The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-19
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Boston Conservatory OF Music, and a teacher
OF experience in department work.
Professor G. II. Stone, Jr., has returned
from Woodstock and resumed his work in
the commercial college. - james Turner
and wife of New York are the guests of
Mary Henry for few days.
williamstown.
j. X. Lynde took a first and third prize
at the Waterbury fair with his horses.
Nash Simons, son of the late Martin ST.
mons,was in town over Sunday, visiting his
mother and sister, Mrs. Henry Poole. His
wife accompanied him.
Christopher Hood has been adding Gu
pola to our new village schoo-house, and
in due time the flag of our country will
wave over it.
Members of our Christian Endeavor So
ciety accepted the kind invitation of the
East Brookfed society to visit them last
Wednesday evening.
Henry Lasel is furnishing our farmers
with constant market for potatoes, just
now. He was paying thirty five cents per
bushel for shipment, last week.
State Superintendent Stones lecture on
Friday evening seems to have been well re-
Ceived. He paid a very warm tribute to
the work being done in regard to our schools
in town.
Oscar c. Taylor has sold his household
goods and moved from the quarry district to
an island off the coast of Maine, where he
is at work in the employ of the Empire
Granite Company, SO well known in
Barre.
Our woods are full of gray squirrels, and
some of our Sundays are too full of the re-
ports of dscharging fowling pieces. Let us
plead that the day of all the week the best
friend of humanity, be not killed, in any
manner.
In the last weeks item relating to free
men's meeting it was said that the bolt was
headed by some fifty war horses of the
party in the past" 1t should have read,
headed, so to say, by some of the war
| horses" etc.
j. X, Lynde, representative-elect, was the
recipient of post-election serenade by our
band the other evening. The compliment
was handsomely returned by Mr.. and Mrs
| Lynde by reception OF the band, with
cake, coffee and ice-cream.
The seating capacity of the new school
| house in the quarry district 1.-TWO rooms) is
seventy, and already there have been sixty
six scholars enrolled, and more are to come.
| 1t is predicted that an addition of two more
rooms may be called for within two years.
The selectmen were out on Saturday
| looking after the matter of laying road to
| Chauncey Lougee's new house, on the Enoch
! Howe meadow. A petition is out for a road
| from the old David Burnham place north
erly to the quarry road, running past Kins-
man Martins house.
Neal B. Smith returned last week with
his brother Orrin, a student in Tufts Col
| lege, for vacation from work in j. X.
| Lynde's store. George K. Wilbur is at work
| in j. X. Lynde's store and may remain at
least till the close of the session of the legis-
| lature.
| The new photogravure of our village is
| out, and those who have not yet subscribed
for it can obtain, it of Andrew Burnham.
| Old Williamstownians elsewhere ought to
| have it, surely as nothing else will give
| them so good an idea of the place as it is at
present.
Deserving of something vastly more en-
| during than leather medal is a certain
woman, whose husband is a shoemaker,
and who lives three miles south of Chelsea
Green. Twice week she comes here, goes
on to Graniteville, and returns home, max
ing round trip of forty miles, gathering up
boots and shoes to be mended, and return
ing them repaired.
1t does one good to take a look through
the granite works of Grearson & Beckett,
and note the great Improvement in the style
of doing things over what it had been up to
few months ago, thanks in part to George
Beckett's immense hopefulness for the fu-
ture of Williamstown, backed up by " the
wherewith" to make things move. Would
that his tribe might increase here!
Lillian, daughter of the late Isaac Staples,
returned last week from the Fabyan House,
| White Mountains, where she had been
| working through the season. - Charles
G. Morse was in Norwich last week, setting
up a monument for Grearson * Beckett.
His family will remain here through the
winter If all is well. - Melvin Burnham
has gone to work as Jumper for Grearson &
Beckett. - Mrs Warren Poole is suf-
ferng from heart trouble and confined to
her bed at her home in South RoyaltoH.
- Mrs. Minnie Perrin Kellogg returns
this week to her home in Des Moines, Iowa.
- Perkins Bass, Esq, is in poor health
at his summer home in Peterboro, N. III.
- James Bissett is working at granite
home, and it is said he and his family will
not return here this season. - Hannibal
p Wood, now of Wataga, ILL.,, is visiting
his sister, Mrs. Chester Martin. His wife
accompanies him. - Bell Robinson is
teaching in the George Williams district.
Woodbury.
At last we have a blacksmith. Joseph
Sicily and family are living in the Watson
house, and he has opened shop at the
Center.
A number of "the boys" attended the
regular meeting of Wyman r. Burnap
Camp, Sons of Veterans, at North Calais
on Saturday evening last and report " the
best meeting this year"
A movement is on foot to have the school
house at the Center moved back out OF the
highway, and to raise the same, fixing a
cellar so that there will not be pool OF
stagnant water in it, as there is at present
making it disease breeder for the children
Sherman Lyford is ill. - Melvin
McCrills has bought the Mcknight place
and takes possession October l. - Mrs
Alice Lamberton was in town Saturday and
Sunday, visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
w. g. Peck.
South Woodbury..
The new bell, placed in the belfry of the
Congregational church at South Woodbury.
is fne-toned one, and it is pleasure &c
listen to it. 1t was presented by George
Harvey of Saratoga.
Alice Town: who has been stopping with
her brother, w. j. Town, through the sum
mer, returned to her home in Cliftondale
Mass, last Friday. - Mrs. j. c. Brown
visited friends in Cabot the past week
- Mrs Lucinda Farnsworth, who has
been stopping with her daughter in Barre
for few months, has returned home
- Blanche Strong was presented with
a new piano from her parents last Monday
Worcester
The next grange meeting will be held al