The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-09

Wits Little Early Risers are the smallest
pills, will perform q cure, and are the best.
W. e. Terrill & Co., agents, Montpelier.
Grotou.
Rev. M. Boutwell, and Mrs. Alex.
Cochran attended the Epworth League con.
vention at st. Johnsbury.
The Young Ladies' Mission Circle will
meet with Mrs. o. NJ. Boutwell, next Satur-
day afternoon at three o'clock.
Caledonia County Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, was formed here, October 1, and
three ranks were conferred on sixteen can
didates. About forty five delegates were
present from other lodges. The following
officers were elected and installed: M. ID.
Coffrin, chancellor commander; II. l.. Gil.
man, vice chancellor; 1. N. Fowler, prelate;
A. W. Coffrin master of work; e. ID.
Kicker, keeper of records and seal; c. j.
Bailey, master Of finance; - Libby, mas
ter of exchequer; George II. Pillsbury, mas
ter at arms L. @. WEIGH, inner guard ;
o. III. Remington, outer guard.
Hardwick.
A sidewalk is building from the Aiken
store to the cemetery.
Ethelynd Gould gave reading at Acad
envy Hall on Tuesday evening.
There will be horse.trot at Bailey's
track, Hardwick Street, on Friday.
w. H. Taylor and o. B. Hall have been
surveying the Judevine estate timber land
the past week.
The Hardwick and Craftsbury ball mines
played game here Saturday, the Hardwick
club winning by one run.
General o. o. Howard will give his well.
known lecture, Grant at Chattanooga"
on Tuesday evening, October Is, under the
auspices OF Ellsworth Post, G. A. r..
Everybody will want to hear It,, and the
hall will be more than full.
G. r. Davis broken leg is doing we'll.
- Helen Foss is now out of danger.
g. Perley Cobb is gaining every day.
Marshfield.
A Methodist sociable will be held at j. b
Pixies on Friday afternoon.
A promising colt belonging to Edwin
Spencer was cut on a barbed wire fence
last week.
Mary N. Chase delivered lecture on
woman suffrage on Tuesday evening at the
Methodist church.
Mr.. Faunce, Universalist, will preach at
the Universalist church next Sunday after
noon at one o'clock. The church Is now
sufficiently repaired to be used.
George Smith, son of o. H. Smith, is sick
with typhoid fever in Fargo, No Oak. His
father and mother have gone there to care
for him. John Osgood is at work for Mr..
Smith during his absence.
The Universalists are putting down a new
carpet in their church this week, and will
hold service there next Sunday. The la
dies will give box supper in the vestry on
Saturday evening of this week. Admission
to vestry, five cents. Music for a prone.
made will be furnished by Ira H. Edison.
Fri Spencer and wife started last Monda =
for Minneapolis and other points in the
West, making an extended visit. - Eli
Edison has completed his barn, and is newly
went to Danville, last Friday, to assist in
forming a new lodge of knights of Pythas
and he also attends the session Of the grand
lodge at Barre this week. - w. II. ii
Mears is at home from the recent session OF
the grand jury at Montpelier, and also the
! legislative reunion. His son Warren was
at home over Sunday from st. Johnsbury
where he is attending school. - Mrs
Carrie E. Robinson passed her sixty-third
birthday last Monday.
Middlesex.
Professor L. N Moody will give reading
al Holden hall this evening at eight o'clock
Professor Moody graduated with high hon
ors at the Delsarte College of Oratory
Toronto, and is an elegant reader and per
senator. His selections are from the bes
authors, consisting of dramatic, pathetic
Levi James died at the town farm OF
Thursday.
Edward Bailey came from Littleton las
Wednesday and went hunting with hi
father, f. F. Bailey, killing two foxes, SOM
cartridges and gray squirrels.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society meet
this afternoon in the ladies' parlor of tn
Congregational church to sew for the fam
lily of Warren Bailey, who lost nearly al
their clothing in the fire.
TT a ROl1ina road pOnmi aanper bo
been repairing the highway in our villag
the past few days. BY the size and fire
quency of the water bars he has built, /
would appear that he believes in the oil,
way Of building roads.
Rev. g. III. DeBevoise, financial agent @
the Kurn Hattin Homes, spoke in the Con
gregational church last Sunday mornin
and evening. His talk in the morning wa
in regard to the Home, and in the evenin
his subject was " The Helps and Hindrance
of Life" Both services were very intel
esting
The farm building of William W Bale
& Son, and contents, on the river road on
mile below this village, were burned bt
tween six and seven o'clock on Thursda
morning. Most OF the household goods an
farming tools were saved. Insurance 81, 90,
1t is thought the fire was set by tramps, 8
some were seen about the premises just b,
fore the fire was discovered.
Mrs. Anna e. Reyes is spending a fe
days in Boston. - Miss II. e. Reyes