The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-25


Dance at the town hall next Friday night.
Tripp, Tenant & Co. are rapidly filling
their lumber yard with clapboard logs.
s. ID. Moulton has twenty.four Brown
Leghorn pullets and cockerels, of fine quail
ity and in good condition, which may be
| bought for Si3.
e. Il. Joslyn, from Montpelier, was In
| town last week. - w. G. Lampher has
sold at auction part of his household
goods and is moving to Montpelier.
| - John Trip, the barber has moved
into the building with Fred Towle. -
julius Davis of Medford, Mass, former
resident, was in town last week visiting his
parents. - Grace Moulton returned to
| Barre last week.
Northfield
A party of young people enjoyed a ride to
Barre last Thursday evening.
A meeting of Naomi Chapter, order of
the Eastern Star, was held on Tuesday
evening.
G. r. Andrews has his grist mill, that he
recently brought from Roxburv all set mn
and ready for business.
The members OF William Boynton Post
entertained their friends last Saturday even
ing in Grand Army hall.
" The Spy of Gettysburg" war drama,
IS to be given at Cross hall Gouldsville,
Friday evening, January q.
Presiding Elder A. b. Truax will conduct
quarterly meeting and preach at the Meth
odist church next Sunday morning.
The many friends of Miss Ellen Badger
will be pleased to know that she il quite
rapidly improving at the hospital in Bur
lington.
A party of young people attended the
concert given in Barre by the Temple Quar-
tette and Blaisdell's Orchestra, last Thurs
day evening.
The Conversational Club met Monday
evening with Hon Frank Plumley. MrC.
a. Edgerton, Jr.. read a paper on 1.-THE
Worlds Fair"
The Methodist ladies are to give an oyster
supper this evening in the vestry. A choice
literary and musical entertainment will fol-
low the supper.
the six days ending Sunday last. Four
were at an average distance of eighteen
miles from Northfield.
The University and Ladies' uuartettes
assisted by the Apollo Banjo Club OF Mont,
pelier, will entertain the people of North
held some evening early in February.
Mr.. Roland Averill, aged eighty-one years,
dled at his home at the head of Main street
last Thursday morning The funeral was
held Saturday afternoon, Rev. j. F. Booth
officiating.
There was dance last Saturday evening
at the home of Frank Relation on King
street, and, Judging from the reports of dis
turbed neighbOrs, it must have rounded up
with bear dance,
The many friends of Mrs. DIR. w. b. Mayo
will be glad TO hear that she has so far re-
covered from her late dangerous illness at
Wiliamstown as to be able to 90 10 her
home in Northfeld last Monday.
At the request of many of the towns
people, " Our Folks" is to he presented in
Co icert hall, this "wednesday evening.
Admission fifteen and twenty-five cents
The same cast play in Wiliamstown FRI
day evening
Many of the members in NorthReld of the
Peoples Five Year Benefit Order are ahead
OF the game, inasmuch as they had drawn
out Tor sick benefits much more than they
had put in before the concern went to the
wall. The members in most towns in the
state are not so fortunate, however.
A small colony could be formed of the
financial mouTuers of Thomas Edwards, the
recently absconded granite manufacturer
All the rough stone that he left behind has
been attached by parties in Barre and
Mortified. The trite saying that there
are black sheep in every flock" holds good
in Edwards case, and he is the darkest kind
of a mutton that has been seen for several
moons in Mortified.
The Good Tempars were pleased last
Friday evening, to receive visit from
about twenty members of the lodge at Mont
pelier. The visiting members evidently en-
Joyed the fine literary and musical pro-
gramme that had been prepared, which in
cluded a poem by w. w. Holden, a short
address by Hon. Frank Plumley and a
fortune tree" which created no end of
amusement.
II. w. Smith, formerly employed in the
tailor shop of j. II. Talbot, has gone TO
nj N III
family and Mrs. Hannah Paine left on Tues.
day Tor Terrace, Utah, where they are to re.
side - Newton Guild went to Orange.
Mass, last Thursday, and, after short visit
here, will go to his home in Brainerd,
Mimi. - Frank w. Sault and wife and
George Sault OF West Randolph spent
last Sunday with Mrs. Hannah Paine. -
Misses Lira Brooks and NJ rite Tarbell gave
a whist party last Friday evening. - Miss
Grace Aldrich came home last Saturday
from Cambridge, Mass for brief visit at
the home oil Charles Aldrich, her father.
&c: 60: Miss Nellie Brown went to ST.
JobDsbury last Thursday to visit Mrs
Charles Adams, her sister, for two weeks.
- Miss Amy Denny is at home for a
short vacation from the Randolph Normal
school. - Rev. Ira Beard is still very |
low, and no hopes are entertained of his |
recovery. - Heman Dole was seriously |
Ill last week with threatened pneumonia. |
AN'Nhoiu iAchutuy HAS Dttn having |
a serious time with fever sore for the past |
two weeks. - A. S. Glow went to Frank |
lin, N. H., last week, where he is working |
In mill. - Miss Jennie Morarty has |
been at home from st. Adams for the past |
two weeks caring for Mrs. John Moriarty,
her mother, who has been seriously ill., |
- United States District Attorney
Frank Plumley was in Burlington on bust |
ness lsst Friday. %. z. Winch has
gone TO West Randolph TO work for G. L.
Abbott. - Nellie Hunt OF Montpelier
visited Mary Abbott, teacher at Center viii
lage, last week. - Mrs. Booth started
Yesterday on visit 10 her old home in Stat
lord, Conn. Her father is in very feeble
health. - Miss Flora Knapp is working
At George W. Clark's. - Mrs. Fanny
Emery of Montpelier visited her son at
Norwich University last week. - Pro-
lessor G. q. Brill Is i'll. Mrs. Jessie
Cook is visiting in Waterbury. Mrs,
orrin Kimball is slowly recovering from
her serious illness
GouldsvilIe.
The masquerade party at Cross hall was
lutte well attended last Friday evening.
Gouldsville Band is to present the drama.
The Spy of Gettysburg" next Friday
evening.
The primary school is not keeping this
week on account of the illness OF the