The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
Williamstown.


from duty by rheumatism.
Cornelius Perrin is staying with his
daughter Mrs. j. X. Lynde.
Robert Gamble has set up housekeeping
again in the Poole tenement house
Our Guitar and Mandolin club hope to
give concert in the not distant feature.
Mrs. Robert Ii. Jones and daughters go
to her old home in Utica this week to be
away two months.
Carl j. Benedict, wife and two children,
now of Burlington, were in town over Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Williams OF Berlin
were guests OF George Bosworth's family
here.
Judge Austin Young and wife returned
to their home in Minneapolis, Mimi, last
week.
Lawyer George Bass, now of Chicago
and wife have returned from recent trip
to Europe.
Peter Booth has been able to leave his
room several times in the last few days and
to ride out twice.
Perkins Bass has been seriously i'll in late
months and has lately moved to his country
seat in Peterboro, N. n.
Bert, son of Dan Boyce, is travelling for
firm in Atlanta, Georgia. His family will
reside in Fruithurst Ala.
Granite cutter George W. Patterson has
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having stepped upon nail
DIR. William Bass of Lowell has had an
illness Of late that gave his friends much
anxiety but is getting out of it finely.
A very short trial in the Office Of
the Grearson-B Beckett Company convinced
David Gale that he did not care to remain
in it.
Our ex-townsman, Harry B. Hersey, now
of New Mexico and one of Roosevelt's
lnh in a 10 a xuQ in tour
few days last week.
A son was born last Saturday to Rev. and
Mrs. Alvin Smith. Children were recently
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Bruce and to Mr..
and Mrs. j. Gauthier.
Miss Annette e. Edison goes this week to
Melrose, Mass, to get the advice and help
of an occulist in Boston, who has treated
her eyes in year or two past.
Our townsfolk, A. M. Goodrich, Fremont
G. Little and j. X. Lynde, have taken pre-
miums at recent fairs hereabouts on swine,
sheep, maple sugar and horse.
Fernando G. Davenports ear, from which
a cancer was taken few months ago, has
healed as has the ear of X. P. Blanchard,
from which also cancer was removed last
summer.
Last Saturday our band boys and Barney
and d. Flint went to the farm of Henry +.
Erskine, who has been so long an invalid,
and dug his potatoes. Mr.. Erskne's son,
Frank, is valued member of the band.
Joshua f. Bailey's three sons, Bert, Frank
and Luther, returned last week from Chick
amauga. In the few days since Luther has
gained remarkably. Frank came home
feeling poorly and has been in bed portion
of the time. 1t is hoped health may return
to both
A contribution TO the Mortified fair was
float, gotten up under the direction, we
believe, of Harvey L. Cheney and carrying
q uOO11y II har NJ tho Ett1a fol =
prettily decorated and drawn by four grays,
Royal Cheney holding the lines. 1t drew
second premium.
W. b. Noyes, who has the care of Lewis
NJ Seaver's farm, continues very ill in the
past week. In addition to the injury re-
ceived by blow on the head from an iron
bar, he now has bilious fever. His wifes
father. Mr., Crockett of Orange, is staying
with him just now.
Ex-senator and Fish Commissioner Hor-
ace W. Bailey of Newbury is at the Monu-
mental house. He tells US that the talk of
Rev. j. o. Sherburne which he heard at
the union service at the Methodist church
last Sunday was one OF the best he had
heard for some time.
Since Ernest Riddell some months ago
sold his interest in the late Edison Martin
farm which was willed to the Methodist
church here, he has lived on the farm that
was bought of j. M. Bass. The present
owner and occupant of the former farm is
Malcolm McAuley late of Graniteville.
Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Hopkins returned
last week after an absence of two months in
Gibbon, Nebraska, once their home, and
now the home of Horace Flint, Mrs. Hop
kins brother. On their way back they
spent several days at the Omaha EXPOSE
ton. We are glad to believe that they will
not return again to Nebraska TO reside.
Clayton R. Ditty, who has been for the
past two years in Eastern, Mass, has en-
gagged as travelling salesman for the Amer
lean Silver Truss Company of Yonkers, N.
Y. His work will be in the western states.
His place in Gloucester, Mass. has been
taken by his brother, Ernest l.. Ditty late
of St. Adams and in the employ of the Cen
trail Vermont Railroad Company.
DR., E. B. Watson has lately removed one
of the Oldest landmarks in our village,
namely, the dam that furnished water for
one Of the earliest industries in the place,
the carding machine business of the late
Davies Pride Esq, having we hear sold
his interest in this water power to the COM
pany that bought the Oliver S. Walker
farm, who may yet supply our village with
water for fire and other purposes. 1t is said
the doctor may later convert the old shop
into tenement for renting.
The regular recurring monthly Sunday
evening union meetings OF the Methodist
and Congregational churches give all an
opportunity every other month at the feast
OF good, wholesome, sound, and intelligent
preaching that Rev. j. o. Sherburne fur
nishes his congregation as "a steady diet"
Last Sunday evening his text was "Destroy
not with thy meat him for whom Christ
died" His sermon, as might be inferred,
was plea for abstinence from even law
full things, If through the indulgence of
them brother man was likely to be NOR
ally destroyed. This sermon came to us
like water on parched ground and one
could wish nothing better than that it
might be heard in all churches.
Worcester.
Mrs Lawrence and little daughter,
Dorothy, are visiting at her parents in
Montpelier.
Henry Abbott Bert Dugar, Clinton and
Elton Taylor and Willie Holmes have gone
to the northern part of the state deer hunt
ing,
Lee Templeton remains critically i'll.
Mrs. Mary Markham is reported little i'm
proved. She is at the home OF her father,
M. p. Kew.
Revival services at the Congregational
church are to continue; another lady evan
gelist is expected to be present and help
Tuesday evenings.