The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-04

school at Gouldsville. E Josephine
Taylor was In Burlington last week and as
sisted at an entertainment given by George
II. Moody and his class In music. -
Mrs. G. s. Conant and daughter have re-
turned from Burlington. - Mrs. O. r.
Richardson Of Concord, N. H., is spending
q few days at her old home, en- route to st.
Adams for few weeks. - Arthur Bell
OF West Randolph spent last Sunday in
town among his many friends. - Mrs.
X. G. Wells intended departure for Cali
fornia this week Is indefinitely postponed,
in consequence Of the serious railroad
strikes.
Waterbury Center.
The Ladies Aid Society meet in Hayes
hall this afternoon.
Mary N Cressey, who has been teaching
in Middlesex village, and Miss Kathie Dill
bingham, who has been teaching in Will
and at home for the summer vacation.
- John W. York Of Chesterfield Fac
tory, N. H., is visiting friends here and at
Waterbury. - Mrs. Cora B. Colley OF
Hill, N. H., is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Hattie Hunter: Mrs. Colley will be re-
membered as Miss Cora b. Hunter one Of
our most successful teachers OF few
years ago. - Master Howard Smith OF
Worcester, Mass, is spending the summer
with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs NJ. l..
Dillingham;. - Misses Elizabeth Colley
and Mary K. Smith attended commence
ment at Burlington last week Wednesday.
- Mrs ID. G. Barber OF Burlington has
been visiting at r. j. Barber's for a few
days. - Don Bliss, former student Of
the seminary, and his wife are visiting
at Calvin Moulton's. - Mrs. Cornelia
Seaver OF Stowe visited her aunt, Mrs.
Achsah Allen, last week. - Arthur A.
Newcomb was at home from Lisbon, n H,
last week. - Nettie Chase and Rev. F.
W. Reeder were in Barton last week, at
tending the convention Of suffragists.
Williamstown.
The Seaver families are planning for a
picnic on Seaver hill July A.
James S. Abbott's family go to Bethle-
hem, n. H., this week to remain through
the season.
Joel A. Bass is to spend some weeks here
abouts, this season, hoping to recruit his
strength.
Master Eddie Staples, who is at the re-
form school, left that institution recently
but was soon returned to it,
All the ladies of the Congregational
church are invited to missionary tea at
the parsonage next Tuesday afternoon
| The races at South Royalton last week
| drew several of our citizens thither. George
| w. and j. X. Lynde were among the con-
| testants.
| News of the death of Mrs. Julia Kinsman
| is received. She had married again, and
| her husband, a retired Methodist clergyman,
was engaged in fruit raising in California,
The closing exercises of our village schools
last week were very interesting. 1t is
| thought here that the teachers of these
schools are exceedingly hard to beat IN III,
state
Mr.. and Mrs, Charles G. Moore, who wen
Io1t % lan fa11 Co.
Moore's health, have returned eastward
the pSnefit to Mrs. Moore being less thar
was hoped for.
! Ward & Douglass, the contractors, have
| finished the culvert under the trestle neal
the X, p. Martin place. 1t only remain.
for the Central Vermont to fill this, the las
OF the trestles on this line.
While certain young men were at bal
playing in the street near G. NJ. Seaver's
store last Friday evening, Fernando G
Davenport was hit in the face by the bal
and knocked senseless for time.
George Mari, highly-esteemed granite
| cutter, and Miss Lottie Mckee Of Canada
equally esteemed, were married last week
They will visit Canada, and it is hoped tina,
they will make their abode with us perma
nently.
John Walker, only son of Oliver Walker
and now OF Washington, d. c., and Mary
| T. SHdS6 VI Uldt ClUy WIRE udrTleu Oh
Thursday last. Mr.. Walkers many friends
will congratulate him and follow him with
a multitude Of good wishes.
Rev. F. W. Hamblin, former Methodist
| clergyman here, who has been i'll in Brad
| ford since the last Methodist conference, il
is said, will be taken to Hanover, n. Fl.
| this week for medical treatment. He is in
critical condition from forming abscess
His many friends here in Vermont viii
await results with sympathetic interest.
Rev. Carlos L. Adams addressed the
members of the two Epworth Leagues al
the Methodist church last Sunday evening
gregational church was invited to be pres
ent, as also the church itself. There wa:
large audience and an excellent address
A duet was pleasantly sung by George E
J Adams.
There is a secret society in the village
school, taught by Miss Margaret Carrigan
known as the "W. W. Society" The sig
nificance of the letters is known only to the
initiated, but it has for one of its object;
good order in school, To become a mem
Der, one must have had week of uneXcep
tionable department in school, and mem
bership can be retained only by continued
good department. Last week Monday
evening the society had public" wheI
friends outside were treated to a littl,
feast of intellectual good things.
A friend tells tale of highly-prizeC
and intelligent dog, thoroughbred Eng
fish fox hound. He was out fox hunting
on the East hill of Chelsea, dog and maste