The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-26
NUMBER 80.

| mares. These were traded by Mr.. Rugg
for Yankee Luck, :, then green colt. Mr..
Phelps purchased the horse of A. ID. Bur-
gess who bought it of Mr.. Rugg. Mr. Shell
don claims that he has never released Mrs.
Rugg from the mortgage, and as he had
claim in the two mares, he also has on the
horse for which they were traded.
II. s. Mackay and w. b. Hammond Of
Boston have purchased the stock in the
| Vermont Granite Company, formerly owned
| by S. Q. White Of Barre and George f.
White of Rutland. A meeting of the stock
holders of the company was held last Thurs
! day, and III. X Bush, II. S. Mackay, w. B.
| Hammond, A. E. Bruce and Cen j. II.
! Lucia were elected directors. These direc-
| tors subsequently elected III. S. Mackay
president, A. E. Bruce vice president, and
| I'll. X. Bush secretary, treasurer and gen.
eral manager. About ninety-fve acres of
| valuable quarry land Is now owned by the
| company, and light quarry is to be opened
between their present light quarry and that
of the Empire Granite Company. Mr.. Mac
| kay, the new president, is an architect and
builder in Boston, and Mr.. Hammond is the
travelling eastern agent for the Lidgerwood
Manufacturing Company of New York;
Neither of these gentlemen will take active
part in the management of the property.
j. McKenna, travelling passenger agent of
the Canadian Pacific railroad, was in town
last week. - Mrs. Myrtle Hemenway
returned to her home in Colorado Springs,
Col, last Thursday, after an extended visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Mason Page, her parents.
= Mrs. Mary Scribner and Miss Ula
E. E. Perry is visiting in West Randolph.
- Mrs. F. X. Markham was quite i'll
last week with tonsilitis - Arthur s.
Moulton of st. Johnsbury and two sisters
from Owatonna, Mimi, visited in Barre
last week. - Mrs. S. H. Forsyth left for
Chicago last Wednesday, where she met
Mr.. Forsyth. - Dr. j. Henry Jackson
and wife, with their sons Fred and Harry,
left for Chicago last week. - Frank
Place, the popular conductor on the Barre
railroad has left that company to enter the
service of the Central Vermont. - Mr..
and Mrs. L. NJ Averill are at the seashore
for fortnight. - Mrs. Lucius Smith of
West Fairee was the guest of Mrs. Charles
Moorcroft last week. NJ. G.. Nichols
spent last Sunday in South Royalton. -
Miss Kate West has been quite i'll since her
return from Chicago, her malady evidently
being the effects of drinking Lake Michigan
water. - Judge A. NJ. Jackman re-
turned last Friday from South Royalton,
where he visited Mrs. F. FL. Roberts, his
daughter
West Berlin.
Mrs. d. L. Sanders went yesterday morn
ing to Hanover, n. H., to visit sick uncle.
! - Wilbur Brown is at the Worlds
Fair - Theodore Currier is rejoicing
over the arrival of bouncing boy. -
Mrs. William Johnson and daughter of
| Gaysville were guests of ID. l.. Sanders last
| week. REV. w Is. w OrUIlen DTedCneu
an interesting sermon at the Granite street
church last Sunday evening. ~ w. f.
Hascall of Boston is at the Mountain View
house.
Bradford.
The state executive committee of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union met
at Grace church last Wednesday. Delegates
from Montpelier, Barnet, Plainiald, and
Woodstock were present.
Rev. T. P. Frost of the First Methodist
church, Baltimore, Md, former pastor,
will arrive next Monday and, accompanied
by his family, will go to " Pine Rest,
Lake Morey.
Henry Kemp has closed his labors at he
exchange store, and is going to Bristol.
- E. w. Goodhue is at home from
{ Massachusetts, and is at Lake Morey for a
few days. - Clark & Greenleaf sold
George Putnam a fancy horse last week.
| - Mrs w. A. Stowell and Mrs. d: l..
Fuller of Montpelier were in town last
Wednesday. - l.. f. Hall was i'll st.
Johnsbury last Wednesday - Mrs. n.
3 A. Frost of Hanover, N. f., is visiting, at
a G.. f. Morris - Mrs. G. 9. Cotton has
returned from Lebanon y. H.. where she
. has been visiting William Morris, hel
> brother. - Rev l.. P Tucker has fin
ished his cottage lat Lake Morey and is go
ing there next month for vacation: -
. Lena George is visiting her sister Eliza II
= Montpelier - Mr.. A. Gaffeld and wifi,
/, of Boston are visiting at Mrs. Jennie Gaf
t fields. - Robert Peaver is the new
u clerk in Stevens & Clark's store. -
" Bird Nye of Newport is visiting Mrs. c.
Clark her sister. - Annie Olney was a
e Of Hanover, n. H., is in town spend
& ing her vacation. - Mrs. G.. w
e Wheeler and Mrs. DR.. Davis of Lyn
l. donville p are visiting in town. - -
n - Lillian Hartwell is sick with rheu
matte trouble. - George d. Adams o
.e Boston and I. NJ Hall of st. Johnsbur,
9 We're in town last Thursday - 4
10 daughter was born last week to Mr.. anC
N Mrs. c. E. Clark. - John Chamberlil
le and two sisters of Nashua. y. H., are visit
v. ing in town. - Edward Bagley went t,
ne Boston last Saturday for medical treatment
- ID. f. Park, wife and daughter, o
Boston are visiting Mrs Low, Mrs. Park
= mother. - William Eastman of Law
y renee, Mass. is visiting at Bradford Center
= : - Stephen Caswell and wife of Massa
70 chusetts are visiting in town.
er Braintree.
er c. w. Fuller and wife and son of Spring
er field, Mass, came to town last week for tn
purpose of packing up his goods preparator
IN to shipping them and setting up housekeep
as ing III that city. He has good job there.
le A good many farmers have finished hay
y ing, and more would have been entirel
10 done but for the stormy weather. They re
O. port fully an average crop. Corn has beer
~ growing fast for the last few weeks and /
III as forward as it usually is at this time of tn
t. year, with an average of much heavie
~ growth. Potatoes are looking well. AM
* with good weather it looks as though W
t. might have good crop. Apples will be
* light crop, Notwithstanding the heav
" bloom in the spring. OF small fruits, will,
it straw berries have been the most plentiful
SO known for many years.
at II. b. Howard has sold his farm il
er Willamstown to S. S. Briggs of Brockton
Mass. - X II. Howard has been lai
Of up for the last week with a lame leg =-
ly II. NJ. Blanchard is raising and newly claI
IL boarding his house, making a great deal Z
~ an Improvement. - NJ. d. Laporte an
IN wife are visiting in Maine. They are TO b
a gone some six weeks or more. -- A. X
as McIntire and wife have returned from
r. visit to the Worlds Fair and to relatives i
ut Chicago and Wisconsin
Brooktield.
~ ~ The Christian Eudeavor Society of thi
Is town, by invitation from the society G
~ ~ East Randolph joined them in picnis a
n I'll II,