The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-22

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Methodist society at their vestry on We'd
nesday evening, March %. A good time
and plenty of sugar is assured for all
The ladies' of the Congregational society
expect to hold new sugar festival at their
vestry tomorrow Thursday evening, and
a sweet time is promised to all who attend
Several bad leaks on the dam at the
Palmer Brothers mill-whch have as yet
defied all efforts to stop them-have seri-
ously interfered with the working of the
mill for the past week or so.
A former resident OF this place has &C
CURED not little notoriety by leading to
the hytneneal altar a blooming "grass
widow within two weeks of the burial of
his first wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Trask, who have
been visiting in town for the past two
Mass. last Monday. - Misses Louise
Gleason and Gertrude Richardson, ard
Will Eaton, have returned to their studies
at the Methodist Seminary at Montpelier.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Trask of Water
bury were visiting in town over Sunday.
80 Miss Mamie Harris of Barre has been
visiting her young friends in town the past
week.
Some of the farmers have begun sugaring
or think they have.
The reading club is to meet with Mrs
James Cardell tonight.
Cyren Bruce is to move into James
Pierce's tenement house.
Whooping cough is having its run in the
northwestern part of the town.
Charles Cook is to run the stationery en-
CINE for Parker & Slayton's mill.
o. NJ. Jones has been appointed govern
ment sugar wegher for this town.
William Pierce is to move into Parker &
Slayton's tenement soon and work for them
in the tub factory.
Albert Montgomery is to work for N than
Thayer the coming season. 60 Sheridan
McAlister is to attend the spring term at
Norwich University. - Asa Colby has
hired Leon Martin to work for him through
the season. - Herbert Poland is to carry
on the Van Deusen farm for the coming
year. - Malan Shattuck is to work for
Carroll a. Son through sugaring. - n.
N. Robinson has hired Mr.. Cove for the
coming season, and is to move into Robin
sons tenement house. - o. M. Jones is
to put in boots and shoes in addition to his
present stock in trade. - Mrs. g. Bruce
is better.
Williamstown.
The mercury was seventeen degrees be-
low zero here last Sunday morning.
Theodore Wilfore, it is said, will carry on
the S. Talcott Perrin farm the coming year.
the late Mr.. Dana Simons, died recently in
Bradford.
Horace M. Farnham has been reappointed
town school superintendent and clerk Of
the school board.
Wilbur +. Adams was great sufferer
from asthma here, but he finds entire relief
on the Pacific coast, near Tacoma, Wash
ington.
Our esteemed young townsman, William
Croudis, has buried his father, who died in
one of the British provinces. He was a
good man.
Word came from Washington, d. c.. on
Friday, that Merrill, son of George and
Mrs. Julia Beckett Martin, was very i'll OF
pneumonia.
A town official thinks town meeting will
be called within very short time to con-
slider the matter of new school building in
this village, etc.
A horse-buyer from Connecticut made
some purchases of horses here last week
and among them was Station Agent j. w
Flint's PAGER, Topsy.
Laura l.. Ainsworth, now of Council Bluffs,
Ia, are visiting Florida. They not long
ago visited California.
Alvab Little goes this week, probably, to
work for Return S. Davis at Corn WALTON
the-Hudson. His farm here will be carried
on by the Covell brothers.
Asa G. Wilbur returned from Burlington
| last week with the same sad message ht
brought recently from Boston-that his eye
sight is past being helped from any surgica
operation.
The Christian Endeavor Society will holt
genuine new-sugar festival at the town
hall on Wednesday evening of this week
| Admission only fifteen cents. Everybod,
cordially invited.
The Sunday-school missionary concert a
the Congregational church next Sunda.
evening will doubtless be a very attractive
occasion. Mrs. j. X. Lynde and Miss Kati
Brush will aid in the singing.
The snowfall, up to last Wednesday, ha'
been eighty-six and one-half inches thi
season, according to the tally of Lucius 5
Simons. OF this amount, forty-tive inches
came in February and seventeen in Jan
uary.
Mrs. Martha Lynde Keneston, daughte
of Mr.. John Lynde, and now Of Wilton
Illinois, arrived here last Friday for fey
weeks visit. She is accompanied by littl
daughter. OF her ten children, seven ar
living
There was large attendance at "th
chicken pie festival" given at the town hal
Friday evening The Country School,
with Frank Benedict as teacher, was muc
enjoyed. Good words are also spoken fG
the debut of our new band
Our citizens here are decidedly pleased {
the coming here of j. w. Flint of Barre Ia
employee for some years of the Central We
mont railroad company as station agen
They confidently expect the world abol
him will ego right, eff he hollers out Geel
N. G. Fisk, a cousin OF the late Mrs. L,
man Capron, and an aged man, died hel
last week. When the war broke out he WI
: living in the South, but came north the
leaving his wife in the South. During u
: war she died. Since then he has led
checkered career. He had been connecte
with a menagerie at one time, and was
lion-tamer. He is said to have been goo
! man, though there seem to have been son
untameable " lions in the way" during u
last years of his life.
The storm on Wednesday probably dimi
4 ished materially the size of the audient
. that listened to the Keeley-cured represen
atives on Wednesday evening here, but 81
. meeting seems to have been greatly enjoye
y The easy steps" to confirmed drunke
: ness, beginning with the light, harmle
drinks" so called as set forth on this oc6
- sion by one who has been over the road
ought to make very serious impressio
and who can but bless the Kelley cure il
n can work permanent deliverance TO any
b his fellow men who have known the bitt
ness of the bondage to drink that these m
IL have, and, as they hope, have been set fl