The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-06

here only twenty-five per cent more for
board than he paid in Germany, the wages
OF our best cutters are at least one hundred
and thirty-three per cent more than he re-
ceived there, and he is said to be a good
workman.
At the hour OF church services here, Sun
day last, some young men drove into town
from the north and halted near the hotel
for short time. The probability is that If
our constable had been at church just then,
one OF these young men would have
brought up" in the lookup. 1t will not
be safe, boys, to count on that officers being
absent from church often.
Herman Burnham, now of St. Johns
bury, has been in town of late having been
threatened with typhoid fever that has been
epidemic in St. Johnsbury. - Ed Hyzer
of Randolph is employed as a mason on Mr.
and Mrs. j. NJ. Beckett's house. 60
Misses Myra Seaver and Bell Hubbard are
at the Normal school in Randolph. -
VIII o. Martin is visiting the Chicago Ex-
position this week. - Merrill Martin
has greatly improved in health and flesh
here, and will soon return to his home in
Washington, ID. C. - Mrs. Moses Per-
sons has been very poorly in health of late,
and may not live long. - Orrin Smith,
Neal Smith and Willie Edison returned from
the Chicago Exposition, Saturday, well
paid, Of course, for their trip. - Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank A. Walker, now OF Lynn Mass.
arrived here on Thursday evening.
Orville III. Briggs returned from the Chi
cago Exposition last Wednesday. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Edison have begun
housekeeping in tenement in Henry
Nixon's house. - Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace
Hunter are sojourning for the present at
| Pennfield, Charlotte county, New Bruins
wick. - Drs. Fred Brush of Delaware
Ohio, has of late been the guest of the fam
! lily of her brother-in-law, Druggist George
| Brush.
Woodbury.
Will Fisk has moved to Hardwick
There are several cases of typhoid fever
and diphtheria in town.
An earnest effort is making to reorganize
the Sunday-school at the Center
Thad Bruce has hired out for eight months
| to G. w. Foster & Son, beginning the
| fourth instant.
! Mrs. A. b. Corthell's little son Mark was
taken very i'll on Saturday evening with
cholera infantum.
| Winslow Rollins has bought the old
| Warner Thomas threshing machine, fitted
it up, and is now ready for business.
Isaac Tabor of Calais Howard Arbuckle
and wife OF Barre, A. NJ Foster and wife,
Payson Walbridge and wife and Herman
Rogers and wife of Cabot, visited with G..
| w. Foster and family last Sunday.
The picnic by the Sunday-school of the
Congregational society, held on Butternut
Flat on Thursday last was decided sue
cess. There were representatives present
from East Calais, Calais East Elmore and
Hardwick Among those present we no.
ticed the venerable form of Rev. Grin Davis
of Calais, now past his eightieth year,
Worcester.
Alfred Merron and mother of Salisbury
are staying at A. j. Chase's.
| A blacksmith is much needed here. One
is expected from Barre soon.
Mrs, Burnham Harris, who has been
quite sick of late, is steadily gaining,
Mrs. f. L. Towne teaches at Maple Cor,
ner, Calais, and Georgia Wilson in Gilmore.
II. w. Collier will sell his property at
auction soon and will go to Massachusetts,
to live, much to the regret of his townsmen.
The schools in town opened Monday.
Misses Susie Atkins of Cabot and Maud
Wilson at the village, Mary Abbott ON
Hampshire Hill" Myrtle Seaver up Min
lister Brook" Anna Wilson in the Kelley
district, and Miss Smith in the M. p.
Wheeler district are the teachers.