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

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caused by old age.
| Many of our village residents are to put
in electric lights soon.
| Everything sold at high price at the
Parsons auction last week.
| The dance on Friday evening was attend.
ed by about thirty couples
| Mr.. and Mrs. e. s. Dana are enjoying q
| weeks vacation at Waitsfeld.
Mrs. Ina B. Chase of Montpelier is stop.
| ping with her parents at the hotel.
| Mrs. E. A. Houghton of Windsor is visit.
| ing her sister, Mrs. U. II. Hammond.
E.O. Earle has moved from the Dens.
more house to N. g. Hambletts house.
The Ladies' Aid will hold a sociable with
| Mrs. g. 7. Miles on Wednesday afternoon,
| May 26.
Smith Pease of Waterbury Center is stop
| ping with his sister-in-law, Mrs. Jerusha
| Somers.
The Home Circle will meet with Mrs.
Levi Swift on Thursday afternoon and
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. d. Wiley are at the
home Of their son-in-law, Evan Hill, in
Duxbury. Mr.. Hill is quite seriously ill.
Nathaniel Ennis was taken with bleeding
at the lungs on Saturday, and his condition
became alarming. He was reported better
on Monday.
services were nelQ at tne MetnOdlsu
church last Sunday forenoon and evening.
Rev. George M. Burdick Of Burlington con-
Quoted the services, and will supply the
pulpit this year.
Plainfield.
Paul Shirrer, q student Of Goddard, spent
Sunday in town, the guest Of his uncle. Rev.
l.. f. Fortney. - Roswell Reed has
moved from the ]. M. Batchelder tenement
to the g. d. Kidder house. - The " viii
Ioy fot hod un olri inn
pairing the sidewalks last week. - Rev.
j. Edward Farrow and family of Whining
ton have been visiting friends in town the
past week. - G. M. Spencer and Bert
Batchelder returned from Greensboro Pond
on Saturday with q nice string OF trout
- Daniel Hudson has rented the tene-
ment over the blacksmith shop and gone to
keeping house. His wife and four children
from England joined him on Monday.
- Word was received here on Tuesday
Of the death Of George Montgomery. the
five-year. son of Mr.. and Mrs. W. G.
Kinney of Plainfeld, N. j. The remains
were taken to East Hardwick for interment
The bereaved parents have the heartfelt
sympathy of friends here in their great
affliction - Smith Martyr of Washing
ton visited at DR.. d. B. Smiths and A. f.
Martyrs last week. - Professor Charles
Dole of Northfeld was in town last week.
- w. III. Kinney and Mrs. S. d. Gate
were in Hardwick last week to attend the
funeral of son of Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Kin
ney
Roxbury.
The ice cream social on Thursday night
was not largely attended because of the
rain, but $7.65 were the receipts. The
ladies will continue these socials once in two
weeks through the summer.
johnson Post will decorate the graves at
the village cemetery on May 20. 1t is pro-
bable that appropriate exercises will also be
held.
Mrs. Clark Flint entertained four ladies
last week whose united ages were three
hundred and twenty-three years
N. d. Rice and family are in Granville
this week. He will attend to his mill inter
ests while there, and Mrs. Rice will visit
her mother.
s. Butterfield was in Sharon on Tuesday
last visiting the scenes of his boyhood.
Mr.. Gould, of Barre was in town on Sat-
urday, tuning and cleaning pianos and
organs.
Miss Emma Sears has finished work for
Mrs. d. B. Howe, Jr., and is visiting in
Barrows of Irasburg visited their sister,
Mrs. A. e. Richardson last week. s.
Miss Gertrude Rich of St. Adams is visiting
Miss Alice Shepherd. - Miss RAMA B.
Flint is at home for a short rest from her
work at White River Junction. Miss
Flint. - j. F. Wheeler is barbering at
the Columbian House. - Henry Van
Deusan is to move his family to Mr.. Savan-
ways. - Joseph How has moved into
the tenement recently vacated by DR..
Fletcher.
West Topsham.
Jimmy, son of W. 81. Chalmers, was taken
to Mary Fletcher Hospital, on Tuesday,
where he is to be treated for hip disease.
Miss Emily Ford died on Monday last.
The funeral was held on the following
Wednesday at the church. Rev.Mr Briggs,
OF Washington, officiated. Miss Ford was
sixty-seven years of age She had been for
many years member of the Free.will Bap.
fist church and was, as long as her health
permitted an active worker in every good
cause. She will be greatly missed by a
large circle of friends and especially in her
own home where she was needed so much.
Hon. R. M. Harvey and daughter Laila,
from Montpelier, visited in town over Sun.
day. Mrs. 9. F. Smith and son Brad.
- Mrs. DR.. Warner of Washington is
in town every Monday for the season with q
fine line OF millinery goods.
Wells River.
Mrs. Gonzenback's father spent Sunday
with her.
j. G. Learned lost valuable horse by
pneumonia last week.
Wednesday, May -, daughter was borr
to Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Moore.
The dance at Mrs. Deming's on Tuesday
was enjoyed by about seventy guests.
| Mrs. George Wright of Burlington wal
the guest of Mrs. Il. II. Lee last week.
| Mr.. Hale has set out eighty maple trees
and otherwise improved the ground abou
Hales Tavern
The bank, Masonic Hall, Mr.. Markham
and Mrs Slack's have just been wired TO
electric lights.
The schools are rehearsing patriotic ex
ercises to be given on Friday preceding
| ing Memorial Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. T. Baldwin and daugh
| ter are spending the week at their summe
cottage at Greensboro Pond
Mrs. Whitelaw and Mrs. Bigelow spen
Sunday at Bradford Mrs Whitelaw at DR.
Jones', Mrs. Bigelow at Dr. Fletcher's.
Rev. G. H. Merrill of st. Johnsbury. sec
rotary of the Vermont Missionary Society
supplied the pulpit of the Congregations
church on Sunday.
Mrs. Jane Miller has rented the lowe
part of her house, and with her sister will
go to Canada to remain through the sum
mer with her brother.