The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-27
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Williamstown

Frank Godfrey will move this week to
Henry Pooe's tenement.house.
The ladies in the village have organized
reading club Let all contribute to its sue
cess.
There will be children's concert at the
Congregational church on next Sundsy
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ingalls, OF West
Randolph are guests of Mr. and Mrs. ivan
McAll,ster.
There will be union Thanksgiving ser.
vice at the Methodist church at 10: 40 A. M.
on Thursday.
Mrs. Lewis Rodney died of consumption,
November 49, leaving a husband and lit
tie daughter.
A letter from DR.. Scion Briggs, now in
Califor MIA, states that Mrs. Briggs Is much
improved in health.
A daughter was recently born to Princi-
pal and Mrs. Daniel r. Martin of Pullman,
Ill. The little one lived but a short time.
1t is said that out Oft town parties are in.
vestigating some OF the wood lots in this
section, with reference to the supply of the
wants OF people residing in Barre.
1t is said that the lawsuit brought by G.
w. Turner against Andrew Burnham has
been withdrawn from Washington County
Court, each side paying its own COSTS.
Arthur Freeman, stone. cutter, is about
to visit his home in Ashburuham, Mass
James Powers will visit sister in Maine,
and perhaps go later to the British provinces
A number of workmen in the stone sheds
have been laid off this week, after the man
ner of doing at this season of the year They
may not all fad work again before Janu.
ary1.
Friends of James NJ Bass, now of East
Somerville, Mass, will be gla to know
that for the past six months he is having the
best health he has had since going to that
state.
Will f. Croudis has moved his family
from Fitchburg, Mass, to No, 70 Wendell
street, Cambridge, Mass. He continues
well enough to go on with work. His many
friends will rejoice in this return of health.
"Alf' House and Miss Hattie, only
daughter of o A. Blanchard, were married
on Wednesday las. They have taken
rooms in Mrs A. M. Hubbard's pleasant
house. Here's to length of days and all
other good til ngs to theml
Theodore Wlfore, whe has been carrying
on the Newton Martin farm in Barre for a
year or two past, has bought John Lynde's
pasture, adjacent to the west side OF our
village. and will return to the village to
live The pasture comprises some six or
seven acres, for which he paid $500.
A former wel-known and estmable
townswoman, Mrs. Emily Bass, widow OF
the late John Tinker and daughter of the
late Joel Bass, Esq died of pneumonia on
the 10th inst. at Derby Line. Though i'll for
several days, nothing serious was appre-
hended till day or two before her death
Several children survive her.
One of Williamstown's pushing sons i.
Hon. j. Ebert Briggs, son of the late j
Wright Briggs, and for years past resident
of Rochester, N, Y. Mr. Briggs has been
chosen president Of the International North
and South American Transportation and
Express Company, and will give his whole
time to its interests. The company has 8
capital of $5,000,000 Its object is to facili
tate trade between the two Americas and
Canada. Agencies are to be established in
all the principal cities of Central and South
America, the United States and Canada.
As former parshioner and a persona
friend Of Rev. Idrys Jones, the young
WEIGH minister to the Congregational
church here not many years ago, and from
whom his wife has obtained a divorce in
Washington County Court, we take the lib
erty to say; First, that he seems to have
been very successful minister in Wiscon
sin in the last two or three years, in which
| time he has kept up a correspondence witt
one or two If his old parishioners here
Second, when The petition for divorce was
published, a few months ago, he was a,
once put in possession of it. Branding the