The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06

ing service in consequence OF the pastor s
absence. Sunday-school and Christian En-
deavor services as usual also the mid week
prayer-meeting.
The violent rain storm OF last week Tues
day did considerable damage to roads,
bridges and growing crops hereabouts. The
| Central Vermont railroad suffered severely
| by wash. outs, two OF which blocked all
trains for several hours. The trestle work
| which supports two of the iron spans OF the
long bridge north of the village was
washed away.
good attendance. Mr.. f. A. Luce from
Maine takes Mr.. Avery's place as principal,
| and Miss Miriam Kmbal takes the place
left vacant w Miss Hancock. Miss Wiswell
of Cabot ia IS charge Of the smaller chill
| dren in tn vestry of the old Methodist
| church, anu Miss Fuller takes the primary
department at the school-house.
The next anniversary of the Vermont
| Bible Society will be held at Waterbury,
| Wednesday evening, October Is. Instead
of the usual address, papers and short adj
dresses are expected from the following
persons: Miss Elizabeth Colley, Waterbury
Center; Rev. j. o. Sherburne Cabot Rev
| G. Il. Seymour, Bennington Hon. ID. M
| Camp, Newport, and Ex-Governor William
p. Dillingham;, Waterbury. The meeting
promises to be of unusual interest
A. N. Anterior died suddenly in the
evening of September 4, at the age Of
| seventy-seven years. He had been in his
usual health and during the day had been
at work in his garden. Toward night he
began to suffer from pain in his chest, which
seemed to yield to treatment, but presently
the end came, and before his wife could
summon assistance he had passed away.
Mr.. Atherton came from Greenfield, Mass,
in early youth his father settling on the
Henry Farrar farm in Duxbury. In 1867 he
moved from his Duxbury place to his late
residence in this village. He was the last
| of ten children, seven sons andlthree daugh-
tiers. He was twice married. His first
wife, Mary Henry Anterior, died in 1880.
| His second wife, Mrs Mary Griffin, son,
Frank II. Atherton, and a daughter, Mrs.
Nettie j. Coffrin of Bristol, Conn, children
by the first marriage, survive him. Mr..
Anterior had been frequently honored with
public office, and possessed the esteem and
confidence of his fellow citizens. He had a
genial nature, merry humor, and was be-
loved as well as respected. Another of the
rapidly disappearing old guard has gone
over to the majority.
Waterbury Center.
School will open at the Green Mountain
Seminary on Tuesday, September 9.
Myra Town. Lena Luce and Otte and Lea
Newcomb, who have been spending the
summer at Woodstock Inn, returned last
Saturday.
MT. anu MrS. Danlel f1OpklnS, MT. ana
Mrs. Chauncey Lyon, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Stearns left for Chicago last
| Wednesday.
Mary and Lucia Smith returned last
week. having spent two weeks at the
Worlds Fair. Mary Smith is to leave soon
for Wellesley College.
Williamstown.
Henry Lazelle has CARED two carloads of
potatoes.
J. X. Lynde's horse took prize of $40 to
$50 in the recent fair at Waitsfeld.
Frank Godfrey fell from staging seven
feet to the ground, and sprained his wrist.
Jason johnson raises such potatoes that
thirty-four make a bushel. Who beats it?
Miss Bernice Sbley is to take Mrs. Stella
Martin Calls place in j. X. Lynde's store.
Thomas Saunders Of Haverhill, Mass,
| was in town last Wednesday en- route for
the White Mountains
A daughter was born to George and Mrs.
Ethel Perrin Edison last Saturday-weight
six and one-half pounds.
Mrs. Julia Bridgman and daughter, Mrs.
Nellie Campbell of Brooklyn, N. Y, are
visiting at Joseph Gregorys.
Frank Benedict and sister Ethel are pu-
pills at Goddard Seminary, Barre. His sis
ter is to take a years course.
The fall term of our schools began last
| Monday. The teachers of the village
schools are the same as in the summer.
We are told that one OF our farmers, on
| the southern line of the town. has sold his
crop of new hay for ten dollars ton at the
barn.
| Warren Grearson, stone-cutter, has just
| had piece of steel removed from his arm
that had laid him aside from work for sew
eral weeks.
Mrs. James Burnham, always a sufferer
from hay fever in the season of it, has at
last found a medicine that cures, for the
time at least.
Mrs. Stella Martin Call, who has filed her
place in j. X. Lynde's store so pleasantly
| in the year past, is about to take upon her
self the duties OF housekeeping in her new
home.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs Ebert Jackson
celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of their
marriage on Thursday evening last. Mr..
Jackson continues, we are sorry to say, in
very poor health.
Our Ladies' Relief Corps was invited by
the corps in Brookfeld to a meeting and
tea, on Saturday afternoon last 1t was a
| very pleasant reception that our ladies got
as of course might be expected from the
Brookfield ladies'
Thomas Spooner has "boss" COW, five
years old, of Jersey and Ayrshire blood
Mr.. Spooner has sold from her $125 worth
| OF milk since November OF last year, his
family of some eight persons having been
supplied meantime.
Wilbur f. Adams, after quite a long time
at surveying on the Pacific coast, embarked
in the grocery business last winter in Tacoma
Washington. Recently he fell breaking an
arm and sustaining injury to the back, sc
that at present he is confined to the bed
The teachers for the fall term of school in
the Ophir S. Martin and the David Gale
districts will be the same as last season
Miss Edna Robbins of Chelsea will teach in
the Orville H. Briggs district. Two daugh.
ters of Cassius Peck of Brookteld are to be
among our teachers.
"Hal " Cheney would seem to be in luck
Having read that a certain United States
copper coin of 1887, bearing the motto
Mind your business" is worth $50, he
set about examining some old coins in his
possession, and found one of these identi,
cal 1857 coins among them.
recent visitor for the first time to ouI
place, whose trips have extended from
Maine to Georgia, and to southern Cali
fornia, stated that in his tours he had
never before seen anything that pleased
him like certain scenery found here. To our
query of last week, Why do we not have
mora summar visitors Our plpcao Ros.