The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-08-03
Williamstown.

Anne Walbridge Will go TO the Chelsea
Academy, the coming term.
Mrs. Laura Atberton Of Waterbury has
been visiting family friends here OF late.
Rev. A. L. Cooper OF Plainfeld, exchang-
ed last Sunday with Rev. j. o. Sherburne.
George Bosworth has taken up amateur
photography and is doing creditable work.
A son was born last week to Louis
Dragon, and daughter to Wallace Hunter.
Miss Annie Mckee left for her home in
Canada on Thursday to be absent few
weeks.
Daughters have recently been born to
Fred A. Jackson, Harley Martin and Joe
Murray.
William Duffus and family started for
their home in Brooklyn, N. Y, on Friday,
July 20.
After the long continued hot dry weather
the abundant rains of this week are most
refreshing.
A new sidewalk is being put in in front
OF g. W. Nichols and Charles Q. Benedict's
residences.
The widow OF Veteran l. Clement Little
has been granted a pension Of twelve dol
lars month
Miss Bertha Sprague went to Burlington
on Friday, the 10th, to visit her sick friend
in the hospital.
Mrs. Orville III. Briggs has not till re-
Gently been aDl6 10 Blu up AZ bll bluCe uor III"
jury OF some weeks ago.
Our e-ballsts played a match game
with the Brookfield's in Brookfeld on
Saturday afternoon and were beaten.
Poultry and egg raiser Walter Granger,
has lost fve-eights of his chickens this
season by skunks, cats, or otherwise.
James Powers has moved from the Edison
Brothers block to one OF William Grear-
sons houses, on Construction Company hill.
1t was the Harvard Dental College land
not the Hanover as last week misreportedl
that Frank Lynde has lately graduated
from.
first Of August for bicycle trip to Sand
witch, n. H., where she will remain a short
time.
Mrs. Roxilana Townsend Jocko Of Low
ELL Mass, was at this, her old home last
week. She will visit her only daughter,
living in Stowe.
A visitor from here at the hospital in
Burlington last week reports Willie Lund
az improving and with the continued pros
pect of return OF health.
Mrs. Alfred House was with the family
OF her brother, Leon Blanchard at White
River junction last week and returned
home on Saturday evening.
Mrs. Harriet Poole Hoyt and family
friends are to be at Rye Beach, n. H., for q
time, and will return to their home in
Chicago without coming back here.
Sherman Winchester was lately at Cor
inth and elsewhere, establishing agencies
delphia house, for which he Is general
agent.
Our band has been engaged for an excur-
sion to Highgate Springs on Saturday, Aug.
10. In part payment they are to receive ten
per cent Of the sales of tickets at our home
station.
Mr.. and Mrs. James M. Beckett were the
recipients Of a serenade by our band last
Thursday evening. This compliment was
received in way becoming the host and
hostess.
The water from the Gale brook was let
into the pipe at the reservoir near the 8.
T. Perrin place last week and was reported
to fill a six-inch pipe that conveys it to the
city OF Barre.
M. j. Woodward, the husband Of our
former townswoman, Fanny Abel, died at
his home in Atchinson, Kansas, July 10.
He was II years of age. He left wife and
five children.
The Young Peoples Literary Society will
meet with Miss Florence Burnham on FRI
day evening. Current events and the life
and works of j. M. Barrie will be the theme
Of the evening.
j. X. Lynde's family will return home
week. By kind invitation quite number
OF our folks have been their guests during
their stay there
The case OF Granite. cutter David Lutey,
who was indicted by the grand jury at the
last term OF the Orange County Court, was
settled last week at Chelsea, by the pay
ment of a fine for assault and costs, a total
of some S24.
Mrs. Anna Benedict Franklin was com.
PEELED to give up her plan for kinder
garten in our village in July and August,
because she was not able in the time to get
the instruction she herself needed to carry
on the work Of teaching.
Bert Bailey, Oldest son Of Joshua f. Bal
ley, who married lady from Maine few
months ago, arrived here with his wife on
Saturday, for few weeks vacation. Mr..
Bailey is making success in connection
with the Philadelphia Publishing House,
that he has served for number OF years.
George W. Clark was visited last week
by his brother Charles Clark OF st. Johns
bury, who has been in the employ Of the
Fairbanks Scale Company for forty-three
years. Both these brothers were born in
our village, their father having been in the
employ in those days OF the late Darius
Pride, Esq, in his cording machine works.
There has just come to US this story OF a
funeral in an earlier day, told by the wife
Of Methodist minister present on the oc-
casion. The regular services had been per-
formed by the minister when painful de-
lay followed. The audience. or some por-
ton of it, msnifesting a desire to go out,
the conductor of the funeral appealed to
them "be patient" adding that "as soon as
the screw driver could be found the corpse
would be opened"
Probably many OF our own citizens will
be happily surprised to learn that in the
eleven years since the railroad was built to
the place. there has been an increase Of
over three hundred per cent in the personal
property Of the town. and an increase Of
sixty-six per cent in the number Of taxable
polls. Despite the decline Of values Of
farm property in some II not all portions Of
the town, the grand list has increased
nearly seventeen per cent in these years,
while it is believed that the entire popula-
ton was nearly or quite doubled meantime.
The Chief Burgess of Milesburg, Pa, says
DeWitt's Little Early Risers are the best
pills he ever used in his family during
forty years Of housekeeping. They cure
constipation, sick headache, and stomach
and liver troubles. Small in size but great
in result W. e. Terrill & Co.
South woodbury..
Mrs Harriet Reniamip ia atiII conHned IN