The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-15
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or INTEREST--PERSoNAL
IND GENERAL.
Williamstown.


Mrs. George w. Lyrde is in quite poor
health.
Misses Alice Walker and Deva York are
assisting at the Lynde cottage, Berlin Pond,
for a few weeks.
A slackening Of the granite business here
has released a number Of granite cutters
for the time being.
One of our granite boys took five trout,
last week, from the village stream, that
together weighed two and one-half pounds.
Mrs. Jason Jeffords is with her son, Tracy
L. Jeffords of Washington, ID. c., for a
month, having taken in the Christian En-.
deavor convention there.
For the first time in its life of some three
score years, Mrs. Chester Martins brick
house has just received a coat of red paint,
giving it a maiden-blush.
Charles r. Ainsworth, wife and older
daughter, are staying in Duluth, Mimi, his
large lumber interests having required Mr..
Ainsworth's presence there for some months
past.
Arthur Simons, who has been quite an
invalid, finds that he was hardly able to
take the recent excursion to Pittsburgh,
N. Y, not having been quite as well since
then.
The condition of the health of both Mr..
and Mrs. Will Quits leads them to con-
template removal to Colorado. AT least
one more village family may also go there
for a similar reason.
A firm of granite de ilers in Louisville,
Ky, has recently made an assignment, and
among their unfortunate creditors are the
Nixon Brothers of our village, to whom
they were owing 5000.
Miss Catherine Bass, now of Chicago, was
in town a few days last week. After sew
eral months in the South and at Washing
ton, d. c., she is visiting family friends in
New England, and in a few weeks will re-
turn West.
Mrs. Perkins Bass is on her way home
from Europe to join her family at their
summer residence in Peterboro, n, II. just
now her older son, John Bass, is acting as
a special correspondent in Europe and
Africa of the New York Times.
We have just been told of the where
abouts of our old townsmau, Mr.. Nelson
Staples, and family. They are living on a
farm at Gilmanton Iron Works, N. H., near
the southern end of Lake W~innepesaukee.
Mrs. Staples, nee Malvina Beckwith, is
dead, having left three daughters and two
sons to her husband.
Haden Jeffords, owner OF the old Captain
William Smith farm, has just had the mis-
fortune to find four heifers dead in his pas
ture from some unknown cause. We are
told that there are several pastures on that
west side of the town where cattle have
died in a way that might naturally lead to
the suspicion that there is some vegetable
growth that has caused these deaths.
Charles R.. Benedict met with a peculiar
accident last week, which hardly came
short of a very serious one, possibly. He
was taking a cow to a slaughter-house,
leading her by a rope. In an attempt to
pull away from him the animal wound the
rope around Mr.. Benedict's body, threw
him to the ground and dragged him quite a
distance in the road before release provi-
dentially came to him. As it was he es-
capped with but severe lameness.
A. Judson Burnham, who was recently
struck by a locomotive and killed in Racine,
Wis, was staying in the family of his
brother.in-law, DIR. Wesley Noyes, both the
doctor and his wife being very feeble and
hardly able to dress or undress themselves.
Mr.. Burnham, who was skilled in the art of
training horses, left the house in the morn
ing, in the height of good spirits, to drive a
four-year-old colt. While crossing a rail.
road track he was struck by a locomotive,
the engineer, 1t is said, having failed to
sound any warning of the approach of the
train. He was thrown a half dozen rods,
and sustained such bodily injuries it is
thought his death must have been iDstanta-
neous.
One of our villagers has had the curiosity
to follow up certain two innocent news
paper advertisements, Offering rma
of cures for rheumatism by former sufferers.
One Of these is a down. east lady, who has
answered between eleven and twelve thou
sand letters of inquiry. She refers appli.
cants to some doctor who had cured her,
and tells them that healed patients, CRATE
full for her information, have a way-to a
greater or less eXtent-of making her pres
ents therefor. The other former sufferer
also refers applicants to some doctor who
had cured him, at the same time disclaim-
ing any reward for his work. And yet
there are those who will still question
whether disinterested benevolence any
where exists on this footstool.
ELI HILL, Lumber City, Pa, writes: 81
have been suffering from piles for twenty
five years and thought my case incurable.
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve was recon-
mended to me as a pile cure, so l bought a
box and it performed a permanent cure"
This is only one of thousands of similar
cases. Eczema, sores and skin diseases
yield quickly when it is used. w. e, Ter
rill & Co., Montpelier, Vt.
East Roxbury.
Jacob Wardner has built an addition to
his house. The work was lone by w. +.
Wardner from Randolph.
School closed Friday, July 10. On Satur-
day the teacher and scholars held a picnic
in Jacob Wardner's grove.
Aaron Webster, who has been sick all the
summer, died Sunday morning, July B.
The funeral was held the following Tues
day at his late residence.
Mrs. Walter Hubbard from South Royal
ton is visiting here. - Mrs. Leon Ditty
and children visited at Ora Boyce's last
week. - Albert Benedict from South
Royalton is helping Charles Blanchard in
haying.
Thetford.
Marjorie Geary has returned from a visit
to her uncle, Rev. William Slade OF VIII
Jamestown, Mass. - Alice McDuffee
from North Adams, Mass, is spending her
vacation here. - IL. K. Coombs is at
home from his vacation. - Charles Tres
colt and family OF Lebanon, N. H, were in
town recently. - Emma Bond has gone
to Woburn, Mass, to resume her work
there. - John Porter and wife of Bos-
ton nave arrived to spend the hot weather
here. - Mrs. Wilson and daughter Of
Charlestown, Mass, have returned to their
summer home in this place. - Miss
Jane Colburn has friends visiting her from
New Hampshire.
West Fairlee.
Mr.. Reynolds and wife Of Boston visited