The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-09-21
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WiIliamstown.
| Joseph Lawler has gone to Washington
to cut granite.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Patsy
| Elliott last week.
Conductor James Canaly Is taking a va
| cation from railroad work.
Miss Bertha Seaver and Carl Sawyer are
| pupils in Goddard Seminary.
Mrs. Ralph Dirty, for long time great
invalid, is again somewhat better
George Wilbur has finished work in j. X.
Lynde's store, where he has been the past
| year.
A council OF physicians was called last
Friday in the case of the young son Of Fred
| Jackson.
Mrs. Joseph Gregory, a long time invalid,
| is visiting her son, lawyer John Gregory OF
Waitsfeld.
Peter Booth, of Company f, First Yer
mont Regiment, is con fined to his bed with
lung trouble.
Judge Austin Young and wife, nee Miss
Lenora Martin, now OF Minneapolis, are
visiting In town.
George WILDER will ere long give mp work
in j. X. Lynde's store where he has been
for some months.
Mrs. Horace Earle and daughter of Man
chester, N. H., were guests last week OF o.
A. Blanchard's family.
| In6r6 Is quite o large hummer Oh VHCHuJ
tenements in our village just now, for which
the owners desire occupants.
Bert Bruce has returned from Philadel-
phia in improved health, his physician
there calling his trouble indigestion.
Adna Downs second son, Henry, has
given up school in Chelsea and is about to
enter j. X. Lynde's employ as clerk.
The boy o n 10 landlord and Mrs. ]. w.
Brown of the Monument House, week ago
| 1ou Curd diad IN SATURDAY. avapinn Last
Patsey Rogers, Of Company e, First YER
mont Regiment, is putting in a part OF his
thirty days furlough at granite cutting
here.
Andrew Burnhum, local editor of the
Williamstown Herald, has been visiting his
only son and child in Bratteboro in the
last week.
The family friends of Will A. Edison are
this week feeling great fear that he is not to
recover from the awful accident of some
weeks ago.
, Sherman Winchester is making a trip to
the southern portion Of the state, establish
. ing agencies for the sale Of the publications
of Philadelphia house.
, Van McAllster's newly purchased house
has been thoroughly renovated and made
ready for his occupancy. He will soon
build barn on the place.
Charles NJ. Erskines family has for some
weeks been having siege from sickness
> both Mrs. Erskine and cousin visiting
her. Both are much better now.
Merville, son OF Gurdon Martin, and q
member of Company K, First Vermont
Regiment, who is at home here on fur
=: Tough, has been in poor health from jaun-
: dice, etc.
I Ira H. Rowell, late Democratic candidate
here for representative, announced to the
; caucus that nominated him that he was
not high license man, but rather was for
1 prohibition.
Mrs Robert Jones, to be accompanied by
her two youngest daughters, is to be in
Utica, N. Y, two months, with her parents
and her two oldest daughters, who are at
school there.
l.. Joseph Murray, one Of our granite polish.
y els from New Brunswick, last week buried
:. his seven weeks old daughter from bowel
trouble. The body was buried in the Cath
Ollie cemetery in Barre
The concert by the Congregational and
Methodist choirs at the Solid Rock chapel
!; Quarry district, was well attended and
greatly liked, and added a sum to the chap
ell society's treasury that is warmly appre
" ciated.
/ Luther Bailey, Of Company e, First Yer
!, mont Regiment, still remains at Chicka
!. manga and his brothers, Bert and Frank
are yet with him. OF late he has been
o badly off with boils or sores, the result Of
+ his fever.
III
Q the hospital in Burlington, which looked sc
O hopeful some weeks ago, Is now regarded
g very critical, if not hopeless He has beer
@ a terrible sufferer for long time, and il
t was hoped that the removal OF an abscess
near the bladder would bring cure.
n Luther M. Waldo, now of Tallapoosa
Ga is again very badly off in health. An
other abscess has broken out on the back
in the region of the lungs, that discharge!
!, fearfully, and it would seem help mus
need come soon If at all. He has made q
!. brave fight in late years with disease.
/. In consequence of the departure of Mrs
II John Byrnes, nee Mrs. Silas Bohonon, tC
4 Keene, N. H.. to live, Mr. Byrnes has the
/ family of his daughter by his first wife now
8 living with him. His son, of Company e
. First Vermont Regiment, is here on fur
o Tough. An unmarried daughter is also Wis
:. iting him.
y Mrs. G. Z. Bancroft of our village tells us
: of her mother, Mrs. Eliza Fisher, now in
n her eighty ninth year, who Is resident Of
: Bethel. She has been doing for friends in
y Barre souvenir needle work 80 skillfully
Il as to rival the girls of the present day. In
l. her memory she retains events both OF the
past and present.
We have just been given some figures rel
= alive to church attendance here. There are
:. five preaching places in town, in one OF
t which services are held fortnightly. In two
j others. services are held but once on Sun
|
J. month OF July about one person in five OF
d our citizens, on an average, may have at
n tended the three morning and two after.
h noon services.
. We hear complaints Of scarcity of money
l. at the present time. In a late converse
: ton with one Of our middle-aged farmers
the other day, in which he was speaking OF
;, some OF the drawbacks in farming now, we
= asked him If some Of our farmers were not
= doing we'll AT the mention Of a certain
u name he replied that he believed the man
could not show to-day the principal and in
y terest upon it, that had been inherited by
the family and set he seems model farmer
But depreciation Of real estate in the last
T. fifteen or twenty years must account fol-
= this state OF things If true.
# News has just come again from George
s Lynde Ainsworth, under date of June 26
l. His gold-hunting party was at Fort Simp-
t son, perhaps two hundred miles northwest
r of the Great Slave Lake. British America
d and on the Mackenzie river. They have
t been having hard trip since previously