The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-24
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Mrs. B. f. sibley is with her husband in
Burlington.
Mrs. Gurdon Martin was violently I'll last
Friday night, but 10 now better.
Julius Martin, now OF South Washington.
buried an infant son in our village cemetery
last week.
M. 8. Bosworth has returned here from
East Barre to work at granite cutting, for
Carter b Kibbee.
Some forty PERSONS, we hear, are at pres
emit employed by Gresrson & Beckett at
their granite works.
Gary Blanchard is going to move to West
Lebanon, N. H., where he has family
friends. He will drive a meat cart there.
The house and household effects OF the
late Mrs. Helen Perrin Stickney are to be
sold at auction next week Saturday, April 8.
Rev. j. X. Thompson OF Montpelier off,
ciated at the Congregational church last
Sabbath. and will do SO again next Sunday.
The funeral Of Mrs. William Cults was
held last Sunday afternoon at the Univer.
salist church, Rev. Alvin M. Smith off,
ciatipg.
Miss Belle Hubbard will teach the summer
term OF school In the Jacob Flint district,
and Miss Myra 5eaver in the William Han
son district.
q new-suRar sociable at the Town Hall on
Friday evening to which the public 10 cor
daily invited.
John A. Perry has a valued addition to
bis cabinet OF %curios, sent from Indiana.
Among them are mound-builder relics
from mounds in that state. 4
dix Grady, q st~onecutter in the employ
Oh the Elliott Brothers, sustained q severe
injury to the lower part Of one limb, while
getting on q train on Saturday last.
Leon Blanchard is at home from Chester
Tor q few days. He Is quite free now from
rheumatism from which he has been almost
wholly disabled in the last year or 30.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Farnham give a re-
ception this evening to the friends Of their
Martin, who go this week to Missouri to re.
main two years.
Reports from Burlington OF B. +. Sibley,
up to this writing, are favorable. His SUR
geon hoped to remove the sore in his ear by
burning with electricity, but had at last to
resort to the knife.
Mrs. Marion Bruce Kathan accompanied
her daughter, Myrtle, from here to the
home Of the latter in Cambridge, last Satur-
day. to be absent a week. Mrs. Ira Seaver
also went with them for a weeks stay.
Warren 8. Covell has finally sold his farm
in Berlin and got his pay for it. After
making sugar in Berlin this season he will
move to the old Leavitt S. Hay ward farm,
recently bought by his son at the south end
OF this town.
Waverly and Joseph Murray were called
TO East Barre last week by the death Of
Vivien Murray, who had been q granite
cutter there for some time. The body was
taken to his old home, st. George, New
Brunswick. for burial.
We are looking for a proposition OF some
sort from the Grearson Brothers Of East
Barre as an inducement for them to move
their granite business to this village. The
four brothers and their business would be a
valuable addition to the place.
B. +. Sibley went last week to DR.. Bing-
hams Sanitarium in Burlington, where an
operation was performed on one OF his
ears. For some months past he has been
troubled with q sore that has defied the
knowledge and skill of physicians. He is
reported to have borne well the operation
One Of the busy spots in our place, just
now, Is Mill village, where Lynde & Cheney
are saving lumber and polishing granite.
Two years ago this firm sawed six hundred
thousand feet of lumber. Last year the
amount was but little over half that Of the
preceding year. This year they hope to get
out some five hundred thousand feet. They
have several horses engaged in hauling
granite from the qusrries.
Mrs. Hattie, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. I.
ClementLittle and wife of WilliamCutts died
on Thursday last at the age Of thirty-seven
years, leaving q husband and four children.
For several years she has been fighting a
stern battle with disease, but maintaining
great cheerfulness and hopefulness under
the circumstances A kind-hearted, genial
woman, she will be missed not only in her
home, but in the social circle in which she
had moved.
There is q thriving Junior Christian En-
deavor Society here in the Congregational
church. Last week its leader was Master
Willie Duffus, and the theme OF the meeting
was " Some Bible warnings against strong
drink" There has just come to us a state
ment on the authority Of one who ought to
be worthy Of great credit, and which every
one Of our little Endeavorers may well lay
to heart and memory; viz, that "a total
abstainer from drink at twenty years Of age,
has q prospect Of fOrty-four more years OF
life, while q moderate drinker at that age,
has the prospect of only twenty more"