The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-23
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Rev. Mrs. Billings mother is visiting her
| for short time.
Our creamery paid its customers 1914
cents for July butter fat.
A. W. Mears and son OF Morrisvile are
| guests OF friends in town.
j. W. Mears and family were in camp at
| St. Joseph Lake last week.
Rev. 8. @. Lewis and family ere in town
on visit the latter part OF last week.
Mrs. Climbs and daughter of Berlin are
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sabin Pike
Rev. g.. G. Corse, father and brother,
have returned to their home in Catskill,
| N. Y.
j. Berton Pike and John Smith are in
partnership on a new steam power ensilage
cutter.
Anna Burnham returned last Thursday
from her visit with her brother, Fred, in
Chicago.
Rev. and Mrs. Corse and Mrs. Buck are
attending tte camp meeting at Lyndonville
| this week.
MuTry Bems and P. G.. Bemis are attend
ing farmers field meeting at Worthwhile
this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Eben Bashaw of West
Albany are in town visiting her brother, L.
| l.. Shepard
Mrs. Lydia Benton has sold her farm to
Martin freeman, possession to be given
September 1.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bond were in town
recently to pack and move their goods to
East Montpelier.
Clarence Wilson. wife and child of Bos-
ton arrived on Monday and are at his faith.
er's, Joseph Wilson's.
Our lodge of Knights of Pythias are in
| vited to join the Danville lodge in q picnic
at st. Joseph Lake Wednesday.
There were thrty.seven babies at the
baby socisble at r s. Hudson's Saturday.
none OF them being oyer three years OF age.
Several from here spent Saturday and
sunday with the camping party at Groton
pond. Camp was broken Tuesday morn
ing.
Frank Marrium of Elmore and Miss Lena
Pike OF Worthwhile were the guests of their
friend, Eleanor Cole, for few days last
week
DR.. e. II. Packer of Lowell, Mass, and
Mrs. Carrie Clark and two children OF
Whitman, Mass, are making their brothors
and sisters visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Gage and three chill
dren OF Woburn, Mrss., and Clinton Cutler
and two children Of Plainfield were the
guests OF 0. d. Cole last Thursday.
s. M. Douglass and wife of Post Mills
stopped In town Thursday to visit Mrs.
Douglass brother, G. E. Shepard. Mr. and
Mrs. Douglass were on their way to Barton
to visit Their son, Rev. W. e. Douglass.
The ball game Saturday between the Sec
ond nine and North Montpeliers resulted in
a victory for the second nine. This is the
second game they have played with that
team, defeating them in both by score of
20 to II.
The concert at the Unversalist church
Saturday evening, August 10 by the Grey
Orchestra, assisted by Miss III. Julia Cross
OF Montpelier, was above the ordinary grade
OF entertainments that visit our place and
was very we'll patronized. Nothing but
praise is heard of it.
A serious accident at the parsonage on
Thursday afternoon was barely avoided
when team from Walden. driven by Miss
Davis accompanied by another lady of that
place, was overturned by being backed
over the bank in front Of the parsonage.
| Fortunately a few bruises, q broken cross-
bar and few breaks in the harness was all
the harm done.
The band gave j. W. Sulham, one of its
Oldest members, a genuine surprise Tues
day evening, the anniversary Of his birth
day. Cyrus" has "beat the drum" for the
boys for many years and this public dem
onstration shows in part the appreciation
the boys have of his services. A chair, the
gift of the band, and others presents were
left with him as pleasant reminders OF the
| occasion.
The telephone men moved their outfit to
Cabot Monday morning, having completed
| their work in this town. They have poles
set as far as Lower Cabot. They are a gen.
tlemanly set OF young men. The foremen,
Messrs. Pollard and Goodwin, were very
obliging, taking complaints of persons upon
whose property they were obliged to tres
pass in good part, and where it was pos
sible obliging the complainants.
Superintendent of the city water supply,
M. K. Beckley, on account Of the drouth
has ordered users of the water to abstain
for the present from the use of hose and
further requested that they otherwise cur
tail the use of the water as much as posi-.
ble for the springs are very low and there
has not been sufficient pressure to carry
water to some Of the higher places for more
than week. Springs that have never
been known to fail are now dry.
Marshall & Beckley are moving the ell
part of the G. o. Davis boot shop recently
purchased by them, back up the hill about
sixty feet and will refit it to rent to the
band for rehearsal room. THIS building
has history. it being the first school build
ing ever built in Marshfield village and is
sample OF the way buildings were made in
those early days The building is twenty
four feet by twenty feet, and there are ten
eight-inch hard wood hewed sleepers, seven
eight-inch hard wood overlays, hard wood
studding and ridge pole,
The latest depreciation of the lawless ele-
ment of this town was the setting fire to
barn filled with hay, owned by Alex Find
ley, causing its complete destruction. This
|
the perpetrators thought before final set
Element is had The law against such acts
is just as strong in this case as If the deed
were committed against the highest in the
land. The offenders should be diligently
sought after and when found given just de-
serts.
All the members of the band have not
been together to play in public for long
time until on Tuesday evening when they
marched from their hall down Main street
to surprise their comrade, j. W. Sulham.
They show to marked extent the benefit
their summer rehearsals have been to them
and many were heard to remark that they
had not heard them play 30 well for years.
The band now numbers twenty members.
The committee would not make a mistake
in selecting it as one Of the bands for the
Dewey reception at Montpelier.
The steam whistle ON Mears & Pitkins
butter shop was heard on Monday for the
first time for over year and half, They
had steam power placed in their shop after
the pen stock was destroyed by the freshet
in July 1897, with the intention of using