The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-02-22
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Town TOT several Gays.
Mrs. j. NJ Seaver has been confined to the
bed Of late by sickness.
Davis Marcia, it is said, has been suffering
from appendicitis of late.
Will Kibbee has hired E. q. Smiths place
and will soon move to it.
Prof. Orrin Smith, son of Marcus A. Smith,
has typhoid fever at Ashfeld, Mass.
Leon Blanchard and wife went to Lebanon,
N. H., last Monday, where he has job.
DR.. Lewis Martin and wife have had the |
measles since their recent return from Mis- |
souri,.
Will Kinnay has Just returned from his
field.
Neal B. Smith arrived safely at the island
of Trinidad, where he is to remain this year at
work.
Beedle's full orchestra will be here Friday
night for the sixth entertainment of the lee
ture course.
John Lynde and Sherman Winchester have
returned from their trip in Massachusetts, and
New Hamp hire.
Jesse Poor is recovering from broken nose
the accident having occurred while butcher
ing hogs a short time ago.
Giosiel Sartoreli has just returned from his
home in Italy whittier he went last November
to work at granite cutting.
Rev. Efhe X. Jones will preach at the Uni
NerSalSt c0urcn next tDunudy AZ Z'pU r. M
Sunday school at 1880 p. M.
Fred son of Gurdon Martin, has given up
the idea of learning granite cutting after
short trial-perhaps for lack of physical
strength.
L. G. Smith, late of the firm of Smith d
Seaver of the meat Market has bought the
store in South Northfed, and will move there
in few weeks.
The entertainment, the fifth in our course,
advertised for last week Tuesday by Frank r.
Robertson, had to be put off until some future
time ON account of the great storm that pre-
vented Mr. Roberson's reaching here.
The Epworth League of the Methodist
church is to give an entertainment at the
town hall Wednesday, to consist in part OF the
family photograph album. All are cordially
invited.
Mrs George L. Edison is doing cry accepta-
BILE work with the Junior Christian Endeayor
Society of the Congregational church. The
society has forty members. sociable
was held by them at the church vestry last
week.
Under date of October 80 1898, George
Lynde Ainsworth, writes from his win er
quarters, two hundred miles north of the Arc
tic circle in Canadian territory-as follows:
Am here yet on Rat river and frozen in for
the winter. We are fixed in first class shape;
good comfortable log houses, good stoves and
fireplaces and plenty of wood, and we can be
comfortable here as we could be at home,
though our table is not quite so varied as at
Hotel R. We get plenty of rabbits, ptar-
mogan, and some fish and the Indians bring III
caribou meat now and then, The mercury has
already been down to twenty-eight below zero
but it is clear and bright; never any wind, and
one does not feel the cold at all. In fact am
out of doors all day long without any more
clothing than | would wear at home at this
time of year. We have quite town forty
eight inhabitants, two of them ladies, and
eight more about halt mile up river, sixty to
InInp tba
from ten to twenty II lies up. Those of us
who stayed here instead of going to the Klon-
dixie are the better off, we have found a
short trail up a branch of the river, and
through a chain of lakes that makes us nearer
the Klondike side than the people who put in
weeks in the ice water, and are now ten to
twenty miles above us. Two of those here
will start tomorrow for Fort Yukon with dogs,
and will take out the mail, the last chance for
the winter. They are going to get news OF
any recent strikes on the Yukon, and look up
some rumors of big strikes on the Porcupine
river. They will probably be gone nine or ten
weeks, as it is about nine hundred mile trip,
but they will have no trouble if they can get
traps and am getting little fur. Am running
on the river eight or ten miles a day just to
keep in condition for hauling in the spring,
thoughpthe prospects are, from the way we eat
now, that we will not have much to haul. The
days are getting very short now and during
December and part of January will have
about forty days without any sun at all. But
it is not so bad as it Sounds as for more than
half the time there will be moon that never
sets, and almost the whole time the aurora
makes it almost as light as day. When the
days begin to get longer about the middle of
March, probably we will commence hauling
and there are so many of us we will have a
good trail, and short one over on to the
Porcupine river and plenty of time to build a
boat before the ice goes out. We will pros
pect some on the Porcupine, and unless we
strike something good win be as Fort Yukon
June |: have looked the country over on
this side of the range the last six weeks. but
do not find sign of gold anywhere. We have
prospected the Belle river that runs into the
Porcupine, and not color, but we go on and
hope for better luck
Dr:Bull's Cough Syrup Is the Remedy
on which you can depeud for the cure of q
protracted cough or lung affection, brought
on by exposure to cold. 1t is the most ex-
cellent medicine sold. A bottle only 20 cts
Newbury.
Miss Eva j. Simpson is at j. b. Laurie's.
- Miss May Deming of Boston, is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. George M, Slack. -
Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. Bailey were made happy
by the birth of son, February IS. - Miss
Hatch ofGroton, lis visiting at Warren Bail.
ey's. - Charles Greenleaf has been having
an attack Of the grip. - Dr. W. II. Mum
sell of Wells River, was in town Sunday, the
guest of his daughter, Mrs. E. ]. Worthen
Montpelier - Miss Blanche Russell re-
turned to her home in Center Loyell, Me-, on
Monday - r. W. Chamberlain expects to
move his family to South Newbury, the first
of March. e NJ Brown was in Barton,
last week, on business. - Mrs. G. N. Bry-
ant, while getting wood from the shed, slipped
and fell onto saw, cutting the ligaments in
be expected. - William Goodwin has
been i'll several days with the grip. Arthur
kimball is carrying the mail. - Mrs. j.
H. Merrill is ill. - Mrs j. w. Woodbury.
and daughter returned to their home in Ply
mouth, Saturday. - Miss Bella Benzie is
caring for Mrs. j. l.. Merrill, who is i'll. -
Mrs. X. II: Crunden and daughter are at her
fathers, S. G. Stebbins. - Mrs. L. f,
Wheeler and daughter are in Washington
ID. G.
East ROxbury.
Creamery patrons received twenty cents
for January butter. - Mr.. and Mrs
Homer Noble were guests OF Deacon j. T