The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-30

was long "a well-known person upon our |
streets until 1888, when he entered the Sol |
diers Home, where he has been able to |
spend the last days Of his life In peace and |
quiet.
r. q. Lyon, school clerk, furnishes the
following mortuary record for the town dur
ing the past year, which will compare IA
vorably with that Of any town In the state
Total deaths 45-tweve being in the asy-
% males and % females. Three were
o FER ninety years Of age; ten were between
eighty and ninety; eighteen be ween fifty
and eighty; eight from twenty to fifty; six
under twenty years Of age. Consumption
claimed three. victims, pneumonia four,
while nine died from old age. The greatest
number Of deaths In one month was seven
In April, and only one In November. There
were "a births in town during 1894, "a males
and 80 females thirty.one Of the fathers
gave their occupation as laborers; eight chill
dren were born to parents who we're both
born in Waterbury, while six we're born Of
parents who were both born outsi 10 OF the
state OF Vermont.
Mrs. f. A. Barrett and Miss Carrie Stick
ney returned from West Berl n on Monday.
- Newell Blair and family have moved
to Burlington. - Mrs. 8. M. Calkins Is
at home from Boston. - A daughter
was recently born to Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Tatro. - Rev. w. NJ. Newton is in Mid
dletown, Conn. - Frank W. Elliott
spent Sunday with his parents. - e. o.
Trask and family left for Worcester, Mass,
Tuesday. - T. s. Bates received a fall
last week, and is now confined to the house.
- Mrs Charles Wells visited in Bur-
lington last week. - Alice Palmer is
very low. - Master Robbie Burnham
has been very low with pneumonia
Waterbury Center.
The Ladies' Aid Society meets with Mrs.
A. K Smaley this afternoon.
Jessie r. Pike has rented the Simmons
house OF Mrs. j. j. Godfrey, and will move
| the first Of March.
Professor G. II. Richardson will speak
next Sunday morning from the theme The
Ministry Of Suffering"
Mr. and Mrs. @. A. Greene OF Watertown,
Mass, visited here last Monday. Mr..
Greene was called to his old HON by the
serious Illness Of his sister, Mrs. Mary Ty-
| Ter.
Mrs. Calvin Moulton had portion of one
OF her ears removed last week. 1t had
troubled her for some time, and the bunch
was growing, 80 it was thought best to re-
move it, Drs. James and Grout performed
the operation
Loyalty lyceum enjoyed a visit from the
lyceum of the high school last Friday even
ing. At the close OF the discussion the fol-
Professor G. H. Richardson; vice president,
Professor A. N Chandler; secretary, f. W
Gil,; corresponding secretary, Professor G.
Fl. Stone, Jr.; treasurer, @. A. Eastman
executive committee, Professor L. N
Moody, l.. A. Newcomb, Miss M. M. Henry
Mr. and Mrs James Turner of New York
who have been boarding at A. B. Luce's
for several weeks past, have left for their
home in New York. = Mrs. Fl. K. Keat
ing went to Stowe, Monday, for a shor,
visit - Nettie Swift Of Danbury, Conn.
il visiting at N. l.. Demeritt's - Mrs
Camp of Montpelier is spending few days
with Mrs. John Hayes.
Wiliamstown.
GreaIso & Beckett are employing thirty
two men.
o. A. Blanchard's new house is nearly
ready for occupancy.
George W. Lynde is preparing to enlarge
his facilities for ensilage.
Horace Farnham will finish the term Of
school in our village begun by Miss CARR.
gan.
A ne horse-b barn will be added to the
buildings on the Jaso H. Jeffords farm this
year.
Willie Briggs last year sold 1900 pounds
Of butter from four COWS, after supplying
the family with what is needed.
Charles Reynolds has been i'll Of heart
trouble for some weeks, and, 1t is feared, Ii
in critical condition unless help comes
soon.
Stephen Miller Of Ogdensburgh, N. Y.
whose wife was the only sister Of Mrs. Silas
Stone, died on the 10th inst. in his eighty.
fifth year.
Clinton Cram, who has just returned from
Auburndale, Fla, tells us that Adney Ben
edict had four acres OF tomatoes cut down
by the late freeze there.
LIST Thursday and Friday evenings the
drama, "A Fisherman's Luck" was pre-.
| ta1 hv NJ fOllra N pdaT
the auspices Of the band
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Walker were in
town last week, having just returned from
visits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
They will remain in Barre for the present
At Walter Changers auction sale last Sat.
urday, hay was sold at an average of some
$40 per ton; cows for from 800 to 500
shotes weighing from 125 to 100 pounds
for s..
The name of our old townsman, Henry
A. Answorth, a wealthy manufacturer OF
Moline, H., Is prominent just now in con
nection with q nomination for representa-.
tive to congress.
Maggie Carrigan of West Randolph, for
nearly two years teacher in our village
school, has b,en compelled to give up her
work on account OF i'll health, the result OF
a late attack Of grip.
George Crane took from our depot, last
week, machine for grinding corn, made al
Indianapolis, Ind, and costing some $500
He is to set it up in the mill in Brookfeld
recently purchased by him.
The unsettled difficulties between Jason
Johnson and Denny j. Briggs came up fol
jury trial last Friday, Lawyers Boyce and
Gordon of Barre being employed in the
case. Result-the defeat OF Mr.. Johnson
who will take an appeal to the county
court.
Frank Lougee is in the City of Mexico,
where he is thinking Of engaging in bust
ness. On his trip thither from Nebraska he
visited Henry Hersey at the United States
signal service station in New Mexico He
reports Mr.. Hersey as married and, seem
ingly, very pleasantly 30.
We have just been given the following
figures: In 1900, our place had $50 inhabit
ants; in 1910, 1853; in 1920. 1,4Sl in 1880
1,4S7; in 1840 1920; in 1850, l,452 The mum
Der of inhabitants continued to decrease
till it went, we believe, below 1000. The
tide then turned, and we hope will continue
to flow the other way.
L. G. Cummings Of Montpelier, crack