The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
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| Despite all that has been done to instruct
our voters in the use of the ballot under our
voting law, some five to ten ballots had to
| be thrown out after the several turnings of
the box because OF failure to comply with
the law in marking them.
Rev. II. E. Howard has so far improved
under the hoe-and shovel treatment on the
old Briggs farm that he will preach in the
Methodist church next Sunday. morning.
| Pastor Sherburne will take his old pulpit at
Mortified while Rev. S. Donaldson visits
among family friends.
Christiana Aver, sister of the late Mrs
Enos Folsom, died Tuesday night at the
home of her niece, Mrs Ophir s. Martin, OF
| heart disease, at the age of sixty-fve, and
was buried on Thursday in our East Hill
cemetery. She was esteemed a good woman,
though living very quiet, retired life in
later years.
| Legislative honors have fallen generously
on the family of Hon John Lynde in the
past. He himself has represented this town
five times in the house, and the county one
term in the senate; three sons have been
chosen representatives; and three sons-in-
law Zone in Vermont, one in Illinois, and
one in Kansas) have been representatives
in state legislatures.
Word has just come here of the death,
from congestion of the brain, of Mrs. Grace
Lynde Meigs, only daughter of the late
Cornelius Lynde, Jr., "a native of Vermont,
but for many years resident of Rock
Island, Ill) and daughter-in.law of Quar-.
termaster General Meigs. She was thirty
six years Of age, and left husband and six
daughters. For some years the family had
resided at Keokuk Iowa.
The young ladies in Miss Carrigans de-
partment of our village school visited the
town nall last week Tuesday afternoon, UNI
der her guidance, to witness the voting in
progress. Quite number of adult ladies
also went to the hall for the same purpose
Did not the thought pass through the minds
of more than one of the lockers. on that,
after all, it might not seem such a very bad
thing to see women at the polls?
A quiet, charming, and, to our thinking;
model wedding in a way, was that of
| Will j. Young and Bernice NJ. Sibley, on
Wednesday last, at the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. b. f. Sibley. Rev.
j. n. Perrin of1iciated Mrs. Young was
the recipient of beautiful and valuable pres
ents. After wedding breakfast they left,
via Boston, for visit OF a few weeks at Mr.
Young's old home in New Brunswick.
| They will return the last of the month to
reside here, much to the satisfaction of
many and warm friends.
The unexpected happened at our free
mems meeting. OF the more than $50 per-
sons whose names were on the check list,
some 300 were present to vote. The demo-
cratic vote for governor was sixty; but, al
though they had worthy man as candi-
! date for representative, in the last three or
| four ballots only some fourteen or fifteen
votes were cast for him,-the other men,
| beers OF the party, present and voting, appar-
emily voting mostly for one or the other of
! the two republicans-FTank Martin on the
republican ticket and j. X. Lynde on the
! citizens party ticket Exactly what all the
facts are, deponent knoweth not. Although
! deplorable, seen from party standpoint,
for the first time for we know not how
many years. there was big" bolt in our
| republican party, and headed by some fifty
OF the warehouses; of the party in the past
| The boilers took the name of the citizens
| party. The republican candidate has been
for many years, aud now is, the chairman
OF our board of selectmen, and his numer-
| GUS and, for the most part triumphant
elections would seem to point to large salts
faction with his work accomplished The
! choice of the republican caucus, though by
| only majority of one, we know no reason
| why he was not as fairly and squarely NOM
| mated as previous candidates in years past,
and it is due him, and his supporters to
the bitter end, i" to say that many of the best
men in the party stood by him. On the
other hand, the boilers claim wholly justi-
fable reasons for their course, under all the
circumstances as they see them. The con-
test waXed warm, and the two candidates
were pretty evenly sustained, the citizens
party candidate from the first, however,
leading by few votes. About half past
ten in the evening, by a ma jority of two
votes, the latter candidate was elected.
| The large and successful business which he
has built up here indicates degree of abil-
ity that ought to insure useful work on
the part of Mr.. Lynde as legislator. AS
to the stampede in the democratic ranks, it
was as the Texas fly to the sensitive hides
of some of the little handful of the faithful,
If not, indeed, a sword piercing to the mar
row of the bones while it naturally
aroused in the heartless republicans the
nsticking propensity of poor, fallen, hui
man nature which was unsparingly in
dulged. But now, joking aside, one may
well pray that any community may be de-
livered from such local campaign as this
last one has been here.
Mrs. James NJ. Cheney is taking a vaca-
ton with friends in her old home, Ludlow.
- Luther Waldo will probably spend
the winter in Tallapoosa, Ga. - Hattie
kidder and Jason Martin, son of Erwin II.
Martin, are teaching in the quarry district
- The adopted son of Albert Goodrich
who was so sick last week, is now much
better. - Frank, son of Ophir S. Mar
tin is teaching again in Washington. -
Gilbert y. Smiths son, Arthur g., is to be
a pupil of the Bates Commercial School at
Waterbury Center this fall. His daughter,
Lila F., attends the fall term of Chelsea
Academy. - Arthur, son of the late Mr..
Denison Martin and now a resident of Ke-
vance, ILL.,, is at the old home here. He
seems to be improving. greatly in health.
- Matte Johnson of Thetford, who
was expected to teach here this fall, dsap-
pointed our board in not coming. -
Mrs. j. Camp, daughter of Joseph !
Capron, and now of northern New
York, is visiting her cousins, Mrs. John
Perry and Mrs. Dorcas Sprague. -
Mrs. Charles Hayward is improving in
health A recent council of physicians dis
sipated fears of anything at all serious in |
her case. == Mrs, j. n. Perrin goes this
week to Cohoes N. Y, to visit friends.
- j. X Lynde took third prize of
some $50 at the state fair last week.
- Mrs Charles g. Moore Mrs Will
lam Grearson and her mother and sister,
Miss Bertha Cross, arrived here from st.
George n b., Saturday evening,
Woodbury.
Mrs. Aaron Carr is seriously i'll.
Mrs Hervey Benjamin has had severe
attack of sickness.
Henry Ross lost fine team horse on Sat
urday night, the second one this year.
Next Sunday afternoon Rev Mr.. Smith
ers of Hardwick will hold the regular quar-
terly meeting at the town house at half
past two o'clock.
DR. S. l.. Wiswel of Cabot was in town
last week in consultation with DR.. Carter of