The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20
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took possession The probabilities are that
she will stay.
The front OF the millinery store of Miss
Rowell and the store of o. Corwin il re-
ceiying fresh coat Of paint. Colonel II.
e. Parker Is also rejuvenatng his house by
the judicious use of the brush.
w. L. S. Celley returned last Wednesdav
from brief visit to Boston. He Describes
a pleasant interview with his old friend.
Rev Charles Parkhurst, D.D., editor Of
lions Herald and former pastor of Grace
church.
Mr.. d. S. Bottsford and wife of Boston
have been visiting in town for few days.
Bradford was Mrs Bottsford's native town.
Mr.. Bottsford is well known as the presi.
dent OF the Massachusetts Sunday Protect
i've League.
Mrs. Il. =. Elmer of Lower Cabot will
speak on Home Missions at Grace church
next Sunday evening. Mrs. Elmer spent
last winter in an Industrial Home in Sa-
vannah, Ga, and will speak especially re-
garding work among the colored people.
Isn't 1t about time that the matter of
street lighting received a little attention?
To put the matter mildly, the present made
quate system is reproach to a town
which boasts so many modern improve
ments. Why don't somebody hurry it mn?
The ladies of Grace church will hold a
harvest sale and supper in their parlors
September q, Those who cannot attend
the Worlds Fair will wish to see this. Any
who have been to the White City can re-
vive pleasant memories by a peep at this
show.
David Blakely arrived last Wednesday
and stayed over Sunday II is about his
first visit to Bradford this season. He has
been confined very closely in Chicago,
where he is manager of Souza's Band at the
great fair. His family will remain here
several weeks longer at their palatial resi-
dence.
Cyrus Stearns has in his possession a
copy of the Boston Gazette, printed in 1855.
A paper published twenty years before the
battle of Lexington, which describes the
capture OF prisoners by the English in the
French and Indian war then in progress,
and has for locals the interesting fnfor-
nation of the burning out of chimney
in the east end of the town" is something
of a curiosity in this generation.
Flattering things are said of the work o,
the village graded school. Professor 1Iessf
the accomplished principal, is an alumnus
of Harvard University; Miss Susie l..
Starr was a student at Vermont Methodist
Seminary and Boston University; Miss
Nellie Harry graduated from Randolph
Normal School. Miss Fanny Martin of
Bradford and Miss Richmond of Newport
are very popular with the children in the
brick school.house
Fred W. Cummings is back in his old
quarters AZ bdkeT boston ClOlHlnB mousse,
- Mrs. Warren of Manchester. n. H.,
has come to live with her brother, Cyrus
Stearns. - George Low of Brooklyn is
visiting his sisters at the Low mansion.
- Mrs. w. Il. Stevens is repairing the
l. of her house. - Hattie Cummings is
quite i'll. - Mamie ROBBIE is visiting
friends in st. Johnsbury. - Charles
Wilson, who has been seriously i'll for
several weeks, is thought to be improving
- Dr. and Mrs. l.. w. Hanson are WIS.,
iting family friends in Topsham and Will
Jamestown. - Richard Barrett, the but
ter-maller at the creamery, is Illustrating
with a new bicycle. - Harry Stevens is
building new piazza and bay window on
his residence on South Main street -
Arad jenkins has his new barn nearly COM
pleted. - A new water-wheel has been
placed in Captain Chubb's mill, 60 Mrs.
George Tebbitts of Cabot is visiting her
father, Jesse Merrill. - Mrs. George
Green and her daughter Abbe start this
week for Cabot, where they will work for
Mrs. John Tebbitts.
Brookfeld
Miss Eva Newell is teaching in District
No. II this fall.
The last of the boarders at William c.
Clark's took their departure last week
Will Boswell and Mrs. Field, both of this
town, were married last Wednesday ar
East Randolph
Miss Myrtle Holmes is slowly improving
under the treatment of DR.. Frost dean of
the medical faculty of Dartmouth College.
Mrs Vernon Barnes has returned from
Burlington where she has been for treat
ment She received but little encourage
ment from physicians there.
DR.. F. j. Partridge of Uxbridge, Mass,
who stopped in town for few days on his
way to Chicago, was called to attend the
| funeral of his aunt, Mrs. Joel Whitney, last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Joel A. Whitney died very suddenly
Sunday evening, September 10, of heart
disease, after short illness. Funeral SER
vices were held from her late home on
Tuesday, and the interment was at Brain
tree. Her husband, two sons and one
daughter, survive her.
Miss Addie l.. Smith of Mortified and
w. Fl. Sprague of the East Village were
married at the home of the latter, Thursday
September IA, by Rev. William S. Hazen,
DID, of Northfeld. Those from out of
town who attended the wedding, were Mrs.
A. B. Smith, Mrs. M. S. Gilchrist, Miss
Minnie Smith, Henry Smith and wife and
Rev. William S. Hazen of Mortified; Mrs.
Olin w. Chase of st. Johnsbury; Mr., and
Mrs. George A. Tilden and son of Roxbury
Miss Hattie A. Smith of New Bedford,
Mass. Mr.. and Mrs. S. Burt Adams of
Boston, Mass Mr.. and Mrs. Sprague We're
the recipients of numerous and valuable
Mrs All Cram is sick. - Mrs. Mar
shall Freeman is very low. - Eula Nc
Whorter of Barre is spending a few weeks
with her grandmother, Mrs. ID. A. Morse.
- Ed. Stowe and family have returned
from Ferrisburg. - Mrs. Mary (Green)
Nye spent few days in town last week.
- Eunice Buxton of East Montpelier
! spent Sunday in town. - Tenney II.
Wheatley and Frank Wilcox left on Mon
day, September II, for the Worlds Fair.
- Burt" Hovey and lady of Lynn,
Mass, are visiting Mrs. Albert Hixson,
grandmother of Mr.. Hovey. - Mrs.
Vernon Flanders visited her brother, L. H
Ordway, Thursday, September Il. -
"Abe" Benjamin is working for Clarence
Bannister, taking down barn. - Mrs
g. l. Ford of Braintree visited Mrs. j. g
Holmes, Thursday, September II, -
Mrs. Noah Downes is in very poor health.
- Mrs. Freeman Crafts of Wheatley
Mass, is visiting III town. g. Jennie
Fullam has returned home from Natick,
Mass where she has been spending the
summer. - Marcia Peck has new
piano of the Hallet & Cumston manufac-
ture.
Cabot.