The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-30
WiIIiamstown.


Alden P. Martin has been able to go out
OF doors Of late.
Mrs. Jason johnson has been in quite
poor health for a few months past.
Thomas Hoffman is working as a Jumper
in the Grearson-Beckett company's sheds.
Miss Jeanette Wiley, now OF Washing
ton, was 1.-THE guest Of friends here last
week.
A Miss Stearns of Chelsea will teach the
fall term of school in the Prentiss O. Wal
do district.
Joel A. Bass and his sister, Miss Julia,
have been taking q vacation at Peaks
Island, Me.
Rev. II. e. Currier was in his pulpit last
Sunday after an absence of three Sundays
on his vacation.
Elgin Gale is daily hauling the lumber
for his new hotel in the Gulf from the yard
of G. U. Lathrop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred House will make
their stay in MORA, N. Y, one of six or
eight weeks duration.
Mrs. Will Downing Of Barre, q daughter
in-law of the late Loren M. Downing, was
visiting here last week.
We hear with sadness that our old towns
man, James M. Bass, continues in very poor
health at East Somerville, Mass.
DR.. Lewis d. Martin, osteopsth, has an
Office in Chelsea to which he goes on We'd
Mrs. Chester Martin has just had visit
from the son of her late brother, Scion
Wood, who is a resident Of Northern Illi-
nois.
Charles Templetou, son-in-law of the late
Dea. Francis Carleton, now OF Grand Forks,
n. d. was in town again last week with his
family.
MIR. and Mrs. j. M. Seaver returned last
Saturday after an absence OF little more
than three months in the west and the far
west. They are looking the better for their
delightful trip
Mrs. Ellen Bruce Harrington, daughter Of
the late Albert Bruce and now resident
of Lapham Clinton county, N Y, is visit
ing her mother and sister here. Three little
daughters accompany her.
Charles G. Moore, between leaving At
lanta, Ca and reaching here has been WIS.,
iting his parents and other friends, who
went some years ago from st. George, New
Brunswick, to Minnesota to live.
Rev. P. P. Wormer will be absent next
Sunday but will see that his pulpit is suppli-
ed. He informed his people last Sunday
that he had had call to go elsewhere to
locate, and that still another call might be
extended to him in the State.
The present fearful drouth has driven
some of our villagers to the driving of wells.
So far we do not hear OF failure to find
water easily. The principal annoyance so
far has been the coming, in some instances
upon an abundance of quick sand.
Rev. and Mrs. P. P. womer returned
from their vacation last Wednesday. How
ever much they enjoyed their Canadian ex-
periences, they seem to have come back.
more than ever contented to live under the
stars and stripes of our own domain.
Our ex-townsman, Barney d. Flint, has
kindly consented to give the readers of the
WATCHMAN a letter from his new home in
Oregon. No one of our citizens will want
m rniua raa6ipo NJ II and IL will haUa in.
terest for others as WELL 1t will be found
on page four Of this paper.
With the meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture here on Tuesday OF this week,
and also the meeting OF the Orange county
veterans of the war of the rebellion on the
same and the following day, with camp
fire on Tuesday evening our citizens will
have feast of good things
Mrs. j. M, Palmer is quite feeble at her
home in Somervile Mass DR.. Jason g.
Briggs family now OF the same city, are at
their cottage in Douglass, Mass. DR.. @. @.
Ellis writes us from there of having taken
thirty pounds of blue fish in about an hour
last week Monday on Buzzard's Bay.
Judge Clark Upton of waukegan, ILL.,.
and his second or third wife, daughter of
the late DIR. Orren Smith, native of our
town, were in this place last week. The
visit OF the successful judge, now nearing
his four-score years, recalled the earlier
Barre, he used to be out here occasionally,
putting forth his madam efforts that were
preparing the way for the success and fame
that have crowned his legal life in the
West.
j. Edward Ainsworth went to his old
home in Claremont, N. H.. last week for a
visit, before returning to his home in Mo-
line, Ill. Mr.. Ainsworth was a graduate Of
Norwich University, having been there at
the time Admiral Dewey was student.
His busy life in the West, as civil engi-
neer, and in connection with railroad build
ing, together with the opportunities for sue
cessful investments there in the last two
scores or more OF years, seem to have veri-
fed the wisdom OF the advice to Ego West,
yoang man, and grow up with the couI.
Try"
Tia dwelling house Of Fremont G. Little,
situated on East Hill near the northern
border of the town, was burned this fore
noon while Mr.. and Mrs Little were away
from home attending the meeting OF the
State board of agriculture. A part OF the
furniture was saved The corn barn was
destroyed but as the wind was favorable the
large barn was saved. About fifty bushels
OF potatoes and $110 In money were lost.
The fire is supposed to have taken fromia
defective chimney. The property was in
sured in the Vermont Mutual for 81 Co.,
800 on house, $3.50 on contents, and $50
on a small building adjoining.
anu OndIlob H. AlubWOEbA
started for their home in Moline, ILL.,, on
Monday. For more than fifty years Mr..
Ainsworth has been an active and success
full business man in the West. He hardly
ever and perhaps never was confined to the
house a whole day by sickness, and the last
three years or more OF his life have wit
messed some of tho largest business trans
actions in his career in the sales of lumber
and timbered lands. But his love of the
Vermont hills, has never been smothered
by the activities OF the great West, and II
renews his years to come back here to see
and travel over them.
1t has been a pleasure to us to listen to
Mrs. j. M. Seaver's account of the home OF
our former townswuman, Mrs. Laura Work
Dennis, near Spokane Falls, Wash. Fol-
years Mrs. Dennis was almost helpless
invalid from rheumatism and is obliged tC
use a crutch in getting about yet each Sun.
day she goes a mile from home to superin,
tend a Sunday-schoo. Three fine sons and
an equally nice daughter gladden. the home
OF Mrs. Dennis--the sons planning and
working fora 160-acre farm each. The house
abounds in reading-fresh papers, maya