The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-04
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The Ladies' Aid will meet with Mrs
Mark Mears next Friday afternoon.
The plaintiff failed to appear Monday
forenoon in the case OF Newton " Boutwell,
Quite delegation OF Knights from this
place visited the Hardwick lodge Friday
night.
The adage "Thiuk twice before you sue
your neighbor" must be showed under
pretty deep somewhere
The orchestra is to furnish music for a
dance at the Pleasant View House, Plain
field, next Friday evening,
Miss Billings will speak on lessons drawn
| from Burns "Cotter's Saturday Night" At
the Congregational church Sunday evening,
October s.
AT the band meeting held last Saturday
| evening q. II. Shepard resigned as leader
| and Ira II. Edison was elected to the place
made vacant
@. e. Shepard sold his bay mare Top
| sy" to Frank f. Benham OF Waterbury,
! Conn. He also purchased last week very
promising colt OF Mrs. DR.. Davis Of North
| field
The band has some new caps ordered
which it is expected will be here in season
for use at the Dewey celebration. They
are navy blue, of military style, and will be
much more tasty than those they now have.
There was a change OF time on the rail-
road on Monday and passenger trains now
leave this station as follows: Going east.
mail, 1886; express, 1:43; mixed, 5:02; going
west, freight, SOP; accommodation. 1880;
mail, 427.
Our band is one OF the twenty Ave to be
especially invited by the State committee
for the Dewey day celebration. They have
three rehearsals this week and it Is especial
ly desired that every member be in attend
ance at them all.
The Ladies' Missionary Society will meet
at Mrs. S. Swerdfegers next Saturday at
two p. NJ. The officers OF this society are as
follows: President, Miss A. g. Billings;
vice-president, Mrs S. Swerdfeger; secre-
tary, Miss Lillian Sanborn; treasurer, Mrs.
l.. B. Bemis.
The Goddard Seminary students who are
at home ill are all doing as well as could be
expected. Goldie Smith Is a little better
j. Ward Carver came home as he supposed
in perfect health, but Saturday found him
self attacked by the same disease that the
others are having.
+. j. Marshall now has gang Of six men
working upon his barn property and has it
raised two feet from the old underpinning
and the new underpinning nearly in. The
work will now be rapidly pushed and he
says that the hall will be ready for the OPEN
ing Thanksgiving evening although the re-
mainder OF the building may not be COM
pleted.
The 'forget-me-not" sociabe at the home
OF Mrs. James Bouldry last Thursday was q
success socially and financially. A short
program consisting OF Rotations and char
acters was enjoyed by all present. Mr..
Tanner delighted the company for short
! time with his graphophone. About one
| hundred and twenty-five took supper in the
afternoon and evening.
Mayo Wyman is this week erecting a
windmill to pump water to his buildings
from spring eighty rods away. The tower
OF the windmill is thirty feet high and the
wheel ten feet in diameter. The water will
be forced through one inch iron pipe and
received in a tub eight feet in diameter and
twenty-eight inches high. 1t is believed
this is the first power windmill in town.
The library trustees are now ready to re-
ceive sealedsbds for the office OF lbraria an
for one year The duties expected to be
lows To keep record of all books taken
from the library and to make report the
first day OF March of each year to the trus-
tees of the number of books received and
number of each class taken from the library
and to catalogue all books after the 81 DOC
worth are placed in the library; to keep
the building clean and sufficiently warmed
and lighted; to keep the grass cut in sum
mer and snow shoveled from paths in win
ter. Wood and kerosene will be furnished
by the trustees, all other necessaries to be
furnished by librarian.
Chelsea.
Annie e. Goss visited Hanover, n. II
last week.
Mrs. G. j. Helmer and family returned
to New York last week.
Nellie G. Cooley has begun her autumn,
work for Mrs. E. f. Peters.
Mrs. Lizzie (Bacon) Joslyn OF Petersham
Mass, is visiting her parents.
The bank began business on Saturday il
its new and attractive rooms.
Mrs. Emeine Waterson has gone to Will
Jamestown for fortnight's visit.
Mrs. R. r. Slack of Randolph has beer
visiting her daughter, Mrs. w. E. Allen.
II. X. Darling is is in Montpelier las
week and this, trying case in county court
L. Lyle Tracey returned last week from
Barre, Goddard Seminary having beef
closed on account of an epidemic OF typhoit
fever.
Rev. b. B. Sherman, late pastor OF tn,
Congregational church in this place, ha
become secretary to DR.. G. j. Helmer il
New York city.
9. e. Bohonop, who is about to leave 70
Lowell, Mass, will have an auction mex
Saturday. Among the articles to be soil
are cow, buggy. a sleigh, and variou
furniture and household goods.
Rev. Carl III. Corwin, wife and daughter
oil talumet, MICH, arrived IN town las
week on a visit to Mr.. Corwin's parents
having previously attended the Interns
tional Congregational Council in Boston.
Col. G. s. Emery left on Wednesday c
, last week for New York to attend the Dew
ey celebration as q member of the Govern
or's staff. He will also be present at tn
> celebration in Washington before his retur
to Vermont
r. w. Allen, Jr., who has been workin
> at White River Junction, has enlisted /
the Forty.sxth volunteer regiment, an
) his father visited him at the junction Las
week before his departure for South Fran
ingham, Mess, the regimental rendezvous
0 The evangelstic meetings conducted b
Messrs Gillian and Crowell closed on Thur
q day evening. 1t is thought that much goo
!. has resulted, and that this good is of such
nature that it cannot be adequately Q,
pressed by figures, and that the addition
. which may be made to the churches, thong
u these will probably be numerous. will n,
fairly measure the results OF this effort.
,, South Duxbury.
s. The two nieces OF #. Hart returned