The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-10-04

| party and immediate friends and relatives
was given at the home Of the bride after the
| ceremony. The presents were many and
valuable. The best wishes of all accom-.
pany the young couple to their home at
| Tavares, Florida, where Mr.. Davis has ex-
tensive interests in fruit culture.
Bradford.
The first snow crowned Moosilaule last
Friday.
John A. Sargent is building up local
oyster trade.
The creamery looks very neat in its new
coat of paint.
The Misses Blakely and their guests
caught some lusty perch at Lake Morey last
week.
Mrs. G. II. Curtis, and Miss Augusta Row.
| ell are both in market buying their fall mil
linery supplies
The Ladies Aid Society cleared about $50
| at their harvest sale and antiquarian supper
| last Wednesday.
Harry b. Stevens is repainting his house,
which he has recently improved by extern
sive and tasty repairs.
They are employing an increased force of
clerks at the Farmers Exchange store,
taking account of stock.
The reading circle will meet with Miss
George S. Erwin on Friday night The
| programme will consist of debate
The ladies of the Relief CORPS and their
invited guests held party at the home of
| Comrade A. M Banks last Tuesday.
Rev. j. w. Lees is expected to return
from his vacation on Wednesday and oc-
cupy his pulpit as usual next Sunday.
The Daughters of Rebecca held an enter
tainment and promenade, with refresh
ments, at Village Hall last Friday evening.
Seymour Woods has bought the house of
| H. j, Brown, near union block, for 80, 400.
| He pxnpptg rpnair 1T and 10 20
there.
Anna S. McDuffee started on Tuesday for
Cambridge, Mass, where she will become
student in DR.. Sargent's School of Physical
! Culture.
The West Bradford Epworth League will
! hold corn supper and sociable at the
home of Prescott Davis, Tuesday evening,
! October 10.
Everett F. Patterson of Montpelier Sem
| mary and Florence Il. Patterson of New
! bury Seminary spent Sunday with their sis
! ter, Mrs. l.. p. Tucker.
| G. w. Woodward advertises to be at
Hotel Low on Friday taking orders for
mackiutoshes for the house of Sleeper &
| Hood of Concord, n. II.
Mrs. II. b. Stevens is in the West. She
expects to visit the Worlds Fair and then
spend some time with her son, who is
! physician in Minneapolis.
The post-oce changes hands and adj
illustrations. George A. Dickey has re-
ceived his appointment to this coveted
place in Uncle Sans employ.
Mrs. Cornish and her daughter Mrs. jill
! son of Haverhill N H., who have been Wis.
iting Mrs. Cornishs brother, William Will
shire, returned home last week.
Sandy" Jamison, aged about forty
| years, one of the inmates at the town poor
! house, died on Sunday. He was buried on
Monday, Rev. l.. P. Tucker officiating
Some sneak thieves are making free with
all the choice grapes in this vicinity. It's
| pity that the perpetrators cannot be brought
to justice and some of this petty theving
stopped.
The friends of L, j. Heath and wife re-
membered the twenty-ffth anniversary of
their marriage by rousing demonstration
at their home Tuesday night. A full report
will appear next week.
The Young Peoples Society of Christian
! Endeavor will present the cantata, David,
the Shepherd Boy" at Village Hall, Octo-
Der 10 and II. They will be assisted by II.
H. May of ST. Johnsbury as conductor and
other talent from abroad.
Rev. ID. f. Palmer, who has this summer
canvassed Barre, Berlin and Montpelier in
the interests of the American Bible Society,
has been at home sick for two weeks He
started on Monday for Waterford, the can
vass of which he expects to complete this
fall.
William c. Lowd sold his personal prop
erty and household effects at auction on
Tuesday. He expects to leave the farm
| and come to the village, where himself and
George will make their home with his son,
III. w. Lowd, while Miss Nellie will live
with her sister, Mrs. Carrie RObshaw
The committee to solicit funds toward the
purchase of the new public library site re-
port good progress. Enough money-lack-
ing S25-has beenisecured The fiatiron
piece near the hotel has been selected.
The owners, Charles Craig & Co., gener-
ously donate 500 toward the purchase.
The death of Charles L. Wilson occurre d
Monday morning. He had been i'll for
some time, but was supposed to be improv-
ing. His age was forty-two years. He
was born in Bradford, and had spent his
entire life here except three years in which
he lived in Boston. He was greatly re-
spected as a neighbor and citizen He was
one Of the listers for the present year, and
performed his duties faithfully. A wife
and two children are left. The funeral will
be held at his late home near Goshen on
Wednesday at half-past one o'clock, Rev.
l.. p. Tucker officiating.
The Orange County Sunday-school Con-
vention, which occurs at North Thetford,
| Tuesday and Wednesday, has the Sunday
schools of Bradford well represented on its
program me. Rev. p. Tucker gives an adj
dress upon "Our Greatest Hindrances,"
and Ex-Governor Roswell Farnham upon
Strong and Weak Points in Our Present
System The delegates from the Meth
odist school are l.. j. Heath, l.. S. Erwin,
Mrs. E. A. Barrett. Mrs. A. NJ. Dickey, Mrs.
John Mum. The Congregational school is
represented by Ex-Governor Farnham and
wife and Milo S. Jenkins and wife. The
West Bradford school sends Mrs. A. o.
Kidder, Mrs Charles O. Davis, Mr.. and
Mrs. g. e. Thurston.
Rev. A. w. Ford of Windsor was in town
again on Monday. - Nellie Huntington
is visiting her uncle in Cookville. - Mr..
Earl and family of Brooklyn, n. Y, are
| stopping at Hotel Low. - H. X. Pres
colts barn is being painted. George Brooks
handles the brush. - f. E. Doe and
Harry Grow have joined the army of
bicycle-rid - May Cove is visiting
friends in the vicinity of Boston. -
Florence e. Gatlield returned on Tuesday
to her studies in Boston Conservatory of
Music. - Sampson Thurston and his
granddaughter, Golde Thurston, are quite
sick. - Joseph Viau's sister from Han
over, n, H., is making him visit, -
John w. Rowell came down from Corinth
on his wheel Friday night, and spent Sun