The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-27
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Burlington, this week.
Mrs. j. M. Palmer continues poorly in
health in Somerville, Mass.
Alden p. M 3rtin hrs been making rapid
strides OF late towards health.
9. NJ. Seaver was in the Boston markets
for goods for his store, last week.
Lewis NJ Seaver OF New York is in town
looking after his farming interests.
Mrs. G. w Brush has of late had as guests
three neces from Jacksonville Fla.
Mr. aud Mrs. James M. Beckett are en-
pertaining lady friend from Boston.
State Fish Commissioner II w. Bailey of
Newbury came here Saturday afternoon.
John Dow, granite cutter, has began
work again for himself in Henry Nixon's
she'd
Miss Nellie Blanchard came home from
school in Barre, last week, on account OF
illness.
Dr.. Jason G. Briggs, now OF Somerville,
Mass. paid flying visit to Vermont this
month.
Our creamery patrons got seventeen cents
for their July butter and nineteen cents for
August.
Mrs. DIR. e. b. Watson goes to Waitsfield
again this week, because OF the illness of
her mother.
Mrs. Leavitt s. Hayward returned last
week from Massachusetts after an absence
of some time.
Return Davis and son are planning to
add to their barn room on the farm bought
of N. G. Davis.
Joel Bass is with a dramatc company
that is to open the season in Brooklyn, n.
Y, with the play, isis Hopkins"
Miss Nellie, daughter of Danison Brown,
a teacher in the Barre city schools, was the
guest of Mrs DR.. E. b. Watson over Sun.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. James s. Hopkins are daily
looking for visit from BankerJ ames Dams,
partner Of Horace Flint, in Gibbon, Ne
braska,
Mrs. Alfred House recently came home
for few days from NORA, N. Y. She and
her husband will likely remain their the
coming winter.
Our 'ex-townsman, Ed Smith, formerly
of Smith & Seaver, OF the meat market,
is said to be doing good mercantile BUSH
ness in South Mortified.
The entertainment by Impersonator
Charles X. Taggart of Topsham, under the
auspices of the Christian Endeavor Society
last week, was well emf eyed.
We heard j. M. Seayer, who is fresh from
a western trip, tell one of our farmers, the
other day, that 'if he was a young man he
would like to go West and farm it,"
A great grandson of the late Calvin
Ainsworth and a son of Mrs Laura Water
in Montana from service in the Philippines.
We have heard of former Williams
townian who spoke of equinoctial storms
as "equivocal storms" The disappointing
one of last week, so little was there of it,
might come under the latter head.
Mrs. j. X. Lynde gave her large Sunday
school class very pleasant time at Dewey
Park on Saturday, which included the ride
refreshments and whatever else was needed
to make delightful trip fer little folks.
1t was decided upon authority last week
that the diphtheria was in the family Of
young John Milford in the northwest cor
ner of the village Anti-toxine was used and
the cases have been light. Due effort is be-
ing taken to prevent the spread OF the dis
ease.
George E. WILDER has bought of his
father-in-law, Albert Il. Martin, IA desirable
piece of property, south of our depot and
lying along the railroad track. This pur-
chase may be indicative OF q stOre-hOuse, or
a business house OF some other kind in the
future.
An entertainment course for the coming
season has been provided for, and the first
in the series will be at the town hall Satur-
day evening, September 80, by the Oxford
Musical Club of Boston. On Friday even
ing at the town hall there will be a sale OF
seats for the course. The committee has
endeavored to provide au attractive pro-
gramme for the season.
The Odd Fellows and their fellow-hear-
ers had the benefit of good discourse al
the Congregational church last Sunday
morning, based ON the parable of the Good
Samaritan. lnStrumentaliSts, Clinton
Cram and Frank Erskine, with vocalists
outside the choir, lent good assistance in
the music of the morning
On account of his recent fire. Fremont G.
Little will have a large auction sale of
stock, tools, etc, at his home place on Sat
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West for the winter, at least, as his wife
had planned for another winter in Denver,
Oh account OF her health, If he shall carry
out his plan to rebuild this fall, his brother
in-law, a Mr. Woodbury., may come from
one of the D1kotas, to occupy the farm.
DR.. W. b. Mayo OF Nortbf eld was called
last Wednesday to counsel with Dr.. E. b.
Watson in the case of Norman q. Davis,
who is very poorly in health 1t seems to
be a case of exhaustion and inuutrition. 1t
il hoped that Mr.. Davis may yet be able to
take nourishment sufficient to recuperate,
though his heart is involved in his trou BILE
az we'll as his digestive organs. He has
been hard working and successful farmer.
Miss Catherine Bass, nowIof Chicago, has
lately made trip East visiting her broth
ers, and our esteemed ex-townsmen, Per-
kins Bass, ESQ, at his summer home in
Peterboro, N. H., and DIR. William Bass Of
Lowell, Mass. She reports the doctor look
ing finely after much halfinvalidism in his
life. Perkins Bass found his stay last win
ter in Aiken, S. c., advantageous o his
health, and he will likely spend the coming
winter there with wife and one son.
There is still lack OF granite cutters to
do the work wanted here. Ii is said that
some hundreds more of cutters could find
work now in Barre alone. Naturally this
demand benefits workmen, in some in
stances, as to price OF their labor One en-
ployer tells OF single instance where he
let man go, some months past, because he
did not feel that he could pay his price, and
now he has the same man back again, at an
advance of twenty per cent above what he
paid him before.
The Methodist Ladies' Society will hold
an art loan in the town hall on Thursday
aud Friday of next week, October and 6,
afternoons and evenings. There will be an
exhibition of pictures of various kinds;
knitted or crochet and needle work; "A table
OF curios; display OF cookery; a sale of
useful and ornamental work and OF home
made sweetmeats; a display of plants; and
on Friday afternoon baby show. There