The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-19

seventy eight years old. The funeral was
from his late home on Tuesday. Interment
at Cady's Falls, where two wives and a
child are buried.
WILLIAMSBURG.
Mrs. Will Cults returned from Burlington
on Sunday.
Mrs. Caroline Ainsworth Waterman, now
OF Moline, ILL.,, was seriously i'll with grip
at recent accounts.
Mrs. Stella Martin Call died Of consump..
ton, Monday afternoon. Her funeral will
be held tomorrow Thursday.
George w. House died last Wednesday Of
paralysis and heart trouble at his home in
Pawtucket, r. l., aged sixty-nine years.
The Methodist ladies' antiquarian bazaar
will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week at Town Hall or the Methodist
vestry.
Rev. j. N Perrin exchanged with Rev.
G. II. Morse of Brookdeld last Sunday
morning. 1t was most excellent sermon
that Mr. Morse preached.
The Masonic sociable on Friday evening
last came off according to the programme,
and an enjoyable occasion was the result
The attendance was large.
The mercury dropped to 900 below zero in
this village, Monday morning, and was
backed by north wind Tuesday morn.
ing the mercury registered 260 below zero.
After some years on the road, as sales
man for Burlington tobacco firms, Leon R.
Blanchard has engaged to travel for to-
bacco house in Boston, to which city he
went last week.
Mrs. Will Cults, now at the Mary Fletcher
Hospital, ill with b lights disease, receives
encouragement from her physicians that
she may yet be decidedly better, She has
been put upon a diet of skim milk.
There will be town Sunday. school con-
vention at Town Hall on Friday of next
week. A prominent worker from abroad
will be here, and an interesting occasion
may be expected. Let there be a large at
tendance.
In the item of last week pertaining to our
town treasurer (Which, by the way, was
sent in by another than /" the regular cor
respondent OF the waterman the name
OF Henry Martin appeared by mistake as
third selsctman. 1t should have been ]. K
Prize.
By common consent, we think, to Nelson
Carleton, son of Dea. Francis Carleton, be-
longs the honor of having scented, ferreted
out and brought to public attention. the
tangle in our town financial affairs. He Is
fellow" and, so far as we know, has never
been actively engaged, officially, in town
affairs.
1t is said that one OF the things that has
just been brought to light in the investiga-
ton of our town finances, is a mistake
and, we believe, by far the largest single
one-made by a certain three officials some
ten or twelve years ago, as they were max
ing up their report for the year then Just
ending. Not shadow of suspicion of any
crookedness will, or ought, to rest upon
them for it, but it shows how liable men
are to make innocent mistakes.
Lucius s. simonds, for more than three
score and ten years a resident OF this town,
has been and is practical, successful
farmer He has farm for which. for
twenty years, certain well-known old
brand of phosphate has been meat and
drink. He says that if present were made
him OF stable manure for his farm, and he
were obliged to hire it drawn from his own
barns to his fields, it would be money in his
pocket to use the phosphate instead.
Oar town officials, il is said, had made
mistake in their figuring of town treasury
matters when they gave out, on Tuesday
evening of last week, that the deficit vas
$1940. The discovery OF their mistake
makes 1t at this writing Saturday after
nooi }, some So, 100. 1t is worthy of the con-
sideration Of all concerned that this mistake
is said to have been made in just the way
that one or more had previously been made
by the treasurer himself. There is an opin-
ion here that it is yet an open question
whether certain decision by our officials
and II So it may operate quite largely in
reducing the deficit. But whatever the
final result, If any one of our citizens
thinks that any and all OF the mistakes,
from beginning to end, in this whole mat
ter, are needless and objectionable, let him
try his own hand at the same business.
Warren.
Jones & Perkins have dissolved partner
ship. V. l.. Perkins succeeds to the bust
ness.
w. b. Tomlin was seriously injured, last
Thursday, while at work in the lumber yard
OF Parker & Slayton.
field and Moretown attended the dance and
oyster supper last Friday night
A. M. Jones has a position with the G. A.
Hubbard Boot and Shoe Company OF Bur
lington as travelling salesman. His friends
wish him success.
The dance and oyster supper by the
ladies of the Unitarian society was a sue
cess. The orchestra was not considered az
frst-class, and much dissatisfaction is ex-
pressed thereat.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. 9. Dickey and two chill
dren of East Barre visited at M. 8. S,er-
ling's last week. - Gertrude Chambers
Of Montpelier is visiting friends in town.
- William Ball of Rochester is clerking
for V. l., Perkins. - Mrs. X. A. Heath,
VINO mas Deou ~ u nObplUal III DO5bOni mas
returned, much improved in health.
Fast Warren.
Mrs. Abe Morgan from Lincoln is visiting
her mother in this place.
Mrs. A. M. Dickinson returned to Bur
lington last week, after spending several
months here.
Duane Hudson has rented NJ. II. Good
speeds farm for five years, and Mr.. Good
speed ia soon to move into Mrs. A. M. Dick
inson's house at the Corner.
Washington.
Chester Clough. OF the firm OF Slack &
Clough, is in Boston this week on business.
The wind and snow did not prevent sew
eral couples from attending the play and
dance at Chelsea, last Friday evening. They
report large company and good time.
The following is a list OF the pupils of the
primary school who had no marks during
the winter term: Annie, Nellie and Charlie
Greene, Ida Richardson, Ernest Mcdonald