The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-27

About sixty young people attended the
cobweb social given by the Epworth League
at G. A. Prentiss last Saturday evening.
To Mr.. Ed. Prentiss and Miss Rose Spooner
was given the prize as the first to untangle
their string in theweb while to Frank Whit
comb was allotted the BOBBY prize.
Elmer A. Baird who has been in poor
heath for some time, went on Monday to
Lowell, Mass. for medical treatment in
| hospital. He was accompanied by his sis
ter Alice and his aunt, Mrs. Samuel Baird
His many friends earnestly hope for his
speedy recovery.
The little son OF Mrs. Fred Buker, and
grandson of Captain o, g. Wilder, had sew
era of his fingers badly crushed in the cog
wheel gear of the churn last Saturday
- DIR. James of Waterbury was called
to town last Friday TO attend Joseph
Palmer, who was suffering with bad case
| of hernia. - Libbe Dixie, who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs Susan Carroll, has
returned to her home in Stockholm N Y.
South Walden.
Charles Smiths horse ran away recently
He had left his little girl in the wagon.
| She was thrown out and received serious
| injuries on her head.
The Walden creamery began business
May IL, and during the remainder of the
month made 1888 pounds of butter, for
| which its patrons received fifteen and four
|
! tenths cents according to the Babcock test.
| Now the creamery is receiving $500 pounds
of milk day. The past week 5000 pounds
OF butter were made, The quality is highly
! commended by those who are handling it in
market. K. c. Corliss of Thetford is the
butter-maker, and is assisted by Carl
| Stevens of Walden. Mr.. COrliss has proved
! himself to be competent.
Warren.
! 1t is reported that Warren is to celebrate
| the Fourth of July. We hope all will take
! hold and see il Warren can't celebrate the
| glorious Fourth once more.
The Ladies Unitarian Aid Society is to
| give basket picnic and dance at the town
| hall on Tuesday evening, July 3. Good
music for dancing
Rev. Frank s. G.. Wicks (Unitarian) will
! preach at the town hall on Sunday and
continue fifteen Sundays, We remember
! the good work done here last summer by
Mr.. Wicks and hope TO see good attend
ance through the summer, and all take hold
and help him in his good work.
Washington.
A new set of buildings is going up on the
poor farm.
The Baptist society is soon to have new
| pastor settled here.
Children's Day is to be observed at the
Universalst church next Sunday,
A business meeting of the Young Peoples
Christian Union is to be held at Mrs. S. e.
Carpenters next Saturday evening
The Orange County Veterans Associ-
alton will meet here for its annual reunion
this summer if sufficient encouragement is
given the Grand Army post.
Florence Carpenter of Lincoln, Neb., is
visiting at S. Z. Carpenters. She is the
daughter of the late G. w L. Carpenter and
Lizzie NJ. Houghton who went west from
Barre in 1862. Both died in Nebraska. The
mother was we'll known in Barre, where
she passed her girlhood, and was queen in
the " rosebud garden of girls that at
tended Barre Academy thirty-five years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Day of Barre were at
E. F. Browns last Sunday. - David
Jameson of Barre, former resident here,
was in town last Friday. - Miss Martin,
teacher of the Village primary department,
attended commencement at Goddard Sem
mary yesterday. - P. G. j. Cheney ar
rived in town on Saturday to spend the
remainder of the summer. - G. W,
Downing, F. G. Huntington, l.. G. Bowles
and G. A. Bohonan are delegates to the re-
publican county convention.
Waterbury.
Hunt & Babbitt are continuing their bar.
gain sale of shoes, and also have a fine line
of hammocks.
The Central depot at North Duxbury
CdIue near UoluR ucSJIOyeu ny IRE ldS'
week from locomotive sparks on the roof.
The Waterbury Hustlers played an ex
citing game of ball with picked nine, Fri
day afternoon, defeating them by score Of
81 to II.
H. S. Atkins met with painful accident
at Luke Roberts mill last week in losing
three of his fingers by means of buzz
saw.
M. M Knight is offering the people Of
~. l., - ~. 4
will be found in his advertisement in an
other column.
Hon. E. J. Phelps of Burlington stopped
at the Waterbury Hotel for dinner on Sun
day, en- route with private conveyance fol
Mad River valley and south over the noun
tans.
Olive V. May, teacher in the Colbyvillt
district, has been obliged to give up hel
school on account of severe illness. Miss
Alice Booker has been secured to finish tn,
term of one week.
j. A. Durkse has just received, from th,
civil engineer who made the survey, full
drawings of the proposed road to the sum
NIT of Cancels Hump, with grade elevation
and estimated cost,
Will the finder of a ladies' black cape OF
the highway between Waterbury and Mont
pelier Junction please leave same with Rev
l.. III. Elliot or notify him by postal wher
ii can be obtained?
Mrs. L. II. Elliot visited the scenes O
, her school life at South Hadley, Mass, las
week, attending commencement exercise
! at Mt. Holyoke College, celebrating tn
twenty-ffth anniversary of her graduation
from that institution.
r Burglars entered Batchelder & Robinson
hardware store Tuesday night Of last week
and secured about $40 cash in none
drawer and few revolvers and pocket
knives. They were evidently frightene
2 off before accomplishing all they intended.
Rev. T. Okamoto, Japanese theologics
student, will deliver lecture at the Congrt
gational church on Tuesday evening, July
/ Subject "Odd Japanese Customs an
q Ideas" He will be dressed in native COZ
= tune and illustrate his lecture with a stel
eopticon.
!. The ladies of the will age will give an ell
tertainment at the hotel hall on Wedne
day evening, July 4, in aid of the Water
: bury Cemetery Association. Ice cream wi
IL be served on the hotel lawn, after which a
can witness the display of fireworks.
Charles o. Humphrey died June 10, age
n fifty-fve years, and was buried in the vi
lage cemetery last Thursday, Rev. A. ,
q Covell officiating. Mr.. Humphrey was
. member of e. Dillingham; Post, G.. A. r
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