The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-23

teboro "The Way to Build Up the Uni
versalist Church." Rev. Costello Weston
st. Johnsbury. Afternoon, business; SER
mon. Evening, sermon, Rev. A. G: Rogers
DID,, Washington, ID. @. Indications
point to a large attendance, and pleasant
and profitable time is assured.
Mrs. e. o. Thurston and daughter Nina
visited last week at West Randolph. -
Mrs. G. s. Phillips of WATERFOWL. n. Y,
visited Alma Balch, her sister, last week.
- Mrs. Luke Tarbell was at Queen
City Park, Burlington, last week. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Plastrdge are visiting
the Worlds Fair. - Mr.. and Mrs. w.
O. Whitmarsh of Burlington visited in town
last week. - Mrs H. G. Cunningham of
Manchester N. H., visited Mrs. John Cross,
her daughter, last week - Miss Mary
circuit expects to enter Mt. Holyoke Sem
mary, South Hadley, Mass. next month.
- Miss Matte G.. Jones has given up
type.setting at Woodsville, n. H., and has
gone to Northampton, Mass. - Misses
Mile and Ethel Cunningham of Montreal
are visiting Miss Anna McCarty their
cousin. - Miss Sadie Brudenell visited
in Burlington last week. - Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel Dix of Lowell, Mass, visited
last week at Joseph Townson's. - Mr..
and Mrs. Denison Brown visited daughter
in st. Johnsbury last week - W. w.
Jackson and wife of Middlebury visited in
town last week. 80 K. G. Field returned
to Boston last Monday. His family will
remain few days longer. - George
Briggs, with Misses Nellie and Maud, his
sisters, are visiting in Morrisvile. - w.
d. Chandler of st. Adams was in town last
week. - Mrs. G. d. Edgerton visited
last week in Plainfield. - Miss Belle
Gordon returned last week from Clifton
2. q. - Miss Emma Gotta went to her
home in Essex Junction last Friday after a
stay of several months with Mrs. NJ. H.
Graham, her sister - Misses Matte
and Katie johnson returned last Thursday
IRON their western trip. - Mr.. and Mrs.
j. III. Talbot visited in Willamstown last
Monday. - Arthur Morse and son of
s. Gilchrist last week - Martin Cob
leigh and daughter Addie left for Chicago
last evening
WiIliamstown.
Quite number were baptized at the
Methodist church, last Sunday.
Rev. j. N. Perrin will exchange next Sun
day with Rev. Mr.. Baker of Braintree.
Orrin, son of Marcus A. Smith, and stu.
dent of Tufts College, has gone to the
Worlds Fair.
A new and very disagreeable pest is here.
1t is known as the Texas horn fly and is
hard on horned animals.
Jason Martin, son of Erwin II. Martin.
will teach fall term of school in the
Chauncey Lougee district.
A person wishing to hire certain desir-
able house in this village, to be vacated
some months hence, was told that there had
been ten previous applications for it.
John Mari accompanied his fellow stone
cutter, John Moore, last week, to the home
of the latter in st. George, New Brunswick,
where work is said to be more plentiful
than at this place.
The Methodist and Congregational SUN
day-schools will hold a basket picnic next
week Wednesday, on Prospect Hill, near
Rodney Sewers. All who will are cor
daily invited to join them.
When Lucius Edison was twenty-one
years old, physicians said he could not live
great many years, having tendency to
consumption, but he was in his ninety sixth
year when he died last Saturday,
Byron Webster, son of the late S. H. Web
ster, and some years past resident of Oak
land, Cal, was in town last week, accom-
panied by his sister, Mrs. Lewis Flint. The
latter will return to New Jersey to live.
Miss Fanny F. Waldo is making a brave
fight against heart and dropsical trouble.
AS she deserves to be, she finds herself
loaded with the kindnesses of a wide circle
OF friends, all of which she duly appreciates
Mary Odds of Pennsylvania, who not long
ago spent some time here with her aunt,
Mrs. Mehitabel Stebbins, died in Pennsylva-
MIA week before last. She was known here |
as an intelligent and devoted Christian
woman.
Our. citizens are signing petition to
President Smith Of the Central Vermont
railroad to restore the two trains daily that
have been recently taken off the road, and
which the company agreed we should have
when the town bonded for $4,000.
Lucius Edison passed away peacefully
last Saturday afternoon and was buried on
Monday beside family friends in the Gem
etery at Mortified Center He was in his
ninety-sixth year, and his long life was
benediction to the world. A fuller notice
of his life may be given later.
Robert Benham, a merchant of New
Haven, Conn, is in town, accompanied by
his wife and son-in-law, John Greenwood
and his wife. Mrs. Benham has in times
past found here relief from hay fever as
great as at the White Mountains. They are
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Flint in
the quarry district.
DIR. j. C. Briggs family, now of Somer-
Vile, Mass, are to be here this week. -
Arthur, son of Lucius S. Simons, has re-
turned from the West. - The visit of
the family of James S. Abbott, now of st.
Augustine, Florida, has been delayed by
John Gamble plans TO move to New Bruins
wick in the near future. ii. M. Bass,
who is now with his son, Doctor George K.
Bass of South Chicago, finds himself still
The Victim OF rheumatism. - MIS-. LOrd
Burnham Kinsman is suffering from a
broken ankle in Winterset Iowa. -
John Clark sailed for his home in Aberdeen,
Scotland, last week, owing to dizziness in
the granite business here. - Nellie
House has recently had delightful visit in
Burlington as the guest of Mrs. Benedict
Griffin. Willie Edison and Neal Smith,
clerks of j. X. Lynde, started on Monday
for the Chicago Exposition, to be absent two
weeks or more. - Mrs. Doctor Gideon
Dickinson and daughter of Boston arrived
here Saturday evening and are the guests
of Mrs. Anna Hubbard. g. Mrs. M. j.
White of Melrose, Mass, was called here
on Saturday by the illness of her uncle,
Lucius Edison. - Mary Abbott, now of
West Randolph, is visiting friends in town.
Berlin.
Schools in this part of the town COM
mence next Monday, with same teachers as
last term.
Mrs II. A. Thurber, with her sister from
Worcester, Mass, has been visiting friends
in Hyde Park and Craftsbury the past week
Tuesday night, August S, was gentle
mems night" at Eagle grange, and the men
had things their own way After the regu-
lar business the following programme was
rendered; Music; select reading, Plod,
Leon Dodge; song, " Irish'Jubilee," Charlie
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