The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-08-11

Next Sunday Rev. Mr., Henry Of Tops
ham will preach in the Reformed Presby-
terrain church at half past ten A. M.
Rev. ], j. Hall exchanged with Rev w.
I. Todd OF Groton last Sunday. No |
preaching at the Reformed Presbyterian |
church.
G. e. George, travelling salesman for the |
Twitchell Champin Company Of Boston, Is |
expected home next Saturday to spend a |
few days with his mother and brothers.
Ii. A. West has retired from the meat
business and will again turn his hand to
stone cutting. II. K. Lindsay remains in
and will continue to run the meat business
in the old market.
The road commissioner is going over the
roads in town for the second time. He
thinks it will cost at least $1,000 to put the
roads in as good repair as they were before
the heavy rains Of few weeks ago.
Rev. S. A. Jackson will start from Ire
land on his return voyage August 28 on the
steamer City Of Rome" A fine reception
will be given to him and his by the MEM
bers Of his church on his return home.
NJ. f. Sargent has purchased of Mrs R.
Arthur piece Of land east Of W. d. Oar
lng's lot and is now preparing place on
1t to move the small building now occupied
| by A. I. Gay. When moved then he will
| put on an addition and make out OF it one OF
the finest tenements to rent that there is in
| the place.
At a town meeting held on the evening
of July q the town voted to give the school
| directors full authority to use what money,
in their judgment, was necessary for en-
larging the present school building at South
| Ryegate 80 1t would accommodate all the
| scholars in town that wished to attend a
town centeral school. The act has proved
to be illegal from the fact that when the
school directors warned the town meeting
they failed to have the warning recorded ii
Nha fnxry Inrlr IN oh nn Nhavv hnxrn
called the town together again for the same
purpose on Wednesday, August 18 at three
p. M. 1t stands every voter in town that takes
any interest in education or the prosperity
and welfare OF the young and rising gener-
alton to be present at this meeting.
Thetford.
Z Rev. William Slade will preach next Sun
day. - Mrs. Cynthia Ranstead) Price of
Orlando, Fla, called on friends last week.
- Mr.. and Mrs. N. Murphey are board
ing at Kate Moore's. - Eliza Cummings
has purchased Miss Jane Colburn's house,
and will take possession in September.
- Mr.. Little and family are stopping
at the Hill for few weeks. Julia
Fletcher is spending few weeks at her
home. - Alfred Rogers, wife and son
have been to Nahant Beach for a few days
West Topsham.
John Bixby has bought the Barre stage
route of Mr.. Covell and commenced to carry
the mail on Monday.
Mrs. G. G. Collins of White River juno
ton and her mother, Mrs Dunbar Of NORTH
Hartland, have been the guests Of Mrs. e
M. Collins for few days.
W. II. Chalmers and Roy Smith, who be
long to the Bradford Guards are at Chester
this week attending the muster. G.. W
Bagley and wife, with their usual number
OF help, are also prepared to feed the com
pany.
Misses Louise and Annie Langill will
their brother Morton, who have been visit
ing at A. 7. Smiths, went to East Corintl
, on Monday, where they will stop for
while before going to their home in Han
over, N II.
Miss Della Cunningham is visiting il
Newbury. = Mrs. Horace White wa
called to East Topsham last Thursday Il
care for her mother who Is in very feeble
health. - Miss Kate Wiley returned
last Thursday from her trip to San Fran
cisco where she went to attend the Chris
tian Endeavor Convention.
VIM, vigor and victory; these are thu
characteristics OF De Wits Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for constipa
ton, biliousness and all stomach and livel
troubles. W. e. Terrill & Co.
Williamstown.
Mrs. Alden Martin has returned to he
old home here.
Walter F. Granger is hobbling about
little on crutches.
! Mrs. Barnet Goodrich is in very poo
health at present
Mrs. Nancy Flint Clark. now of Oshkosh
Wis, is visiting relatives here.
.. Miss Katie Corliss is quite sick, it is said
with inflammation of the bowels.
Little Marjorie Duffus is quite Ill at pres
ent and under physicians care.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Georg
IaaN - a
Mrs. Fred Jackson has been quite gooc
deal more rational in the last few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hubbard of Soutl
Royalton were in town over last Sunday.
Mrs. William Clough OF Barre, was, las
week, the guest of Mrs Orville H. Briggs.
Miss Belle Hubbard will teach again il
, the Jacob Flint district the coming season
Bert Simons Of Providence, r. l., is visit
ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lucius j. Sim
ons.
John Dow is laying off from work, ant
, rusticating just now, because Of Temporal,
i'll health.
Some ten or twelve of our young folks il
the village are camping out for week a
Berlin Pond.
Ernest Biddell is seriously i'll from the in
halation of paris green while putting it OIL
his potato vines.
Two lady friends of Mrs. j. X. Lynde, res
! idents of Potsdam, n Y, are at the Lynd,
, cottage in Berlin.
Some one speaks OF an unusual amount O
riding on our street last Sunday, largely by
out-oftown visitors.
Albert r. Martin fell from load of hay
not long ago, and has been greatly afflicted
since with iameness.
Mrs. Alden Martin is staying in Barre
and not in Boston, as the WATCHMAN typ,
made us to say last week.
A large hay crop is being gathered here
Hot, dry weather may yet do more for othel
crops than has been feared.
Two nieces OF Mrs. George W. Brush
Miss Katie Cornell and her sister, Mrs
Stallings of Florida, are in town.
Mrs. Orcutt Abbott and daughter re
turned to their home here last week, aftel
an absence of e.-ht months or more.
Barney D. Flint officiated at the SoliG
Rock, methodist Episcopal) chapel, in the
quarry district last Sunday afternoon.
Landlord j. W. Brown has Just put up
lamp on the front OF the Monument House
that shines for all with great brilliancy.
Mrs. Elton Burnham Collins, accom-
panied by her four-years old boy, is stay
ing few weeks with Mrs. James Burn
ham.
| r. r Demeritt of Waterbury and G. A