The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12

cans have been divided.
Waterbury.
Services were held at st. Andrews church
last Sunday.
The fair opened yesterday with sunshine
and bright prospects for success Let every
| body attend and encourage the manage
ment to still greater efforts in the future.
The organizing of home department by
the Sunday-school of the Congregational
church has met with great success. Over
| fifty members have already united with it,
The union prayer meetings at the Colby
| vile sChoolhouse are well attended and
much interest is manifested. They will be
held Wednesday evenings for the present,
instead of Tuesday evenings.
Rev. w. II. Walker, who has just spent
two years in study at Strasbourg, Germany,
was the guest of Rev. A. j. Covell over
| Sunday. His sermons at the Congrega-
tional church Sunday morning and evening
were listened to with deep interest
The concert at The hotel hall on Saturday
evening" given by Mr.. Markham and Miss
| Gould, under the auspices of Mentor Lodge
of Odd Fellows, was greatly enjoyed.
! Miss Gould has fine voice, and her recitals
were well rendered. Mr.. Maxham's mag
nifcent tenor voice was slightly impaired
! by severe cold.
Elders Selby and Tabor have closed their
labors in Waterbury for the present. Their
stay has been marked with great success.
! Their hearts are in the work of saving souls
for the Master, and they made host of
| friends while here, and all join in wishing
them Godspeed in their life work. While
in Colbyville they baptized twenty-eight;
last Sunday four received the ordinance of
| baptism. One of them was Mrs. Marguerite
Guyette of Stowe, aged nnety.six years,
| who is yet smart and enjoys excellent
| health.
A lnp Ia too IL ali
! day, September 4, at the residence of the
! bride at Colbyville Cornelius p. Moody and
| Ella S. Kennedy were united in holy matri-
mony by Rev. K. S. Fiske of Waitsfeld.
The house was beautifully decorated with
maiden-hair ferns and sweet peas. Two
little girls, Florence Morse and Florence
| Fiske, opened the way for the bridal party
| by unwinding ribbon held in their hands,
the ends of which were attached to either
! side of the door. Professor g. f. Moody of
! Burlington presided at the organ and, as
| the strains of the wedding march were
heard, the bridal party, consisting of the
| bride and groom and their brothers and Sis
| ters, advanced to the parlor, where their
numerous friends were in waiting. After
the ceremony was performed, congratula-
| tions and refreshments were in order. The
/ happy pair were escorted to the depot and
departed amid the usual shower of rice and
old shoes. The wedding presents were
numerous, the following being list of
them. Fifty dollar check, Mrs. Silas Cobb
/ of Chicago; elegant German vase, hand
decorated, Ella Cobb of Chicago; silver
teaset, lined with gold, five pie ces, Cora
| Kennedy; gold-mounted clock Nellie,
Frank and Warner Moody; dozen silver
teaspoons, Mr. and Mrs. j. G. Moody; gilt
picture frame, % by %, Frank Moody; pair
silver tablespoons, Mr.. and Mrs Elisha
/ Moody; pair silver dessert spoons, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. p. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. I. h.
Taylor; gold sugar spoon, Josephine Taylor;
same, S. b. Stearns same, Waitsfeld Home
Circle; same, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Turner,
! Ansonia Conn gold souvenir spoon, Fred,
Nellie and Florence Fiske; gold berry
spoon, Mr.. and Mrs. CIV Richardson; gold
salad spoon, Mr. and Mrs. f. G. Luce; pair
silver after-dinner coffee spoons, Nellie and
Annie Norton: half dozen silver fruit knives,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Gorham of Bellows
Falls; half dozen silver fruit knives and
silver sugar spoon, Mrs. Martha Moody;
half dozen silver fruit -nives, Mr.. and Mrs.
! viii Pierson and Luther Graves half
dozen silver nutpicks and cracker, Grace
Carleton half dozen orange spoons, Mary
and Laura Henry; silver butter-knife,
KATRINA Landt; vase Mrs Sarah Jones;
glass water set, Mr.. and Mrs. William Muir
ray; china salt shake, Helen Murray; glass
! celery dish, decorated with gold, Mr. and
Mrs. w. E. Carpenter; glass tea-set, four
pieces, Mrs. Lucia Moody and Nellie Moody;
china salt and pepper shake, silver stand
| ard Mrs. j. S. and Mrs. c. II. Newcomb;
book, Bridal Souvenir" Mr.. and Mrs. E.
S. Fiske; book Lucille" David Sawyer,
Rutland Bryant's Poems, Lillian Howe,
| Rutland half dozen fruit plates, Mr.. and
Mrs. Abial Slayton, Stowe; same, Mrs FL
| len Ashley; photograph case, George f.
/ Moody; china plates, hand decorated. Mrs.
Julia Moody; half dozen china salt dips,
Mary Moody; china fruit dish, Mr.. and Mrs.
E b. Moody; glass rose-bowl, Lewis Moody;
lace and ribbon tidy, S. b. Stearns; framed
picture of the brides home in Waitsfeld, in
water colors, Hazelton family of Waitsfield.
Nellie Haselton is teaching school in
Moretown Common district. - f. H.
Atherton and wife returned home Saturday.
- DR.. and Mrs. Bingham of Burlington
were in town last Sunday. - viii Tyler
formerly Of Waitstield, now of Cambridge
Mass, is here for week or two visiting
relatives 80 Fred Dumas and Will JOS
Ign of New Bedford, Mass, are on a two
weeks vacation to relatives here and at
Waitsfield. - DR.. w. f. Minard re-
turned from Boston last Sunday morning.
- Frank Moody began work for Hunt
Y Babbitt yesterday. - DIR. Ella and
wife of Cambridge, Mass. have been visit
ing relatives in town. 80 E. g. Smith
and wife of Council Bluffs, Ia, are visiting
for few days at NJ. G. Canerdy's, -
H. e. Reynolds of the firm of Abbott &
Reynolds, Salem sin town. - Mrs II,
e. Blossom, son and daughter, returned
from East Hardwick yesterday. - Miss
A. L. Delano of Boston is visiting in town.
g. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hatch of Bris-
tol are in town. - Rev. l.. II. Elliot
preached in Eden last Sunday.
Waterbury Center.
The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
Alonzo Hart was celebrated at their home
last Wednesday. Nine of their ten children
were present, one (F. A. Harp of the ten
being sick and unableito be present There
were seventeen grandchildren nephew,
OTIS Alden, and wife Of MiddleseX We're
also present The aged couple were pre-
sented with two fine easy chairs and several
other things that are fully appreciated.
About fifty took dinner with them, and all
hoped they would live to celebrate their
diamond wedding.
Mrs. j. W. Sherwin and two sons of
Chicopee Falls, Mass, and Mr.. and Mrs. e.
d. Seaver of Springfield, Mass, left for
home last Saturday. - Mrs. q. III. Stone
came home from Woodstock last Friday,
returning the same night. - Rev. Mr..
Ellis of Johnson preached at the Methodist
church last Sunday, Rev. M, IL. Eddy and
wife being away on two weeks vacation.
- f. b. Moody visited his son Burt at
South Royalton last week - Professor
O. II. Stone Jr., has returned from Wood