The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-19

meeting of the alumni, seminary parlors. 10
A. M; literary exercises, seminary chapel,
III A. M, address, A. W. DeGoosh, 'S9, Bos.
ton, Mass; poem, Mrs. Edison M. Peck, 1877,
Brlstol,, Conn; dinner at one P. M, after
which there will be informal speeches by
alumni and friends; a brief service of dedi.
cation at the Thompson Memorial Building
will take place during the afternoon; social
reunion OF alumni and friends, seminary
parlors, A to 6 P. M; prize speaking, by
Seniors and Juniors, opera house, 8 P. /.
Wednesday commencement day., exercises
OF the graduating class, at 10 A, M; recep.
ton, by teachers and class, in seminary
parlors, at P. M.
East Barre.
H. I. Cheney has leased his quarry to A..
j. Young and w. b. Cheney.
Bison Brothers have the foundation in
for their new block and are now waiting for
the lumber.
L.. I. Cheney is having the stone drawn
for the foundation OF a tenement which he
is to build this summer
Many from this place attended the Free
Baptist quarterly meeting at Washington
last Saturday and Sunday.
The firm OF 1. W. Bates & Co. 70. K.
Balch) has been dissolved. Grearson
Brothers IF. A. and W. N. Grearson) nave
rented the shed and machinery which they
have been occupying.
11BhAA1 4 mas bhO dDDbh duGb vi IA
prize'fghter these days, caused By coming
in contact with the end of a whifletree,
A cash one and one-fourth inches long was
cut nearly to the bone, just over the left
under the manipulations OF DIR. Minard
soon made him nearly as good as new.
Sitters for photographs now give him their
undivided attention without any exertion
on his part.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Freeman Of Barton
and Mrs. Emma freeman of Barre visited
at A, @. Dickey's on the stu inst. -
Myra King Of Barton visited at Henry
Emery's on the 9th and 10th inst. - j.
X. Morrison returned home last Saturday
night. 80 Mrs. Southworth and daugh.
ter OF East Corinth visited at G.. G.. Taplin's
last Saturday and Sunday, returning home
Monday. - Charles Moore is around on
crutches at present. His broken leg is do
ing as well as could be expected. -
Charles Waterman is clerking for II. X.
Sargent for a few days in place Of Mark
Eastman. who is at home sick with erysip.
elias. - w. S. Downing is back in the
employ OF Edward Emery in the meat
market.
South Barre.
Abijah Pierce has received news of the
death OF his youngest son George in st.
Louis.
OF the children OF the late Joshua Petten.
gill, there are now living six who are be.
tween seventy and eighty years of age.
Lemuel Blanchard and Laura Olds, who
are at Tufts College, are expected home
Wednesday. - Martha Morrison is
spending a few days with her uncle, Miles
Morrison, on the west hill. - Charles
Ellenwood, a stone-cutter, went to Morris.
vile on Monday, where he has work for the
present. - Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
Smith attended the Central Association Of
Universalists, held at Mortified last week.
GraniteviIle.
The selectmen laid out a new road to Will
Jamestown on Saturday, to 60 through the
land of E. j. Woodbury., R. Moran aud Mr..
Cogswell. 1t will be a benefit to both
towns.
George E. Williams, foreman at Jones
Brothers quarry, died suddenly on Wednes-
day Of heart disease. The remains were
taken to Maine for interment. He leaves
three sons and two married daughters. The
sons were working on the quarry with him
East Cabot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford Niles of Minneap.
oils, Mimi, and Sarah Badger of Barre are
visiting at n. X. Abbott's. - Mrs. r. s.
Barr and Mrs. Warren visited in ST. Johns
bury last week. - B. G. Hill and family
have returned from the West, where they
went last fall for Mr.. Hill's health. -
John Eggleston has been visiting the past
week with his sister, Mrs. A. A. Gilman.
- Mrs. Mary Burt of st. Johnsbury
visited last week at G. Hills. - Albert
Bickford of Peacham visited friends in
town on Saturday.
Calais.
A deer was seen about the fields, Sunday
morning, by the people at Maple Corner.
The machinery for the separator station
is arriving, and it is expected it will soon
be in operation.
Harvey Burnap of Mortified was in town,
Monday, and it is expected that he is to en-
gage in business here.
Arrangements are making for a very rood
display of fireworks at Kent's Corner on
the evening of July 4.
Several from the local camp Of Som of
Veterans are attending the division en-
campment at st. Adams this week.
Picnic parties are frequent at Curtis
pond. There were from eighty to ninety at
the Wheeler picnic on Saturday, the 10Th.
Among those present were six brothers and
three sisters, whose united ages were $50
years. They were children of Mason
Wheeler, one of the early settlers of this
town.
East Calais.
Mrs. Howes of Duxbury, Mass, is at J.. O.
Lambs for the summer months.
The dwelling. house and personal effects
of the late Catherine Goodell were sold at
auction last Saturday. Mrs. A. Dwinell
bought the house for $685..
Mrs. A. Dwinell, Mrs. c.. R. Dwinell,
Sylvia Bliss, Winnie Coffrin and Inez
Pearce attended the Central Association OF
Universalists at Mortified last week.
Mrs. Matte Hull, inspiratienalist, will
speak at Union church next Sunday at
usual hour Of morning service. Rev. NJ. B.
Davenport will preach as usual in the after.
noon.
Sodom.
Theophilus Wood and George Edwards had
a successful fishing trip, Thursday, showing
a very long string Of perch, q fine lot Of
trout, and several large pickerel.
Mrs. Clarinda Templeton and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Alice Offendinger of Washington,
ID. c., with the two children of the latter,
are guests of Delbert Templeton.
A large stone was drawn from Lawrence's
granite quarry to Montpelier on Monday,
requiring sixteen horses to take it up the
hills, and weighing, it is estimated, twenty
tons.
Those young men who hang around the
post-office should think twice before en-
dangering life and property by cutting the
harnesses or other wise meddling with the
teams OF those who send for their mail, lest