The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-31
williamstown.


Miss Alta Larkin of Orange was visiting
family friends here last week.
George Adams of Fairhaven was at the
old home here few days last week.
Mrs. circuit Abbott and daughter, Miss
Lucy, are staying in Oneida, N Y, at pres
ent.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. N. Davis Of Milford,
Mass. are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. j. 3. Hop
kins.
Miss Fannie Seaver lately met with Sc
we're accident to her wrist, requiring medi-
cal care
Rev. j. X Thompson of Montpelier will
preach again at the Congregational church
on Sunday.
A distinct earthquake shock was felt
here, the middle of last week, causing the
rafting of dishes, etc.
Rev. p. p. Womer of Connecticut has &C
cepted the call from the Congregational
church to become their pastor.
Mrs. Chauncey Lougee Is recovering a
little the feeling in portion OF the left side,
but endures great nervous suffering.
George Beckett has just had very hand
some granite monument made by Grearson
e. Beckett, to place on his lot in the village
cemetery.
Orlando Flint was taken suddenly i'll last
week, his difficulty suggesting paralysis.
His many friends will hope he may be
bpareu JnHJ bHllCUlOu'
We are told that Rev. j. o. Sherburne,
pastor of the Methodist church for the past
three years, will be wanted by his people
again the coming year
Mrs. Mehitable Stebbins was greatly
| cheered last Thursday by gathering OF
some of her friends at her house to celebrate
her eightieth birthday.
b. f. Sibley retui ned from Burlington
last week. with the hope that the surgical
| ion aar r1a anDnaaafnl
| in healing the difficulty
Rev. Idrys Jones writes encouragingly Of
his ministerial work in Wisconsin, where
he seems to be having continual additions
to his church membership.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Beckett are planning
their annual visit with their son in New
| York city, 30 as to be present at the Grant
monument exercises on April n.
1t was a treat to US to take leisurely run
one day last week, through the very busy
granite shop of Greason & Beckett where
some two scores OF workers are making
things lively.
Robert Jones has violin inside Of which
is the inscription, made by Nicolaus Anna
tus, in Cremona, 1864" as translated from
the Latin. II genuine Cremonia violin, is
it not valuable?
Messrs. Carter & Kibbee have dissolved
partnership in the granite-cutting business,
the latter to carry on the business hence
forth. Mr.. Carter has gone to work for
| Grearson & Beckett.
Lewis, only child of Herbert P. Martin,
left last Thursday with his family for a
stay of two years in Kirksville, Mo-, for the
study of osteopathy. He has rented his
farm meantime to Erwin III. Martin.
But little maple sugar had been made
here up to last Saturday. Sap ran well on
Sunday in some places. AT least one of our
clergymen on Sunday prayed specially and
earnestly Tor people who were at home
boiling sap that day.
Miss Hattie Briggs will teach the summer
term OF school in the Prentiss Waldo dis
trict, Miss Belle Robinson will have the
school in the David Gale district, Mrs. Hen
ry Wood, a former teacher in the Spauld
ing Graded School in Barre, with have the
primary department OF the village school
Miss Luvia Slack Of Randolph will have
the intermediate department, while there
has been talk that Mrs. Annie Benedict
Frankum may come home from Californis
and take the highest department.
Waterbury Center.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Buzzel had q visit
from their son, Burt, from Burlington, last
week.
Miss Nellie B. Perkins of Tunbridge, il
with Mrs. Ann Foster, and attending schoo
at the seminary.
Misses Grace Ferguson and Edith Oaket
|
ton from their school at w. Z. MarshalPs
Professor G. II. Stone of Goddard Sem
mary, who has spent his vacation with hit
parents, has returned to his duties in Barre
Mrs. @. Henry Stone received notice, or
Monday last, that her only sister, living in
Haverhill, Mass, was sick, and she left on
Tuesday morning to take care of her.
Mrs. E. Fl. Boyer of Walla Walla, Wash
ington returned to her old home here or
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more than nine years, to visit her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. K. A. Newcomb, and Other
friends.
Mrs Betsey Cressey, who fell and broke
her hip on March s, died at her home on
Wednesday last. She was eighty-two years
this shock was too great for her system to
overcome. Her husband, Rev. Isaac Ores.
sey, moved his family here forty-four years
ago, and preached for the Baptist society
one year. He died the second year, leaving
his wife with family of four small chill
dren, which she kept together, and edu-
Gated. The two sons died several years
ago. The daughters, Mary N, who is
known as one of our most successful teach
ers, and Abbie, who has attended to the
home, and given her loving care to the
mother, remain to mourn the loss of a kind
Christian mother.
THEY are so small that the most sensitive
persons take them, they are 80 effective that
the most obstinate cases OF constipation,
headache and torpid liver yield to them
That is why DeWitt's Little Early Rsers
are known as the famous little pills. w. e.
Terrill & Co.
Waitsheld.
Frank Green returned to Bethel ON Tues
day.
DR.. Grout OF Waterbury was in town
Monday to see Will Somervile.
Allen Bruce and Abbie Bennett were
married at Moretown last week.
Mrs. Lawson Carroll and Will Somervlle
are both very sick with pneumonia.
Henry Dong and wife are rejoicing oyer
the birth of daughter born on Sunday.
Mrs. William Palmer was in Roxbury on
Sunday to attend the funeral of a cousin.
Miss Maud Enright went to Waterbury
on Monday of last week to work In the asy-
lurn. She is to do Office work.
James B. Somerville who has been at
work at Manchester, N H., for some time is
in town visiting his mother an3, other
friends.
new Oil" - barnard Of Mi3dlesex preach.
"a aC the Congregational church on Sunday,
morning and evening,in exchange with Rev.
K. S. Fisk.