The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-29
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or INTEREST--PERSO
IND GENERAL.
NorthfeId.

Mrs. Alonzo Hitchcock is seriously i'll
with the grip.
Mrs. Cynthia Northrop is convalescent
from a severe and dangerous illness.
A male quartette for campaign purposes
will soon be organized in Northfeld.
Presiding Elder L. L. Beeman preached
in the Methodist church last Sunday.
The Good Templars held pleasant So
ciable in their hall last Friday evening.
Barrows & Peck of Montpelier have Ross
ensilage cutters in stock Write for prices.
A meeting of the republican club, for re-
organization, will be held on Thursday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred j. Newcomb of New
York are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. O. A.
Edgerton.
Hon. Frank Plumley will be the orator at
a flag raising at South Mortified next Fri
day evening.
Rev. L. p. Tucker will return this week
from his vacation and will occupy his pull
pit next Sunday.
Mrs. Charles A. Edgerton is the guest Of
Rev. and Mrs. L. p. Tucker at their cottage
at Morey Lake.
Miss Brown, who lived with her sister,
Mrs. Roland Averill, has gone to I. @. Pat
terson's to board.
Miss Cora Edgerton goes next Friday to
Plymouth, N. H., to takh course in me-
chauical drawing.
Mrs l.. L. Montana went to Whitehall
Tuesday, to remain for several weeks at the
home of her father.
Mrs. John Mayo and little daughter are
moving to Gouldsville to reside with her
father, Joseph Gould.
George j. Long of Warren and Miss Lii
| liam Hutchinson were married last Satur-
| day by Rev. DR.. w. s. Hazen.
A MoKinlau ond Hobart aao ,uoo Auno, m
the breeze in Depot Square, last Wednes-
day evening, amid much enthusiasm.
Mrs. E. e. Campbell and son Harold of
| Middlebury have been spending a week at
the home of her father, Homer Denny.
The Mortified Cornet Band and orchestra
| have been engaged to furnish music for a
Foresters' picnic at East Barre next Satur-
day.
Mrs. DR.. Davis and son, Heber Cady, are
moving from Henry Ferris house to the
! south tenement of Frank Preston's double
| house.
Five. year service badges have been issued
| to Lieutenant G.. n. Tilden, Corporal
Leonard Parker and Private Avery s.
Ladd Of Company Il.
A Bryan and Sewall flag will be raised
| next Saturday evening by the residents OF
Little Mortified. Mayor j. w. Gordon of
Barre will be the orator.
L. Denny Whittemore and little son left
Monday for their home in Topeka, Kansas
| after short visit in town with his mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Whittemore.
Professor o. ID. Mathewson of Barre,
county examiner, will hold a public ex-
animation of teachers in the High School
building next Monday and Tuesday.
! Charles Buzzell, who has been in poor
health for several months, has been taken
| to Waterbury for treatment at the sylum
1t is feared that his case is hopeless
Among those who took the examinations
for a University scholarship were Arthur
Winslow of Berlin, and Ralph Dunsmoor
j. p. Moseley, E. Talbot and H. Richmond
of Mortified.
Torrent Engine, No. 2, took the third
prize at the tiremens tournament at Barre
throwing a stream 172 feet and 81 inches
The night before the boys went to Barre
they threw 205 feet.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Braley and daughter Lii.
liam went last week to Kansas City, Mo, tC
visit her son Charles, Later they will go tC
| Colorado, to remain several months, for the
benefit of Miss Lillian's health.
Because of an attachment placed upon
the W. E. Shepard place by w. E. Hurl
but, DR., G. W. Emerson was unable to gain
a title to the property, and the doctor has
moved, with his family, to Rochester
The new Methodist church at Gouldsvillt
is nearly completed and will probably be
dedicated during camp-meeting week
While not ornate or costly, it is pretty
and commodious edifce-one in which the
Methodists Of that locality take pardonable
pride.
A year ago last winter Mrs Fred w. Dut
ton fell on the ice, severely injurng one
hip. Since that time she has been an in
valid from the effects of the fall, and it il
now thought necessary to take her to Mary
Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, for surgi
cal operation.
A colored tramp fell from freight trar
in the yard early Tuesday morning, receiv
ing injuries that necessitated the amputa
ton of his right foot, which was performed
by Drs. Winch and Mayo. He was stealing
a ride, and refuses Ito give his name or place
of residence. The town authorities art
caring for him.
The Congregational Christian Endeavol
Society, the Methodist Epworth League
and the Universalst Young Peoples Chris
tian Union have each appointed a com.
mittee to consider the advisability of open
ing free reading room for members o.
these three societies. 1t is very probable
that such a move will be made at an early
day
The stores of A. E. Denny and Dutton &
Richmond were burglarized last week
Entrance was gained by breaking pane Of
glass in cellar window. A small amount
tanned at each place, Suspicion points
strongly to certain parties and the proof thai
they are the guilty ones is pretty sure to bt
soon forthcoming.
A reorganization of the old officers of the
Mortified Graded School District was hello
last Monday evening when James Morse
W. w. Holden, G. S. Richmond, g
D. Edgeerton, George n Tilden, George
.Tohn I, MOgalaU and GhauucaV Danny