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

| and valuable presents were presented the
| newly-married couple. Refreshments Of
cake and coffee were served. The bride
was formerly Miss Alma Simpson.
Rev. Mr.. East delivered sermon at the
Universaist church last Sunday on
George Washington-a Man"
Captain f. l.. Howe and Lieutenants
Coifrin and Smith went to Burlington, Mon
day night, to attend the officers school
Some person, thinking that meal was on
| the free list took three bags from the barn
of Reuben Orcutt few evenings since.
e. w. Howe was in Rutland last week
purchasing marble for the firm of f. l..
Howe q Co., who have recently received
several large orders
Sheriff Howe went to Montpelier, Satur-
day, to draw the jury for the March term of
county court Daniel Derby and |. N.
jerks were drawn from this town.
Friday afternoon an alarm was sounded
| for fire on Pleasant street in the house
owned by Miss Alice Clancy. No damage
was done. The cause of the alarm was the
| burning out of the chimney.
Charles Russell had paralytc shock last
week. -= Mrs. M. S. Gilchrist is in AL
! exandria, Va. on business connected with
the estate of the late Mrs. Minnie Winch.
80 Misses Minnie Hurley and Dora
| Plumley are home from Burlington.
f. L. Soper of West Randolph was in town
visiting his mother last week. =- Will
Dunsmoor visited friends in New Hamp-
shire last week. - Joseph w. Gould and
| wife have returned from Denver, Colo,
where they have been visiting their son,
| Myron several weeks. 60 Mrs j. S.
Dane fell on the ice Friday Of last we elk, Sc
verely bruising herself.
East Orange
| Mrs BENJAMIN Patterson, i'll from ner-
vous prostration, is in critical condition.
| NTr nro ITut,1,inu,,,
menced housekeeping on the Abel Burgiu
| farm.
Plainfield.
Ed. Nve is negotiating for the purchase of
the David Perkins place.
The extreme cold of Saturday caused the
mill to run ON half days time.
Ernest McCrilis moves his family this
week to Groton, where he is to reside.
Mr.. Allison of Winchester, Mass. was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Foss last Sunday
Alonzo Clark of Woodbury. having rented
his farm, is moving into tenement of S. b.
Gale.
Several singers of this place have been
arranging to attend a musical convention at
Peacham this week.
Truman II. Bartlett has purchased
building lot of Thomas p. Bartlett in our
village and intends to build a house next
summer
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph B. Cole of Marsh
field have adopted Sadie Ruth Chatterton
an orphan about thirteen months old that
was a charge to the town of Plainfield.
The town pays them about 500.
| III. III. Dewey and wife gave party to
| twenty-five of their friends last Friday
evening. The representations of the distin-
guished guests, which could not come but
sent their cards, afforded much amusement
| to those present.
Mra H A will Yiv nha1Iy oil
on temperance next Friday evening at the
Methodist church, She also desires to meet
the ladies of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union on Friday afternoon at two
o'clock at the Methodist parsonage.
Last Thursday evening large sleigh-load
to attend Mr.. Shorey's ball. from Montpe-
lier, had tip-over with a marrow escape
from severe runaway near Shorey's Hotel,
but no one was much injured, and there
was little damage to the sleigh. There were
fifty-one couples at the ball.
Last Saturday evening, the twenty first
anniversary of the birthday of Levi Bart
lett, son of Joseph Bartlett, was happily re-
membered by the presence at his home of a
large company of his many friends, and
from the cordial reception and excellent en-
tertainment all present were especially
pleased.
Rev. and Mrs. j. N. Perrin of Williams
town visited Mrs. PERKINS, father, Deacon
deacon's seventy-eighth birthday. His
daughter Gertrude and her husband, George
Dodge OF Barre, were present, with Bert
Gale and wife of East Montpelier, and all
had an enjoyable visit.
Before leaving the farm on which they
have lived for the past eighteen years, Mr..
and Mrs. Smile s. Smith recently gave an
oyster supper to their neighbors, twenty five
| In number. OF the twenty-three families
living on the east side of the brook road
eighteen years ago, only six families remain
on the same farm. During that time,
twenty-one OF the inhabitants have died.
Mr.. Aiken, who has purchased the Smith
property, will move in soon, and Mr.. Smith
will stay and help through sugaring.
Alison Smith and family move to the Tru.
man Bartlett place. - Cherrie, daughter
of Harry Laird, is better. - Hiram
Batchelder is worse again. Will Bum
is suffering from an abscess. - Helen
Batchelder is more comfortable.
North POmfret.
w. E. Perkins lost a good work-horse one
night last week by its getting open scut-
tie door.
One Of f. l.. Davis cows was so badly in
jured by slipping ON the ice that it became
necessary to kill her.
Our part of the town furnishes fully its
part of the entertainments this winter