The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-28

than in the nineteen previous years at his
place.
The Universalist Ladies' Society will hold
their annual chicken pie festival at the town
hall on Friday evening next.
The children's temperance concert at the
Congregational church, Sunday evening,
was largely attended, and great success.
Dr. e. g. Lewis writes from Rutland of
the failing health of his wife from cancer
GUS trouble. She is now confined to the
bed.
Newell r. Farnham having surrendered his
new appointment as inspector and weigher
Of sugar, Leslie. ID. Gale has been given the
office.
Orvlle II. Briggs was ordered last week
by Health Officer E. b. Watson to kill valu-
able COW believed to have tuberculosis.
No other cases in town are reported.
Mrs. AFRO ID. Reed, one of our most &C
complished organists, is about to take up
the work of teaching organ music here.
There is prospect of good sized class for
her.
Henry Martin, son of the late Allen Mar
tin, has been appointed guardian of Elisha
Clafiin, the office having been left vacant
by the recent death of Captain Milton Mar
tin. Mr.. Clafiin is improving in health.
Sherman Winchester, of the Monument
House, returned from the Mary Fletcher
Hospital, Burlington, after brief stay last
week. Arthur freeman returned to Bur-
lington last week for medical treatment.
Despite the terrible cold of Saturday, the
Sunday. school convention in the afternoon
was very interesting one. Rev. Messrs.
Morrow OF West Randolph, and Lewis. in the
employ OF the State Sunday school Associa-
ton, were present.
At the David Gale estate auction, last
Saturday, Leslie Henderson Of Barre bought
hundred acres of land in the quarry dis
~ for all IN na1a III
twenty-five acres and small house in the
quarry district at $40.
Mrs. Anna Benedict Franklin writes from
her home in Fresno county, Cal, that her
husband had raised seven tons of rasins in
the last season, for which he could get only
three cents per pound. Money is extremely
scarce there, and the section abounds with
tramps.
Denny Briggs, son of Albem Briggs, is the
purchaser of the Hiram Dexter farm re-
Gently sold by j. B. Brockway. AT Mr.
Brockway's auction sale last Thursday
oats brought thirty-five cents; sixteen.inch
wood, green, ninety-fve cents; cows $40 to
$50; hay Sc, and upwards, according to
quality.
A son of Daniel Townsend. coming to the
village one evening last week, found, as he
was about to start for home, that the halter
with which he had hitched his horse had
been cut in three places and completely
been previously played on teams hitched in
sheds in our village during an evening that
reflect great discredit on the perpetrators,
though possibly they may have in some in
stances thought 1t only good joke.
The Grand Army Post, Woman's Relief
Corps, and the Sons of Veterans, are getting
a large share of the social good times here
this season. On the 14th instant they-one
or more-took the family Of the veteran Jason
johnson by pleasant storm, it being Mr..
Johnson's fifty-third birthday. Again last
Wednesday they went, in number sixty or
seventy, to the home of Olney +. Seaver, a
veteran, for good time, and had it, These
| organizations look to the mental improve
ment OF their members, and thus literary
exercises, music, ETC., are literally supplied
| on these occasions.
The warning for March meeting calls for
the consideration of nothing but the ordi-
| nary and most commonplace business Of the
town. The annual reports Of the officers OF
| the town show that in the past year some
$1,000 have been paid for the support OF
schools, aside from new buildings, ETC.;
some $500 for the support of the poor; about
| 81 ,450 for roads, with an addition Of about
$500 for breaking winter roads. About
s1,170 were expended for liquors. The
| town has three lawsuits on its handsome
with Timothy Holland of Northfeld, one
with the town of st. Adams for money ex-
| pended in care OF a pauper, and one with
|
| force contract made for running trains to
| and from the place.
| Woodbury.
The building committee for the new
| Methodist church is to commence work at
| once.
At the quarterly conference, held one
week, ago, it was unanimously voted to
| ask conference to return Mr.. Ross another
| year.
Rev. Zimri Wheeler and wife OF Hancock
are visiting relatives and friends in town.
Mr.. Wheeler occupied the pulpit at the
Methodist church Sunday morning and
evening.
The cantata, Esther the Beau iful
Queen" will be given as follows: At South
Woodbury. on the evenings of March
and IA; at East Calais the evenings
| of March and 10.
While Sidney Goliath was cutting timber
alone last Saturday morning, in some I'M
accountable way, as the tree fell, the butt
caught his ankle pinning it to the stump