The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01

nOJ absent more than one day were Emma
Blair Vera Carpenter Gladys Martin,
Hatch, Conrad Brown, Howard Tart, Roy
Parsons and Claude Miner.
Waterbury.
The Ladies' Missionary Society will hold
a meeting in the vestry of the Congrega-
Lional church this afternoon.
Members OF the Methodist church and
congregation are to tender Rev. and Mrs.
W. M. Newton a reception in the parors OF
the church next Friday evening.
Messrs. Boyce and Crossett have sold
building lot oil South Main street, near
Allen Fosters land, to Clayton Crane, who
is to erect house thereon this summer.
The annual meeting of the Waterbu
Public Library Association will be held in
their rooms Tuesday, July 7, at four P. NJ.
Reports Of the officers for the past year will
be given and new officers will be elected
for the ensuing year.
Fred Somervile has returned from Law
N j., for much-needed vaca-
ton. His many friends will be glad to
know of his continued success in the re-
sponsibe position he so ably fills in that
school for boys.
Elder George W. Tabor was seriously in
jured near the grist-mill, last Saturday,
while riding toward the village, by being
run into by Eugene Towns span Of colts at
tsched to large lumber wagon. Mr..
Tabor's buggy was demolished and his es-
cape from a fatal accident was almost
miraculous.
party from this village are to camp on
the summit Of Cancels Hump tonight.
- Rev. +. X. Graves occupied the pull
pit at the Methodist church last Sunday,
and was warmly greeted by.many friends
OF former days. - Paul Dillingham; has
returned from school at Northampton,
M Mass, for his vacation. - Miss Pearl
Randall is !en1oying her vacation at home
from school at Andover, Mass. - Miss
Julia Moody graduated with first honors at
the Montpelier Seminary last Thursday.
20. M. Griffith returned from Shell
burne Pond with pickerel weighing sew
taught successful term of school at Bel
lows Falls and returned home for the sum-
mer. 60 b. r. Demeritt and wife, &C.
companied by his brother Fred and wife of
Montpelier, and several friends from the
West, are camping at Hinesburgh Pond
this week. - Rev. l.. Tenney and wife
are visiting their son in Essex. - George
Jocko of Lowell, Mass, formerly of this
place, was the guest of A. G.. Atherton last
week. g. Josephine Taylor has returned
from Lowville, N. Y, for her vacation.
Miss Taylor is very successful teacher OF
elocuton in the academy at Lowville.
Mrs. M. L. Wells and daughter Carrie,
with Mrs. G. III. ines, have gone to Bris-
toll, Conn, to attend the wedding of Mile,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. George G. Arms,
which took place last night.
MILD, HEAvY-BoDIED DURABLE.-Thats
why you won't use as many pounds of
" Harmless soap.
Waterbury Center.
Mrs. Emma Grow of Montpelier and her
daughter, who has just graduated from the
st. Johnsbury Academy, visited Mrs. Han
nah Moulton, Mrs. Crows mother, for a
few days last week. - Miss Mary Mi.
mott left last Saturday for Bethlehem, n.
H., where she will do table work at the
&c Sinclair this season. - G. H. Stone,
Jr.,, and Miss Mary Clark, teachers at
Goddard Seminary, Barre, are spending
their vacation with Mr.. Stones parents,
Mr. and Mrs. G. Henry Stone. - Mr..
and Mrs. L. j. White have gone to Ferris
burgh for a weeks fishing and visiting.
- Miss Mary E. Smith is spending her
vacation at home. Mr.. Fred G. Smith of
Minneapolis is also making his brothers
and sisters short visit, expecting to return
to Minneapolis about July l. - Mrs G..
A. Fiske, who attended the general confer
ence OF the Methodist churchessat Cleve-
land, Ohio, last May, returned home last
- Rev and Mrs. s. Eddy are
visiting friends in Barton this week. -
Rev. j. A. Sherburne, former pastor of
the Methodist church, will preach here
next Sunday morning. - Mr.. and Mrs.
W. e. Marshall attended the centennial
exercises of the Congregational church at
Waitsfield last Saturday. - Mrs j. A.
Gilmore and Miss May Reeder left for Som
erville, Mass, last Thursday, where they
will visit a sister, and then 60 to Maine,
where they expect to remain for several
weeks.
Williamstown.
George Smith Of Potsdam, N. Y, is visit-
ing in town.
Miss Lucy Abbott is again in the field
here as teacher of the piano and organ.
Mrs. Henry Nixon and daughter are Wis
iting Mr.. Nixon's father and mother in
Corinth.
Oliver Dickinson goes this week to visit
his parents in Kewanee, ILL.,, who are in
poor health
Ralph, second son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
waldo, was buried ON Sunday, at the age
OF eighteen months.
Mrs George Mari and little daughter are
about to go to her old home in Canada, for
a visit. Mrs Marrs health is notlirm.
Orren FL. Smith won the degree of A. M.
in his Tufts College course, just finished.
He is at theiold home, here now, and will
remain here for little time.
X. P. Blanchard, who has one of the best
in our village, will dismiss
MS DOaruerS Tor the month OF July, to give
Mrs. Blanchard much-needed rest.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Mar
tin swallowed bib-pin an inch and quar-
ter or more in length last Wednesday. Pos
sible consequences are awaited with anxiety.
The three village schools will give free
at Town Hall on Thursday
evening of this week. 1t will consist OF
music, Rotations, ETC., and doubtless will
be very interesting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward House leave next
week, for visit at Colorado Springs, Col.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Edison and daughter
will accompany them as far as Iowa. The
party will be absent for a month.
The marriage of Henry A. Ainsworth oc-
Cured at Uniontown, Pa, June 80. Thence
Mr.. and Mrs. Ainsworth will go to the
Massachusetts coast for time. Family
friends here are hoping for at least brief
visit Before resigning the presidency of
the Rockford .Ill.) Female College, Mrs.
received the honorary degree of
A. M, from Beloit, (Wis.) College.
Some 100 persons went from here on the
excursion to Plattsburg last Saturday.
Some attending circumstances have revived
q story, told here, in early days, of one
from hereabouts who went to Plattsburg at
the time of the battle in the War of 1872