The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-20

place OF JOnD hlnSIndD, deceased.
Topsham.
Rev. Mr.. Trevillian gave a very interest.
ing talk at the Sunday evening prayer.
meeting on the toxt, Have faith in God
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union intends to have a lawn party at Mr.
Morrison's on Wednesday evening, the 9th
Suitable exercises, with music, will be pro.
vided. Ice-cream and cake will be for sale
Willard Divoll of New York city is in
town, and expects to spend the summer
with his niece, Mrs. e. d. Taggart. -
John Wood, Jr, has so far recovered from
his fall as to be present, with his family, al
church on Sunday. So Mr.. and Mrs,
Davis of Wisconsin, accompanied by Mrs,
Davis mother of Ryegate, are visiting rela-
tives here.
Waits River.
Mrs. j. T. Carter and daughter Catherine
returned from Lowell, Mass, last Thurs.
day. - William Standlick is in Windsor
attending the United States court as Jury.
man. - Jennie Hodge, who has been
seriously i'll for many months, is very feeble
and Is not expected to recover. 60 Lucy
Marsh is spending her vacation at S. w,
Davis. 60 Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Marcy and
daughter Edith Of Newbury were guests OF
ID. S. Folsom on Saturday.
WaitsfieId.
The ladies Of the Home Circle will serve
ice-cream at the Congregational church
vestry next Wednesday evening, June q.
The skaters have commenced work on the
roof of the new church building. That
branch of the work is being done by Smith
& Somerville of Waterbury.
There is to be a special meeting Of Aims.
worth Post, G. A. r., next Monday even
ing, to attend to a matter Of business which
interests every member of the post.
The delegates to the republican conven-
tiOus are as follows: Charles E. Jones and
II. N. Bushnell to the state convention; II.
n. Bushnell and 0. M. Eaton to the district
convention.
AS John Deal of Waterbury, who is EN-
ployed on the church building here, was
coming over Duxbury hills, Monday morn
ing, he had a bad fall from his bicycle when
near the house of Park Avery, resulting in
a severe cash on his right hand, requiring
several stitches to close up, as well as some
lesser bruises.
The gathering of the Home Circle at j. G.
Bisbee's, last Saturday afternoon, was a sue
cess in every respect. Tea was served on
the lawn to a company Of over fifty. All
returned home feeling that they had been
royalty entertained, and that the spacious
rooms, pleasant lawn, and tempting lemon
ade made it just the place to visit on such a
summer day.
II. M. Waite has his new barn up and
nearly covered. - Kate Haselton re,
turned home last Saturday from Bellows
Falls, where she has been attending school.
- John w. Ramsay, of the Granite
city Leader, was in town over Sunday,
- Mrs. Clark Billings has been failing
considerably the past week.
East Warren.
The Warren baseball club played with
the Braintree nine last Saturday and was
badly left-14 to 8.
Parker & Slayton have hired the James
Cardell store and will fill it with a genera
assortment of goods.
Republican delegates to the state conven.
ton are l.. M. Heath, E. w. Slayton and
H. w. Lyford; district delegates, j. G,
Gleason, S. Banister and w. II. Cardell.
John Greenwood's father and mother
from Essex, are visiting him. 60 Peter
Moriarty has raised his barn. - D.. C.
Moriarty and wife, late of Florida, are
again at home. They do not much like
Florida. - ellman Brown and wife
have been sick for the past week, but are
improving. - j. c.. Gleason goes te
West Randolph this week to visit DR.. E. f
Upham.
Washington.
The board Of listers is appraising property
in town this week.
c. ID. Williams had one of his horses
badly cut by a barbed wire fence, last week
Ora Curtis has shingled his new purchase
occupied by Deacon Pratt, the past week.
The Ladies' Mite Society meets with Mrs
Horace G.. Moody this afternoon and eve
ing.
1. B. Palmer and Charles E. Emery ar,
delegates to the democratic state conven
ton.
Miss Boyles' school took a trip tt
Williamstown Springs on Saturday, anC
enjoyed a pleasant picnic in the woods.
A. F. Bohonan and Clinton Slack ar,
elected delegates to the republican stat,
convention, and l.. G. Bowles and Willard
Clough delegates to the republican distric
convention.
Miss Martins school were entertained b,
Miss Lucy Calef, Saturday afternoon, anC
had a gay time with games on the lawn
after which they were treated to ice cream
cake and fruit dd lbitum.
John Anderson of Boston, who was sen
here to work for A. c. Day, as a poor Swedish
boy from the Boston Working Boys Home
eighteen years ago, has been in town for
few days and was warmly greeted by ole
friends. The world seems to have gon,
well with him, and he contemplates send
ing his wife and children here to spend the
summer
A grand bear hunt was organized her,
last week Monday by a dozen or more citi
zens, who had been notified by George Bo
nOudn tDdU "a Dear ndu Deen seen near tD'
SWEET place, on the highway leading Il
East Orange, and that the animal had don
much damage among the sheep in tina
neighborhood. The hunting party founC
the unmistakable footprints of a bear-bu
no bear. 1t had doubtless scented the prep
a~rations made for its sake and left fol
more congenial pastures. Ar animal o
some kind has also been heard of on tn
Chelsea road, where he has frightened sew
eral horses but cunningly kept out of harm
way.
Clara Carpenter returns home this week
after a stay of two years in Chicago. -
George w. Downing has been in attendanc
upon Orange county court as the sheriff
deputy the past week. - p. q. j. Chene,
is at Poland Springs, Me. - Ira Elmer
[ of Glover, a former resident, is visiting ii
town. - Harry Emery OF Waits Rive
was in town on Friday. - Warren Per
per has returned from a visit to his daugh
ter in Burlington. 80 George M. Seave
is in Topsham this week in the interest @
the WATCHMAN. - Mrs. Orsamus Dicke
has arrived from California, and is stayin
at c.. w. Huntington's. - Florenc
Henry has arrived from Boston to stay 10
a time with her grandmother, Mrs. THU
Der. -. Hyde Cabot of Chelsea was i
town on Saturday. - @. 1. Hood c
S~arsaparilla fame and an Orange count
boy by birth, is negotiating for A. 7. New
? mama front.