter of Mrs. Helen Stick
ney) and Norman V. Fits of Worcester,
Mass, were married on December %. 1.-THE
love and esteem Of a host of friends, says
a Massachusetts, paper, found expression
in large number Of useful and beautiful
gifts"
Our warm and pleasant winter thus far
brings out from Charles II. Benedict this
fact in his stage-driving days some fourteen
years ago. He was on wheels till the
eleventh day of January, and afterwards
went on runners only till the last week in
February. What sleighing there was, was
pretty thin, at the best.
Noah Smith, living in the granite district
and employed on the quarry Of Ward &
Cole, Barre, was fatally injured last week
by being thrown distance of some sixteen
feet to the ground, from a box car. His
skull was broken in two or three places,
and he lived but day or two. He was
forty years of age, and left a wife and five
children in needy circumstances.
At last our place is bestirring itself some
what concerning the shipment Of liquors
here. This seems to have been made !" a
Il,
for too long time past, and patience has
been exhausted. Last week the first seiZ-
ure, in new Williamstown, was made at our
depot by b. f. Sibley, constable. II con.
sisted of some eighteen gallons of brandy,
wine, but chiefly whiskey, some of 1t said
to be so vile that it were pity to ask
Mother Earth to drink i'll
The news of the death OF Mrs. Henry A.
Ainsworth Of Moline, ILL.,, came with sad
ness to her parents here last week. 1t oc.
CURED on the Doth ult., at a hospital in Chi
cago, where she had been for treatment of
partial paralysis of the throat, from which
she had suffered for some months. A ma
tive of Ashland, Ohio, and sister of the
late Lorin Andrews, president Of Kenyon
College, the first thirteen years of her mar
ried life were lived in Geneseo, Ill. In the
last twenty years she has lived in Moline,
LII. An active, competent, intelligent,
rare Christian woman, her life has been
could know her but to love her." She
leaves husband, two daughters and son.
She was tifty-six years of age.
Brakeman William Clarey is quite sick
with grip - Mrs. James Hopkins is in
Barre caring for her mother, Mrs. Denison
Hopkins, who is sick there. - Rev p.
F. Barnard, for years a highly-respected
Congregational clergyman here, is now
residing in Westminster. - Mrs. Fannie
Martin Stewart and Mrs. Frank York are
among the sick ones here at present. -
Gary Blanchard of Barre has just moved to
Barney ID. Fint's house in our village.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Rice Davenport are to
spend the winter with their son, Rev. Wal
ter Davenport of Waterbury. - Melvin
Burnham has rented Oliver S. Walkers
farm and will move on to it this week.
- Mrs. Mehitabel Stebbins had the
misfortune last week to pierce her wrist
with needle that was broken after enter
ing the wrist but was soon removed.
Worcester.
Old Mr.. Vale is very low.
The ice harvest bids fair to be very small
in this section.
There are a large number sick in town
with the grip, among them III. w. Collins
family and Amos Chase. NJ. l.. Hamblet
has recovered so as to return to his home in
Lowell, Mass.
Mrs. George Fem is quite i'll with grip.
Her father, Joseph Town, died of pneu-
monia, Sunday morning, aged seventy-six
years, and was buried Tuesday from his late
home. He had been a respected resident in
town for twenty-five years In early life
Mr.. Town worked at the wheelwright bust
ness, then at farming until the intirmties of
age and failing health prevented. Three
daughters survive him, also two brothers,
DR.. G. NJ. Town of Marshteld and Barnard
Town of Montpelier,