The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-26

DlOck' Inc Dullulng IL 10 De put under one
roof, which Is to be of the French style and
a third story added. Jason Chadwick has
charge Of the work.
There will be meeting, next Saturday
afternoon at four p. NJ at Wilson Il Ar
nold's office, of those interested in forming
free library association, for the purpose OF
organizing. The subscription paper has
been left in the post-office, where it will re-
main until Saturday for the convenience of
those who may wish to join.
AT the meeting of the stockholders of the
shoe factory, last Wednesday, the annual
! report of the directors was rendered, show
ing that there was surplus OF about $500
after allowing ten per cent depreciation of
stock and * per cent for cash value of bills
receivable. The superintendent, w. H.
Dreamer, made a statement that he could
employ double the help he now has-about
eighty-if there were tenements in the viii
lage. Considerable discussion followed az
to how tenements might be provided and
where. Three locations were mentioned
favorably for extending the village namely,
the large fiat or hollow in which the house
of NJ, b. Sargent and +, P. Markham are
coated; second, the w. II. Hartwell
meadow, and third, the e. 7. Arnold and
A. NJ. Marsh fiat.
The boom in Bethel real estate continues.
Among the transactions of last week are
noted Mrs. Eben Wellington has sold her
house and premises to Edwin Kttredge
COuSluerdllOn naDleu IN ueeu GZ,ObD. MrS.
Wellington has rented the new house Just
erected by II. H. Paine on land bought of
the George Hatch estate. Price oil this
transfer, S1,400. f. NJ. Whitcomb has
bought the Lewis Il ties place and will
move there after making a few repairs Mr.
Bates has bought the Ravens place in the
" Old Church neighborhood. T.. G. Brown
has rented of f. T. Arnold the famous Will
son house for three years from December
The hotel is to be painted inside and ont and
put in tirst-class shape G.. j. Wallace has
sold the house recently erected by him, Just
south of his home residence, to Herbert F.
Woods of Gardner, Mass, for $500. g. f.
Lewis has rented the Il. q. Brown house.
| The great trouble now seems to be to OBJ
tain good carpenters. 1t is almost impossi-
BILE to find any unengaged carpenters within
a radius of twenty-five miles and the great
demand for them has already drawn car
penters to Bethel from Chelsea, South
Royalton, West Randolph, Rochester
Sharon and Pittsfield.
John Wallace of Rutland visited in town
last week. He has fine situation as man
ager of horse stock farm on the outskirts
of Rutland. - DR.. K. II. Chase and Ed
win Fisher have recently placed furnaces in
their houses - f. T. Arnold has sold
his elegant black horse to down-country
parties for $500. - Joseph Bgelow
drove a span of horses to Putney, last week,
for NJ G.. Stafford - Myron Everett,
whilom trainer of horses on the Playground,
left " between two days" last week, to the
financial sorrow of his landlady and several
friends whom he had persuaded to lend him
| five or ten. - Mrs. Ann Kinsey
died last Friday, and her funeral was held
Sunday afternoon at William Rogers her
son-n-law. - A. j. Graham is laying
three-fourths inch iron pipe from his springs
on the Barnard road, to supply several fam
| lilies in " Brooklyn" - trial blast
was discharged in the Christian Hill gran
| lite quarries, last week, and the stone thrown
out far exceeded the expectations Of the
promoters of the company
Brookfield
Columbus day was duly observed by a
union of the schools in town, with exercises
| appropriate to the occasion The teachers
and others interested had reason to feel
gratifed with the result of their painstaking
in preparation for the day. The veterans
of town were in attendance; also the cornet
band. The programme for the morning
which was arranged for open-air exercises,
the rally round the flag" etc, by the chill
dren, was somewhat interfered with by the
rain. The principal exercises of the morn
ing were prayer by Rev. G. II, Morse; read
ing of the presidents proclamation by
Frank Wilcox, and the reading of the ode
by the Miss Edith Peck, with music by the
choir and band. The exercises of the after
noon by the children were varied and inter-
esting. They were held in the Second
church, the attendance being as large as
could be accommodated in the church. -
Miss Frances Graves had a severe paralytc
attack on Sunday morning. - Mrs
Terence Calagan, who has been visiting
friends in Whately, Mass, the past week,
was called home by telegram last Sunday
on account of the illness of her sister, Miss
Graves. - Mrs. Orlando Ralph visits her
son in Concord, N. H., this week. -
Miss Winnie Parmenter, now of the Univer-
sity of Vermont, spent last Sunday at home.
The selectmen were called out last week
by petition and enlarged the cemetery at the
West church A new fence is to be erected.
If the person who found the G. A. R.
badge near Kent's Corners will leave or
send it to the post-offce at Kent's Corners,
it will please the owner.
Columbus day was observed at Maple Cor
ners, as far as practicable, according to the
official programmes The reading of the
presidents proclamation by L. A. Kent,
who was also master of ceremonies, the
governors proclamation, by c. H. Burnap
unfurling of the flag by old soldiers and sa-
lutte by the school, Mrs. Lura Bancroft at
the organ reading of Scriptures by Mrs.
Carrie E. Towne; address by T. Lamphere;
ode by Mrs. Irving Robinson. There was
very attractive and interesting programme
presented by the school. The teachers
Miss Alma Leonard and Mrs. Carrie K.
Towne-are entitled to very much credit for
the successful termination OF TINS Columbus
day celebration. A very pleasant feature
of the aft air was that the school could have
a flag, and this day for the first time fling it
TO the breeze The flag has just been pre-
scented to the school by Mr.. L. A. Kent
with his usual well-timed manner of doing
pleasant things.
East Calais.
Rev. w. r. Davenport will preach here
next Sunday at one P. NJ.
Mr. aud Mrs. A. Dwinell started on Mon
day for Pierre s, D., to be gone month
Miss Mary Haford of Lakeville, Mass,
has been spending few days with her
brother, Simeon Webb, who is in very poor
health.
Chelsea.
The celebration of Columbus day at the
Congregational church, under the direction
of Rev. b. B. Sherman, superintendent Of
schools was very successful. The presi-
dents proclamation was read, the pupils of
the schools saluted the flag, which was in
charge of detail of Waterson Post G.. A.
r., and prayer was offered by Rev IL. e.
Howard. Essays were read by four teach
arg Miaaas Gna11inu EullAr Moore and