The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17
Washington.

Miss Lucy Calef is visiting in Providence.
Ransom Dickey of Bethel was in town
last week.
Geo. II. Flint is making cider at the old
grist mill.
Horace White is making charcoal on the
old Bliss farm.
Mrs. c. H. Smith has returned from her
visit to Boston.
Lafayette Cheney's house at East Barre
Is finished and rented.
Edison e. Smith is still confined to the
house with throat trouble.
Ora Chynoweth of Waits River is in the
employ of A. L. Patterson.
Joshua Walker is building a fish market
on the grounds of Aaron Richardson.
G. II. Bigelow and family have returned
from a ten days visit to Providence, r.. 1.
Mrs. d. r. Houghton returned last week
from a visit to her daughters in Hudson,
Mass.
The roads in town are blocked with snow,
and we wait for an appropriation-or a
thaw.
G. VI. McAllister is driving a grocery de-
livery team to the q~uarries for G. IL. johann
nessen.
o. H. Dickinson is in very poor health.
His daughter is expected from Chicago this
week 10 care Tor MIN.
A town meeting is to be held on the 23rd
inst. for the purpose OF raising an addition
al appropriation for highways.
Perley c. White of Callahan's Ranch, Sis
kiyou Co., Cal, a brother of the late Harry
White, arrived in town on Saturday night.
Geo. W. Downing has sold his farm to
Dan Stanley, and has advertised his per-
sonal property for sale at auction on the
22nd inst.
The following school report is received
from Simpson district, Nellie Perrin teach
er: No. of pupils, Is. Average daily attend
ande 17.2.
Hiram Bresette and family return to their
farm in Canada this week. Hiram has
made a good record as a citizen of this town,
and attended faithfully to his W business.
The epidemic of diphtheria which visited
our town two weeks ago las departed al
most as quickly as it came. In its flight
through a single neighhorhood it blasted two
young lives and left two hearthstones in
mourning.
Chas. e. Emery, as overseer of the poor,
was unremitting in his efforts to care for
those who needed aid in the recent epidem-
ic, and is depended upon by those who have
been quarantined to restore themselves and
their belongings to their natural state.
Little Daisy Bradbury, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. d. r. Bradbury, died ON Monday
Ol idbJ week, Ol ulpntneIla. one was a par
ticularly attractive child, endowed with a
beauty as rare as it was charming, and was
bright and loveable in all her ways. Her
sorrowing parents have the heartfelt SYM
pathy OF the community in this their time
Of sad afhiction.
Topsham.
Elmer Powers has returned home.
Mrs. Matilda Corruth has an auction on
Wednesday Of this week.
Communion services were observed in the
Reformed Presbyterian church on Sunday,
Rev. j. b. Crawford officiating.
A temperance lecture was given under
the auspices Of the Topsham Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, by Rev. j. b.
Crawford in the Reformed Presbyterian
church on Monday evening.
There will be an entertainment given I'M
der the auspices Of the Topsham and Cor
NTH Band and the East Corinth Christian
Endeavor Society in the church at East
Corinth on Friday evening Of this week.
Refreshments will be served. Terms made
known at concert. Come one, come all.
The band will play Yankee Doodle.