The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-27
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS OF INTEREST--PERs
IND GENERAL.
Willianstown

Silas Stone uses razor that has been in
almost constant service for ninety.two
years.
Leon Blanchard has been off the road
some weeks past from sickness of a rheu-
matte nature.
George Riddel has moved from the Edison
Martin place to Barre, where he has work
in granite shed.
James s. Abbott has lately come North
from St. Augustine, Florida and doubtless
will remain through the summer.
William Bissett, who has been cutting
stone in Maine for few years past, has
lately gone to Barre to work. His family
may move there later.
Sherman Winchester is likely to remain
in the Monument House, though his first
lease is soon to expire. The building is un.
dergoing thorough renovation.
The annual Orange County Congrega-
tional Conference is to be held here on
Tuesday and Wednesday, June and 3. 1t
Is expected that the occasion will be one of
great interest and profit.
Our grand list, recently finished, shows
slight decrease in the number of polls in the
last year There has been a small increase
in taxable property, and quite large one
in the amount of " debts owing"
Will Kibbee, our fancy poultry breeder,
is raising carrier pigeons. A recent expert
ment with a pair chat he took away from
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that they easily and quickly found their
way back. They are to be taken longer
distances away, later on.
| 1t is said that our granite teams that
have been hauling from the quarries, both
to Barre and to our village, are likely to
soon find more or less Of their occupation
gone because of the recent decisive move OF
the Quarry Railroad Company (The Wells
| River Company to secure the business
from the quarries at the Barre shops.
Willard Walker, second son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Enos f. Walker, and Miss Bertha
Cross of st. George, New Brunswick, were
married by Rev. j. N. Perrin, Jr., on We'd
nesday, May 16. Mrs. Walker is one of
the number of estimable ladies that have
come here from st. George in the few years
OF the development of the granite industry,
and will, with her husband, have the good
wishes of their friends.
BrookfieId.
Charles w Wilcox OF Milford, Mass, a
native of Brookfield and known to many
here, recently sent to several persons in
town copy of book entitled IA History
OF the Ninth Regiment of New Hampshire
Volunteers" One of these volumes is for
the town library .and will be presented at
the next library meeting, This gift will be
much appreciated. 1t appears from the
preface that Mr.. Wilcox was on the com
mittee for its preparation and publication,
and it is learned from other sources that
great credit is due him for the accuracy OF
its contents. Captain Wilcox's account OF
personal experience in rebel prisons is WV
idly real. The work contains nineteen
chapters of history and narrative. biograph-
ical sketches and a complete roster of the
regiment. 1t has 800 pages and 100 illustra-
tions.
Woodbury.,
Arrangements are being made for the
dedication of the new church about June 20
Allen Ainsworth has rented what is
known as the Arnold quarry on the Holton
place. He commenced quarrying May H.
Judge Fullerton of the Woodbury. Gran.
lite Company has made arrangements for
working the quarry on larger scale than
ever before.
Carl Drenan and his Sister Blanche from
Irasburg have taken possession again of the
old hotel stand, and willscarry on the farm
this season instead of renting it.
Tunbridge.
Through the enterprise Of Comrade e. w.
Rolfe, Whitney Post of this town secures at
small figure the official reports of the
Civil War, consisting of 100 volumes and
thirty-ive maps. His labor for the boys
has been untiring for years, and this is the
browning result of his self-denying efforts
To complete this stroke of good fortune
Comrade Horace Woodward of the Thirty.
fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers
donates the price paid expressing as at
other times his kindness to the post.