The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-01
wiIlianstown.

Thanksgiving last week.
An ice house has Just been built in con-
nection with our creamery.
Henry ID WINS will attend school in Chel-
sea again the coming winter.
Mrs. p p Womer arrived here last Thurs
day in much improved health.
Edison S. Martin was i'll enough last FIJI
day to call in DR. E. b. Watson.
Mrs. Cyrus U. Lathrop is quite poorly
with inflammation OF the stomach.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Savery spent
Thanksgiving with friends in Quechee.
Miss Myra Seaver will teach the winter
term of school in the David Gale district.
George Goodrich began class in vocal
music in Shady Rll last Friday evening.
Rev. Alvin NJ. Smith was al Mrs. Smiths
old home in Stockhridge for Thanksgiving
A son was born Thanksgiving day to
Charles Clark who lately came here from
Barre.
Mrs. Elisha b. Gale has returned here
from Barre and is housekeeping under her
own roof.
c. U. Lathrop has had busy year in
lumber, agricultural implements, phos-
phate, etc.
Misses Susie Benedict and Gertie Martin
return to school in Montpelier next week,
for the winter.
Wesley p. Martin OF Marshied was at
the home of his son-in-law, George w. Sa-
very, last week.
Frank Benedict is to enter Tufts College,
Somervile, Mass. He left here last Friday
for his new field of study.
Edison S. Martin had the misfortune to
| lose a valuable horse last Friday night. He
calls it a case of spinal meningitis.
Rev. William Schofeld will visit his
daughter in Cambridge, Mass, this week,
as she is about to remove from there.
Mrs. William Witherell, who has for a
| long time been an invalid from trouble OF
the lungs, has been more poorly of late.
Granite Gutter p. j. Rogers went to New
York city on Monday to meet sister just
arriving from Australia. She will reside in
| Barre.
Charles r. Benedict, wife and daughter,
were in Burlington last Thursday for
Thanksgiving with the other three members
of the family.
| Granite steps were last week put in at
| the foot of the walk from the Congregation
al church to the street. Granite dealer
Will Kibbee manufactured them.
Samuel Foster of Duxbury was in town
last week looking after his farm here. He
| is fortunate in having good man on the
place, as indeed he has had for years.
1t has just been publicly stated that some
fifty per cent of the people of this town are
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, unless on some great oc-
casion. What pity, if this be factl
Mrs Louise Bigelow Oatley, formerly of
this section, but for years resident OF
Rochester, N. Y, will spend the winter
with her cousin, Mrs. M. j. White, of Mel
rose, Mass.
Word from Asa G. Wilbur told Of his safe
| arrival in Fruithurst, Ala. 1t was not a
small undert aking that he, with his years
and so great loss of sight, should start
alone for Louisiana.
Certain prominent out-of-town granite
dealers tell us they look for very good
business in Barre granite the coming year.
| Indications are that it may begin earlier in
the year than it did this year.
A recent letter from Rev. Idrys Jones
brings encouraging report from his field in
Wisconsin, as Congregational minister
He continues year after year with the same
two churches, which speaks well for him.
The manager Of our creamery tells us
| that milk is again coming in increasingly
and that the quantity will likely continue
to grow larger for the season. He is retail
ing butter for twenty-five cents per pound
Miss Florence Field, daughter of the late
| Rev Daniel Field. writes from YORK, Penn
that her brother Henry, well known here
is building knitting factory. He Is asso
ciated with Bostonian, in this enterprise
and they will employ sixty hands.
Miss Belle Robinson is teaching in the
Prentice Waldo district; Frank Erskine In
the Charles Nj. Erskine district Miss Ida
Covell in the William Hanson district; and
Frank III. Martin, as probably. also Miss
Katie Erskine, in the quarry district.
Fred Winslow, who came here from Der.
lin few years ago and bought the l.. Nose
ly Martin farm of John Lynde, has let the
farm go back to the Lynde estate, and will
sell at auction two weeks from next Friday,
hay, tools, etc. He will move later from
the place.
As illustrative of the ups and downs in
the lives oflmen engaged in mining, year
ago one OF our correspondents bargained a
little over half interest in mine, to q
| syndicate, on a basis OF a million and three
quarters of dollars. To-day he writes that
in the turn of the tide of affairs he has a
hard tussle to provide three meals day for
his family.
Rev. p. p. Womer will hold a service at
the school-house in the Henry F. Erskine
district next Friday evening. A full at
tendance is hoped for and the wish is ex-
pressed that those coming to this service
shall bring lamps to light the house prop
erly. Mr.. Womer desires that this may be
but the beginning of work Of this kind in
various parts of the town in the closing
weeks of this year.
There was a council of eight physicians in
the case OF Willie Lund last Friday at the
Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington. AL
| ready q rectal tumOr nau deem TtuOVtu. IL
was decided not to remove the injured por-
ton of the spinal column. What further
surgery may have to come, in the pelvic re-
gon, is to be determined after weeks To-
cal treatment. The case is pronounced Sc
| rious.
Mrs Harriet Averill, a farmer in the
northwest section of our town, and past
threescore and ten, walked to our village
one day last week. a distance OF several
miles. Only year or two ago, at this sea
son of rough, frozen ground, we recorded a
similar walk Of hers. Father Time contin
ues to deal gently with her so far az her
CHEEKY, ruddy face showed, and Dame Ma
ture seems to delight in letting us see what
grand physical material she used to put into
the women Of long ago.
An incident in he family life of one OF
the early ministers of our State has Just
been given us, and may be repeated as il.
Illustrating the economy that needed to be
practiced in those days of large families and
small salaries AS the short days OF winter
came on, the work of the day required that
the family devotions be begun in the light
OF the candles universally used at that pc
Rod After the Bible reading, and just be-
fore prayer, the candle was extiDguished by
the minister to save the waste. But There
were giants in those days."
Nearly three times as many persons were
pr sem AT the Thanksgiving service last
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