The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-05-19
Washington.

II. L. Densmore of Barre was in town last
Friday.
Miss Mabel Calef returned to Providence,
r. l.. last Monday
@. III. Smith has another Job at house
building at East Barre.
The stallion Fiction" owned by w. e.
Worthley, died last Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Downing of Montpelier, visit
ed at d. p Smiths last week.
Mrs. L. d. Tillotson is still indisposed and
under the care of DR.. Warner.
Mrs. Ella Spencer is staying with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.. W. Flint.
A bouncing boy was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred q. Huntington last week Monday.
Ellis Downing is driving the meat cart to
the quarry for Huntington & Eastman.
Leroy Morse Of wolcott visited his daugh-
ter Pearl, at e. f. Browns last week.
Mrs. Betsey Thurber took a ride to Barre
on the stage coach last Friday morning.
Harry White ia slowly recovering from
his six months illness, under the treatment
OF DIR. Warner.
Miss Maria White and Mrs. George w.
McAllister OF Montpelier, were in town
last Saturday and Sunday.
@. s. Currier, city engineer Of Barre, was
employed upon job Of surveying for I. B.
Palmer OF this place, last week.
DIR. Warner, last week, filed an order
from j. W. Goodell Of Burlington, for
sample of the stock from his quarry.
Rev. f. e. Briggs will preach the Memo
rial Day sermon before Smith Post, No 81,
g. A. R., next Sunday at the Baptist church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Huntington and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Huntington visited at
George e. iHuntington's the first of the
week.
Miss Perry, the teacher at Orange Corner
anent SUNDAY with Miaa Cbot6ald xybo
teaches in the primary department in this
| village.
A change for the better has appeared the
| past week In the case Of Henry Richardson,
and there is now some hopes of his ultimate
| recovery.
| @. l.. Slack has placed very fine monu-
ment on the green near the post office
which displays the varied beauties Of Wash
ington marble to the highest degree.
f. e. Austin Of Amesbury, Mass, who
has purchased marble quarry of r. f.
| Richardson in the eastern part Of the town,
| is hauling lumber for the stone sheds to be
erected on the property.
There was full house at the concert CIV
en- by Professor Corliss at the close of his
singing school here last Saturday evening,
and lengthy programme was performed,
after which ice cream and cake was served
by the Young Peoples Christian Union.
Village boys sometimes labor hard to
play joke on the inhabitants when every
one is supposed to be asleep. But those
boys who piled wood on the doorsteps OF
our village people one night last week must
have had more work than fun out of it.
Better spend your surplus strength on the
wood-piles in your fathers door-yards, boys
Daniel Hewett, the veteran stone cutter
has been in town the past week, and his
services are likely to be secured in the
stone-cutting industry here. He states that
| the atOna rppantlv uuarriad in w 10
handsomest that ever came under his OBJ
servation, and he predicts brilliant future
for the industry here, if the stone is proper.
ly handled. Mr.. Hewitt learned his trade
in 1910, and has worked at it ever since in
Barre, Burlington, Windsor and other
places He cut the pedestal for the statue
Of Ethan Allen at Montpelier, as well as
the one for General Lafayette on the col
lege campus at Burlington.
DON'T thin your blood with sassafras OF
poison it with blue-mass; but aid Nature by
using DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the ia.
nous little pills for constipation, biliousness
and stomach and liver troubles. They are
purely vegetable. w. E. Terrill & Co.,
Montpelier, Vt.
Newbury.
W. G. Cox of Meredith n. H., has been
employed as salesman by T. G. Keyes.
Presiding Elder Hamilton was in town on
Monday and held the first Quarterly Con-
|
year.
Mrs Helen Blodgett, Mrs E. A. Shaw
and Miss Ella Bixby attended the Orange
County Woman's Christian Temperance
Union convention at Randolph on Thursday
and Friday of last week.
On Thursday, June 10, will occur the ded
icatory exercises Of the Tenney Memorial
Library building. Elaborate preparations
are being made, and it will be an event thai
citizens cannot afford to miss. Program
later.
Last Sunday was Montpelier Seminary
day at the Methodist church and collec
ton was taken up in accordance with the
vote of the Vermont conference. The full
amount, twelve dollars, apportioned to this
charge, was raised.
There will he held at Seminary Hall on
Friday evening, May 81, an old-fashioned
spelling down. There will be two contests
one to be participated in by all schools be-
low the High School department, the other
by the High School and others who may
come A prize will be offered to the win
ner of each contest A small admission fee
will be charged to cover expenses. All are
invited to come and help make the "bee" a