The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-22

destroyed, His live stock ana nortion nj
ris household goods were saw d. The
oss is estimated at $4,000, insure ed
or 80 800 in the Montpelier ~ ency of A.
Brown & Son.
The board of school commissioners met
asst Wednesday evening 10 the office OF DR..
=. w. Hanson TO organize. Pc .ley Chand-
or was elected president of the board and
De. Hanson secretary pro TEN. The law
provides that the city clerk shall be the
permanent secretary of the board. Prof
,. ID. Mathewson WAS elected superintend-
'nt Of city schools for the coming year at
,alary OF $500. ~ was voted TO equip the
Brook street school house with venetian
blinds. The board also voted TO allow the
president and superintendent to expend S25
Tor new reference books.
AT special meeting OF the city council,
held last week, the property committee
was authorized to contract with q. ii. Nc
kenney q Co., for the fixtures for the new
city building. A resolution was adopted
Mayor Gordon to draw war
rant for the land damages awarded L. j.
Bolster, M. Garvey and 9. L Currier for
laying out sire It's across their lots to obtain
access to the French estate. II was voted
to put the collection Of water bills in the
hands Of the superin endent. George o.
Drew was granted permission to build q
house on Buckley street. The rules gov
erning the adermen's meetings for the past
ear we're adopted, which provide for reg
uar meetings on the third and fourth
Tuesday evenings OF each month.
wjlIiamstown.
Will Lougee is sick with German measles.
A child WIS recently born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Riddell
Thomas Poland was called to Waitsfield
last Friday by the illness of his father.
There is said to he more call for houses
to be rented just at present in our village.
George w Nichols is the new overseer OF
the poor. The third lister Is Hiram s.
Drur,.
Preston Cross has been i'll for few
weeks past with the grip and is under med
ical care.
George w. Nichols will move his family
to the Henry Nixon house that he has lust
traded for,
Easter will be observed at the Congrega-
tionsl church with appropriate exercises by
the children.
Fred Wiuslow may have the job OF driv.
ing the road machine for Road Commits
sioner o A, Blanchard this season.
Richard j. Jenkins went to his home in
Montreal last Saturday. He expects to 90
at once to q hospital there for treatment.
Our dramatic club will give the drama
"Our JIM" at the town hall on Wednes-
day and Thursday evenings of this week.
DR.. e. b. Watson is having granite haul
ed to the lot on which his Office stands pre-
psrstory to raising it and grading about it.
Henry Nixon will m I'VE his family to the
house he has traded for with George w.
Nichols, though he is DESTROYS of selling the
property.
Windsor Dirty, having sold the John
Lynde house to Theodore Wilfore, will oc-
cupy one Of Rev. William Schofi ,ld's tene-
ments in the village.
George Booth has Just been paid $1,000
life insurance on the death of his brother
Peter, former granite worker here by
Clan Gordon OF Barre.
Clayton K. and Ernest l.. Dirty are both
living in Gloucester, Mass. The former has
recently gone to work for the Metropolitan
Life insurance company.
Henry Downs received such injury to a
hand short time ago that he has been
obliged to give up work for j X. Lynde
and go home for se Ason.
DR.. Lewis Martin, osteopathist, has
opened an office in Barre. He will also be
here two days la the week. His family
will remain here for a time.
George W. Nichols, elected to the office
OF overseer of the poor at the last town
meeting, declined to serve and the select
men VIII have the poor to look after.
Mrs. Ezra Seaver, who died not very long
ago at her home in Chicago, had been sick
for years with heart disease. Her last ia
tai illness was caused in part by the grip.
John Farnham was last Sunday elected
superintendent of the Methodist Sunday
school, in place of his son, Horace M. Farm
ham, who is about to move from the place.
Lucius Wright has moved his family to
the home of his fstherin-law, Luther ii. j.
Merrill, Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill requiring that
this step be taken on account OF age and in
frmties.
j. Sherman Winchester went to New
Hampshire last week in the interests of a
Philadelphia book publishing house. He
will continue his trip to Philadelphia be-
fore be returns home.
Presiding Elder Rev. j. o. Sherburne
Will be here for service at the Methodist
church at two P. NJ. on Wednesday. The
rite OF baptism will be administered to sew
eral persons on the occasion.
w. K. Perkins will sell at auction on
Thursday Of this week his farm, the Porter
Martin, and the Martin Burnham farm,
with hay, stock, tools, etc. He purposes to
move TO Plainfield after the sale.
At the recent quarterly meeting of tie
Williamstown Social Library Association it
" as voted to issue new catalogue of the
books--and to hold meetings hereafter once
in two months, instead of quarterly, as here
tofore.
Inc auction safe OF horace M. Farnhdm
property last week Saturday was a good
one in some particulars. One COW brought
$685. another one brought S45 Last fall
calves sold ior So, No offer could be gotten
for hay.
W. E. Perkins offers at auction at nine
o'clock March %, his live stock and a large
quantity OF personal property. The farm
where he is now living will also be offered
for sale. Anyone wanting desirable
home well stocked had better attend the
sale.
A family in town, which has lived for
some years in an adjoining state, tell us
hat they have frequently bought Western
beef thai was evidently treated with some
chemical, so that they were obliged to cut
1f and throw away some Of the outer por-
ion Of the meat
AT the Horace NJ Farnham auction last
the average price, for which cows
? ere sold was $35. One heifer, two years
I'D last August brought $40. The highest
,rice for cows realized was S58 Mr.. Farm
lam will soon move to his wife's old home
! East Montpelier.
1t is pleasant to our citizens to hear ru-
nors that Elgin j. Gale OF Barre, the new
'wner of the Gulf Springs property, will
rect a fine hotel there, and also that some
nODitu man il Randy IN nuf In OnO