The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-26

Mr.. Sargent is talking Of going back this
fall. - Mrs. G. NJ. Libbey has returned
from her visit in Lowell, Mass. -
s. j. Renfrew, of Renfrew Brothers, Little
ton, N. H., and family were in town visiting
| last week. - Nellie Hall of Boston Is
visiting friends in town. - A son was
born to Mr., and Mrs. Henry Weber last
Friday. - DIR. Darling OF Hardwck Wis
tied at Alex. Eastman's last week. ii.
B. Nelson is sick. - Charlie McQueen's
shoulder was broken while playing in the
house last Wednesday. - Mrs. Duffy
and daughter of Barre are visiting at Mrs.
Joseph Murphy's. - III. G. Darling has
| received his new safes - Mrs. Morse Of
Cabot is taking care of her daughter, Mrs.
Banfil.
st. Johnsbury.
DR., George r. Albion of Providence r. l.,
is visiting in town.
| Mrs. ii. A. Small of Portland, Me-, is the
guest of Mrs. ID. j. Folsom, her sister.
| Mrs. A. l.. Bailey is recovering from the
| serious illness with which she has been
| Frustrated for several weeks.
T.. f. Brown and wife were called to
South Reading this week to attend the
| funeral of Mrs. Sarah NJ. Robinson, mother
| of Mrs. Brown.
Rev. b. Fay Mills, well known in st.
Johnsbury, has recently been honored with
the degree of DID. by the trustees of Iowa
| College. He has declined the honor, pre-
ferring. as he courteousy writes the presi-
dent of the college, " to remain plain min
lister Of Christ till the end of my pilgrim
| age"
Among those who are erecting fine resi-
dences in st. Johnsbury this season are
| Lyman p. Wood on Highland street, John
Belanger on Boynton Avenue, Frank
Weeks on Mount Pleasant street, James
| Wiley near the head of the Plain G. II.
| Goss on Mountain Avenue, and j. w.
| Thomson on Portland street
At the meeting of the stockholders in St.
Johnsbury of the late Northwestern Guar
anty Loan Company of Minneapolis, held
| last Wednesday afternoon at the st. Johns
bury House, G. A. Prouty of Newport, who
| has recently returned from that city, was
present and spoke of the company's action,
| telling some interesting inside facts regard
| ing the failure. A committee, composed of
G. A. Prouty, L. Bart Cross of Montpelier,
S. e. Royce of st. Adams aud w. p Smith
OF st. Johnsbury, was appointed to watch
the matter in future for the interest of the
| stockholders.
Oscar A. Denison of Oakland, Cal, is the
guest of Major n. p. Bowman. - Mr..
and Mrs. E. F. Gaskill are sojourning at
Weirs, N. A. II. Mcleod and
St. Lawrence river. - Reuben Nichols
of Lyndon, formerly of st. Johnsbury, died
last Friday of heart trouble. - Mrs. r.
p. Kidder died last Saturday morning
- David Jenkins, an old resident of
st. Johnsbury, died last Wednesday at the
Center.
West Topsham.
A few from this place are to visit Mont
pelier and Barnum's show to-day.
One of Alvah F. Davis hired men from
| Derby got tired of the scenery in this sec
ton of the country, and "folded his tent
nd silently stole away" one day last week.
The Green Mountain creamery started
making butter last Monday, with brilliant
outlook. There is no better building in the
state. Main building, thirty by forty-two
| feet, with shed-room twenty by twenty feet
A large icehouse and storage rooms are to
be built soon. The creamery is situated so
as to command the milk traffic from the
farming regions about West Topsham,
Waits River and East Orange. With Les
ter r. Sanborn as superintendent, 1t cannot
be otherwise than grand success.
George Howe of White River Junction,
representative of the Northern Supply Com
pany, whose headquarters are at Burling-
ton and Swanton, was in town last Satur-
day. -O o. S. Sanborn, n. D. Wood and
g. NJ. Tubbs were the visitors at Hedgehog
camp, Groton pond, last week, from this
place. - Horace White is cutting the
hay on the Newell Bagley place. - S.
X. Dexter and family of Lowell, Mass, are
| stopping at their summer residence for the
| summer. - G. +. Smith was at home
from Montpelier one night last week on
business. - William B. Bagley and DR..
Horace l.. Watson were at Montpelier last
week.
| Waitsfleld.
A good many of the farmers in town have
finished their hayng and report an excel.
lent crop-considerably above the average.
Walter and Dan Moriarty are getting the
timber ready for a steam mill, which they
are going to build this fall near their place
on the East hill.
Maggie Patterson, Allen Mehuron and
Will Eaton are sick. - Charlie Eaton
of Hyde Park made bicycle trip to town
last Thursday, returning home the next
day. - w. n. Towne of Waltham,
Mass, visited friends in town a few days
last week. - Mrs. Clark Billings of Low
ell and Mrs. Carrie Farr of Boston are
spending their vacation with friends in this
place. - The wife of j. B. Norton, the
creamery man, is stopping with him in
town this week - Elvira Eaton OF
Waterbury visited friends in town few
days the fore part of the week. - r. j
Lawrence is about moving his livery outfit
from the hotel barn to that of e. o. Trask
- Mrs. Williams, with children, OF
Montpelier is visiting with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Lapoint.
r. e. Longs horses ran away with his