The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17

w. j. Ross has resigned the office o
chief ranger of Granite City Court OF Forest
ers. - George Colt is engineer in tn,
granite works OF G. E. Tayntor & Co. 60
Miss Ida Haviland attended the funeral OF
a relative in st. JOhnsbury last week
- DR.. Charbonneau has left town. IL,
intends to open an Office in Montreal go
Mrs. s. b. Blunt is visiting at her old home
has returned from Stanbridge junction
80 Buel j. Lamb is at home from Rock
Point Institute, Burlington for few days
- p. Donnelly of Bristol visited Mrs
Jarvis Harris, his sister, last week. -
w. L. Mortimer, foreman for g. III. More &
Co, was quite seriously i'll last week. -
j. A. Wellman, general agent for the Con.
necticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
was in town last week. - f. W. Stan
yam was in st. Adams on business last Fri.
day.
Mortified.
Some thirsty individuals broke into the sa.
| loon of Ed Miles last Sunday night and
carried off quantity of beer.
Mrs. A. w. Holton is to finish the spring
term of the school in Plainfeld where she
went to supply the place of one of the
teachers last week
The selectmen completed the measure
! ment of the highways in town last week.
I There are ninety-tive miles of roads, nine of
which are inside the village limits
An infant child of Charles Tacy died last
| Saturday of whooping cough and was
buried Monday. Mr.. Tacy has returned
from Concord and is to work in the Edwards
granite sheds.
Commencing last Monday morning, for
the remainder of the term there will be a
solid session each day in rooms five and
seven of the graded school from eight
to one o'clock.
Services We're held in St. Johns church,
| Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last
week Father Donahue was assisted bv
Fathers O'Sullivan of Montpelier and Shan
non of Underhill
Bessie, daughter of Arson Coburn, who
lives in the " Bull Run neighborhood, was
bitten in the arm by cat week ago last
Sunday. Blood poisoning has developed
and her physicians have little hopes of her
recovery.
The date of the presentation of '",The Oc-
toroon by the Mortified Amateur Ora
matte Association is May %, % and ~ l..
A. Howes has charge of the rehearsals, and
the public can feel sure that the play will
be brought out in a creditable manner.
Rev. l. p. Booth attended the Orange
county teachers institute, held at Newbury
last Thursday and Friday. He spoke on
" Discipline" and delivered an address on
" A citizens relation to the schools that
is very highly spoken of by those who
heard it.
Nathaniel Hill died last Friday morning
of pneumonia, aged seventy-two years. Mr.
Hill was one of the quiet substantial farm
ers of Northfeld man of good repute,
kind neighbor and indugent to his chill
dren. His funeral was held last Sunday
afternoon from his late home on the Waits
field road, Rev. w. s. Hazen officiating.
The following officers of the Methodist
Sunday school were elected last Thursday
nftNFr rf.Nen 4 l.
assistant superintendents, Wilbur Shepard
and Mrs. M. S. Gilchrist; treasurer, II. r.
Brown; secretary, Miss Grace Mead libra
rian, Miss Ellen Mead; organist, Miss
Anna Langdon; chorister, Julius Hough-
ton.
A public flag reception will be held by
W.. ii. Boynton post next Monday evening
in Armory hall, to which the public is cor
daily invited. The Columbian quartette
will furnish music, John l.. Moseley from
the committee appointed to raise funds to
purchase the flag will make a report, and
among those scheduled for speeches are
Commander G.. b. Hall, James Evans and
w. w. Holden.
1t is not considered safe these days to ask
Frank J.. Howe or Rod johnson what
the prominent characteristics of porcupine
are. They, in company with f. W. Howe,
went to Waitsfiel6 last Thursday to set a
monument. Frank and Rod were walk
ing up the mountain and when near the
top they spied monster hedgehog, weigh
ing fifty pounds, in the road. Visions of
what they had learned in the district school
of the unerring precision with which the
animal would throw its quilts flashed
through their minds, and, after they had
driven the varmint" up scrub tree, they
stood at a safe distance and pelted it with
stones. One pebble thrown with accurate
aim dislodged his hogship. AS it struck
the ground it bounded three feet into the
the air and eye-witnesses say that Rod"
jumped more than twenty feet They
finally had to call in the assistance of the
sheriff, who dispatched the defenseless ami
NAL with club.
Mrs. Herman Houston and children
from Barre are visiting Mrs. Houston's
father, l. A. Holton. - Miss Angie Pike
of West Randolph has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. Nathaniel King. - Mrs
Lucius Webb of Braintree visited her sister,
Mrs. F. A. Jones, last week. II. c. b. !
Thayer returned last Thursday from a visit
in New York - Mrs. Lucy A. Abbott
has new portico added to her residence ON
Central street. - Mrs. G.. w. Steele of |
Barre has been visiting for several days at
the home of her father. - Miss Helen |
Kenyon is assisting in the millinery store of
Gilchrist & Smith. - Rev. II. A. Spen-
Ger of Montpelier spent Sunday in town at
the home of Mrs. Louisa Winch He |
preached at the Methodist church in the |
evening. - Mrs. George Davenport and |
Mrs Walter Pierce and child reached
Northfield last week from San Simon, Ari.,
and will spend the summer with their |
mother, Mrs. May Brooks. - Miss |
Emma Gotta was called to her home in Essex |
junction, Monday, to attend the funeral of
a friend. - Herbert Reed arrived home |
from his western trip last week. He and |
Mrs. Reed are now visiting in Boston and |
vicinity. 80 w. f. Bagley has moved |
from Roxbury into one of the houses near |
the Andrews mill. - Mrs. Charles |
Allen returned last week from her visit in
North Sherburne, accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Doubleday, her brother Fred,
and sister from Randolph Normal School. |
60 Mrs. Carrie Gale of Gouldsville left |
Saturday evening for Chicago She |
was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. |
John Mayo of West Randolph. -
Charles Mcnamara of Butte City, Mon
tana, has been visiting relatives in town |
after an absence of several years. - An
gle King is visiting in Stowe. - Mrs. |
William Gokey is suffering with nervous
prostration. - e. e. Wright is travelling
for Bailey's music rooms, Burlington.
- G. M. Davis is recovering from
serious attack of the grip. - John |
Cleveland of Georgia takes the place OF &C. |
o. Thurston in the freight depot. - Mrs |
Newcomb Huntley went to Keeseville, N
Y, last week. She will return about June