The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-03-07

ing. Next Sunday he will speak to the boys
and girls.
There will be a lecture at the academy
Wright, dean of Harvard College. Sub
ject: HowWde is an Inch?"
j. II. McLoud has arrived home from
business trip to the West. He went by way
of Washington, ID. c., and saw the demo-
cratic bear garden. He did not dare to
come back through Pennsylvania for fear he
would run against that 10000 republican
majority.
East Hardwick.
Caledonia Grange held literary contest
| at the last meeting, and the side that was
beaten will furnish a candy-pull on
| Wednesday.
The road commissioner expended 49,
| 526.97 the past year; the school directors,
81, 969.59-a saving of thirty.six cents per
week over the year proceeding.
Hunt & Babbitt invoiced their stock of
goods to Cheever X Worthen the past week.
Mr.. Babbitt will move his family to Water
bury soon. We are sorry to lose him.
Mr.. Allen of Elmore has moved to the C.
L. Currier farm the past week. - Frank
| Hubbard is sick with typhoid fever. His
| daughter Eva is recovering; but Mrs. Hub
bard who has been sick for six weeks, is
still very low. - Mrs. Cyrus Underwood
is very sick with fever, while Ned Under
wood, l.. II. Goodrich, and Augusta Hale
|
and Mrs. Damas Massey are very low with
consumption. - III. H. Chase enter
tanned the Baptist Sunday-school Monday
evening.
Lowell.
The perpetrators of dastardly outrage
have been brought to justice and fined as
follows: Robert Nblack, Scott Stannard
and Clarence Parker, 1854 each, including
costs; Arthur Morton, Charles Austin, Will
liam Sylvester and Frank Kinney, S25,06
each, including costs,-all promptly paid
1t seems that early in the term of the village
school, taught by George Lee of Irasburgh
| and Edith Hartwell of Lowell, these
smart rutfians, sixteen to twenty years
old. attempted to break up the school. They
soon discovered that beneath the apparently
harmless exterior of Mr.. Lee lay vast
| amount of suppressed energy, backed up by
steel-twist muscles, and the rebellion was
soon put down. The boys were revengeful,
and seized the occasion of the teacher S be-
ing invited to tea to commit the outrage for
which they were arrested 1t was Of such
nature that we cannot soil these columns by
giving the details. All our best citizens
commend the teacher for the judicious en-
ergy he displayed, and have no sympathy
for the boys.
Marsbfield.
G. IL. Brown and son, from Manchester
were at the Methodist parsonage ON Friday
Mrs S. H. Tucker and Minnie Davis at
tended the prize speaking" on Seminary
Hill, Montpelier, Friday night.
The members of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union gave Mrs. Kenyon an
informal reception at Mrs. McCrillis' Thurs
day afternoon.
Rev, and Mrs. Tucker will give a recep-
ton at the parsonage to the members of the
formers Sunday-school class on Tuesday
evening, March 3.
Mis- Kenyon made her chalk-talk to the
eye while she talked to the ear of delighted
audience Thursday evening. Her object
lessons were indisputable. The lecture was
given under the auspices of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union
On Tuesday next the ladies of the Congre-
gational church will dedicate e. w. Gill
mans hall with sociable. The exercises
will consist of misunderstanding by Mrs. E. V.
Spencer and the little folks, and twenty
minute talk by the pastor, etc. All are in
vlted to the supper, from seven to nine
Middlesex.
Ed Guyett and Mr.. Elmer have finished
work for o. FL. Richardson and are going to
farming.
A large number from this place went to
Montpelier Monday night to see the great
and only John l..
John Bagley has finished work for P. J.
Chase and gone to Moretown, where he is
to help his father in sugaring.
About 100 of the friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Pliny Chase gathered at their house last
Friday night to remind them that it was
the fifth anniversary Of their marriage, and
presented them with parlor table, side
| board, easy chair and numerous other USE
| full articles.
East Montpelier.
Another boy in town, this time at Stanley
| Jones'.
| Mrs n. M. Clark is very low and it is
thought she cannot recover
The Christian Union will hold no more
meetings until about the first of May.
The new shop, which has been without
blacksmith since the removal of Mr.. Rennie,
was opened this week by Mr.. Grout from
Barre.
The whist party to be held under the
auspices of the East Montpelier Dramatic
and Musical Club, Thursday evening, March
s, has been Cancelled.
After very severe illness of less than six
days, Roseltha, wife of Theophilus Clark,
passed away last Thursday morning. Flu
neral services at the house Saturday after
noon, conducted by Rev j. Edward Wright.
Mr. Clark has the sympathy of the entire
community in this, his second sad bereave-
ment.
MoretowH.
There seems to be scarcity of tenements
in town.
Ira Humphrey and Daniel Russ have
| ClOSou Iutlr ldDOIS LOT lrlppi Tenant ~ 20.
and returned to Waterbury.
John Ladoo has moved into Frank Bulk
ley's Freeman house, and Fred Hunt has
purchased the Milo Griffith farm, formerly
occupied by Mr.. Ladoo, for 81 POO cash.
Robert Bradley, from Essex junction. has
purchased and taken possession of what is
known as the Asa p Hathaway farm. Mr..
Fielder and family, the former occupants,
have moved to Huntington.
Frank Atkins has purchased the resi-
dence, on the top OF the hill just out of the
: village on the Mortified road, OF George
NJ. Fletcher, now occupied by John Hurdle.
Mr.. Atkins is to have possession April l.
Newbury.
Moses Clark has bought the w. II.
| Worthen place in this village, now occupied
by Henry Kimball.
Mrs. Daniel p. Kimball had about thirty
ladies and gentlemen invited to tea on
Wednesday evening, and about the same
number of ladies on Friday evening.
Mrs. r. d. Currier, from Massachusetts,
who has been spending the winter on Cur
rier Hill in Topsham with relatives, lately
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Bagley Abbott,
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