The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-20
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Miss Annie Mckee is caring for sick
friend in Barre.
Mrs Betsey Hayward has been suffering
from hay fever Of late.
There is need of rain here, both for vege-
tation and the springs.
A daughter was born last week to Mr..
and Mrs. Howard Winchester.
Our baseball club was again worsted last
Saturday here, by the Barre club.
Rev. Walter r. Davenport and family
have been visiting in town of late
Miss Lillian Staples is to be at the Fabyan
House, White Mountains, this season.
The band gave well-sttended promenade
concert at the town hall last Saturday even
ing.
Mrs. William Grearson goes this week to
her home near st. George, N. B., for visit
of several weeks.
j. X. Lynde's family, accompanied by
George l.. Edson's family, are at the Lynde
cottage, Berlin pond.
Messrs Harvey L., and HAL" Cheney,
Henry E. Wood, and their wives, are TAX
ing week at Highgate Springs.
The only son OF Mrs. Sarah Bass Strong,
now OF West Hampton, Mass, has lately
graduated from Amherst College.
Willie, son of Barney d. Flint, has fin
ished the first year Of a course he is to take
at Norwich University, Northheld.
Mrs. Harriet Poole Hoyt now Of Illinois,
arrived here on Tuesday last on short Wis
it, A daughter with husband and child ac-
company her.
The sight from our window as we write,
Of corn field blighted by the frost OF last
week, is a new one in the annals of any
July we have known to date.
Rev. George Hood of Boston will speak
in the Congregational church next Sunday
morning in the interests OF the Congrega-
tional Church Building Society.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry A. Ainsworth are at
their cottage in Michillinda on the eastern
shore Of Lake Michigan. just now Mrs.
Laura l.. Ainsworth is with them
Miss Fannie Simons and cousin, Mrs
Mary Bartlett, have given up their dress
making rooms in the Beckett block for the
present and gone to their old homes.
The most welcome rain of Monday night
puts for the time, quetus on the dust that
has for days past been raised and blown
about to the extreme annoyance Of every
body.
The Young Peoples Literary Club had an
suspicious beginning last Thursday even
ing. They meet next Friday evening with
Mrs. w. j. Young at Mrs Chester Martins
house.
Lewis Martin is spending his summer va
cation from osteopathic study in Kirksville,
Mo-. in part with our ex-townsman, Deni-
son Kinsman of Winterset, Ia. His wife
and child are with him.
G. W. Wilson OF Concord, N. H., who is
said to have made the first telescope used
by the late Jacob Spaulding in the old
Barre Academy, has been the guest of late
Of Landlord Brown OF the Monument
House.
Miss Carrie Waterman, granddaughter OF
the late Mr. Calvin Ainsworth, and for
long time great invalid, has come up to
North Carolina from Florida where she
spent part OF last winter to the improve
ment Of her health.
Last week Mrs. Deacon Edwin q. Smith
had the pleasure OF visit with the wife of
her brother, Mr.. White who went from
Washington and is now in Denver Col.
Mrs. White was on her way to London and
could remain here but short time.
Rev. Oscar Frank Davis returned some
time ago from California and has since been
at the head Of an educational institute in
Nebraska, his wife and son remain at
Woodsville, n. FL. Mrs. Davis sings every
Sunday at church in st. Johnsbury.
William Duffus of Brooklyn, N. Y, &C.
companied by his wife and two daughters,
is Wishing his brother, John Duffus, AS
Mr., Duffus has been fortu-
nate in late months in having work de-
manded by the government for use in the
war.
1t was not in Darkest Africa nor Patago.
mia, but right here in the garden of the
Monumen; House last Saturday night that
all but two OF the growing tomatoes on a
large number OF vines were taken off. Isn't
it about time for vigilence committee 20
be formed hereI
PEOPLE here are much surprised to learn
that X. p. Blanchard, son-in-law OF Ly-
man A. Work, has had a cancer growing in
an ear for year past. Last week DR.. w.
B. Mayo OF Northfield began the process of
drawing it out. A week or two 1t is said
will yet be needed to accomplish the pain
full work
We have inst learned Of the miscarriage
of property belonging to nonresident who
married WILLIAMSBURG lady. Having no
children his intentions had been expressed
verbally as to the final disposition OF his
but he went too long in the mat
ter of making q will and hence this mis-
Some five weeks ago two men, Goodrich
and Bradley by name, came here to sell
stoves from house to house, the name Of the
stove being the Model Crown. They dis
posed of one hundred and eight Of them,
giving time on them to greater or less ex-
tent, and went from here to Bradford on
Monday last. They are wide-awake agents.
One Of our village ladies was recently in
with small boy who has
mother Of gigantic proportions. The talk
somehow turned to crocodiles, and the lad
was informed that one Of these creatures
would make short work in consuming him
once it should get hold of him. "And what
would it do when it came to mammal" was
the quickly put question.
Willie Lunds physician here says he
never saw pain so heroically borne by
another as he has borne it in the late years.
He was fortunate in having his late critical
surgical operation performed by a very
noted surgeon OF New York city, who was
in Burlington at the time, in connection
with the medical department of the Uni
versity.
One who has attempted to learn a foreign
language will likely be slow to poke fun
at the mistakes of another thus trying
to use a new tongue. Nevertheless, who
will not smile with US at recent remark
of q young lady, born on the continent Of
Europe, and written in broken English to q
friend OF ours who made her acquaintance
in Paris year or more ago. Lately mar
ried, she breaks to her American friend the
news that she is no longer single, on this
wise, "I am now too" 1t is to be hoped
she may be spared in any later reckoning,
the arithmetic Of the ungallant husband
who said, che and his wife were one, but he
was the one"
Mrs. Augusta Smith daughter Of the late
Jacob Smith, and wife Of Rev. DIR. Samuel
Dixie. now OF Auburndale, Mass, was in