The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-12-26

Barre was in town, Monday. - Attor I
ney j. j. Gleason Of New York was in town
last week in the interest OF Fred Funke.
- MIR. and Mrs. f. A. Barrett, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. II. Atherton and Carrie Stickney
drove to West Berlin, Saturday, returning
Sunday 80 Clinton Crossett is very low
with hemorrhage in the head. 20. b.
Russell and wife Of Burlington are visiting
at G. s. Conants. 80 Harvey Henry Is
in town for Christmas. 80 Fred II. Som
erville is at home from Worcester for the
holidays. 80 Maude Giffn of Rutland is
visiting at Frank Carpenters 49, Master
Paul Dillingham; is spending his holiday va
cation with his parents. - A. Il. Smith
took a short trip to St. Johnsbury last
week. - w. p. Dillingham; and son
Paul were in Burlington, Thursday. -
g. w. Atkins took business trip to the
Queen City, Thursday. - r. G. Luce
was confued to the house several days last
week. - Katherine G.. Warren is at
home from Bradford Academy for three
weeks vacation. - States Attorney Zed
Stanton of Roxbury was in town on Friday,
- Misses Abbie and Bessie Hanes
came home, Sunday morning, to spend
Christmas with their parents. They will
return to New York this noon. - Lucia
e. Wiswell and Inez Grout united with the
Methodist church upon confession of faith
Sunday morning.
Waterbury Center.
Professor G. II. Richardson will speak
next Sunday morning on the theme " A
New Year"
Loyalty Lyceum will discuss the question
next Friday night, " Is the World Growing
Worse?"
Homer Demeritt of Pittsburgh, N. Y, is
spending the holidays with his grand
mother, Mrs. Romelia Stearns Mary f.
Smith is at home from her school in An
dover, n. III also for the the holiday vaca-
ton.
ba la1iao fr, bn
their vacation here last summer have sent
Christmas present TO the Baptist society
of fifty copies of the Book OF Psalms"
which were thankfully received, and used
for the first time last Sunday.
Mary NJ. Henry is visiting Alberta East
man at Barre - j. N Ellis and f. G..
Norton spent Christmas in Huntington.
Professor c. II. Stone and his
mother went to Burlington on business last
Saturday. - Mr. and Mrs Dexter AL
ger visited Mr.. Ayers mother last week,
returning to their home in Hinssburgh last
Saturday.
Williamstown.
Granite work will be sus pended at one or
more of the shops this week.
Our ctiz sns had treat last week in the
exhibition OF monograph at the town hall.
Luther Newconb writes of somewhat i'm
proved health since his return to his home
in Iowa.
Walter Granger is hauling lumber to his
village lot preparatory to putting up a nice
house next season.
Charles Brockway has sold out his bust
ness barber in East Barre, and will be
at home for the present.
George Williams and Charles Davenport
recently killed a black hedgehog that
weighed eighteen pounds.
M and Mrs. P4tsey Elliott left on Satur
| day for few weeks visit at Mrs. Eliott's
old home in the south part OF the state.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. j. Merrill gave a
party last week Monday it being the
twenty-fr,t birthday Of their grandson,
Frank.
Engineer Stebbins of the Central YER
mont railroad has been away week or two
ON account of the sickness of some family
friend.
Charles Ingalls, has closed out his meat
market to Smith & Seaver. His wife re-
IL aims in poor health. 1t is said the family
will remove to West Randolph
The Central Vermont has been laying a
new sideTack to G. U. Lathrops ground, on
which he is to erect a storehouse, $50 by
90 feet, and two stories high.
There was an election Of the town grange
officers at a meeting last Wednesday. The
order seems to be quite successful, though
some of our farmers have left the institu-
ton.
DR.. Charles A. Briggs, now of Pasadena
Cal, is gaining in health. His brother, DR..
Scion Briggs, who is with him, is greatly
enc )uraged at the improvement in his
wife's health since going there some weeks
ago.
The sue ,ess of i" the evening with Oliver
Wendell Holiness" at the town hall last
Wednesday evening, ought to insure a
number more of similar occasions during
the winter. They can be made greatly
profitable to all.
Myrtle second daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Jason Johnson, has just been granted
a divorce from her husband, Denny j., sor
of Albern Briggs. Her one child, boy
will remain with her.
Mrs John Adams last week received
from Petaluma, fifty miles north OF Sar
Francisco, Cal, box containing chrys
anthemums in ten different colors, and jus
I plucked from the garden of her brother-in
law. They are beauties.
, Jane, w. Grearson has given up gran
lite cutting and entered school in Montpelier
; He is regarded here as one of the pleasant
l est and worthiest of the young men that tht
granite industry has brought here, He
comes from St. George, New Brunswick.
a 1t is desirable that all who are interested
in Sunday school work should be present a
our town Sunday-school convention at til,
r Methodist church next Saturday. Thi
convention is in the line of awakening
MOI general interest in the work through
ont the state.
Frank Lavine, a stone-c litter, who who'll!
|, lost the sight of one eye, is 1nder treatmen
with DR.. Lester w Hanson OF Barre, wht
hopes to be of help to him as regards tn
: other one. Mrs. l "a Rowell, who has beef
! suffering from deafness, has been great,
r helped by DR.. Han son.
One of our "jolly" townsmen tells thi
story of himself. BY his own ahmissi on, III
/, is not of the "bravest" at all times, on
3 of these being the nighttime" Now
: happened that on certain very bright
moonlit night, he was called up to minste
to one of his children, which he could do
q "by the light OF the m0on," alone. In tn
. room there was a mirror, upon which tn
' light fell in a way to reflect an object quit,
wildly but Of which he was not thinkinS :
Just then, and as lie CHANGED to glance at |
" a strange horror seized his vitals." For
was there not another man in that room
and, doubtless, on ev intent? And did h,
y "make for him, only to smash looking
, glass? Not bit of i'll He just sent NJ
J such yell, that, of course, his wife rushed
to the scene, and, as was eninently proper
: at such time, there was presently but one
g man therei