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

Mrs. w. A. Averill, Thursday afternoon.
All are invited.
Ada Cuthbert and Irwin Hill are to be
married Wednesday evening at the church.
All are invited.
Therepo is that we have case of cholera
in town. Mr.. Almon Cove will not take
much stock in 1t until later
There was a nice game of base ball played
here, last week Saturday, between the War
rem and Rochester mines. The Rochester
boys won by II to 10.
Most OF the farmers have secured their
hay crop, and IL has been of nearly, II not
quite, an unprecedented quantity as well
as quality. The farmers are feeling quite
happy, notwithstanding the democratic
crash has crushed the business of the coun-
try.
The separator that is being put in at this
place by Mr.. Norton is nearly ready to run.
1t will start up this week. There has
been such a ,shrinkage Of milk of the
cows by the ldry weather and Texan
flies that the amount to be taken will be
small.
The machinery for the new creamery ar
rived last Friday. - Clarence and Hi
ram Brown, from birmingham, Mass, were
in town last week, and purchased the farm
of Will Cardell, where their father now
lives.
Waterbury.
Nettie Pape has left the asylum, where she
has been for some months, and gone to her
home.
The wedding of Miss CarrieW ashburn and
Mr.. Frank Lord of Burlington will take place
in the near future.
Bert Savage has resigned his position as
baker at the asylum, and Mr.. Manning Of
Underhill has been secured to take his
place.
The organ recital and ce-cream festival
at the Methodist church last Wednesday
evening was well attended and highly en-
joyed by all present.
Darwin Cooley is home for weeks visit.
He has spent the past year in Boston and
vicinity in the interest of patent chimney
cap manufactured here.
Mrs. Betsey Minott, widow of the late
Deacon Howard Minott, died August 8,
aged sixty-six years, and was buried from
the home of Mr.. o. III. Minott.
The examination of candidates for teach
ers was made last Friday and Satur-
day by Rev. l. p Booth, county supervisor
of schools. Seven or eight were examined,
with good results.
The Winooski Valley Agricultural Asso-
citation will hold their next annual fair,
! September ~, 10 and IA. Elaborate prepa-
rations are being made, and no doubt sue
cessful exhibition will be given.
Mrs. Washburn and daughters, Miss A,
! L. Delano, and Misses Carrie and Katharine
Washburn ARRIVED from Boston last Tues
day to spend the remaining days of August
in this delightful climate and among their
many friends, who are glad to greet them.
Weddings seem to be the order of the day
lately, and the unprecedented number of
engagements which Dame Rumor is circu-
| lating in our midst promises generous
harvest before summer ends. May the
good work go on and all previous records in
that line be broken.
AT the business meeting of the Congrega-
tional church last Thursday evening, the
following were elected members of the pas
tors aid committees Mrs. Seabury, Miss
Carrie Wells, Mrs. j. g. Griggs, Mrs. j.
Mcintosh, Mrs. Charles Clark, Mr.. I. L.
Farrell, Mr.. j. j. Colby.
The remains of Mrs. Emma Trumbull of
Hartford were brought here for burial last
week Wednesday She was the sister
of f. B. Taylor and Mrs. f. H. Alberto n
and was we'll and favorably known here
Her brief sickness and sudden death was a
great shock to her many relatives and
friends.
The Young Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor are to enjoy picnic next Friday
afternoon at lovers lane" They have in
yited the Congregational Sunday-school
and all others who desire to go, to accom-.
pany them. Those who have no means OF
conveyance will please be at the church at
one p. NJ, sharp, when teams will be pro-
vided.
Atabout half-past eight Sunday evening, q
south bound freight train met with an acct
dent just after crossing the iron bridge be-
low this place A short spur track has re-
Gently been laid here, and the switch is the
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