The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-09
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE,
ITEMS or INTEREST--PERSO
And GENERAL.


club at the latter place on Tuesday.
The farmers and all interested in cream
cry are invited to meet at the school.house
in the village next Saturday evening to dis.
cuss the matter. 1t is expected some will
be present from the Cabot creamery to
throw light on the subject.
Freeman meeting passed off very quietly,
considering the number out. It was the
| largest vote ever cast in town, there being
206 Circuit votes and SO Jackson votes h.
Il. Martin, Jr., was elected representative
by majority OF 10l--the largest majority
ever given a candidate for that office in this
town. The republicans felt gratiied at the
large increase in their state vote, and a
large portion OF this increase may have been
on account Of the popularity of Mr. Martin
Dr. Gillett and George Blakely went to
East Calais last Saturday evening to hear
the silver question discussed. - Leah
Mears visited in Painfield over Sunday.
== A. II. Davis, j. W. Davis, G. II.
Robinson and Frank Lewis of Wolcott
visited The Woodbury. quarres last Friday.
-= Mrs. Fred Darling returned last
week from Mary Fletcher Hospital, where
she has been for treatment. - Loren
Chase Of Peacham was in town last week.
60 Burt Kicker Of Groton was at G. e,
Shepard's last week. - Joseph HAM
ilton and wife of St. Johnsbury were in
New York was in town last week, visiting
at &. s. Adams. - Hattie Gale is in
Barre for a few weeks, at work as dress
maker. - Lille Dow of Haverhill,
Mass, is visiting in town :" Clarence
Wilson, wife and children, of Cambridge,
Mass are stopping at Joseph Wilson's for
a few days.
Middlesex.
j.. j. Murphy returned from Lowell last
week.
Miss frankie Stewart is reported as being
very ILL.,
Mrs. Sarah j. Darling has moved into the
ne tenement in the Densmore house.
j. w. Eagan began work, Monday, on his
new grist-mill, which will soon be in opera
| ton.
julius H. Daniels has purchased the
stock of goods in the II. l.. Root store and
will continue the business at the old stand.
The veranda around the hotel has under.
! gone thorough repairs, and now has more
hotel-like appearance than in the last few
| years.
The result of the freeman's meeting seems
| to be entirely satisfactory to the citizens in
general. The contest was close, there be-
| ing no choice on first ballot and but three
mljority on second ballot.
| We notice, with some amusement, the ar
/ ticle in the last issue of the argus claiming
That a majority of the farmers in town were
/ for free silver. Had the correspondent
waited until after election, he undoubtedly
| WOulu uOt nave uudub lulS ASSERT III. w nllti
| out of 244 votes, the republican candidate
| for representative received only a ma jority
| of three, GrOut received sixty majority, and
| it is fair to estimate that the republicans
will carry .Middlesex by at least one hun
| dred majority in the November election.
| The democratic sound-money ticket is not
received very favorably here, and will not
materially affect the vote. The majority of
our townspeople, contrary to the assertion
OF our esteemed contemporary, are for Nc
Kinley and sound money, as they recognize
this as the only way to insure the defeat of
Bryan and the free-silver movement.
Middlesex Center.
Our representative had 126 votes to 11S
for all others-a majority OF eight.
Let the next General Assembly reappor-
ton the senators 20 the counties according
to the constitution, and Washington county
will have three senators instead of two.
Among the many veteran voters who at
tended freeman's meeting, 9. Q. Putnam,
Sr,, was conspicuous. Born in 1910, he
bears his four-score and six years with a
form tall and erect and mind clear and
strong. We remember him as captain Of
the MiddleseX militia more than sixty years
ago. The Putnams were a strong, vigorous,
and patriotic family. They fought not
only in the Colonial wars, but at Bunker
Hill, at Plattsburgh, Mission Ridge and
Gettysburgh
1T uObSn ndtltT uluCu WutlHtI blCk
headache, biiousness, indigestion and con.
stipation are caused by neglect or by un-
avoidable circumstances, DeWitt's Little
Early Risers will speedily cure them all
w. E Terrill 81 Co., Montnelisr, Vt.
NorthfieId.
A large number of the members of the
Young Mems Republican Club, accompa
MED by the Nor htieid Band, went to Mont
pelier on Friday night to help make merry
10 III
Mrs. Ella NJ. Keith of Worcester, Mass
superintendent of work among railroad
men of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, spoke at Gouldsville last Sunday
afternoon and al a union service at the
Congregational church Sunday evening
All the schools in town opened last Mon
day. The teachers in the village school,
Hazen, assistant; Angie f. Badger, 7; E. A
Stevens, 3; Miss M. +. Doheny, A. Florence
b. Patterson, 8; Agnes Dooley, 2; Mary g
Orcutt, l.
Julia Kdder died at her home in Mair
street on Monday afternoon of disease o
the heart. Her age was forty-seven years
She had been in poor health for severa
months and had declined rapidly since the
death of her father, month since. She
was an estmable Christian woman and haC
the respect Of all.
The excursion to Montreal, advertised FOL
next Monday by the Central Vermont rail
road, is attracting much attention. The
great Provincial exhibition is now running
in that city, and the fare from Mortified
and surrounding towns to Montreal and re
turn will be only $780, Tickets good going
on all regular and excursion trains Septem
her Ia good returning to Wednesday, Sep
TENDER Is, inclusive.
A torchlight procession and grand rally
was held by the republicans on Monday
night Of last week, with ringing speech by
Hon, Frank Plumley, who was just HON,
from a months tour of the state. On the
Tue sday night following the election, there
was another torchlight procession in honol
of the great victory. The streets wer'
brilliantly illuminated. At the house o.
Hon. Frank Plumley, the procession halted
and gave three rousing cheers, which were
responded to by a speech from Mr.. Plum
/ ley. Al the home Of DIR, j. III. Winch, th'
successful candidate for representative, they
again halted. There were speeches by He
Der Cady, DR.. George Nichols, DR.. Winch
Scion Staples, w. W. Holden and Z w
Gaynor.
, Mrs. A. j. Ellis of Pittsfeld was called
, here on Monday by the death of her sister