The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-02

Company. Su nner Stearns will remain |
with the new company as manager.
The adjourned meeting Of the Congrega-
tional church, held last Friday evening, was
again adjourned for one week, to give the |
committee on church parsonage time to fin. |
ish their work and make full report. The |
prospects are encourag ng for the erection |
OF a home for their pastor at an early date.
A first class course OF entertainments In
our village the coming winter Is desirable
and II all who are able will do their part
there is no question as to the result. Mr.. |
Frank Bean, the efficient assistant OF the
Rev. j. j. Lewis, Is spending IA week with
us, assisting our people In organizing a
| course of six concerts and lectures, to begin
| the last week In October
DR.. Harry Ballard Of Burlington and
Grace Tillinghast were united in marriage
| by Rev. A. j. Covell at the home OF Mrs
II. II. Merriam, last Wednesday afternoon,
in the presence OF goodly number Of rela-
tives and friends. After brief visit to
Montreal they will take up their abode at
the Waterbury Hotel. DR.. Ballard IL as
sistant physician at the asylum.
Fred A. somerville left for Clinton, Mass,
last Thursday, where he has secured po-
sition on the staff OF civil engineers for the
Metropolitan water board, with headquar
ters at Clinton. With rare natural ability
and thorough training at the Worcester
Poly technic Institute, he Is well fitted for the
responsible position now undertaken. His
bOOa
fortune.
Edwin G. Wallace died last Wednesday
morning, aged forty-six years, after brief
illness. He was born, and has always re-
sided in, Waterbury. With manly quail
ties, of a retiring disposition, he was re-
spected most by those who knew him best.
He ever manifested a kindly spirit and was
ever ready to sacrifice his own time and
siren 9Th to help others. His widow and
two children, Henry G. and Lena N. sur
| Wv i'm Tba ut
house Friday afternoon and was very
largely attended, Rev A. j. Covell officiat-
ing Burial was at the village cemetery
with Masonic honors. A life insurance
policy for $4,000 was secured by Mr.. Wal
lace less than two years ago.
Mrs. Sarah Tillinghast Mrs. j. G. Til
lingbast. with Miss Lamoille and Master
Bert, have returned to their home in To-
ledo o. - Henry Burlegh and wife are
to return TO Cleveland this week. -
Mark Moody has resumed his former posi-
ton in the post-offce, which he was obliged
to leave on account OF severe illness.
Woodbury..
Work on the railroad has stopped en-
tirely, and the men were paid off last Mon
day and discharged.
The Methodist Sunday-school is making
preparations to hold a Harvest Home festi-
val soon for the benefit of their pastor.
Another Of our most enterprising and
prosperous farmers has been called home.
On Saturday, September 81, the remains Of
Gideon Durham were laid in the silent
tomb Your correspondent remembers him
as a youth of rare promise, which was fully
verified in later year,. For the last few
years he has suffered much from illness, the
result of overwork in his early life. His
farm in West Woodbury. was, II not the
largest, one of the largest dairy farms in
town, keeping over thirty cows. In every
sense of the word, Gideon Burnham was
| r.
word and work, he was never called upon in
vain to assist in anything which was for the
public good. Pronounced in his opinions,
he was far from being bigoted. He was
about the last in town of his day and gen.
GRAFTON, and in truth 1.-THE mourners will
60 about The Streets" He will be missed
by a large circle Of friends in this as we'll as
adjoining towns.
Sylvester Jennings, Mr.. and Mrs Patrick
Lilley, and four Of Jed Hollis children are
very sick. - G. W. Foster and Jed Holt
have been appointed delegates to the state
Sunday school convention by the Methodist
Sunday.school. - DR.. Lance, though
not out of danger, is very much better
- M. e. Foster has been engaged to
conduct the Hardwick Musical Association
for another year.
} South Woodbury..
News was received last week that j. G.
} Brown, former resident Of this place, had
had his arm removed at the shoulder Joint
He has been a great sufferer for the past
four years with a bone disease in the right
arm, and, last week, was taken to the hos
ptal with the above result.
The Ladies' Aid sty held an enter
tainment and box supper in the vestry last
Wednesday evening. The programme was
I rendered very fine by the singing of Mark
e. Foster, Harry Foster Of New York, Miss
DeFord Of Hardwick, Miss Nervie l.. Fos-
ter and Mrs Barr of New York, and by
speaking by Miss Barr and Miss ScheDckse
of New York beside some of our home tai
emit. Proceeds amounted to s13.
Mrs. L j Benz min has returned, much
improved in health, from Chicago, where
she has been for surgical treatment. -
Vena Pierce has returned from Chicago,
where she has been visiting her cousin, DR..
K. e. Vaughn. - Mrs. Emerson Brush
and two daughters, Grace and Maud, of
Hardwick visited at Mrs. A. NJ. Beniamins
last week. - Herbert Lance of Lowell,
Mass, is at home on his vacation.
Worcester.
The widow Of the late Oscar Burnham
died at the old Wheeler place on Cox hill
last Wednesday.
Mr.. Eastman's house, barn, and contents,
were consumed by fire on Thursday evening
last. No insurance.
Roger Hoveys was the scene of pretty
. wedding on Tuesday, September "a, when
his daughter Abbie was married to Chester
tastefully arranged with flowers. A neat
and elegant arch, upon which were hung
nuptial emblems, stood in one corner Of
the room. The wedding party entered the
room to the chords Of the wedding march.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. j.
Edward Farrow Of Plainfeld. There were
guests from many surrounding towns, and
some from distant cities. The happy pair
left for the north to spend their honeymoon
; in the queens dOmintOns.