The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-28
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Mrs. James M. Beckett has been in Bos-
ton for several days past but will return
here soon.
DR.. Henry James Of Waterbury was call
ed here last week Tuesday to counsel in the
case Of Willie M. Edison.
W. e. Noyes, who has the care Of Lewis
Seaver's place, is quite ill. There Is said
to be trouble with the head.
Mrs. Mary Edison Little Of Boston Is in
town, having come to attend the funeral
Of her brother, W. M. Edison.
C.Miss Mary A. Ainsworth starts this week
for her home in Moline, Ill, going by way
OF New York city to visit friend there.
Sumner r. Wheatley, who has been an
| invalid for months, seems very near the
end Of his life. His trouble is said to be
Bright's disease.
The Lecture course committee OF last
winter has Just been reappointed for the
coming season and another course may be
expected next winter.
Frank Lougee, who has been connected
with the Reform School in vergennes some
years, has married lady teacher in the
school, They came to his old home here
for a visit last week.
We take this opportunity to thank those
Of our townspeople who did such heroic
work at the fire in Mill village last week
Tuesday, in the endesvor to save their
property from the flames.
Mrs. Fanny Jackson Allen and husband
| have lately been the guests OF her brother,
Fred Jackson. Mr.. and Mrs. Allen are en-
gagged to go to an orphans home, in Provi-
dence, r. l. They have been engaged at
the Kerr Hattin Home in Westminster in
the last year.
| Return S. Davis, accompanied by his wife
| and son. came from johnson last week to
| spend few days with the family OF his
brother, Norman G. Davis, preparatory to
do, hn
| to have charge of farm Of a wealthy resi-
| dent of Altoona. This is the second or third
place of the kind that Mr.. Davis has filled
in the years since going from here.
| Luman ]. Hersey, son of the late Joel
| Hersey, returns this week to his home in
Denver, Colo, to be accompanied pan, by his
youngest child. 1t is hoped the change may
benefit Mrs. Titles health SO long infrm.
Mr.. Hersey expo cted to be joined here by
his brother. Major Harry B. Hersey, now of
New Mexico, who has been serving in the
| Cuban war.
Barney D. Flint has sold his farm to
Horace NJ Farnham and after disposing of
some other property here will move to
WOODBURY., Oregon, where he already has
small fruit farm under way. This step is to
be taken in the hope of averting lung
trouble from Mrs. Flint, whose family is
predisposed to consumption. The loss to
the Christian interests of the place to which
| Mr.. and Mrs. Flint have so long and so
earnestly devoted themselves, will be very,
if not irreparably, great.
There was large attendance at the Con-
gregational church last Sunday, in the
| union service of the three village churches,
to listen to Rev. DR.. John c. Jackson Of
Columbus, Ohio, who is at present working
| in Vermont in the interest Of a State Anti
Saloon League. The doctor is very in
teresting speaker, and carried conviction,
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hearers. Steps were taken to organize 10.
cal Anti. Saloon League here. Doctor Jack
son ought to be heard as often as possible
before our next legislature attempts to kill
or emasculate our prohibition law.
The development of tie granite industry
| brought to our town at one time native OF
Bonnie Scotland" of whom we have just
dent of one of the fishing villages, on the
eastern coast of Scotland, (where, it will be
| to the point to here and now say the
buildings are of stone) he had become an
enthusiastic Christian. One day address,
ing the fisher folk he told them Of the new
power that had come to him, which, he in
sisted, could enable him to do almost any
| thing. AS an instance, he cited the fact
although no mason. he had just built hen
house; but no sooner than said, came this
response from one of his hearers, AYE,
but ye Gamma maxi bugger of hen to put
| in it,"
About five P. NJ. last week Tuesday a
house in Mill Village, years ago the home
| of Calvin Flint, and of late the property of
| Alden Martin, was found to be on fire. The
alarm brought goodly number OF our citi-
zens to the place, who with buckets, made
one of the grand fights that characterize
them at such times. Though it was too late
| to save the house, barn, and one or two
other out buildings, by dint OF the greatest
effort the new house OF Monroe Benevides,
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The house that was burned had been occu-
pied by granite-cutter, Waverly Murray,
who met with some loss Of household effects
and wood, which were not insured. Alfred
Carnes, who had owned the place till last
spring, had some property stored there.
The cause OF the fire was doubtless acct
dental, but it seems not to have been def.
nitely known. The buildings were insured
in the Vermont Mutual Company.
The threatening weather Of last week
| Tuesday morning was unfortunate for the
Congregational circular conference here in
the matter of out-of-town attendance. Pos
sibly no other part OF the program for the
| occasion was looked forward to with 80
much interest as the afternoon discussion
of amusements, and especially the so called
questionable ones, theatre going, card play
| ing and dancing, and 1t would seem that no
part of this program was generally looked
| backward to with so much disappointment
Perhaps it was too much to expect that
! any thing very new or interesting would
be said. But since this question is bound
to keep coming up for the present at least,
for each individual to decide as to his or
her conduct, why not let the next confer
ence discussion Of that kind be confined to
ascertaining 80 far as possible, the results
far and wide and generally OF the indul-
gence of the questionable amusements,
since the opponents OF them upon Chris
tian standpoint lay the great stress on not
what possibly might be the benefits of them
or what ought to be; but rather on what
has long seemed and has come to them to
seem the inevitable evil results in the way
of influence on others, If not ON those di-
rectly concerned in any case.
In spite of the great medical effort made
to save the life Of Willie M. Edison, he died
last Thursday morning at the age of twenty
eight years. He was to have married Miss
Luyia Slack OF Randolph "a well-known
teacher in our village school in the last
Year, the day before he died. 1t was on his
return from her home few weeks before
that the accident occurred that resulted in
his death. lie was the youngest son Of the
late Elijah Edison by his third wife. nee
Miss Aurela Martin. For the past fifteen
years he had been in the employ of j. X.
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