The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-07
WilIiamstown.

There were some excellent runs OF sap |
here last week.
George Smith OF Potsdam is visiting. his
Lynde cousins here.
There will be union Fast Day service at
the Methodist church on Friday.
Mrs. e. b. Watson went TO Waitsfeld
last week to visit her parents several days.
Miss Annie Mckee il at her old home in
Canada, to remain through the summer, we
hear.
Mrs. John Duffus, with her three children
go to her old home in Waterbury this week
for fortnight's visit.
Rev. j. X. Thompson Of Montpelier will
supply the Congregational pulpit here
through the month of April.
Mrs John Adams, since last Christmas,
had not been able to walk outside OF her
house till last Monday, because Of i'll health
George Beckett, it is said, will soon build
house to rent on his lot just north OF the
Beckett granite plant, and opposite the old
Fernando Davenport place.
Easter exercises will be held at the Meth
odist church on q week from next Sunday
morning. So far as we hear they will be
the only special ones in town that day.
The household effects OF the late Mrs.
Helen Perrin Stickney were sold on Satur-
| day afternoon at low price. The place
was bid off by Charles r. Benedict at 1886.
Charles r. Ainsworth is again this season
spending large portion Of his time for a
lumber syndicate, as salesman in Duluth,
MINI. On last Friday he closed sale Of
four and half million feet of pine lumber
to one firm in New York.
Lewis Seaver Is up from New York city
for few days to look after his farming in
terests, and eat new sugar He is accom-
panied by his Oldest brother, Ezra, now Of
Chicago, who left here thirty-fve years ago
and has not been back meantime. The lat
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the summer here among relatives and old
friends.
! Landlord Brown and wife, who came
from Concord, n. H., last week. to occupy
: the Monument House the coming year, are
making pleasant first Impressions. They
, are comparatively young people, full OF &C
, tivity and it would seem must make a sue
cess of their undertaking, II it be possible
, With large acquaintance Mr.. Brown hopes
to induce city visitors to his house later on
+ A man, said to have had several aliases
n but having answered to the name Of j. A
\ Hamel, in the Judge Paine district, To-
1 some months past, was arrested last Thurs
+ day, on charge of one Of the most fendisf
r Of crimes. After trial on Thursday b.
a was sent to Chelsea jail to await tria
4 by county court. He claims to have beel
born in France and to have come here fron
Canada.
:, Mrs. Lucy Hanaford, Of Clinton, Mass
h and her sister, Mrs. Mary Maynard Of Lar
r. caster, Mass, were in town last week, ha,
- ing come to Vermont with the body Of thei
= mother Mrs. Helen Stickney, which wa
=. buried in Berlin. They were here in tn
a interests of the auction sale Of their mother
q effects last Saturday. Their sister, Mrs
Is Annie Fits, is in Denver, Col, her husban
having found great relief from lung troub
A. =. there.
n 1t was great delight to Congregations
II lists here, when word came from Rev. P.
n Womer, of Somerville, Conn, last Wedne
- day, that he had accepted their call, an
would be here not later than the secor
Sunday in May. Mr. Womer is your
w man, yet in the twenties, we believe, gra
uate OF the Yale Theological Seminar
IN Through his one Sundays ADMINISTRATION
" n here, a few weeks ago, he received hear
- call to the place.