The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-10
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tertalnment at the town hall on the evening
OF the 18th. 1t well be well worth hearing
Coles circus exhibited here on Wednes-
day of last week The company was decent
and orderly, and the show is well spoken OF.
The adjourned meeting of the Bell Shoe
Company on Saturday was not very harmo-
NOUS, and adjourned again for two weeks
without taking final action.
The town school held on Thursday was
quite successful. The work there shown
uld credit TO the teachers and scholars, and
was well enjoyed by the audience. Rev.
MI. sherman, as superintendent, has done
a great deal OF work in planning and carry
ing through the exercises. Miss Merrill as
acc0mpanist, contributed largely to the eff
iectlveness of the singing. The picnic on
one common at noon was very enjoyable,
and everybody's thanks are due To the
ladies who did 80 much to promote this mart
OF the affair, notably Mrs. w. +. Hood Mrs.
w. 3. Hatch, Mrs. II. o. Bixby, Mrs. Mary
Tracy, Mrs. F. 1. Whitney, Mrs. G. l.,
Stow, and Mrs e d. Barnes
Names OF scholars having no absent marks
in school No. II, Ada j. Sherburne teacher.
Louis and Florence Densmore, Herman and
Jessie Davis, Esther Hutchinson, Mary Lar.
rabee, Asenath Lyford, Leon Robbins, Liz.
ze Sanborn, Carrie and Lille Sleeper.
archie Sanborn, Roy Sanborn, and Annie
Sleeper were absent one day or less on ac.
count Of illness. Mary Larrabee and Lille
Sleeper were tardy once, Carrie Sleeper
twice; the others mentioned were not tardv.
and others not tardy were Bertha and Har-
ola berry, Clyde Clogston, Ernest and Jen-
ME Harwood, Lena Lyford, George Ovitt
and Hattie Rogers. Whole number of pu.
pills twenty-seven; average attendance per
DAY twenty-five and eleven twenty-fourths
Mrs. Lillian NJ. Cobb Downs of Anoka,
Mimi, once teacher here, is spending
some weeks in town. - Lora Hill OF
Manchester, n. a., is at j. B. Atwood's.
- William l.. O'Brien of Dartmouth
college is visiting his ciassmate, A richie G.
NILS. - Mrs Jennie and Edna f. Rob.
pms pms nave gone to Boston to attend the
Christian Endeavor convention. They will
then visit friends in the state of New York.
and will not return home before the last OF
August. - Ben. e. Sargent is at home
Tor brief vacation. Since graduating from
a commercial school in Boston, he has been
at work in the city, and expects to remain
there. =" Misses Mabel and Nora Smith
OF Lowell, Mass, are visiting their brother,
Fred w. Smith. - William II. Button
and Ellie Cross were married on the Fourth
- Mrs. Alonzo Noyes and daughter
have returned from Massachusetts,
Corinth.
Elder Harding will preach, as usual, next
Sunday at the Meadow.
Corinth creamery paid seventeen and one
half cents for May batter
The creamery receives 6,2O0 pounds of
milk every day, and makes over a ton of
butter a week.
Incendiary fires in two barns in South
Corinth have been discovered Just in season
to prevent the destruction of whole sets of
buildings.
Haying is well started, but the dry
weather has cut off the quantity, there being
many neglected fields that are hardly worth
cutting, while rich, moist land gives good
crop.
Cummings & Cunningham of Bradford
have bought large lot OF standing timber
of f. 2. Mum, and have a gang OF men at
work peeling bark. They are to put in
steam mill to saw out the lumber.
School in the Eaton district closed June
%. Scholars having no marks during the
term were Mary Tullar, Agnes Tullar,
Louie Tullar and Charlie Tullar. Edwin
Jewell, Fred Jewell and John Poland were
absent one day, Lula Harrington one day
and half. The average attendance OF the
eleven scholars was over ten.
Homer Sargent, who has been at home
on short visit, has returned to Burling-
ton, where he is to remain through the
summer. - Rev. F. /. Sargent has been
sick for several weeks, but is reported a
little better. - Misses Sadie Humphrey,
Bertha Eaton, Nettie Sargent and Fannie
Blaisdell go this week to work as table girls
in summer hotel at The Weirs, n. Fl.
- Hon. Eugene Darling and his city
boarders have arrived and have taken pos
ocSsiou VI udpltWOOu A. II.
Martin, who has been sick several months
with consunp tion, is failing slowly. -
Mrs. Lester Dow is better. II E. R.
Davis graduated at Burlington at the last
commencement.
East Corinth.
The village school, taught by Miss Car
rigan, closed last Wednesday with a lawn
party in the school-yard in the evening.
While Adolphus Lucius was loading a
UQ ralx-
charged. His left hand was partly blown
off and so shattered that it was necessary to
make an amputaton at the wrist joint. He
is improving, and is as comfortable as can
be expected.
Mrs. NJ. E. Dickey and Ardele, who
have been visiting in town, have returned
to Montpelier. - Miss E. o. Hail. our
milliner, is away on short vacation. -
Cathie Mclaughlin and Lizzie NJ. Hatch
are to attend the Christian Endeavor con.
vention at Boston this week.
East Elmore.
School closes this week.
P. A. Holenbeck has shut down his mill
to do his haying.
Amos Powers has bought the Leroy Morse
place and moved thereon.
George A. Morse has sold his shingle-
mill here to Mr.. Simons Of Worcester.
East Montpelier
On Tuesday evening, July 16, Miss Brad
ford, elocutionist, from Peabody, Mass,
will give reading at the village hall.
Proceeds for the benefit OF the hall. Misses
Harriet Foster and Blanche Spaulding will
assist as pianists Refreshments will be
served.
School in the Horn OF the Moon " dis
trict closed Friday, June %. Scholars hav-
ing no marks were Blanche Cooley, Willie
Cooley, Erwin Lane Arthur Nelson, Perley
Sanders and Charles Taylor. Those having
no tardy marks, Blanche Cooley, Mary
Koran, Ruby Lane, Florence Sanders
Arthur Nelson, Frank Jacobs, Charles
Taylor, Perley Sanders Erwin Lane, Willie
Cooley, Charley Harpan and Leon Harpan.
Florence Sanders, Ruby Lane and Frank
Jacobs were absent but one day each.
Mrs. A. jarvis visited her son at the hos.
pital at Burlington last Saturday.
Eta Bancroft is at South Barre. A.
Jarvis is expected home from the West
this week. - Mrs. Lyford OF Cabot, who
has been stopping with her aunt, Hannah