The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-08-09

have returned from a three months stay in
Manchester. -" Aunt Sarah" Chase is
very i'll with grip and slow typhoid fever.
- DR.. and Mrs. Hutchinson came home
on Saturday. - Mrs l.. N. Frost is in i'll
health -" Uncle Hiram " Clark re-
turned to Monroe, N. H., last week Tues
day. - w. II. Abbott of Boston, for.
mer partner of A. 9. Norwood, visited
him last week 60 Mrs. M. Nichols and
two children are visiting at e. w. Arthur's.
West Topsham.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Watson and daughter
Ella of Woodbury. have been visiting at DR..
Watson's for few days. - Carl Foss OF
Plainfield has been visiting in town for a
few days. - Windsor Corliss and family
have been visiting at G. X Church's, Mrs.
Corliss' parents, for short time. -
Mrs. A. A. Pearsons of Barre is stopping
with her mother, Mrs. @. j. Bowen, a few
days. - Gilman Bagley and help from
this place are at the muster at Rutland,
feeding few of the weary soldiers. -
Mrs. G. G. Payne, who has been at work at
Montpelier for few weeks, is at home for
short stay. - The Green Mountain
creamery is making over one hundred
pounds Of butter per day at present. -
Loren Williams was unexpectedly called to
Montpelier last week. 60 Mrs. l.. NJ.
Haywood has returned from New York,
where she has been treated for cancer.
WAITS h1Ver.
Many OF the farmers have finished haying
and report an average crop.
Several from this place attended the
teachers examination at Bradford last
week.
Clayton Emery of Manchester arrived at
Harry Emery's on Saturday. Mrs.
John Chynoweth of st. Adams is visiting
at s. F. Locke's. - Mrs. o. A. Dodge
and son are visiting Mrs. Dodges sister,
Mrs. Hubbard, at South Royalton. -
Mrs. H. G. Richardson is visiting in South
Royaton. - Mrs. o. Gale of Boston is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. j. P. Richard
son. - e. II. Davis is spending few
days in Georgia, Vt. - Mabel Hunton
and niece of Fall River Mass, are spend
ing their vacation at O.. s. Hodges. -
Lois Hilary has gone to her home in Wind
sor. - Mrs. j. T. Carter and daughter
Kitty are in Barre visiting friends. -
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Downing and little son
are spending few days at o. V. Down
ing's. - S. f. Locke, who was injured
is improving slowly. - e. N. Philbrick
is attending the muster at Rutland this
week. - Lillian Dolloph of Boston is
the guest of ii. w. Dolloph, her uncle.
- G. NJ. Seaver of Washington has
been IN town the past week canvassing for
the Watchman Publishing Company.
East Corinth.
Mrs. Marshall of Boston is boarding at E.
p. Sawyer's.
A valuable COW owned by E. r. Taplin
died recently.
A large number attended the horse trot
on the fair ground on Saturday.
An infant child of L. X. Richardson died
last Tuesday of cholera infantum.
A fine horse belonging to S. T. Thomp.
sons span died last Friday of the distemper
. 81, T., a..
finished haying and report more than an
average crop.
The Congregational society has repaired
and cleaned the church during the absence
of Rev. E. w. Hatch, and has purchased a
carpet of George & Holland.
George G. Taplin, the photographer, re-
turned from Planfield last Friday, where
he has been taking pictures. He reports a
good run of business, even If times are hard.
He will attend the muster at Rutland this
| week.
The posters are out for the annual fair of
the Waits River Valley Agricultural So
cety, which is to be held on the old muster
grounds at East Corinth, September 3, G
and I. The premium list and purses are
larger than ever before, and, judging from
the many attractions set forth in the man.
moth posters, the management is making
every effort to eclipse all former records.
Music for the three days will be furnished
by the Bradford cornet band. Hon.
| Henry NJ. Arms, president of the Vermont
Dairyman's Association, will deliver the
address Wednesday, September 6 There
| will be a balloon ascension on Thursday, and
races each day, with purses aggregating
over $500. With favorable weather, the
success of the fair is assured.
Fred II. Burton, who has been spending
the summer at Charles Pages, returned to
Boston last Monday. - Mrs. Il. G.
JENNIE of Lowell, Mass, is in town visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. George.
- S. Thompson is painting the hotel.
- DR.. Jenne of Lowell, Mass a former
resident of this place, is visiting his father
and two lady friends are visiting at e. p.
| Sawyer's.
Washington.
| State v. @. o. Calef, for assault upon
| Frank Yeartaw, is soon to be tried.
The Ladies' Mite Society meets with Mrs
I. f. s. Thurber this afternoon and evening
| G. A. Johnson moves his grocery and
| feed store this week into the old familiar
corner, in SINNERS block.
Messrs. Huntington & Clough have
| placed very handsome urn, made of Wash
| ington marble, on exhibition in DR.. War
ner's front yard and the same is attracting
much attention and admiration. 1t was
turned and polished at East Barre, and dis
| plays the varied beauties of this new dis
| covery in stone with fine effect, convincing
all who examine it that it is finely adapted
| for monumental and mantel work as well
as for building purposes.
Washington is represented in the Yer
mont exhibit of Morgan horses at the
| Worlds Fair by the twU.year-old stallion
Golden s., owned by Daniel P. Smith OF
this village. The colt left in the exhibit
car Monday via st. Johnsbury. He is re.
garded by expert authorities who have seen
him to be the handsomest two year-old in
the state, and was selected for the Vermont
exhibit as being the best Of that age. His
pedigree is, in brief: Golden, 2.2Sa; first
dam Birdie by Q o. Calef horse, he by Nc.
Allister Draco; second dam by Blue Jacket
Golden S. is chestnut in color, perfectly
proportioned, with great promise of speed
and for the past two months has been under
the care and training of Nelson Downing,
an experienced horse trainer, to whom
much credit Is due for the development OF
the fine points in this promising stallion.
Don s. Brown is visiting his grandparents
in Gilmore. - Mrs. l.. G. Bowles, with
her two children visited her father, Nelson
Prescott of East Orange, several days last