The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-21

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day 1t has been since 1869. 1t carried away
two bridges and flooded the mill and
meadow below the same.
Lord brothers missed two of their horses
last Sunday night from their pasture. They
succeeded in tracing them to a distant part
of the town where they were found safe in
a barn.
VIM, vigor and victory; these are the
characteristics OF De Wits Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for constipa-
ton, hiliousness and all stomach and liver
troubles. w E. Terrill & Co.
Thetford.
Rev. Wilson Farnsworth and family are
spending a few weeks at the Hill. -
Lila and Annie Cummings rave finished
teaching school and are home again. -
Miss Nettie Sargent, after spending a few
days at the Center, is again at home
Mr.. and Mrs. Bond were made happy by
the birth of a son on July - Miss
Emma Bond, after stopping a few days at
her home in Thetford, has returned to her
work in Woburn, Mass. - Mr.. and Mrs.
Hutchins had a daughter born on July 8.
this place visiting friends. - Sadie
Kenney made her sister in Windsor a short
visit.
Topsham.
The community was shocked last Saturday
afternoon on learning that Orrin Green had
taken an overdose of laudanum. DR.. East
mar of Groton was m but his services
were unavailing. Mr.. Green died Sunday
morning about nine o'clock. The funeral was
held on Tuesday at the house, Rev. w. |. Todd
of Groton officiating. Mr.. Green was about
sixty-five years OF age and leaves six children.
The Christian Endeavor Society of the Re-
formed Presbyterians, will give a lawn party
on the lawn in front of &. r.. Taggart's resi-
dence next Friday evening, There will be a
ohnpt prour N ~ op1 zoo araopn aud aala will
be sold. Come and enjoy a pleasant evening.
Vershire.
Mrs. Luella Carpenter Lee of Fairlee is
visiting relatives in town. - Aggie
Blanchard has returned home. - The
hay crop is said to be much better than last
year. Corn has grown rapidly OF late, but
a farmer remarked recently that in his forty
years of farming in this town he had never
seen corn 80 backward as it Is this year.
60 Eli Godfrey and family were called
to Strafford last week to attend the funeral
Of his granddaughter, Miss Hattie Burn
ham. - eavitt West, a long time resi-
dent Of Vershire, died Of July 16. The
burial took place at STAFFORD the Sunday
following. - Roger w. Rice, nephew Of
Mrs. Parker, was drowned on July 8, while
swimming. He was a boy of rare promise
and his death falls with crushing force on
his widowed mother and other friends.
- The High school, taught by Alma
Wheaton, closed very pleasantly on Friday,
July 9, with a picnic in the afternoon. The
following scholars were present every day:
Mertie Davis, Anna Spear, Grace and Car
rie Darling. The last three mentioned had
no tardy marks. Mertie Davis received a
prize for doing the best work in arithmetic,
and Anna Spear, Carrie Darling and Arthur
Bartlett received prizes for missing the
least number of words during the term.
Waits River.
E.. N. Philbrick of Barre is at home for a
few days.
Mrs. d. o. Dickerman spent a part of last
week visiting friends at West Topsham.
Robert H. Richardson, formerly of this
place, is critically i'll at the Hanover hospital.
Mrs. William Paul and Miss Nellie Stevens
of West Fairlee visited at 5. F. Locke's over
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Davis and two children
of Island Pond are spending a few weeks at
S. W. Davis.
Jack Rogers was in own over last Sun
day. =S Summer boarders are expected
in town this week. == The Ladies' Mite
Society will meet with Mrs. White this
week. - Mrs. H. r. Rogers goes to
Haverhill, Mass, this week to live. Mr..
Rogers has been there at work for some
time. - Mrs. Phebe McGinnis is stay
ing with her father, s. V. Meader, for
awhile. - Mrs. Smith has returned to
work for Orrin Kittredge. - Rev. Mr..
Farnsworth, for many years a missionary
abroad, will preach here next Sunday.
- Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Rogers and two
children, who have been visiting at J. B..
Rogers, have returned home to Barre.
East Warren.
A man by the name Of McClafflin who was
arrested here for obtaining liquor under
fa1Qn nrnfnnQn xuoo tr;A1 oAnfnaaaI I;n
guilt and was sentenced to Rutland work
house by Justice III. w. Lyford. Constable
Heath started with him, and while c;ossing
Lincoln mountain he broke loose and ran.
Heath tried to shoot him, but his gun failed
to go of and away he went.
A goodly number of friends called on
Mrs. Harriet Newcomb on Friday. 1t was
her ninety-second birthday. She also re-
ceived several letters OF congratulations
from her grandchildren and great-erand-
children. Grandma retains her mental fac.
ulties to q wonderful degree. - Mrs.
Warner Moore from Braintree, Mass, is
visiting friends here. - The heavy fall
OF rain last week did considerable damage
here to roads and gardens.
Woodbury.,
Mrs. Frank Corey is very sick with ty-
phOid fever.
Emma Watson is working in the bakery
at HardwiCk as clerk.
DR.. Horace L. Wats02 and wife Of West
Topsham have returned home,
Bert Benjamin has left the quarry and ia
working for Town & Burnham.
John H.. Senter and family of Mont,e,ier
are camping on the shore of J long Pond.
Xnite a number Iro" here attended the
evsning + a. Sorth Calais last Friday
M" --ere will be another August 10.
he ~ Gown authorities should put a stop to
--'Ging in the mill pond. Every warm
night from FIVE to twenty men and boys go
up 20 the pond. Little objection would be
p4ade to their simply swimming there but
the vile language that greets the passer-by
and nearby residents is something not to
be tolerated.
1t last the school directors are at work
on the school house at the Center, The
house will be moved back, the old cellar
filed up, a new floor, and new seats put in
to accommodate sixty scholars, two recita-
ton rooms and a clean, wholesome cellar
are to constitute the main improvements.
While Charles Lawson and family Of
Hardwick were driving through the Center
last Sunday with a pair of horses hitched to
a two-seated surrey, the king-bolt broke
and the horses ran away. AT weston
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