The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-20
CONTINUED FROM FIFTH pAeR.j

| At this writing the numbering business is
at a standstill, owing to lack of snow.
The body of Carlos Wardner of Clare
| mont was brought here for burial on
| Wednesday OF last week. Mr.. Wardner
was seventy-six years old and for many
| years was prominent farmer and citizen
of this town. He died at the residence of
his son.in-law, Mr.. Dale He leaves
widow and one daughter
weybridge.
Aside from the grip, the general health
has been good during the year.
G. II. Sprigg, cattle dealer, who has been
quite i'll, is out again and attending to bust
| ness.
Business at the sawmill has been quite
| dull, but will be brisk now that we have
sleighing.
Quarterly conference at the Methodist
church ON Friday, February 2. Presiding
Elder Webster is expected to be present.
There will be dime social under the
auspices of the Epworth League, Friday
evening, at the residence of .. X. Brittell.
S. G. Clapp of Barre, formerly a resident
OF this place, visited friends here a short
time ago. He is now dangerously sick at
| his home.
Considerable damage was done to shade
| trees by the heavy coating of ice which
formed on them last week. Willows and
elms suffered most.
We have very fine sleighng, and large
quantities of hay are being drawn to the
| different railroad stations. The price paid
| is So to $40 per ton. Oats are worth forty
cents per bushel, corn eighty-tve cents.
| M. Il. Sprague, assistant postmaster at
| this office, returned on Sunday from Wash.
ington, ID. c., where he had been in attend
ance on the convention of fourth class post
! masters, called in the interest OF an adj
vance of the salaries of that class of gov
eminent servants. The outlook for the adj
vance of pay is considered favorable.
The boom at the pulp mill gave way, last
week, owing to the pressure of high water,
and $4,000 feet OF spruce logs went down
stream about mile, where they were
caught by the ice. The remaining 100000
feet were frozen in and the cold weather
held them. A new boom has been put in
This mill is doing large business, shipping
two or more carloads of pulp daily.
Israel Liberty of Burlington is engaged
to work for f. II. Fiske at his blacksmith
shop, and has rented G.. w. Cobb's tene-
ment. - Miss Carrie s. Baker is ex-
pected home from st. Adams, this week.
to Walter Sturtevant, January II; also one
to Miss Abby Cole, January Is. Both were
enjoyable occasions.
Hilliamstown.
George Wilbur has left Boston, and is
Sldy III lONlutuCtj W. L.
Rev. G. H. Merrill of St. Johnsbury
preached for the Congregationalists last
Sunday.
John Duffus writes that his voyage to
Scotland was attended by good deal of
Sea-sicknesS.
Word was received here Tuesday of the
death, in Brookield, of our old townsman,
Lorenzo ID. Smith,
Hiram Davenport died Tuesday morning.
He was about seventy years old. He had
long been ailing with heart disease
GEORGE II. WILDER is the possessor of
solid silver flute, the gift of the younger
Thayer of Thayer's hotel, Litteton, N. Il.
Oliver Dickinson has bought the Town
send place of g. n. Lathrop, located just
outside the village at the northeast corner
of it.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the mar
riage of Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Brockway was
observed by friends on Thursday evening
last.
A goodly number of the friends of our
worthy young townsman, Frank, son of
Joshua F. Bailey, ceebla ted his eighteenth
birthday, last week.
Another seizure of liquor was made by
constable b. f. Sibley at our depot, one day
last week. and the stuff has since gone the
way of all the earth"
Miss MAY ScovILLE, who is critically ill
with typhoid fever in Berlin, remains in
about the same condition. If there las been
any change 1t has been for the better.
The Free Press states that the veterans
of Washington county intend TO support
Colonel j. III. Lucia for department com
mander at the coming state encampment.
Frank Lougee has taken charge of lum-
Der yard in Miller, Nebraska, and will
doubtless make success of it with the ex-
perence he has had, if his health mot the
best) can be retained.
Mrs. Annie Benedict Franklin writes
from Kentucky of the improved health of
her husband, and of the prospect of an early
return TO their California home, where they
have vineyard started.
REV GEORGE o. WEBSTER, the Baptist
pastor, is to be ordained tomorrow after
noon and evening. The sermon will be de-
livered by Rev. George L. Raymond of
Boston, the former pastor.
During the freshet of last week the water
is said to have reached the highest mark
known since 1867, here. In two of the gran
lite sheds work had to be suspended one day,
because OF the entrance of water.
Mrs. circuit Abbott was called to Berlin,
week before last, by the death of her niece,
daughter of the late Campbell Martin.
Last week Mrs. Abbott's only remaining
sister, Mrs. Campbell Martin, was buried.
Bert Bailey, who has been canvassing
for Dr. Scion Briggs in New York city, for
some months past, has returned to work at
canvassing in Maine for Boston firm.
He sells the Century Company's Dictionary
and the Peoples Cyclopedia.
Will o. Martin, son of Ophir S. Martin,
had contemplated somewhat going into
business for himself in Boston, but his price
having been promptly accepted by Hough-
ton a. Dutton, he enters upon second year
as head of one of their departments
George Edwards, hrst-class stone-cutter
in the employ of John Duffus, has bar
gained for the Reuel Covell place, and upon
a contamination of the trade James and
William Bissett will occupy the Mrs. X. p.
Martin house, to be vacated by Mr.. Edwards.
Our old townsman, Philo T. Walker, son
of the late Orrin Walker, died recently at
his home in Danville. He had been ill with
the grip, but was better, and went out one
day to do some chores at his barn. In less
than twenty-four hours afterward he died.
He was some sixty-tive years of age He
left a wife and grandson.
Ed. Adams, whose leg was broken some
weeks ago, had so far recovered as to get
about some on crutches, when one day last
week his dog puahed a CrutCh from under