The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-04-26
Fast ROwbury.

East Roxbury.
Creamery patrons received twenty cents
for March butter.
The sugar season promises to be short
and not very sweet this year.
Woodchucks are plenty this spring in
spite OF the deep snow. Fred Blanchard
recently trapped three.
#. o. Allen has purchased large churn
and butter worker to be run by horse pow
or. He Is making 1870 pounds OF butter q
week.
Eber Thayer from Worcester, Mass, was
in town recently and made arrangements to
put in churu and butter worker into this
| creamery to have the butter made here in
stead OF carrying the cream to West Brook
| feld.as has been done.
West Corinth.
Mrs. Susan Fisher and Mrs. Mabel May |
nard are i'll.
Matte Goodspeed has been stopping with
her cousin, Mrs. Charles Burroughs, the
| past week.
Mrs. A. Litch, who has been in poor
health all winter has a cough which has re-
sisted all the cough remedies she has tried.
Mary Hopkins entertained few of her
little playmates last Thursday afternoon, it
being her birthday. They were treated
with cake, popcorn and candy.
In looking over the items in the WATCH
MAN we notice ours is not the only town
which is suffering from the inconvenience
OF bad roads and depth of snow. But let
US take courage, Fourth of July is coming.
North Fayston.
Mrs. Allen Howe remains quite poorly
- Mrs. M. K. Davis is laid up with a
sprained ankle. - Mrs. James p. Boyce
visited her son, Jacob recently. - Ell.
mer Hubert Of Moretown is to teach in
bury visited here for few days the past
week. 6 Miss Gladys has gone to More
town to attend school. - The whooping
cough Is an unwelcome visitor in many
homes. - Sugaring has closed with an
! uncommonly poor season. Farmers hardly
made enough to pay for breaking into their
sugar places.
West FairIee.
Roscoe Illsley has returned to his home
in this village.
| George s. Church will remove to the Kim
, ball house on Mill street very soon.
) The West Fairlee cornet band gave an
: open air concert last Saturday night.
School will commence the first Monday
= in May, with Miss Madge Smith as teacher.
: A town meeting has been called for April
: %, to see about rebuilding the town house,
; which was totally destroyed by fire March
George Kicker and Miss Berry were mar
: ried April 20. Mr.. Paul performed the cere-
. mony. The happy. couple will 60 to house,
J keeping in Beanville.
Orange.
George Persons has moved his family to
:, Plainfield. He has rented his farm to Tom
y Hyland - A. 8. Martin has commend.
ed work on his new barn. - George
T. Heath of Claremont, N. Fl made flying
very much surprised to find us in the mud
a. and snow drifts. Mrs. e. P. Lord has
t. returned from Montpelier where she has
3, been for six months, under the treatment
"a proved in health as her friends hoped
\. - Mrs. A. L. Noyes is again able to be
a about the house, after being confined to heI
q roem for ten weeks. - There has beer
y but very little maple sugar made this sea
son and what there has been made is of al
inferior quality.
" East BrookfeId.
b. CA. Bigelow and wife returned to thei
home in Burlington last week. - Mrs
e. G. Jackson left for Albany, N. Y, las
s. Saturday to visit relatives. u. w
Parmenter's family are soon to move t.
n in the southeast part of the town is in YER.
feeble health. - But very little mapl
Or sugar has been made as yet but those VIII
ID have been favored in that direction hav
Walter Perkins purchased pair Of horse
j.. of Blodgett Brothers OF Brookheld las
W week.
OF Topsham.
y Rev. Mr.. McQuilken returned Monday tt
his home in Illinois via Philadelphia, Pa.
The funeral of Mrs. Dr. Isaac Eastman
10 formerly Miss Fannie White Of this town
was held at her home last Friday. Inter
st ment was at Topsham.
One might think from the flying rumor
in that the school children were all about t
be sacrificed on the altar Of education. l
in is hoped every honest parent or guardian @
a child under school age will investigate tn
~ management Of the schools, and OF the vii
~ lage school in particular before passin
judgment or taking any rash steps. l
no there is any just cause for complaint, max
it to the proper authorities and it will b
ry duly investigated. A visit from the Stat
superintendent of education, M. 8. Stone, !
m expected in the near future.
~ Thetford.
DIS Married, April ~ at the home of tn
D. bride, Frank G. Manchester of Lebanon, n
H., and Lillia Cummings of Thetford The
of will reside at Lebanon - Mary HeatoI
". OF Boston spent the week with his sister
has returned home. - Miss Sargent
mother, Mrs. Jenkins, was buried last We elk
- Hattie Root will teach in district Nc
3, Emma Bond in the Judd district -
The ladies met one afternoon last week t.
KIT sew for Mrs. Weber. - Alden Howard
an aged resident of Thetford was buried o.
in Sunday. He was aged sixty years. -
!" Mrs. Cummings and Lyman Slater are i'll
- "A young man WorhlnR lor 0eorR
ry Garry, had the misfortune to step on mai
few days since, and is suffering nue.
Dis from the effects of his injuries.
East Montpelier.
ry B. 1. Wheeler is no better. - Mrs
Frank Parker is improving. - Mis-
lr- Lana Hathaway is failing. - Charli
lg Ladoo is i'll with inflammation OF the bow
els. - Mrs. Diana Ormsbee is i'll with
IN touch of pneumonia. - Clarence Marti
" has moved his family to sodom, where the
- will keep house for William Guy. MI
Martin will work on the quarries.
aaS Homer Fits of Barre is having grea
~ run ON the fine stationery he is selling a
u, ten cents a box Regular price twent
lis cents.
1g Plainfield.
an The usual Wednesday evening meetin
O of the Congregational church will be hell
at the parsonage. This is a union meeting