The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-23


The ladies of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will meet with Mrs. Eli
Edison on Friday afternoon of this week.
o. o. Davis, MD. of Northheld will give
his views on the breeding problem, or
source of speed in the light-harness horse,
Saturday evening next. The doctor is
thoroughly acquainted with the subject,
and an evening with him will be interesting
and profitable. He is engaged to speak at
PlainHeld, Cabot, Waterbury and Calais.
Dates will be given later.
E. l.. Spencer is serving as iuryman at
this term of the county court. 60 9. K.
Shepard was taken suddenly sick last
Thursday night, but was able to be out and
conduct the concert Friday evening.
Harry Martin of Plainheld was in town
last week.
Maple Hill.
Leon Gotta was injured one day last week
while hauling logs from Spruce Mountain.
The clog chains coming off, he fell under
the feet of his oxen, and the sled ran over
his right leg, breaking and bruising it seri-
Ously. He also received a severe cut on
the head.
II. S. Laird begins cutting chair stock
next Monday. - Mrs. Orrin Pratt is re-
ported much better. Henry Dunklin
is to move to the place owned by the Han
nah Huntington estate. - Martin q
Son have begun to saw logs.
MiddIesex.
Joseph II. Knapp, whose house was
recently burned, is getting out lumber pre-
paratory to rebuilding.
Joseph G. Convers, while delivering
calves to the railway station, slipped and
suffered dislocation of the shoulder 1t
was set by DR.. Hooker.
On Saturday, March 10, DR.. James, as
sisted by DR.. Hooker, extracted a tumor
about five inches over from the breast Of
Mrs. George Wellington; also another
smaller one from under her arm. The re-
suit Is favorable.
Putnamsville.
The funeral of Mrs. Marshall was held at
the residence of her son.in-law, Arthur
Snow, last Sunday, Rev. NJ III. Ryan Off
ciating
Mrs. Jacob Putnam is very low with can
Ger. G. M. Whitney's family is i'm
proving in health.
MoretowH.
Forty-eight tickets were sold at Emore's
public dance on Thursday evening.
A fair-szed audience attended the exhi-
biton of the photograph at the town hall
last Wednesday evening.
The receipts of the donation party held at
the parsonage last week Wednesday even
ing, attended by about sixty people, were
thirty-three dollars.
Burt, youngest son of Mrs. William
Turner, died at Ware, Mass, last week.
from a compll cation of diseases, and his re-
mains were sent here for burial. The flu
neral was held at South Duxbury, March
II, Janus Crossett conducting it.
Mrs. Martha Sawyer from Barre was in
town last Sunday, visiting friends. -
Lester X. Holt, from Hartford, Conn, who
has been visiting his father for short time,
has gone to the state of New York on bus-
ness.
Northfield
Asahel Blake has bought the Annis house
at the west end of Union street for 800. He
will rent 1t.
Mrs. Clarence Webster has rented her
farm in Roxbury and has moved into the
house with Mrs. Hunt on Summer street.
c. n. Whitmarsb has given up house
keeping and gone into the house with his
father. The house on Pearl street which
he leaves is occupied by l.. Hiland.
j. NJ. Emerson has sold his Freeman
Thresher farm to Frank and Bert Blake.
Frank will carry on the farm this summer
and Burt is to work for ID. NJ. Derby.
A war drama, 1.-THE Blue and the Gray"
will be given under the direction of Mr..
and Mrs. George Sawin by local cast in
Concert hall on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday evenings this week. The proceeds
will be for the benefit of the militia COM
pany.
Rotha j. Keep, our genial freight agent,
was married at Montpelier on Thursday
evening to Hattie, daughter of Joseph Cady
of that place. They visited friends of the
bride in the southern part of the state and
returned to this town Saturday. For the
present they will live with Mr. Lyman on
Cross street.
Mary Cary an aged Irishwoman living
with her sister Bridget, Cup the track,
was left alone Sunday while her sister was
at church and in some way set fire to her
clothing. She was burned SO badly that she
died about three o'clock in the afternoon.
The funeral was at the Catholic church
Tuesday forenoon.
The slnashup at Milton last Wednesday
delayed the mail and noon express till after
four o'clock, and on Friday an accident
down the line kept the forenoon accommo.
dation till about three o'clock. q III. Briggs
of this place was the engineer of the train
which was run into at Milton, but received
only some slight bruises.
Mrs. Charlotte (Stafford) Williams died at
the residence of her son-in-law, j. III. Or
cutt, Saturday afternoon at three O'Clock.
Funeral services were held at the house on
Tuesday at two o'clock, Rev. w. S. Hazen
officiating. The burial was in Elmwood.
been in feeble health for some time. Her
husband died in 1913 and she came to this
town with her children in 1856 Three OF
her children survive here. ID. Williams
of Burlington and Mrs. f. A. Preston and
Miss Laura Williams of this place. The
other daughter, Mrs. Orcutt, died about
five years ago
Miss Kate Robbins came home on Fri
day from Burlington, where she has beer
in a hospital. - Miss Ellen Badger, who
has been teaching in Stowe, was brought
home Thursday quite i'll. - Mrs. Homer
Denny has been dangerously ill, but is now
thought TO be improving.
Plainfield.
Mason T. Page is here, with his sol
Charles, to see his father, l. f. Page, whC
has been dangerously sick with hear
trouble, but is now some better. Mr.. Pag,
is not to return to his Colorado home, so W.
learn, but his family is to come East sooI
and make home in this vicinity.
On Tuesday of last week the sugar-hous
of A. w. Taylor was burned with all it
contents. Loss, about eight hundred dol
lars, with no insurance. 1t is supposed Il
have been the work of tramps, as there ha,
been no fire in the building for five days
and then only in an arch closed as Tight.
as stove.
Last Wednesday colt which Wilbur II