The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-03-24

The directors organized by electing d. f
| Holden, president, George M, Powers, vice
president, and Mr.. Bickford OF the Wood
bury Granite Company. treasurer.
Lowell.
A careful estimate indicates that more
than half the inh .bitants OF the town are
SICK wit. grip.
Rev. Mr.. Atwood preached his farewell
sermon In the Congregational church last
Sunday. He has located in Westfield. A
young man from Andover is candidsting fol-
the vacant pulpit.
Thomas Gilbert. an old veteran who
served through the late war in the First
Vermont Cavalry, died in Westfeld March
16, Of heart disease. The impressive ser.
vices Of the Grand Army we're recited at
the residence by Hazen Post OF Lowell
The interment was In the Catholic cemetery
at Lowell.
MarshfieId.
Robins have made their appearance.
Mrs. John Peabody is very ill with the
grip.
Mrs. A. T. Davis is visiting her parents in
Rochester.
Pay. your dog license on or before the first
day OF April.
Sugar party at the Methodist church next
Saturday night
Hattie Cole has gone to Mortified to
work at dressmaking.
| Liant" Shepard, Harvey Sulbam, Ralph
Ide and Ward" Carver have the measles.
The creamery made twenty three hundred
pounds OF butter last week. The patrons
received twenty-one cents per pound last
month.
8. 8. Smith has been appointed admins
| traitor of the estate OF the late Ada A. Spen-
Ger and q. D. Smith and G. e. Shepard COM
missioners.
All having an unsettled account against
the Star baseball team are requested to
present a bill Of same to the manager on or
before Saturday, March u.
THEY are 80 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 Risers
| are known as the famous little pills. W. e.
Terrill & Co.
Middlesex.
Mrs. W. II. 81. Buck is gradually failing.
Arthur Davis Of Boston visited relatives
in town last week.
The infant children of Samuel Baxter and
Moses Farrar are i'll.
The Waits1eld stage came on wheels the
first time last Monday.
Irene, the infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Farrar Ia i'll with the measles.
The veteran blacksmith, John r. Leonard,
Is confined to the house by an attack of the
grip.
The Unitarian Ladies' Aid held q very
pleasant socisble with Mrs. q. Fl. Hammond
last week Tuesday.
Prof. j. o. Byron. humorist and banjoist,
exhibited to a small but appreciative audi
ence at Farrar's Hall last Saturday evening.
The dance at the hotel was fairly we'll
patronized by a well-behaved attendance.
About thirty-6ve couples were in attend
| ance.
Our village people are spending the most
of their time watching the ice up the river
| nowadays. Fortunately the weather has
been favorable, and no great damage is an
| ticipated.
Mrs. Cornelius McMurphy passed away
last Friday after long and serious illness.
| The funeral occurred on Sunday at two
| o'clock, Rev. Orla Barnard officiating, and
the interment was in the village cemetery.
| Decea sed leaves five children and hus
band.
1t may be Of interest to the patrons OF the
creamery, located in this community, to
| learn that a suit has been instituted against
the concern alleging that out Of five tests
actually taken the three lowest only were
used and the average of these reported to
This case has been tried once resulting in
| disagreement of the jury, and Is set to be
tried again May 7.
If you have ever seen a child in the agony
of Group, you can appreciate the gratitude
Of the mothers who know that One Minute
Cough Cure relieves their little ones as
| quickly as it is administered. Many homes
in this city are never without it. w. e.
Terrill & Co.
| Moretowa.
n. o. Ward is able to ride out, and
| George Bragg has returned to his home in
| Warren. - l.. Wilcox and wife are wis.,
iting in Bethel. ~ W. #. Hill and Flor
ence Haylett are at home for the vacation
- Harriet Vail and Esther Hathaway
are visiting friends in town. - Fred
Goss will not return to the Seminary next
term. - little new sugar has been
made.
FEE. Kimball has received carload OF
| Western horses.
Mrs. A. e. Pillsbury has returned from a
three weeks visit to Boston.
Mrs. G. n. Atkinson has gone to Brook
Ign, N. Y, for few weeks.
Grip has run quite rig for two or three
weeks past, but its victims Iare growing
| less.
d. M. Bond, who has been head clerk in
T. G. Reyes store for several years, has
purchased q mercantile plant at North
Thetford, and moved his family.
The supper and musical entertainment on
Wednesday evening last, at the Congrega-
tional church for the benefit OF the Tenney
Memorial library, was success. One hun
dred and sixty dollars was the result.
There are two candidates for the post
office in this village, M. A. Gale and g. l.
Andrews. A caucus will be held at semin
airy hall on March 81, by the patrons, to de-
eide which location is the point at issue.
South Ryegate.
Mrs. Silas Frost died of quick consump
ton on Sunday.
M. f. Mcdonald is the happiest man in
the place, his wife having presented tt
him nice large boy early Tuesday morn
ing.