The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-26

WilIiamstown.
Liberty Jeffords has had severe attack
OF grip OF late.
A son was born last week to Mr.. and Mrs.
Waverly Murray.
Our band gave an openair entertainment
on Friday evening of last week.
Last year o. A. Blanchard began to use
theIroad-machine on the 2Sih Of April.
A little son of Thomas Spooner fell, one
day last week, and nearly bit his tongue in
two.
Our schools are to begin next week, but
at this writing the names Of the teachers
are kept secret.
Merrill, son OF George and Mrs. Julia
Beckett, Martin is yet very feeble at his
home in Washington, ID. G.
Mrs. George W. Blanchard of Barre is
staying in George w. Lynde's family while
Mrs. Lynde is in the West.
Stone-cutters Robbie Williams and Arthur
Buckley Jones left last week for work else
where-the former in East Barre.
1t is estimated that taxes must likely be
| levied here this year at the rate OF some
| three hundred cents on the dollar.
Last week was good one for maple
sugar making. Snow was said to have
been two and three feet deep in the woods
in various parts of the town
| Mr.. and Mrs. George Beckett are visiting
the family of their son, Charles II. Be ,kett,
! in New York city. Davie Gale is Ii charge
OF the town clerks Office in Mr.. Beckett's
absence.
We are told that Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ.
Beckett will erect fine new house, with the
modern improvements, right away, close by
| ION the south) their present residence the
old Alvah Simons house.
The owner of the place adjoining the site
for the new school building, on the north,
offers the Board of Education bonus for
this site, NOT fancyiug the idea of such
nearness to the building.
Our young townsman, Will o. Martin, has
been making an extended business tour in
| the West and South but writes under re-
cent date that New England is good
enough for him to live in, when he settles
| down"
brother of Mrs. James Murphy, who
returned here last week from Canada, re-
| ports her case as one of paralysis, and
| 1T would seem that she is i'll indeed
| She had been longtime sufferer from
| heart trouble.
Mr.. and Mrs. James X. Lynde, Mrs.
Harry S. Cheney and Mrs. George w. Lynde
leave this week for the Worlds Fair, and
visits with family friends in Illinois, Iowa
and Minnesota Most of the party will re-
| turn in three weeks
The Glee and Banjo Club of the Meth odist
| Seminary, Montpelier, will give concert
at the town hall here on Wednesday even
ing OF next week, May 3, under the auspices
OF our Christian Endeavor Society. Adj
mission twenty-five and thirty-fve cents
A full house is desired.
Orville II. Briggs has recently visited his
brother, DIR. j. g. Briggs Of Somervile,
Mass. He there met his brothers, Doctors
Scion and Charles Briggs of New York. A
| reunion of the six brOJhers-sons of the late
Mr.. j. Wright Briggs-is planned to take
| N in INN
A son Uhe seventh child) was recently
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hayward.
1t is pleasure to note in our midst, in these
days of physical, and perhaps moral, de-
generacy an "old fashioned family of
children, and this family is in the direct
line of the Martin stock, which has been
some of the most prolific and substantial
! in the history of our place
Townsman Tracy L. Jeifords, now of Wash
ington, ID. c., is to deliver the Decoration
day address here. We are told, by the way,
that Mr.. Jeffords' legal ability has just been
recognized by District of Columbia ap-
| pointment, worth several thousand dollars
! per annum. 1t may not be amiss to say,
just here, for the encouragement of some
| young men who may have come to a pain
full conclusion that they are too old to get
an education, that Mr.. Jeffords was some
twenty-eight or thirty years old we believe,
when he graduated from the University OF
| Vermont.
West Berlin.
b. b. Bailey replenished the small streams
here with 1900 young trout last week
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ryan celebrated
the tenth anniversary Of their wedding on
April 10. Twenty dollars in money and
several other presents were received.
Aaron Rowell thinks he has pretty good
COW. The amount of butter made in thir-
| teen days was twenty pounds, besides using
the usual amount Of milk and cream in the
| family.
There was very pleasant gathering last
week Tuesday at the residence of c. A.
Stickney on the occasion OF the fiftieth an
niversary OF the marriage of Mr.. and MIS-.
| Samuel Gleason, parents OF Mrs Stickney
Over fifty friends and relatives were present
to greet the bride and groom A prominent
feature OF the Widespread dinner table was
mammoth wedding cake, lavishly trimmed
with gold and silver coin. In the evening
remarks were made by Rev. w. B. Worth
| Ing, congratulating Mr.. and Mrs. Gleason
ON having successfully reached the golden
port in the matrimonial voyage. Poems
written in commemoraton of the event were
read by Miss Mary Pollard and Mr.. ID. l..
Sanders. Among the tributes were a pair of
gold-lned spoons, dozen silver knives and
SAC in cash. 1t was late when the party broke
up, wishing the aged couple many more
years OF happiness and prosperity.
East Montpelier.
Mrs. j. M. Willard is quite ill.
Con. Sployd and Nelson Jones are about
TO erect new residences.
j. nj. Willard has sold the Morse house to
Alexander Jarvis. Consideration, 81 600.
j. S. Wheelock has 5000 logs nearly
iioated down the river from Marshfield to
| his saw-mill.
Rev. G. S. Nickerson will give lecture
on " r. L. Barnum " at the brick church,
Monday evening, May l.
H. M. Wheeler, last Saturday, drew from
Sodom quarries to the stone sheds a block
OF granite that weighed five tons.
Moretowa.
The listers have their work nearly COM
pleted.
The ground for the new creamery was
broken on Thursday by Messrs. Buckley,
Eddy and Somerville.
Sugaring in this valley is pretty near
thing OF the past Some have made large
amount, while others complain of poor
| year.
Trip, Tenant & Co. have finished saw
ing clapboards at their steam mill over the
mountain and have moved their machine to
their mil in this village, where they have
hve or six thousand feet to saw.
| Mr. Eldridua from, Warran hoo haan IL,