The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-07-06
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Bert Bailey is working in Bridgeport,
Conn, selling medical works.
Mrs. AFRO Nichols who is ill from paraly-
sis is thought to be improving.
Mrs. H. l.. Cheney and Mrs. j. X. Lynde
return from Potsdam, N. Y, This week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Nixon were with
Mr.. Nixon's parents in Corinth over last
Sunday.
Last Sunday was the hottest day of the
season the mercury going far into the
nineties.
X. p. Blanchard has dismissed his board
ers for a month or 50, that his family may
have a vacation.
Rev. j. A. Sherburne of Barre oficiated
at the Methodist church last Sunday in the
absence of the pastor.
Miss Sabra Sheridan and sister, Fanny,
now OF Montpelier, were in town with Mrs.
Orville II. Briggs over Sunday.
Owing to the precaution of the selectmen,
the morning of the Fourth opened in a more
orderly manner, than sometimes hereto
fore.
Since the removal by DIR. W. B. Mayo OF
Northteld, Of a portion of Fernando G.
~Davenport's ear, he has been quite COM
Portable.
Friends of George w. Lynde will con-
graduate him on his nomination for a
county senatorship last week, with little or
no opposition.
Harold Wheatley, now OF Meriden, Conn,
is canvassing the place for the sale of a
book, "Our Elder Brother" which we Judge
may be a very valuable one.
Rev. j. o. Sherburne and wife were in
Connecticut last week visiting friends and
taking in the commencement at Middle
town, Mr.. Sherburne's alma mater.
Rev. P. P. Womer and wife will remain
in the family Of Postmaster George L. Ed
son for the present but may later take up
housekeeping at the Congregational par
sonage.
last week to look after his farm matters
here. He reports his own business like
many another one there greatly and I'M
favorably affected by the war.
Erskine Rowell and Miss Lizzie Prescott,
who were married week before last, re-
turned last week from a carriage trip to the
south part Of the State. May showers of
blessing ever fall on theis pathway in life.
James M. Beckett and Mrs. Mary How
land Chick OF Rutland Square, Boston,, were
married last Thursday and are expected
here this week. 1t is supposed their home
will be in Boston the largest part Of the
year.
cit Company, went to Massachusetts last
Saturday for a few days. While away he
will set a granite memorial in a Lowell,
Mass, cemetery that the company has Just
mduo ZOE William Wltl6r6ll, whose Vile
has lately been buried there.
Willie Lund continues to live after the
critical operation lately performed on him
in the hospital at Burlington. Without the
operation ii was said he could live but a
short time, and with it it is doubtful
whether he could survive. A tumor was
taken from the pelvic region.
Sherman A. Winchester has engaged
with a Philadelphia publishing firm as a
general agent to establish local agencies
here in the State. His experience as a
canvasser and salesman, will make his new
line Of work a success. People will find
him, wherever he goes, a genial agent.
Leslie ID. Gale was in town a day or two
last week to settle with the city OF Barre for
damages in laying water pipes through his
farm, ETC., TO the reservoir TO be built on a
part of the S. Talcott Perrin place. He re-
ceived 1925. 1t is said this reservoir when
completed will submerge a large number Of
acres Of Henry Martins farm.
For the first time, we believe, in the his
tory OF the granite business here, monument
al work in a nearly finished state has been
maliciously injured. Three or four stones
in the Grearson-B Beckett company's sheds
nave been thus dealt with some time since
work last Saturday. How great the loss
may prove, cannot yet be told. No small
degree Of indignation can be felt for such
diabolical actions.
We think some of our citizens would like
their property assessed in a quadrennial
appraisal after the manner adopted, as we
have lust been told, in a n%eighboring
place. The income, or rents. OF the prop.
erty having been ascertained, they were
taken as twelve per cent on a first
valuation of the property, but OF this valua.
tlonj only seventy per cent was entered
upon the list. In other words, the prop
erty was actually paying a rent Of seven
| teen Per cent on its assessed value.