The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-09-02

Inc Montpelier Military Band furnished
excellent music for the occasion.
John Davis had his hand badly injured in
a threshing machine last Wednesday while
threshing for W. 8. Perry. The main belt
ran off, and, in trying to replace II, his hand
slipped aud was caught in the cylinder. No
bones were broken, but the flesh was torn
from all the fingers, and the wrist and palm
Of the hand badly mangled. DR.. W. II.
Lazelle dressed the wound and Mr. Davis
is doing finely.
l.. @. Batchelder, who has been visiting
in Maiden, birmingham, and other towns
in Massachusetts, returned last Monday.
- A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Diemer on Tuesday of last week
- Irving Nye is in critical condition
from strangulated hernia. Modification Ia
feared. - Charles johnson of Milford,
Mass, is visiting friends in town.
MANY a days work is lost by sick
headache, caused by indigestion and stom-
ach troubles. DeWitt's Little Early Rsers
are the most effectual pill for overcoming
such difficulties. W, e. Terrill & Co.,
Montpelier, Vt.
Roxbury.
The village school commenced on Mon
day with Susan Atkins as teacher.
Mrs. N. S. Ellis has moved into the house
vacated by L. M. Heath. - Mrs. Maude
Moore and son have gone to Providence, r.
/. - Eugene Flint has purchased of e.
W. Wetmore the house known as the Laid
house. - Denison Rice died August
% at the home of his son, N ID. Rice. Burial
serviceiwas at Granville. - Myra But
ter6eld went to Warren on Friday where
she is to teach school.
East Roxbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Young Blanchard were
called to Brookheld last Friday to attend
the funeral of their daughter, Mrs. Edward
Martin.
Hattie Kdder is to teach the village
school in West Topsham. Harry Kidder is
to teach school in Orange, where he taught
in the summer.
l.. A. Eastman is building a new hem
house. He expects to keep over one hum
bred hens this winter and thinks they pay
better than cows.
South Ryegate.
Schools throughout the town commenced
for the fall term Monday.
II. G. Darling, dentist, from Lowell, Mas
sachusetts, is visiting his parents.
NJ. II. Gibson has taken his men from the
quarry on the Blue Mountain and will
quarry no more at present.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Reformed
Presbyterian church held their monthly
business meeting at the parsonage, Thursday
afternoon of this week.
A new she'd one hundred feet long, for
the accommodation of dairy cows has been
erected on the fair ground for the fair next
week. The track has been put in good re-
pair and other improvements have been
made to make it the best fair we have ever
had.
North Thetford.
j. T. Hosford is reported much improved,
as is also Mrs. Barrett
Allen Cummings, who is at his fathers, is
unwell but will no doubt be ready to re-
turn to his school in Aver, Mass, next Mon
day.
The present week will witness the de-
parture of most of our summer friends to
their city homes and work. Every summer
our quiet village becomes, for few weeks,
the abiding place of many welcome guest
who comes to open our eyes to the beauties
of nature stretching in all directions as far
as the mountains will allow. To the inhab-
liant in the Connecticut valley the beautiful
mountain scenery becomes a threadbare
subject, and yet the seeker after panoramic
nature enchantment must 90 far to find
anything surprising our Vermont noun
tains.
The new iron bridge was accepted by the
building committee and thrown open for
travel Wednesday morning. The time has
now come when it is proper for the two
towns, Lyme and Thetford, to consider Sc
riously the question of thro wing open the
bridge as free public highway leading
from town to town. Differences of
opinion and unwise words spoken in haste
early in the year should be forgotten in the
endeavor to keep up with the march Of
modern civilization. The toll bridge is a
thing OF the past, and in this case the rank
and file in the two towns are in favor Of
making this beautiful structure as free as
the water which it spans.
The semi-annual convention of Grafton
or t,.uf spt,n
Union was held at Thetford on Tuesday Of
last week. The village church was crowded.
afternoon and evening, and the following
programme was listened to with interest
and attention: Afternoon-Open service ;
paper, "The Endeavorer's Duty TO the Sum-
Thetford; paper, Living Up to the
Pledge" Mabel B. Norris, Lyme; open par
lament, Hindrances to Christian En-
deavor Work." led by DIR. w. r. Barnes,
Oxford; solo, Airline Ladd, Thetford Cen.
ter; paper, So The Perfect Cup" Helen
Slade, Thetford; address upon mission
work, Miss Worcester, The ford; reports of
societies and election of officers. Evening
Praise service. led by A. W. Jaquith,
North Thetford; address, Rev. w. A.
Farnsworth. The conservation meeting,
led by Joseph Willard, Oxford, N. H., WAS
very interesting, although Sigh depart
ure from the usual A simple lunch was
served, after the manner of picnic in the
yard OF Elizabeth Baxter at the close of the
afternoon session.
Tunbridge.
Those who attended the centennial of
Orange county bar at Chelsea call it de.
cided success.
The Grand Army entertainment was not
so well attended as it deserved Those
present speak highly of it.
Many of the schools begin this week with
these instructors Lucia Durkee, No. 10;
Eva Farnham, No. IL; Nellie Dodge, No.
3; Walter Howe and Alice Monkey in the
village.
The Grand Army post will hold an open
meeting next Saturday evening. Rev.
John p. Demeritt has been requested to
give his lecture upon the battles and siege
of Vicksburgh
A general feeling of disappointment
exists among Grand Army comrades and
others that the speakers at the Windsor
county reunion at South Royalton dabbled
30 freely in politics.
fiag-rasing at school-house No. TO-
Whitney Hill, with interesting exercises by
the children and speaking by Albert Whit
ney, K. Howe and j. p. Demeritt, occurred
on the 9th. The flag, a fine one six by
twelve feet, was presented by John s.