The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-03-28
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Appropriate Easter services were held at |
the Baptist and Methodist churches, and an
Easter concert was given at the Methodist |
church in the evening.
Professor g. II. Richardson preached at |
Little River last Sunday afternoon, and
Rev. e. W. Cummings preached at South
Berwick, Me.
Rev. e. w. Cummings will preach his
farewell sermon at Little River next Sun
day morning and Rev. N. M. Shaw will
speak in the evening.
Mrs Harriet Heating of Greenwich, N.
Y, is stopping with her sister, Mrs. Sarah
Cheney for a few weeks. - Miss May
Franklin visited friends in Duxbury last
week. - Miss Mary Martin is very low
with cancer. So Miss Mary e. Smith is
at home from Wellesley College for the
Easter vacation.
WilIiamstown.
A petition is out for road across the
Enoch Howe meadow to Mill Village.
Mrs. Joseph Crane has recently buried
her daughter, Mrs. Bell Crane Munson, in
Morrisville.
The local grange is flourishing, twenty
two new members having been admitted
last Wednesday. g..
Lynde & Cheney expect to erect stone
sheds here, this step being necessary to
Martin Seaver is thinking of returning to
this town to live, after years on farm
in Worcester. He still owns a farm here.
Messrs. Lynde & Cheney have been get
ting out a lot of ash for the manufacturers
OF the Buckeye moving machine in Worces-
ter, Mass
Work has been begun on the foundation
of the Beckett polishing shop. Several
thousand dollars will be required for work
already laid out
The teams of Olney F. Seaver and Victor
Hood collided last Thursday evening.
Though both were thrown from their
buggies, they escaped with only broken
thill.
Easter was pleasantly observed at the
Congregational church, Sunday morning. in
the use of suitable responsive exercise
singing by the quartette choir, children's
exercises, etc. The house was appropri-
ately decorated. lIs
Frank A. Walker, for several years with
| the Thomson Houston Electric Company in
| Lynn, Mass, has received an offer from the
company that may result in his return to
work soon-this time at their plant in Sche-
nectady, N. Y.
There was large gathering at the Meth
odist church, Sunday evening, on the o.
casion of the Easter concert, made up of
music, Rotations, ETC., by the children and
young folks, the pastor Of the church, Rev.
e. E. Reynolds, giving good address.
A former townsman, always actively in.
terested in town affairs, remarks rather sar-
| castically on the nearly twelve hundred
dollars worth OF liquor purchased by the
town in 1893, This would be in the ratio
of about one dollars worth for every man,
woman and child in the place"
At the special town meeting on Tuesday
of last week, two thousand dollars were
voted for new school-house in the quarry
4 ,sal. L.,
on dollar Of the list. This will make a
total tax Of $50 cents on the dollar this
year. ray1
Elisha Claff1in, for so many years in the
family Of the late David Gale, died on
Thursday, having had a partial shock. He
was upwards of seventy years old. He died
| at the home of Wallace W. Martin, where
he has been cared for for some time. AL
ways patient and tireless worker, we
know of no one who had not kindly feel.
ing for this worthy man. Without any
family, his property of some thousands Of
dollars, we believe, will go to relatives
none of them living hereabouts.
Miss Bertha Grearson has returned from
a stay OF some months with friends in Mas
sachusetts. - Miss Nellie Williams is tc
teach in South Barre the coming season
- A brother of Mrs. William Grearson
a Mr.. Cross, is coming here from New
Brunswick to learn the stone-cutting trade
| TTtu n. AlDSWOTUn returns
Massachusetts this week, much improved
in health. - Clarence NJ. Dermott O.
Brookfeld resumes work In the stone.sheds
here this week, after an absence Of severa
months. - Miss Katie Bass is in Florids
for her health. - e A, Young, brother
of Will Young, has recently come here from
the British Pacific coast. He is stone
cutter. IL w. Flint has moved into c
M. Sewers tenement. - Arthur Buck
ley Jones has returned from months of worl
in Rutland, and will engage in granite
cutting here - Giosue Sartorelli start.
from Italy this week on his return to worl
here as a granite. cutter.
Wrightsville.
Joseph Castro is about starting factor,
here.
Mr.. and Mrs Francis Cram of Boston ar
visiting at Mrs, Medad Wrights.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wiley expect to g
to their home in Middlesex to-day,
Worcester.
A. G.. Stearns of New Hampshire ha
moved on to the Hambet farm. - MI
and Mrs. Hamblet of Lowell, Mass, ar
visiting in town. - Mr.. and Mrs. L. L
Kent are visiting friends in Calais. -
Presiding Elder Sherburne preached at til
Methodist church last Sunday.