The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-13
Lillian Brown and Nellie Williams Tbw,po.
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barre at present: Several firms shut down
iast saturday night and Others are prepar-
| ing 10 90 so next Saturday Some OF the
larger firms, among them e. l.. Smith h
| Co., Will start up the second week in Jan
| uary but from now till after the HOLIDAYS
but little work will be done Several of
m ,lnt, who employ large number
next season, aud it is hoped the present de-
preston will be only temporary.
Granite City Court of Foresters dedicatad
lts new hall in Worthen block last Wednes
day evening, at which time an ENJOYABLE
programme was rendered which included
brlef address by Chief Ranger w, j Ross.
VINO presided; singing by the choir under
the direction of James Grant; songs bv
James Anderson, Duncan Johnston. 8.
lesson and Mrs. Mackerracher; and his
Tory OF secret societies by DR.. G. b. Nichols.
Nearly 80 members of the order and in
ylted guests were present. The lady
friends OF the court provided dainty lunch,
10 Whlch ample justice was done
Inc ladies' ait and loan exhibition at the
Universalist church, which closed on Tues
day evening, was delightful and success
iul affair. The attendance was gratifyinply
large throughout the eight evenings of the
exhibition, and included large delegation
| from Montpelier last Thursday evening.
The exhibit included souvenirs of the
W0rlu falr, valuable oil paintings, relics
and exhibits from nearly every country on
the globe in fact, bewldering and credit
able display that it would be next to limos
sible to enumerate The ladies' who had
the matter in charge worked most indus
| triously in its preparation, and richly de-
served the success they achieved.
John Ingram is reported quite low with
consumption - Fred Bruce and wife
are visiting friends in the southern part of
the state. - Ezra j. Sowden has re-
sumed his old place as bookkeeper for w.
H. Eastman. - Mrs A. G. Wheelock
| and 1auubtar Earria no
Colo, for the winter. - Fl. p Kendrick
returned from Boston last Saturday. -
Mrs. q. ID. Carpenter is quite i'll with the
grip - Miss Maud Bush expects to
spend the winter in Tennessee. -E. A.
Warden returned to his home in Dansville,
n. Y, last Wednesday. - Charles
Bradford was confined to the house last
week with an attack of the grip -
Thomas Smollett sailed for Scotland last
Saturday, expecting to be absent until Feb
ruary /.
West Berlin.
Mark Glines and Harvey Johnston are
attending school on Seminary Hill.
1t Is expected that there will be the usual
Christmas exercises at the Methodist church.
Rev. w. B. Worthing was called to b.
kersfeld last week by the sickness and
death OF his mother.
Wilbur Brown has large force of men
and teams at work in the woods gathering
UiiO annual oupply VI Tugs lOT HIS HILLS.
William Brown, who has for several
months past been in the employ of e. w.
Colby, was severely kicked by horse last
week,
Bethel.
A. l.. Stearns has in keeping at his stable
noble Percheron stallion belonging to New
York parties.
There was dance at the Wilson House
last, Wednesday evening, which was at
tended by about twenty-five couples.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Congrega-
tional church give the annual chicken-pie
supper in the dining rooms this evening
Burton Benedict and Lucy E. Perham
were married December by Rev. V. H.
Blackman at the Congregational parsonage.
A large amount of personal property be-
longing to the estate of the late Edwin
Morse was sold at auction last week and
brought very good prices.
;, A number of Bethel young people went to
Royalton, Tuesday evening OF last week, to
spend the evening with Miss Bessie Lyman,
1t being her eighteenth birthday.
Bethel Dramatic Club is to play some time
in February the drama "Bound by an OATH"
by the same author that wrote Forced to
the War" IL is said to be very heavy"
play.
There was an alarm OF fire given last
wednesday, fire catching in j. II. Waldo's
house from an over-heated chimney, 1t was
quickly put out without the aid Of the fire
department
The village schools began on Monday
with the old board of teachers, with the ex-
ception of the intermediate department, in
which Mrs. Carrie Coleman of VEST Ran
dolph takes the place of Miss Kate Kimball.
Mrs. Sophronia Pember, widow of the
late Lucian Chadwick, died last week at
the home of her brother, George FL. Pember,
in Randolph where she has made her home
since the death of her husband, at the age
of sixty-two years.
School in district No. s opened December
with seven scholars. Those who were
not absent one half day during the fall
term were Kate Dartt, Eula Washburn,
Clara and Eddie Bachelor, Thressie and
Walter Flint, Walter Preston, Walter
Lewis and Carl Spencer.
The dedicatory exercises of the new par
Tors at the Universalist church were largely
attended last Thursday evening After the
supper, Rev S. A. Parker, in behalf of Mrs.
M. K. Harrington, presented to the society
their tinely-appointed, convenient and
commodious new parlors The pastor, Rev.
Walter Dole, accepted the gift in behalf of
the society. 1t was voted to rename the
rooms, in honor of the philosophical
donor, " Harrington Parlors." IL was orig
inally named Murray Hall " after John
Murray, one of the founders of Univers-
alism.
Mrs. Catherine CallSta FIERCE died at her
home in Salem, Mass. of pneumonia, Mon
day of last week, aged eighty-four years.
Mrs. Pierce was born on Christian Hill,
few rods southerly of the house now occu-
pied by A. o. Sanders, and she was the
daughter of ARENAS Ainsworth, who was
quite prominent in the early history of the
town. In company with William Sawyer,
Mr.. Ainsworth erected the old White
River House" which formerly stood in
Bethel village where Arnold's block now
stands. For many years Mrs. Pierce has
made her home in Bethel during the sum-
mer, and she leaves many friends in Bethel
who will sincerely mourn her death.
Postmaster G. IL. Upper and +. l.. Mars
tin are in Boston this week. - Mrs. L.. H.
Edison returned last Saturday from an ex-
tended visit with her daughter, Mrs. Rood,
at South Woodstock. - John Wallace
of Rutland spent Sunday with his father,
G.. j. Wallace. - Mabel Dyke closed
term of school in Rochester last Friday,
spent Sunday with her parents in town, and
on Monday began a term in Morgan's dis
trct in Barnard. - May Savage is
teaching school in Royalton in the button
district. - Mrs. A. G. Lyman of Royal
ton was in town on SATURDAY. ID M