The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-27
Williamstown.

Rev 8. l.. Bates OF Burlington was visit
ing In town last week.
The Monument House has as boarders
number OF city people.
Henry g. House Is suffering quite severely
from stomach trouble
George Dobbs and family, now OF Barre,
were in town over Sunday.
A daughter was born to granite polisher
Joe Murray on Tuesday morning.
Frank Lynde has recently graduated
from the Hanover Dental College.
j. X. Lynde is to be with his family at
the Lynde cottage at Berlin Pond this
| week.
| Miss Mary A. Ainsworth will soon join
friends in Sandwich, N. H., to return here
| later.
George Edwards is considering the matter
of sterling in the granite business for him
self here.
| Will Kibbee, who has been for some years
a breeder Of fancy poultry, has sold off all
his fowls.
Lemuel Rood and his sister, Mrs. Hattie
| l.. Edwards OF Barre, were visiting relatives
here last week.
Mrs. Follensby Goodrich fell few weeks
| ago and has not been able to walk without
assistance since.
Mrs. Lewis M. Seaver and daughter of
Westheld, N. j., arrived here last Saturday
for stay OF a few weeks.
James 8. Hopkins and wife left on Mon
day for visit Of some weeks at their former
home in Gibbon, Nebraska.
Calvin Flint, now in his ninty.firs year,
has been able to go into the bayfield, to do
some light work this season.
Two tenements are soon to be finished off
on the second floor of the Beckett and Gale
store, occupied by @. M. Seaver.
Preston Reed and wife are visiting friends
in East Brookield. They came from their
home in Massachusetts, on bicycles.
Miss Lima Woodruff, the cook at the
Monument House, is under medical treat
ment for an abscess under the arm.
Edward Adams, son OF Luther Adams OF
Boston, is visiting friends hereabouts. He
and his wife came on their bicycles.
Ernest Sherburne, Perley Carlin, Hilton
Brush, Hemon Smith and Willie Flint are
to take week Of camping at Groton.
Orrin Smith will return next month to
Ashheld, Mass, to be again the principal
of the sanderson Academy Of that place.
Misses Alice Walker and Mabel Wheatley
are to open dress-making rooms at the resi-
dence Of Enos F. Walker at the head Of
Main street.
A. McNichol, now at home in New Bruins
wick, reported few weeks ago to have
died, is yet alive, but very low with quick
consumption.
The cancer has been drawn out Of X. p.
Blanchards ear and his physician encour.
ages the hope that he may never be troubled
with it again.
Walter Flint, son of the late Mrs. Lewis
Flint and former clerk for j. X. Lynde,
was in town last week. He does business
in Newark, N. j.
James N. Adams, son of the late Charles
W. Adams, and now of Kankakee, ILL.,, is
/ visiting his old home here. His wife and
children accompany him.
Some thirty-fve to forty men are working
the reservoir near the Henry Martin place
for the water supply of Barre. A temporary
stone dam Is being put in.
meet with the Misses Brush on Friday even
ing OF this week. Hall Game and current
events are to be themes of this evening.
DR.. E. B. Watson's family has lately had
as guests sister Of Mrs. Watson, of Waits
field, Mrs. George II. Watson and daughter
Of Montpelier, and Mrs. Ednah Watson
Barron
Will Kibbee is about to vacate Mrs. Elisha
b. Gales house, and give up housekeeping
for the present. The family may take
rooms in the Beckett block and board at
the hotel.
The fine pickerel taken from Lake Cham
plain last week by Messrs. Cheney and
Wood and sent here to friends, indicate fine
! sport for the fishermen as well as pleasure
to their friends.
Master Willie Duffus is the happy recip-
lent of a fine bicycle from his uncle, Will
lam Duffus, of Brooklyn, N. Y, who, with
wife and two daughters, is enjoying two
weeks vacation here.
Mrs John E. Dickerman, at one time a
resident Of our place, died last Saturday in
Burlington, at the hospital, where she had
been for some time, hoping for better health,
after an operation performed some weeks
ago. She had been very i'll all winter at
her home in East Randolph.
One of the best addresses of the kind we
ever heard was given at the Congregational
church last Sunday by Rev. George A.
Hood of Boston, field secretary Of the
Congregational church building society.
. Previous work as home missionary in the
West, enabled him to present most effect.
, lively the need OF church buildings in miss
ionary fields.
Mrs. Kean W. Davis, now in her ninety
third year, is with the family Of her son-in-
law, Luman j. Hersey at Denver, Colo,
and is said to be as bright as she was thirty
years ago. She keeps we'll posted on cur
rent events. Her son, Charles Davis, is
a ranch in southern California The family
Of Luman j. Hersey is reported as all we'll,
and doing well.
Mrs. Harriet Poole Hoyt, now OF Chicago,
is having fine time here in meeting old
friends OF earlier days. 1t was fifty years
ago that her father, the late George Poole,
moved his family from this place to Dover,
Ill. OF this family three sons and two
daughters survive and live in Illinois. Her
son.in-law, a business man in Chicago, &C.
companied her; with his wife and only
child. All are delighted with the scenery
here.
Nathan Hall, now one OF our oldest citi.
zens, was not long ago, invited to a reunion
of persons who had been residents of his
native town, Croydon, N. H., the town &C
ting as host on the occasion. Mr.. Hall
went, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs.
Wesley M. Seaver, and reported one OF the
most delightful times in his life. Among
the guests there were only three older than
himself the oldest Of these being ninety
seven years Of age. Another Of these guests
was one who had accompanied Mr.. Hall on
whaling voyage, years ago.
The case against d. f. Holden Of Hard
wick, who was arrested last January in
Rutland for not paying his fare to a con-
ductor on the Rutland railroad, when he