The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-02-16
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Leon Blanchard and wife are at the home
| Of his parents.
James Gray has returned to granite cut
| ting in Northfield.
Mrs. Inez Durkee is the guest Of her
| brother, Will Kibbee.
Rev. p. p Womer and Rev. A. A. Smith
exchanged last Sunday morning.
Mrs. George w. Blanchard was with her
sister, Mrs. o. A. Blanchard, last week.
A hot sugar sociabe was held at the
Methodist vestry last Wednesday evening
Granite Cutter Oliver Martin has been
confined to the bed for several days by sick
ness.
One of matched pair OF fine large work
horses belonging to b. #. Sibley died last
| week.
Mrs. William Witherell is very low with
consumption, and apparently can live but a
short time.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. f. sibley returned last
week from stay OF several weeks in PEN
nacook, N. Fl.
An outbuilding on Mrs. Chester Martins
place collapsed last Thursday from the
| weight of snow.
Mrs. John Winchester died on Monday
night at the age of seventy.three. She was
an excellent woman.
j. A. Bond of Burlington, special agent Of
the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
| was IN town laSt week.
Mrs. John Manchester, daughter of the
late Martin Harrington, is thought to be
! fatally ill from strangulated hernia.
Henry Griffin, son.in-law of Ralph Whit
ney, will go to Gouldsville with Car
ter 81 McNchol, to do granite polishing for
them.
The village school programme of public
exercises at the town hall on Friday even
ing, consisted of music, dialogues, and the
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Boys of 1916"
Rev. P. P. womer hopes to have all the
Christian Endeavorers Of the Congregation
| al church in attendance at the Christian
| Endeavor convention in East Barre on
! Tuesday of next week.
The Universalst ladies will hold an an
tiquarian socable at the town hall next
doughnuts and gingerbread are to be the
features of the occasion.
David e. Avery died last week Monday
at Plymouth, Mass, after long period OF
ill health Mr.. Avery and wife were here
| abouts last summer. OF his mothers four
children only one survives.
One of our townsmen recalls the Febru.
airy of 1912, led perhaps, by the spring-like
weather of last week, when the winter
yielded its rigors and an early. and long
season of sugar making followed.
Will Moore, a sharpener at the Grearson
| & Beckett sheds, with his family, return
ed to the west last week. Ill health has
prevented his working much for months.
His place is taken by Arthur Lund.
On Thursday evening of this week, Hon.
Frank Plumley of Mortified will speak in
our entertainment course; subject, "Ameri-
ca" Gen. o. O. Howard of Burlington
will lecture Thursday evening, February
"a subject, "She rman's March to the Sea-"
Katie Carlin and Glen McAllister from
the intermediate department, and Leon
McAllister from the primary department,
have had no marks during the school year
just closed. Roscoe Lynde, intermediate,
and Quincy Carpenter, primary, were each
absent one day during the year.
Will Kinney, received telegram last
Thursday announcing that his father had
been killed that day, by the falling OF a
! Dor. Mr.. Kinney at once started for his
home. He will have the warm sympathy
of friends in this great sorrow.
On Monday evening, February 2S, Rev.
and Mrs. p. p. Womer will give Rotations,
and Mrs. j. X. Lynde and Miss Mamie
Brush will sing, in aid of the Congregation
al church at East Brookiield, 20 which Rev.
Mr.. Womer ministers. This work will be
| in connection with music by quartette of
| ladies in East Brookfeld.
Rev. P. p. Womer at the Lincoln Me-
mortal service at the Congregational church
last Sunday evening, in very interesting
manner, drew important lessons from the
| life of Abraham Lincoln, taking for his
text, II have fought the good fight, l have
finished my course" The occasion must
surely have proved great inspiration to
the goodly number present.
If ever lecturer succeeded better in de-
| lighting an audience than did Miss Vandeia
Varnum, here last Thursday evening, let
such one apply to our entertainment COM
mittee. From beginning to ending it was a
grand entertainment, indeed The lady is
as full of sparkle, wit, wisdom and words as
need be. She began with the original
Chautauqua, and brought up in Cuba. But
how she did pause right here in Williams
town to club the acquaintance and neigh
bors OF most everybody. But not the shilla-
lab alone does this speaker handle. Many
beautiful gentle, poetical, uplifting thoughts
come into her talk, and lead her auditors to
go away saying, cit was splendidP
Our town hall was quite well filled last
Friday evening on the occasion of the clos
ing exercises of the village school. These
exercises consisted Of music, vocal and in
strumental, and some children's exercises
that were greatly enjoyed. The last on the
programme was the drama, "a Hundred
Years Ago, or the Boys of 1776,"-the echoes
of which we have been hearing since in the
jublant whistling of Yankee Doodle by
small boys on the street. Some thirteen or
| fourteen dollars were netted by the young
people Of the village schools, to go towards
the purchase of bell for the school. house.
What the cost of this bell will be to the
teachers who had this pleasing entertain
ment in charge they doubtless know well,
Something recently called up in our hear
ing somewhat of the family life of a well
known farmer here in an earlier day. He
was hustler, indeed, and between hustl-
ing here and elswhere, a fine pile of money
has stuck to his fingers. One who was a
hired man in the family, while here, now
tells us one of the differences between this
farmer and his wife. At the end of some
day of hard work, at least as the hired man
looked at it, the farmer would sigh, that
they had not got in few more loads" but
the good wife would reply, you should be
thankful that you got in as many as you did, ;"
and the long ago hired man hasn't forgotten
the welcome reply Of the good woman yet.
and neither has he forgotten that of the far
mer.
Some forty persons are working for the
| Grearson, Beckett Granite Company now
A run through their sheds last week. was
rewarded by seeing some beautiful work in
progress A monument is making there
Tor the wife OF bishop OF one of the southern
states and of what we are told is a
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