The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-10-04
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Roxbury.
Henry Ellis has sold his horse.
DR.. Fletcher was in Burlington last
Thursday.
Road Commissioner Orcutt has graded
the road through the village.
All II. Tilden ~ Son have laid new floor
in their store and put in a new stove.
u. s. Stanton has finished grading around
his house and the outside is now being
painted.
Miss May Wetmore has resumed her
labors in the watch factory. Mr. Herrck
expects his help all back soon and to rush
business as before.
East Roxbury.
Jacob Wardner is repairing his saw.mill.
Many are suffering with severe colds now
adays,
Elroy Fuller carries a sore hand, caused
by cut while killing beef.
Mrs. Mary, widow of the late Henry s.
Boyce, died Tuesday, September 10. Her
funeral was attended Friday afternoon at
the residence of her son Ora, Rev. |. p.
Booth officiating. Had she lived two DAYS
longer, she would have been eighty-seven
years old.
i. A. Eastman met with quite an accident
when returning from Mortified last week.
While descending the Holden hill, one of
the traces became unhitched and let the
wagon upon the horse, when it ran, tipping
the wagon over. The result was the break.
ing of both shafts
st. Johnsbury.
G. c. Bonette will make a balloon ascen-
sion at st. Johnsbury, Saturday, October Il.
West, where he is pursuing his law studies.
II. A. Beerworth of Passumpsic was ar
rested by United States officials last Friday,
charged with sending obscene literature
through the mails He furnished bail in
the SUN Of $500.
The Swift Beef Company opened branch
in st. Johnshury last Monday. The build
ing is on Eastern Avenue, in close proxim-
ity to the railroad tracks. G. A. Eldredge
is the local manager.
Secretary Lewis entertained the Vermont
Methodist Seminary and st. Johnsbury
Academy football teams at the rooms of the
Young Mems Christian Association, Satur-
day evening, in very pleasant manner.
The seectmen still have under considera-
ton the petition to widen Eastern Avenue
on the south side. A meeting Of the land
owners and petitioners was held last Friday
afternoon, when the matter was informally
discussed.
Miss Hannah Harvey died last week at
her home on Railroad street of disease of
the liver. She had been seriously deformed
and great sufferer for years. Rev. Frank
Appleton oiliciated at her funeral last
Wednesday.
Chief Justice Henry G. Ide will leave St.
Johnsbury next Friday and expects to
sail from San Francisco for Apia, October
20. Mr.. Chambers of Alabama, the newly
appointed land commissioner for Samoa, the
office formerly held by Mr.. Ide, will accom-
pany him.
Senator Proctor was presented with a
cane, made from portion of the stockade at
Fairfax Court House, while attending the
reunion of the Fifteenth Vermont regiment.
last week. In accepting it from Corporal
Eggleston, Senator Proctor said that he
would not sell it for 900.
A travelling fakir, named William Rob.
erts, took dose of choral, presumably an
overdose, last Friday at one of the drug
stores in town that nearly finished him.
He was arrested soon after and lodged in
jail supposed to be drunk, and nearly died
at the police station before medical aid
could be summoned.
South Ryegate.
Sixty from this place went on the Xcur-
sion to the Notch last Saturday.
Communion services were held at the
Presbyterian church last Sunday.
A new telephone box has been put into
the Ryegate Granite Works office.
Peach Thomas is stocking up for the new
creamery. He purchased four more cows
last week.
Peter Burleigh of Bath n. H., has taken
the contract of Fred Doe to cut seventy-tive
cords of wood.
John Arthur has taken the contract to cut
off all the lumber between the old and new
mountain roads.
The ladies' tea party at Rev. s. A. Jack
sons last Friday was a success, and all re-
ported fine time.
Station Agent c. NJ Libby startes the 18th
of this month with party of twenty for the
Worlds Fair. They will have special car.
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