The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-01

| nave ROHb W md0CnbHIe1, N. Ill.
waitsfeId.
The new road machine has come. 1t is
| beauty and looks as IL IL would do good
| work.
The schools in town began Monday morn.
| ing. Mrs. Carrie Joslyn teaches in the up
per school and Lula Jones in the lower
| school,
Howard Clark of Lincoln was in town on
Monday, buying fat cattle. He drove quite
herd over the mountain. for which he
paid good prices.
| Rev. Mr.. Enright, the new Methodist
minister, arrived on Saturday and preached
| ms 1rst sermon to large audience on Sun
day. Mrs Enright came Monday evening.
The remains of Elmer A. Baird were
brought TO town on Saturday from Lowell,
| Mass. Alice Baird and Sarah Thompson
had been caring for him through the win
ter The funeral was at his fathers on
| Sunday, Rev. e S. Fisk attending.
Sugaring has come and gone, and, az a
| general thing, has been a very poor season
| for the large Majority of sugar. makers A
| large number who have cold sugar orchards
report that they have made less than one
| third OF an average crop, while others who
have warmer sugar orchards have made
about one half crop. The largest amount
OF fine sugar made by any OF the large
sugar.makers in Mad River Valley has
been made by G. e. Jones, j. 1, Palmer, L.
M Learned and j. G. Bisbee, each tapping
over one thousand trees. In their sugar
orchards, they have made about two and
three. fourths pounds to the tree, and think
| IL has been pretty fair sugar season con-
sidering the high price they are receiving
compared with last years receipts.
Cheney Prentiss of Northtield was in
town few DAYS last week visiting friends
- Sarah Thompson and Gertrude Rich
ardson went to Moretown on Monday,
| where they are to teach the village schools
- u III. McAllister is sick wi Jh Sc.
we're cold. - Mrs. o. M. Eaton has re-
turned from Burlington, where she has
been for several weeks caring for a sister.
East Warren.
Edward Elliott has already planted half
an acre of potatoes.
A pleasant evening was passed at DIR. o.
ID; Greenes last week Wednesday evening,
| when more than one hundred friends and
neighbors gathered to bid him and family
| goodbye, leaving tokens of love and esteem
This family have won many friends here
who are sorry to have them leave us. They
go to Bethel this week.
Waterbury.
| The Ladies' Aid Society will meet this
afternoon with Mrs w. r. Elliott.
| Mrs. NJ l.. Wells is showing a fine line of
| millinery, which is receiving the attention
| it deserves.
Mrs. Jane McMullen died at her home in
| DuXbury, Sunday evening. Funeral yes
terday afternoon from her late residence,
Rev. A. j. Covell officiating.
f. K Griggs proposes to keep first-class
stock OF stationery in connection with his
news stand 1t is just what our prosperous
village needs, and Frank knows how to
oft.
Griggs & Demeritt seem to be taking in
more or less maple sugar every day, for
| which thew cash THAR I'm al ma yaq
a good market for this crop, which the
! farmers appreciate.
The contract for furnishing the granite
| used in the construction of the new asylum
| buildings was awarded, last Friday, to Mr.
Blondin of this village. 1t will amount to
over ten thousand dollars and furnish en-
ployment to several extra hands.
The high school lyceum will meet this
evening. The subject for consideration will
be, g Resolved, That in our present labor
troubles, our sympathy should be with
labor, rather than capital" Leaders-atfir-
native, John Palmer; negative, G. e.
Wells.
The annual meeting of the Waterbury
Cemetery Association will be held at the
school-house next Friday evening, May g.
| The election of officers will take place, and
it is earnestly desired that all who are in
the least Interested in the continued care of
the cemetery may be present.
Martin l.. Henry, aged fifty-three, died
suddenly at his home in Duxbury early
Monday morning of neuralgia of the heart.
Mr.. Henry enlisted in Company &, First
Vermont Cavalry, when it was organized
and served faithfully until the regiment
was mustered out, after more than three
years service, receiving an honorable dis.
charge. The funeral will be held this after.
noon at two o'clock from the residence of
his mother in the village. A wife, three
sons and two daughters survive him.
A grand concert by the Harper's Ferry
Quartette OF Storer College will be given at
the Congregational church next Saturday
evening. Those who had the pleasure of
hearing them when they were here one
year ago will be glad OF another opportu-
nifty Their voices are rich in melody and
thoroughly cultivated. One voice has been
added this season, second tenor. Their
repertoire includes the gu Amt negro melo-
dies as well as the leading classical, sacred
! and secular music. The school and the
singers are worthy of liberal patronage.
The initial entertainment to be given
Thursday evening by the Odd Fellows in
their new and elegant opera house bids fair
to be all that was hoped. The sale of seats
and premiums paid for first choice is very
encouraging. The price of seats may seem
high to some but when the class of the en-
tertainment is considered, and the object
for which the proceeds are to be used, none
should object to give their hearty support.
lHo DulluiuR, Ill iii lIs uttdllSy Is On6 OF
which the citizens of Waterbury may we'll
be proud. Let all turn out and make the first
audience OF the new opera house one long
to be remembered.
An obituary notice of the late Mrs. w. P.
Dillingham; will be found elsewhere in this
paper. The place she had held in the love
and esteem of this people was manifest in
the numbers attending the last solemn GER
emonies, but more in the speaking hush
and quietude, the moistened eye and the
general aspect Of heartfelt sorrow. Flow
ers in manifold form and design added their
fragrant testimony of love and affection.
At the head of the long funeral procession
by the side of her son, walked Madam Dill
bingham, erect under her four score of years,
a striking illustration of life mercifully
heightened out and full of dignity, grace
and loveliness.
A survey and full working drawings have
been made, by competent engineer, of a
route for a carriage road to the summit of
Cancels Hump. The interest shown by
those undertaking the enterprise is very
commendabl and should inspire the public
generally with the Importance of giving
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