The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-01-26
bradford,

John A. Sargent has been in Boston on
business the past week.
The Junior League will meet next Sun.
day afternoon at three o'clock.
Miss Annie W. Blake, who has been quite
sick for the past week, is improving.
Mrs. q. II. Curtis, who has been confined
to the house by a severe cold, Is much
better.
Miss Adde II. Bisbee of Ferrisburg is
spending few weeks with relatives and
friends in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. woode OF Hsverhill,
Mass, are in town, called here by the death
OF his broiher-in-law, Ii. X. Prescott.
Miss Nella Sanborn, assistant at the post
office, visited at waterbury last week,
George Jenkins helping at the office during
her absence.
Henry K Frary lies critically Ill at his
home from the effects OF severe paralytiC
shock OF the entire left side, sustained last
Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. p o Chapman started for
their home at Manchester last Thursday
morning after several weeks visit with
friends In this and adjoining towns.
The Socrates Circle will meet at Mrs.
Wilson's on Thursday afternoon. Study,
The Social Spirit in America" and
"Schools and Education In the American
Colonies" biographical sketch and news
items.
Thaddeus Simpson has been taking well
deserved vacation for the past few weeks.
He has been visiting friends and relatives
in Massachusetts but has come back re-
freshed and looks young and vigorous, al
though he Is over seventy years Of age.
The young men at Grace church will give
q supper in the church vestry on Friday
evening, February 4. A fine musical pro-
gram ia being arranged in connection with
the supper, with several speeches which
will add to the pleasure of the evening.
Harry M. Peters visited his mother, Mrs.
Alcina Peters. and sister, Mrs. e. j. Bagley
last week, taking them all by surprise, this
being his first visit for about twenty years.
Mr. Peters is pleasantly located in Chicago
where he is foreman in one OF the large city
stables.
Again death has visited our community,
taking therefrom another of our loyal citi-
zeDs, FL. X. Presco, t, who died at his resi-.
dence last Sunday afternoon after short
illness from the effects OF q carbuDcle on the
neck, Mr.. Prescott was fer several years
previous and up to the time Of his death,
owner OF the large tinsmith store, formerly
owned and managed by B. L. Pillsbury.
His loss will be deeply felt In business cir.
Giles in which he was prominent, aid also in
his home in which he was ever kind
father and loving husband. The members
OF tn6 family nave INC VI bEo GULF
munity in their hour of bereavement.
Frederick w. Kenyon died last Sunday
morning, aged fifty.two years. He was
born in Oxford, N. H., and came to Brad
ford about twenty five years ago. He mar
ried Emma III. Wright, daughter OF George
w. Wright, January %, 1878. The twen-
tieth anniversary of their marriage occurred
the day before his death and on that day he
took a short ride and called on some friends.
Although he has been out of health for a
year or more his death was sudden and un-
expected. He was a barber and there was
no better in the county. He was very
kind and genial man and will be greatly
missed. His wife and children have the
sympathy of the whole community.
Vermonters, wherever they are, appre-
ciate a good newspaper from their native
state. Col. ID. X Andross received letter,
the other day, from his brother Charles,
now about eighty years old, living at Fay
etteville, N. Y, saying that after he and his
family had read the WATERMAN, which the
colonel sends him every week, he passed it
around among his friends and neighbors,
who formerly lived in Vermont, and they
enjoyed it so much that they could hardly
wait for the paper to come. One OF these
friends is John Brown, who was born in
Londonderry, N. H., in 1902 and came to
Vermont, when small boy, with his
father who settled in Painfeld. He mar.
ried Almira Wellman, a codsin of the we'll.
known DR.. Welman who lived at Pier.
mont. N. II. She lived for several years
before her marriage, with her uncle, Hon
Elisha Thayer of West Fairlee. Mr.. Brown
was a soldier in the war of 1912 He is now
ninety six years of age but still "hale and
hearty =" aud reads the WATCHMAN with in.
terest and pleasure. He remembers well
all the old people who lived at Plainfield
when his father kept hotel at the place
called "Slab Hollow" Silas Williams KEEP,
another hotel at the same time, made pot
ash and ran distillery. Mr.. Cummings
was the tanner, Mr.. Curtis merchant anG
Mr.. Cady manufactured earthern ware
Another man who reads the WATCHMAN il
Amasa Oh 4se, who is ninety years old. he
was born near Montpelier, was color bearer
for the One Hundred Twenty-second New
York regiment, and although he was in tn,
war from the beginning to the close of thu
rebellion, he never received an injury MOI
lowered his colors. The flag given to hin
by the ladies Of Fayetteville he returned
to them tattered and torn but never dis
graced. His record is what we should ex
pect from true Vermonter.
East Brookfield.
w. F. Medcalf was in Mortified on bust
ness on Monday Of last week.
John Buzzell of Marshfield, with his wifi
and daughter, visited at Oliver buttons las
week.
Frank Wilcox returned on Saturday from
two weeks visit among friends in Brook
Ign, N. Y.
George Hodgeman and wife OF North Jay
Maine, are spending the winter with Mrs
Jane Dormes.
A goodly number from this place attende,
the Good Templars' Union at North Ran
dolph on Saturday.
W. w Sprsgue and wife went to Barre OF
Tuesday last to attend the concert by tn
| Symphony Orchestra OF Boston.
The Ladies' Society and the Christian Ell
deavor Society held a joint socable at tn
residence Of w. III. Sprague and wife o.
Thursday evening, A short literary pre-
gramme and a grsphophone exhibition wer
the principal attractions. The net proceeds
amounting to five and half dollars, wa
added to the organ fund.
At the annual meeting and roll.call of tn
Congregational church on Tuesday OF las
week, fifty-two Of the sixty-three member
responded to their names by their presenc
or by letter. The following officers wer
elected: Chairman, A. g. Hubbard; CLERK
j. @. Holmes; treasurer, r. D. Richardson
collector, j. M. Angel; trustee, j. X
Sprague; chorister, W. W. Sprague; organ
list, Mrs. Gertrude Jackson; deacons, A.
Hubbard, j. q. Holmes, M. 8. Wheatley.
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