The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-06-21
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bicycles tnl5 year.
George Mari has returned to work with
Henry Nixon in the granite business
Mrs. Frank II. Martin is very critically
i'll, fears being entertained Of consumption.
Henry Poole is in charge of the town
clerk 8 office, while George Beckett is away.
Rev p 7. womer exchanged last Sun
day evening with Rev. Thomas Nj chell Of
Barre.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank A. Bailey of Mont
peler were at his old home here over last
Sunday.
A. ID. Brown, for months past in the
creamery here, is now with a plumber in
Corning, N. Y.
AT the end OF thirteen weeks of very Sc
we're illness, Alden p. Martin is able to sit
up only little.
Mrs John A. Perry is visiting in North
field for week where her husband has
work this summer.
Lawyer John Gregory Of Waiis6eld, me-
gotiator OF loans, has been placing money
here in town this year.
Earl II. Sherburne, son of Rev. j. o,
Sherburne, who graduated at the Mont
peier Seminary last week, is in town.
will Brown, son OF landlord j. w. Brown,
is to go to Bos ton this week for an exami-
nation for entrance into the United States
| navy.
Andrew Ance, the new owner of the
John Byrnes farm, was for three years
shoe dealer in Winooski. He proposes to
make specially Of poultry and garden
| truck.
Clarence l.. Tarbel, grandson OF the late
L. Moseley Martin, will graduate at the
Armour Institute OF Technology, in Chi.
cago, this week.
Messrs. Ira H. Rowell, Joshua f. Bailey
and Will j. Young attended the Masonic
meeting in Burlington last week and were
absent two days.
Elgin j. Gale of Barre is taking hold of
matters at the Gulf Springs here as II he
meant business preparatory to the hotel he
will erect there this season.
Jesse A. Martin, son of Erwin H. Martin,
graduated at the Methodist Seminary last
week, and hopes later to enter the Wesley
ian University at Middletown, Conn.
George Carroll, who was kicked by a
horse in Massachusetts a week ago, with
the result Of fractured ribs, is here in town
with his father at the Monument House.
A daughter was recently born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Earnest i. Ditty now OF Gloucester,
Mass. Clayton Ditty is liking we'll in the
same city where he is in the insurance bust.
ness.
W. p. Martin of Plainf1ed has been here
OF lete with his daughter, Mrs. George W.
Slavery. He has experienced great relief to
his i'll health, he says, from DR.. e. b. Wat
sons medicines.
The Elliott Brothers who have an envia.
BILE reputation here for honesty and good
work in the granite line, have just built a
nice monument for two Of Allen Martins
sons and placed in our village cemetery
Mrs. Lesvitt Hayward hopes to go this
week to Massach usetts. She will spend
two months at Cottage City, Martha's Vine
yard. She feels that osteopathy under DR.
Lewis d. Martins administration, has done
her great good.
Patsy Rogers whose army experiences
last year in the South, made so much of an
invalid of him that he has had to give up
granite cutting, is at present in the life in
surance business. He paid q short visit tC
this place recently.
Hdrper's Magazine for May has por
trait of John II. Bass who has been the wal
CORE -pondent of Harper's Weekly, at Ma
Mia and says that, "in the event of another
war he is one Of those who would be OF the
first value to any newspaper as cores
pendent"
Presiding Elder j. O. Sherburne was il
town last week. 1t was remarked that hi
| seemed to be taking on more pounds avoir
dupois--but there will not be too much o
the man while he keeps up the quality tina
we have known here in the last five years
Our ex-townsman, Rufus Walker, fo
some years past resident OF Moline, Ill.
arrived here last Saturday accompanied b,
his wife, son and his only daughter
They will be here week or ten days. Mr.
Walker has been successful business maj
! in the West where he has lived for som
thirty-hve or more years
j. Fred Austin, a native of ST. George, N
B., and of the granite firm OF w. w. Kibbe
& Co., and lneZ Kibbee Durkee are to b
married on Tuesday of this week. The
: will be at home here after July /. Mean
, while they will be away visiting Montreal
perhaps. among other places. A happy LII
to them.
Mr. and Mrs. j. Munroe Seaver were Wis
! iting different places in Iowa at last az
+; counts While at the home OF forme
Williamstownisn, they had taste OF
baby cyclone that unroofed the house mex
to the one they were staying in and set
number Of cars of the track in the place.
Mrs. Erastus Church, who went fror
here two weeks ago to stay with sister.ir
law in Granville, died there last week an
was buried from her old home here last Sa
: urday, Rev. f. e. Currier officiating at he
funeral. She had been sufferer from hear
disease. She was a member Of Methods
church.
. The "Old Maids" convention held at tn
town hall Monday evening, was largely a
n tended and great success. The novelty
the affair brought out the entire force
a maids of tender but uncertain age, an
those who aspire to join their ranks. Flu
seemed to be their watchword, and a gel
o erous quantity was distributed.
Last week for the second time this yes
J, Charles M. Seaver's store was threatene
with burning. In the basement OF the stor
r where his crockery department is, a ham,
ing lamp WAS suspended from a woode
q ceiling above. The lamp was 80 near tn
a ceiling that the wood into which the hoo
that held it was driven, had become charre
l. and had lost the power to hold it. No on
r was in the room when the lamp fell.
the time Mr.. Seaver got to it, the oil hs
spread and was on fire. 1t required hast
y efforts to extinguish the flames and save IL
i store.
IT 6roton.
I. W. B. Lsdd was in Bradford Friday @
(. business. - Mrs. A. NJ. Heath was vi
a iting in Montpelier last week. - Ale.
Z, Cochran made a business trip to Montpeli,
on Monday The base ball tea
=, played at Wells River Saturday with q
IL Wells River team The score stood five
+ fifteen in favor Of Wells River. Fran
u Randall is about to move from the ten
meDt he occupies in the village to farr
70 - A. w. Coffrin and Roy Bailey we
% in Newbury Monday and Tuesday. -;
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