The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-21

denies that any liquors were furnished
either to these persons or to any one who
would furnish it to them.
Waterbury Center.
g. II. Holman has gone to West Randolph
| to entertain the grip.
| The A. II. G. e. hold their farewell meet
ing on Tuesday evening.
About twenty of the students attended
the concert at the Methodist church at the
street Monday night.
There will be public speaking in the Sem
mary chapel next Wednesday evening at
the customary hour.
Professor G. II. Richardson will speak at
| the Seminary church next Sunday morning
upon Divine Fellowship"
The usual closing entertainment will occur
evening Patrons Of the seminary are cor
| daily invited.
Worcester.
The next grange meeting will be held at
| G. M. Kenney's, Friday, February 90.
Elmer Phersons and wife (Nettie Emery
OF Lebanon, n. H.. were in town last week.
Those sick in town are Mrs. Chauncey
Hunt, Mrs. Bugbee and Mrs. Pauline John
SON.
Mrs. Kelley, who has been confined to the
house so long by a broken limb, is again
able to go out.
Heman A. Hancock one of the oldest and
most respected citizens of Worcester, died
| at the residence of his son, Heman b., in
Gilmore, on Tuesday, February 10, aged
| seventy-one years. Mr.. Hancock was the
son of Joseph Hancock of Winchendon,
Mass who moved to Montpelier in 1910 and
set up a blacksmith shop near where the
! First National Bank now stands. There he
remained till September, 1914, when he went
| to Pittsburgh, n. Y, as fifer in Captain
| Hubbards company. Returning, he re-
moved to Oxford, n. H, where his son He
man A, was born, who lived with his father
| in Bradford until he attained his majority.
! After working on a farm for two years, He.
man was employed by the Vermont Central
| railroad in quarrying and cutting stone. In
| 1849 he bought farm in Worcester, where
he resided up to a few weeks before his
death. He was a typical New England
| farmer of sterling character and more than
average ability. He commanded the re-
spect and confidence of his fellow towns.
men, by whom he was repeatedly elected to
various offices. He represented the town in
| the legislatures of 1861 and 1868. He was
greatly interested in school affairs, and his
service on the county board of education in
1891 and 1892 will be long remembered by
his colleagues of the board and by the
| teachers in town for those years. He was a
member of the Methodist church and took an
active interest in its affairs October l, 1913,
ne Lldrrleu mdryeJIo d. OODufn vi NOrun-
field, who survives him. They had fam
lily of seven children, ak of whom are
now living-John G. of Benson, Mimi,
| William b. of Morris, Mimi. Emma, wife OF
James Cummings of Springfield Mass,
Dora, wife of Thomas Shourds Of Trenton,
N j., who died two years ago, Frank, a
merchant in Morris, Mimi, Heman B., a
farmer in Gilmore, Vt, and j. Elliott of
Worcester. The sympathy of the entire
community goes out to the bereaved family.
They have lost kind husband and father,
and the town good citizen.
Wrightsville.
George Wiley, the sawyer at the mill, has
the grip.
John Hale's son has been sick with the
grip, but is convalescent.
DIR. Boardman made an attempt to visit a
patient in the Horn Of the Moon" on
Friday. Soon after leaving the Branch
road, he met with drift that caused him
to change his mind The horse left him
after being liberated from the sleigh, started
for home, but was stopped at Wright's
Mills and DR.. Boardman returned home.