The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-18
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Williamstown.

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Leonard Shaw has moved to Sunapee,
N. II.
segee Moore is thought to be ailing with
the grip.
The town appropriated S15 towards the
observance of Memorial day.
"Chris" Elliott was laid aside from
granite work. the latter part OF last week,
by a severe cold.
Miss Myra Seaver has returned from a
visit to Mrs. Susie Wheatley Wright, now
of Greenfield, Mass.
George Reynolds, who came here from
Barre some years ago, died on Wednesday
last, at the age of nearly sixty-two years.
The snowfall here up to last Thursday
was some eighty inches. Fourteen or more
inches fell Wednesday night and Thursday.
Oliver S. Walker, at this writing, is very
poorly and failing. He is now confined to
the bed, and is hardly able to recognize
those about him. He likely may not live
long.
While passing team. standing near the
Lynde store, one day last week, Mrs. j. X.
Lynde was kicked by one of the horses and
knocked down. Fortunately no bones were
broken.
There is a man here, quite in sympathy
with the Cubans in their present war, who
was surprised the other day on looking at
his map, to find Havana in the same lougi-
tude as Cleveland, Ohio. Now" says he,
eff Havana can only manage to get into
latitude with President Cleveland, Cuba
needn't havana fears that Weyler will
w'ale her."
An exceedingly sad accident befell Murdo
McAulay, living on a farm in the quarry
district one day last week. AS Mr.. Nc
Aulay was alone, we believe, just how the
accident occurred we do not know. But he
was hauling wood, and it is conjectured
that a tug may have unhitched, and that he
was kicked by his horse while hitching it
again. He was unconscious when found,
and the injury to his face and head was
very severe. Whether he can survive the
accident, we believe, is yet question. lie
is a worthy man, with family OF wife and
two children. Not very long ago. his house
was burned, and he had not been great
while in the new one which he had sue
ceeded in building.
A recent ransacking of the attic and the
old dancing-hall of the General Bass house
furnished food for "Reminiscences as well as
matter for the Methodist ladies' antique
bazaar. The sight of the late Generals
military trappings would bring back to
many an old Williamstownian the days of
the June trainings, the manoeuvers of the
militia on our Church Common, the march
ing up and down our street to the music of
fife and drum-the General himself to the
youthful mind, the peer of Grant, in later
daysl The echoes of his "march" and
hdlU you ling III llduy all bdI' IolOuS
arise of antique bazaars of fifty, seventy
five or hundred years hence, and the
eager searchings of lumber rooms and gar
rets, for the things of to-day.
The great hit" of the season here, thus
far, was the antiquarian bazaar held by the
Methodist ladies in Town Hall on Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week. Everybody
was ready to lend hand in the way of
loan of anything "ancient " in their pos.
session, and it was quite rem arkable as to
the variety and amount that was obtained
for exhibition. If it could have been cata-
logued and illustrated, what a volume of
interest it would be. One of the most ac-
ceptable features of the affair was the old
time music, sacred and secular, by mixed
voices (the ladies in the costumes of an
earlier day. and accompanied by bass VOL
and organ. Those interested in getting up
this entertainment deserve great credit and
merit the pecuniary success attending it
nearly $50, we hear, having been taken.