The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-08-16
WilIianstown.
Adams Is again i'll.

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outing in Groton,
Norman G. Davis has been materially
better in health in the last week.
Rev. P. p. Womer will be here to preach
next Sunday or furnish a supply for his
pulpit.
Mr.. and Mrs Howard Winchester were
on carriage trip last week to northern
Vermont.
David, son of the late Elisha B. Gale,
now thinks he will enter Dartmouth Col
lege next term.
Mrs Ralph Whitney has been very i'll
OF late her trouble in part being with the
nervous system.
There was frost here last Wednesday
sufficient to kill cucumber vines and injure
or kill other vines in few instances.
Miss Saida Mckee, in the employ Of j. X.
Lynde, is taking two weeks outing at the
White Mountains and elsewhere in New
Hampshire:
Elgin Gale has been coming to our village
daily OF late for material to be used in con-
nection with the hotel he is to put up right
away in the gulf.
School Director e. H. Martin and Car
penter Thomas Sheridan are making some
needed repairs on the school houses on both
sides OF the town.
A brother of Alden P. Martin has lately
been quite encouraged concerning the re-
covery of the latter, who has been 80 i'll for
some months past.
Albert M Goodrich who is interested in
improving the quality Of farm animals here
has just received from abroad an addition
to his stock Of fancy swine.
Clayton r. Ditty, now Of Gloucester,
Mass, has lust been home here on a visit.
He is we'll pleased with the life insurance
business he is doing in Gloucester
At the meeting of the board Of civil au-
thority on Saturday, one seventh of the
taxes of Levi j. Bolster of Barre ON the
Enoch Howe place, were abated for this
year.
Mrs. Lewis M. Seaver and daughter Of
the family of our ex-townsman, Lewis M .
Seaver who does business in New York
city and owns farm here, are here for a
vacation.
o. +. Stebbins is away on one OF his oc-
casional vacations. He has daughter in
Washington, ID. c., in government employ,
and friends nearer home who also share
his visits.
For some reason the Montreal excursion
offered little or no inducement to our citi
zens last Thursday, but there was something
of turnout Saturday on the excursion to
Westport.
daughters, Mrs. George e. WILDER and Mrs
James Csnsly, with George e. WILDER,
went to Burlington last week for an outing
at Queen City Park.
Miss Carrie Jackson will teach the fall
term in the Judge Paine district. and Miss
Ida E. Covell will be in the David Gale
district, Miss Mary B. Loomis will be in the
Prentiss G. Waldo district.
Mrs. Henry Wood is taking vacation in
Waitsfeld. She came here with an envia.
BILE reputation as teacher in the Barre
schools and has made warm friends here in
her work in our village school.
Mrs. Ednah Carleton Templeton with her
children has gone with her husband, lately
arrived here to Mr.. Templeton's old home
in Worcester, for short stay before they
return to their home in Grand Forks N. ID.
j Edward Ainsworth, sonin-law of the
late Calvin Ainsworth and now of Moline,
H., came here last week for short visit
He will go later to his old home in Clare
mont, N. H., for a brief stay before return
ing West.
Our board of civil authority has received
complaint from Levi j. Bolster perhaps the
wealthiest citizen Of Barre, as to the rating
of his property here, the old Enoch Howe
place in our village A meeting was ap-
pointed for last Saturday for hearing on
the subject.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Ainsworth Of
Moline, Ill, arrived here last Wednesday
for few weeks visit at Mr.. Ainsworth's
old home. Their two daughtere are 1T Sag
Harbor, Long Island, and may join them
here little later.
Albert M. Goodrich is making specially
OF full blooded Improved Chester White"
SWINE anu S066p, IN tn6 laSt
year he has sent stock into ten towns in
three counties in our State, and has taken
first premiums at fairs. He finds the area
OF his trade enlarging.
j. B. Brockwsy has just found the pocket
book that he lost in Barre on Burns day.
near the Spaulding school building. The
money, some fourteen dollars, had been
taken, but check for some thirty-six dol
lars was in the pocket book.
A visitor here from the west tells us of
the fine outlook for crops, az whole, in
the large states OF Illinois, Iowa, etc. He
says, though there is scarcity Of men
there to do all the work needed. Prosper
ity in the west for one thing means pros
perity for our granite interests here.
Winifred Lane, the younger of the two
sops of our former esteemed physician,
the late Dr. Gteorge e. Lane, has lately
graduated from the medical department OF
the Vermont University. His older broth.
or Richard, Is an ardent Episcopalan and
in some sort of mission work in New York
city.
Well remembered by some old Williams
townians is Mrs. Fanny Smith, sister OF
Mrs. Denison Martin, and for years past an
almost or quite helpless invalid at her home
in Princeton, Ill. Now comes the good
news OF her restoration to health which
came through the Christian Science treat
ment.
l06Fb WAS OCChSlOu ih5b Woeh W Tou1OVb
the remains OF one of our soldiers who died
about the time OF the civil war, OF the COS,
and were buried in our village cemetery.
1t appears now that he was buried with his
army shoes on and the leather of them was
found to be in remarkably we'll preserved
condition.
We hear more and more complaint Of the
drying up OF drinking water here, 80 great
has been the drouth. Some are resorting
TO driving wells. Others take water from
the small mountain brooks for culinary
purposes Everybody is longing for copi-
GUS rains. The potato crop is said to be
suffering for lack Of rain.
Charles G. Moore, for some years past in
the granite business in Atlanta, Ca, is
about to visit his old friends here. His wife
has been here for few weeks. Whatever
reasons they might prefer the north for
the condition Of Mrs. Moore's health, seems
TO make it imperative that our cold winters
should be avoided by her.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles M. Edison have re-
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