The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

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At the entertainment given by the ladies
| connected with the Social Circle, Thursday
evening of last week. the attendance was
good and the drama was well rendered.
MorrisvilIe.
The outside work of the new hotel is com
peted.
White & Waite of the Morrisville bakery
have dissolved partnership.
j. p. Cobb, Jr., leaves Cowles music rooms
and enters the employ of |. A. White
The annual meeting of the Congrega-
tional society was held on Monday evening,
Augustus Kingsley and Alvin Lewis were
buried-th former Saturday and the latter
Sunday.
The week of prayer was concluded by
union service in the Congregational church,
Sunday evening.
The fifty-ffth anniversary of the marriage
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Clement was cele-
brated on Saturday.
II. c. Boardman was caught between two
falling piles of lumber, on Friday, and re-
ceived severe injuries.
The interior work on the new building
for the Union Savings Bank and Trust Com
pany is nearly completed
Monday morning Rev Mr.. Douglass
announced that he had ofliciated at nine
funerals since Christmas day.
Rev. Dr. ReXfOrd Of Is )StOn leCtnred in
! the course on Tuesday evening. His sub
ject was, Getting what belongs to us"
Rev. DIR. William A Robinson, a native of
this town, for twenty years pastor at
Homer, New York, has just accepted a call
to the First Congregational church of
Middleton New York.
Middlesex.
G. f. Newhall has had a mild attack of
| diphtheria, and "A relapse is reported. -
Mrs. A. j. Cameron is very low, and doubts
are entertained of her recovery. 60 The
mother of Mrs. Bingham, on the East hill,
died Sunday. - Portus Miles is very
| low with pneumonia.
Mortified.
The spring term of the University opened
| Thursday, and two ne, students entered.
L. E. Thompson has received a prelim-
| mary appointment to the railway postal
service, but has not yet been assigned to
any route
John Wiley died at his home on Water
street, Friday morning, of pneumonia. Flu
neral services were held at the house Mon
| day afternoon. He was a carpenter by
trade, had lived in town many years,
and was highly esteemed. His age was
about seventy.
Rev. K. L. Walbridge, the state evange-
list, preached at the Congregational church,
| sunday, duu VIII remain mere during the
| week. Union meetings of the COngrega-
tonal ard Methodist churches will be held
every evening hut Saturday and on the af-
ternoons from Tuesday to Friday inclusive.
H. S. Thresher went to Bridgeport, Conn,
last week, to get his little daughter. -
Rev. w. S. Hazen attended funeral at
Worcester, Sunday. - Miss Fannie
Brown has gone to st. Johnsbury to spend
few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Adams.
- Mrs. j. f. Greaney returned to Bos-
ton, Saturday. - F. I. Austin from
Brockton, Mass.is at home. - Professor
Cole of the University spent the holiday va
| cation at his home in New York, and his
| wife returned with him last week.
East Orange
Frank Lamb has returned from Bradford,
where he has been at work for several
months.
Dea e. A. Davis is in a critical condition,
the result of catching cold in blister on
| one of his hands.
Mrs. H. H. Colby is at Bellows Falls, car
ing for Miss Kate Dearborn, her aunt, who
is dangerously ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilman Eastman were
called to Vershire, last week, on account
of the illness of Mr. Eastman's sister, Mrs.
Henry Morse, and her children.
Rev. G. E. Davis is i'll with the prevail
ing epidemic and was unable to preach on
home from Dartmouth, supplied his place
in the morning, and Rev. r. L. Nanton of
Williamstown preached in the evening.
Plainfield.
Mrs. Laura M. Batchelder, wife of l.. c.
Batcheder died December %, 1891, of can
Ger, aged fifty-eight years. Mrs. Batchel-
der was born in Calais, and was the oldest
of seven daughters, five of whom survive
| her. Her first marriage was with the late
| nf EnGt aIt
| About a year and half ago she married
him who now so deeply mourns her death.
She was a woman of rare excellencies of
character, which won for her the respect of
all who formed her acquaintance. AS a
| daughter she was dutiful, as sister con-
siderate and loving, as wife faithful, as a
friend trustworthy, and as a Christian in
telligent and devoted. In early life she
made profession of religion and united
with the Methodist church, of which she
ever remained worthy member until
transferred to the church above.
North Pomfret.
r. Lamountain recently sold a span
oxen for $95.
Chauncey Perry and his sister. both very
aged, died the same day, last week.
The funeral of Mrs. Jonathan Keith was
held last Sunday at r. w. Newton's.
A few from this town are planning to at.
Six persons united with the church here
last Sunday. The people are pleased to
learn that the pastor, Mr.. Smith, is to re-
main, preaching here and at West Hartford
Roxbury.
A child of Patrick O'Grady died of diph.
liberia Saturday night.
There will be no singing-school this week
the community being chiefly engaged in
less enjoyable matters.
Misses Lizzie and Myra Butterheld at
tended the graduating exercises at Ran
dolph Normal School, last week.
q. S. Stanton has been appointed admin
istrator, and Q. A. Tracy and William Or
cut, commissioners, on the s. K. Spalding
estate,
The Congregational church is to be sup
piled by Rev. David Findlay of St. Adams,
next Sunday. 1t is hoped that he will re-
main during Mr. Hyde's absence.
Mrs Harry Cameron, who has been suf-
fering from chronic rheumatism for several
years, died last Friday at the house OF
Monroe Erskine. She is to be taken to her
native place, Hartford, for burial,