The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-18
WilliaustOwn,

Some deferred Willamstown items will |
be found on page two.
Mrs P. P. Womer has been confined to
the house of late by illness.
Frank II. Martin will teach again in the
quarry district, the coming term.
Ernest Riddel is recovering from his re-
cent severe poisoning by paris green.
George Smith of Potsdam, N. Y, was at
the Lynde cottage in Berlin last week.
Harvey l.. Cheney is carrying an arm in a
sling, the result OF very painful sore on IT,
Frank o. Beckett, for years past a resi-
dent Of Washington, ID. o., is with family
friends in his old home.
The Catholic priest at Mortified and his
choir were here at the Monument House
at dinner on Sunday.
Mrs Luther Davis and her daughter, Mrs.
Alice Cooley Of Waterbury are guests OF
the family OF John Duffus.
Rev. William Schofield has held meetings
on two Sunday afternoons in the school-
house in the George Williams district.
Conductor James Canaly is suffering from
an injury to one of his hands, received in
his work in the railroad yard in Barre.
Mrs. John Duffus and children returned
with Mrs. Luther Davis to Waterbury on
Tuesday to be absent some two weeks.
Mrs. Miranda Badger, widow of the late
Ira Seaver, is staying in Windsor, where
she finds employment suited to her mind.
A recent guest of the Monument House,
who is starring the country, says he found
it the best hotel he had been In for quite
long time.
A company OF comedians were at the
town hall ON Wednesday and Thursday
evenings last and seem to have been well
patronized.
We look for the "wave of prosperity :"
Ill t1a 70 hrtn
an increased demand for our granite prod
ucts in due time.
The Construction Company is putting in
sewers from their buildings to connect with
a main sewer to the stream in the old Enoch
Howe meadow.
Our baseball team played with the
Brookfields at Brookield Center on Satur-
| day afternoon, and were badly beaten Inc
| score was II to g.
On Sunday evening Rev. p. P. Womer
will repeat at the Congregational church,
| the temperance address that he gave a few
! weeks ago in Brooktield.
| Methodist ladies met one day last week al
the house OF George W. Nichols, to prepare
some articles OF bedding donated by Mrs
Nichols for use at the Methodist parsonage
An out of town bicyclst travelling through
several other places in central Vermont las'
week remarked that he found better roads
| III w lllldIuSuOWn tudu hO hou iOuhu ~ 49,
| other town.
There will be an opportunity for the peo
| pie Of this place and vicinity to go to Mont
| real on an excursion on Saturday OF this
week for the low price of S160, and to have
two or three days there.
Some of Rev. P. P. Womer's Pensioners
think they see in his ministrations evidence
that he caught the Mortified spirit IN
his recent visit to the Moody meetings
| thare and thew like IL. too
Lucius 8. Simons has hay that was GU
forty years ago that looks green and fresl
and that stock would eat with relish, ht
saws. 1t has been covered meantime will
other hay, hence its preservation.
Bert, son of Joshua f. Bailey, was a
home last week. For years he has been IL
the employ of Philadelphia firm, as a can
vasser, for the sale of medical publications
His work is largely with physicians.
William Quits has just been visited by hi
brother, Frank Cults, OF Magog, Canada
accompanied by his youngest daughter
Frank Cults is a son-in-law OF the late viii
liam Perrin, and has had some years at he
tel keeping.
Mr.. and Mrs. Murdo Beaton, in the quar-
ry district, on Friday Of last week burie'
their little daughter, Jessie M, who died o
membraneous Group, aged two years AM
ten months. Rev. E. w. Cummings OF Barr
officiated at the funeral.
We are told that in the few years sine
the st. Andrews Benevolent Society @
Newbury began insurance work here, o.
the assessment plan, probably not NOR
than ten per cent Of the insured hav
allowed their policies to lapse.
A brother of Rev. P. P, Womer, who
preparing for the Methodist ministry, is eS
pected here this week, and will likel
preach on Sunday morning at the Congre
gational church. Rev. Mr.. Womer also ha
a brother older than himself, in the Meth
odst ministry, his parents having bee
members of that denomination.
In a recent letter from wealthy bushes
man in the West he expresses the opinion
that &C in the last two years very few mel
chants land some other business men b
IN ntions), have made both ends meet, an,
If one can make living it is about all any
body is doing" He looks, though, for al
Improvement in business matters,
A Massachusetts visitor to our quarries
few days ago told us on his return, that b
had visited certain quarry in Massachu
sets that has been worked one hundre,
years, and yet, when Kings Chapel in Bos
ton was building, long time ago, it was
matter of doubt whether this quarry woul,
yield enough stone to finish the church.
| One of our citizens recently listened to al
address at noted resort, by man of SOM
note, in which the speaker was thought t.
90 injustice 10 certain professor OF tnl
townsman's acquaintance The following
day our citizen approached the speaker AMI
demonstrated with him, when the latter ad
mitted that his remarks on the professo
were not based on personal knowledge, bu
on hearsay.
When one recalls the strong, healthy APP
pearance of Mrs. John p. Ellis, for SOM
years resident OF our quarry district, the,
may be surprised to learn of her recen
death at the age Of thirty-four years Sh
died of consumption, in Colorado, whithe
she was taken some months ago. Some TIVE
months before her death twins were born t.
her. She is remembered here as an activ,
member OF the Methodist church
The severest thunder storm of the season
visited us on Sunday afternoon. The four
tenement Warren Poole house was strucl
by lightning, though not much damage wa
done. The old Joel Bass house, near tn,
village cemetery was also struck. Blk win
dows were demolished, and others were
somewhat damaged. A bed was badly de
moralized, and the inside wood. work, al
we'll as outside, suffered to some extent
Wallace w. Martins house was struck too
but no great harm was done to it. Beyond