The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
WiIliamstown.

William Wells is in town with his family.
Henry Downs is attending school in
Chelsea.
Frank Erskine is teaching in the William
Hansen district.
Linus Edison is with his brother, Charles
M. Edison just now.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs James
Powers on Monday.
Cornelius Perrin is visiting the families
OF his daughters here.
Fred Winslow's family visited in Leba-
non, N. H., last week.
Thomas Poland has been raising his pref
ty house foot or two.
The Boston Co.operatives have just re-
ceived carload OF feed,
The willamstown band is to play at the
Northtield fair this week.
Miss N. Whitehead of Barre is teaching
in the George Williams district
Louis Dragon was at his old home in
Mooers Junction, N. Y, last week.
The wife of Landlord j. w. Brown OF the
Monument House is quite i'll at present.
Henry Lasell has been shipping potatoes
OF late and pays fifty cents bushel here.
Miss Katie Erskine hopes to resume
teaching in the quarry district this week.
Walter Granger is again gaining but we
hear will not attempt work for j. X. Lynde.
There was reunion of family friends at
the home Of 1. @. Little and son last week.
Neal B., son of Marcus A. Smith, is home
from New York city, for fortnight's vaca-
ton.
John Mari wants to return to his old
home in Scotland, and then go to South
Africa.
The Shepard family will give concert
at the Town Hall on Thursday evening of
this week.
Mrs. John Adams has been under medical
care for few weeks, with something like
slew fever.
Mrs. John Byrnes has just had a windfall
of some S2,700 from the estate Of an unmar-
ried brother
Mrs. J. W. Flint has lately had as guests,
her sister, Mrs. M. II. Gould and daughter
of Denver, Colo.
NJ. L. Kiser instead of Sam McMurray,
will move into G. W. Nichols house lately
vacated by William Quits.
Chester Flint, now eighty years OF age,
tells Of much improved health, and feels
like taking up work again
Asa G. WILDER thinks his landed interests
in Louisiana demand his presence and atten-
ton there the coming winter.
Mrs Lewis M. Seaver has returned to her
home near New York City, and her husband
will now come here for vacation.
very fine collection of Indian relics. He
has genius as a collector OF curios.
j. X. Lynde has been compelled to build
a wall at the side of the brook, passing his
tenement house on the tannery site.
A vilager, who has 800 squashes growing
estimates an addition of 80 to 100 pounds
weight to them through last Fridays heat.
The Methodist Ladies' Missionary Soce
ty here has been sending boxes of beautiful
tn "a aa01 n
Mrs. Anna Dickerman Davis and son are
with her brother-in.law, Deputy Sheriff
Arthur Davis, of Woodsville, N. III. Her
husband has returned West to preach.
The opening of the fall term of schools in
the George W. Slavery district and in the
quarry district was postponed till this week
on account of diphtheria.
Some three score and ten ladies and gem
tlemen enjoyed corn roast on the old
Enoch Howe hill at the north end Of the
village, one evening last week.
The latest diagnosis in the matter of the
condition OF Mrs Rev. p. p. Womer's lungs
is more favorable and she may be able to
return here, some months later.
Gene Call proposes to go in few weeks
to Colorado for the winter for his health.
He has brother who is farmer there, and
he has himself been in that state before.
Miss Mary, daughter of Henry A. Aims
worth, has been visiting Germany and
Switzerland of late, and after few weeks
in Spain, will sail from Gibraltar for home.
B. #. Sibley's ear failing to improve salts
factorily, more radical treatment than hith-
erto seems likely to be necessary in the
near future. Great sympathy is felt for him.
here was a game of base ball here on
Saturday afternoon between the Williams
town and South Barre teams in which the
former were victors by a number OF scores.
A number OF spectators were in attendance.
Rev. j, O.. Sherburne has been backing
up his preaching in personal ministrations
in the family OF William Norris in the quar-
~ district. where diphtheria is prevailing.
sick in this family.
quaintances tells US he could sell plenty OF
monumental work in the country round
about these parts II he would take horses
for pay. Another one of these acquain-
tances has lately taken job to go West,
for which he is to get $500 bushels OF corn.
In Rev. P. p Womer's programme for
the Congregational Circular Conference
here, on Tuesday of this week, Rev. DR.. 8.
N. Jackson of Barre Is to deliver the SER
mon in the morning. The afternoon dis
cussion is on the subject of how to promote
revival in the churches.
Henry f. Erskine has been drawing lot
OF fine looking potatoes to market of late.
Lucy are Cdllcu Juo lEcc bTduo pOUdUOoS.
They were started by a Democrat and II
they yield, as Mr.. Erskne thinks they will,
two hundred bushels to the acre this year,
Bryanites may find an omen for good in the
fact
Two sons of the late Mrs. Hannah Hop
kins Edison are filling important and lucra.
tive positions in Proctor in connection with
Senator Proctor's marble interests there.
One OF them represented that place in the
past legislature. We hear that salary OF
$500 as an architect and draughtsman has
been offered him elsewhere.
Rev. P. P. Womer hopes to be in his pull
pit again on the first Sunday in October.
He has invited his pensioners to present
questions and themes for sermons, freely,
and will devote one sermon month, per-
haps, to answering these questions. A
course OF lectures on Sunday evenings to
young men, has been announced.
Landlord j. W. Brown had as guest
last week, an old friend from Concord, N
H., George W. Wilson by name. Originally
Bradford man, and Of great mechanical
tastes, he was at one time for four years in
the famous works of Alvan Clark & Sons,
manufacturers of lenses for telescopes in
Cambridge, Mass. He has since been a
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