The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-10

moved from the mill house into one of
the Bemis houses on the mine road. 60
| George and John jilman are at home from
Dartmouth College for a short vacation.
- Lurd Smith has returned to Oicott
- Mrs. Richard Smith is visiting in
st. Johnsbury.
Fayston.
Samuel Mclaughlin, who has been suffer.
ing from erysipelas, is improving rapidly.
A. K. Mehuron has snapped farms with
e. A. Fisk OF Waitsfield and W II make the
exchange this spring.
There seems 10 be AN unusual scarcity Of
| teachers this spring. There are now live
vacancies in the town.
Greensboro Bend
Not much sugar has yet been made in
this vicinity
Rev. NJ. III. Smith has gone to Waterbury
to attend the Vermont Confers ice.
The Junior League gave pink party at
the vestry OF the Methodist church last week
Tuesday evening.
Groton
j, w. Morrison lost young horse last
Friday.
T. b. Hall has bought four oxen of r. NJ.
Harvey, West Topsham.
Alexander Davidsons sugarhouse, with
contents, was burned last Saturday night.
Mrs Levi Hood died last Saturday, OF
heart disease, aged sixty-seven years. She
leaves a husband and four children.
There will be no services at the Meth
odist church next Sunday, as the pastor,
Rev o. M. Boutwell,, is at conference.
Mrs. Sanderson thanks friends and neigh
bors who assisted in the care of her mother,
Mrs. William Dow, in her last sickness.
The house of Joseph WEIGH came near
burning last Monday. Fire c,ught in the
chamber and had made con .iderable head
, way before it could be extinguished.
MarshfieId.
Joseph Wilson lost a valuable horse last
week.
, William Young of Franklin Falls. N. e..
an old resident who is visiting here says he
, has taken the WATCHMAN over forty years.
. Henry Blake and wife were called to
Groton last week to attend the funeral of
Mr.. Blake's moth,r. His father died about
six weeks ago.
3 Charles f. Shepard has been chorister of
he Methodist church for thirty one years.
On Tuesday evening of last week his choir
gave him pleasant surprise visit.
1 j. f. Sanborn has finished surveying at
Goslant's last week He has put two mil
! lion feet Of lumber into his mill here and
. one million at his mill in Walden.
Frank Huntington and Hermon Wheeler,
p the young men who created the disturbance
on Maple Hill few weeks ago. were ar
rested last Saturday and brought before
! Justice Ira III. Edison on a charge of drunk
! enness. They pleaded guilty and were
a | fined the usual amount,
Henry Hobart died on Thursday. The
funeral was held at his house, Rev Samuel
Lewis officiating. Morrill, Post, G. A r.. at.
= tended and held "A service at the grave. He
l. was member of Company II, Thirteenth
Vermont. He came back TO his farm last
N May from Virginia City, New. where he
# had lived for five or six years.
Aunt Susan Cole and Aunt Lizzie Kdder
a are sick with the grip. - j. w. Sulham
r moved TO Peacham last week. - Mrs.
r James Newton is visiting her mother in
} Woodstock. - DR.. Gillette went to
v Stowe last week to see his father, who is
= sick.
o MoretowH.
A communication regarding the heavy
a sugar makers OF the Mad River Valley was
+ received at this Office Monday morning,
a signed Your Subscriber" It was con-
8 signed to the waste basket, the final resting.
place of all anonymous letters and contribu-
tions. The subject matter of the communi-
: cation referred TO was all right, and, had the
L writer signed his name to the article, we
!. would gladly have published it. 1t ought
- to be unnecessary to repeat again and again
- that the WATCHMAN never publishes I'M
signed communications.
~ Newbury.
IS The Ladies' Literary Club met with Mrs.
l. j. l.. Merrill on Tuesday afternoon.
" A party of twelve attended the festival
concert at st. Johnsbury last Friday evening
l. The Ladies' Home Missionary Society
/. will meet With Miss Ii. E. Reyes on Friday
. afternoon.
= Fast-Day se;vices will be held in the
a vestry of the Congregational church at
, eleven o'clock
The selectmen have appointed Henry G..
Rollins road commissioner, as Robert Lackie
= declined to serve longer.
! The students at the seminary will give
X sugar sociable and literary entertainment
. next Saturday evening in Seminary Hall.
~ Tia morning services at the Congrega-
tional church, beginning with next Sunday,
will begin at half past ten o'clock instead of
eleven.
Rev. j. S. Upper is away this week at
s tending the Methodist Conference at Wa
n t,rbury II is hoped, and generally
is pected, that he will be returned to this
n charge again.
J. Mrs +. III. Bickford and sister, Miss Un-
10 derhill, from Piermont, n. H., spent We'd
l. nesday night in town to take in the concert,
at the Congreg ational church, by the Bos-
ton Star Company.
Real estate is changing hands. Mrs.
/. Miller Of Ryegate has bought the Andrew
r. Nutter place of III. A. Avery. 1t is reported
= that the p w. Ladd place is in the market,
and two or three customers are bidding
= on it.
D Easter services will be observed at the
!, pastor will preach sermon appropriate for
u the occasion in the morning. and at half
N past six in the evening there will be con-
cert by the Junior Endeavor Society.
Mrs. A. f. Pillsbury and daughter ar
N rived in town last week for few weeks
stay, She intends to sail for Europe the
n last of the month. Her many friends are
"a sorry that she is not to spend most of the
~ summer at her residence, has been her
custom for several summers.
y Rev. j. l.. Merrill attended the funeral of
% Rev j. Q. Bittinger of Haverhill last Sun
2 day. - Ezra b. Clark spent a few days
in town last week on his way from
Worcester, Mass, to ST. Johnsbury. -
10 Master Otis ID. Bond spent his tenth birth
~ day with his cousin, Ida NJ Washburn, at
South Corinth last week. - Alex. Greer
had another carload of cows arrive last
Monday - Mrs. DIR. Russell returned
= home with her mother to Lowell Center,
Maine, last Wednesday for few days
u stay. - Minnie Folsom of Waits River
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