The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-15
WilliamafOWn.

Robert Reynolds has recently died.
j, Munroe Seaver is in Chicago to buy
cattle.
Mrs. e. B. Watson is visiting her parents
in Waitsfield.
Frank Benedict is at home from Tufts
College on vacation.
Frank Erskine attended commencement
exercises in Bristol last week.
Gilbert o. Smith was at the Grand Army
meeting in Burlington last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newell r. Farnham were
visiting friends in Bethel last week.
j. NJ Seaver arrived from Chicago on
Monday last with carload Of cattle.
Mrs. John Roberts, with her daughter,
Edna is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Carl
Seaver.
Rev. Oscar f. Davis and wife have re-
Gently gone to California, where Mrs. Da-
Wis mother resides.
Joel A. Bass has professional engage
ment that will keep him in Washington,
d. c., for some time.
Rev. j. o. Sherburne was in Irasburgh
two days last week, attending Methodist
district preachers meeting.
The exercises Of Children's Day at the
Congregational and Methodist churches
were we'll attended on Sunday.
Mrs. John Farnham will attend the gold
en- wedding of Rev. Peter Merrill and wife
at Enosburg Falls on Wednesday, the 10Th
inst.
Mrs. John Farnham and Miss Alice
Walker have sold twenty. five to thirty cop
les of the Life of Miss Frances e. Willard"
here.
Recent accounts of James M. Bass, now
OF East Somerville, Mass, tell OF his con-
tinued very poor health. He has bad
cough
Willie Lund will 60 to the hospital in
Burlington again as soon as he can be re-
ceived there. His case is an exceedingly
sad one.
A Republican caucus will be held at the
town hall on Saturday evening, the 18th
inst, to elect delegates to the state and con-
gressional district conventions.
The new caterpillar pest is making havoc
with maple and other trees in some parts OF
the town, and riding where the roads are
shaded by trees is at times very disagree
able because OF it.
The Congregational Christian Endeavor
Society will serve ice cream and cake at
Lynde's hall from seven to ten o'clock on
Friday evening OF this week. The public
will be cordially welcomed
After visiting Springfield, Mass, last
week, Harold Davis went back again to
johnson and bought farm on the river,
some two and half miles from the village,
paying some $2,4O0 for two hundred acres
or more, with good buildings, and large
area OF meadow land.
When it recently came to completing a
trade for a certain farm in Johnson, our old
townsman, Return S. Davis, met with
another slip twixt the cup and lip" and
went to Springfield, Mass, with view we
judge, to possible Opening" there.
Tommie Matson, whose parents now re-
side in Mortified, and who is one OF our
most popular granite workmen, was at his
home, to be married, last week. On his re-
turn he will occupy the pretty house, built
by Eugene Call Every one who knows
him will wish him well IN his new life.
Luther Bailey OF Company E. First Yer
mont Volunteers, and In camp in Georgia,
writes Of the mercury at 108 and Ill degrees
in the shade, but IT does not seem to wilt
his war spirit at all, nor does he know any
thing OF Inconsistencies there. Another OF
our boys there writes of going with Will
Jamestown comrade six miles on foot to get
drink OF good water.
William M. Duffus, Jr., of Brooklyn, N.
Y, came here on Saturday on his wedding
trip for little stay. He was married on
Thursday evening of last week to Miss May
his father in Brooklyn, who has foundry
In which are employed forty men, the father
having served long apprenticeship in
Scotland at his trade. The son, too, has
had the thorough training in the business
from the bottom up, that would seem to as
sure success
Mr.. and Mrs. George Abbott, now OF
Northfeld, are visiting friends here. Mr..
Abbott has gained sixty pounds in weight
since leaving his farm in the quarry dis
trict, not very many years ago, and he now
attributes the years OF i'll health here to
drinking the hard water on his place. His
trouble was with the stomach, and he says
he spent the value Of a farm in doctoring.
Mrs. Albeit is in quite poor health and Mr..
Abbott wants to sell his farm and take life
more easily.
George Mari. now OF the granite firm OF
Nixon & Mari, and for years the highly es-
teemed secretary Of the Granite Cutters
Union here, was invited to special meet
ing OF the Union at Lynde's Hall on the
evening OF Tuesday, the 9th inst. He had
to be caught with bit OF guile, but he
yielded to persuasion, to find on reaching
the hall, that James Powers, the president
OF the Union, was loaded with presenta-
ton speech, which he fred off in good
cipient OF handsome writing desk, the
gift OF certain old associates in the Union.
1t was q complete, but very happy, surprise
to the gentleman. Both the present and
the feeling prompting 1t are highly appre-
ciated by Mr.. Mari.
News has come OF the death on the End
inst, OF Barna Martin of Donovan, Iroquois
County, Illinois, who was the last surviving
member OF the family of the late Porter
Martin. He died in Chicago, whittier he
went for q surgical operation From the
Natseks Qll.) Republican, we copy the fol-
lowin5: "Mr. Martin was born in Williams
town, VT, on June II, 1912. He was mar
ried to Alice butcher in Martinton in the
rem, Of whom FIVE with the widow survive,
the yOuDpest being thirteen years of age