The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-09-27
Marshheld.

Fred IL. Woodbury. and wife are visiting
friends and attending the fair at Northfeld,
| this week
FIG. Austin of New York city was the
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Davis on Tues
day and Wednesday.
Miss Lydia Hartig OF Plainfeld will speak
| at the Congregational church next Sunday
morning and evening.
There is to be grange sociable at e, L.
] Spencer's Wednesday evening, September
u. Everybody invited.
Hon @. j. Bell OF Hardwick, master of
the State Grange, visited the local grange
last Wednesday evening.
Florence Wooster is at home from God
dard Seminary and is very i'll. 1t is feared
that she may have typhoid fever.
| Rev. O. G. Gorse will preach to the chill
dren at the Methodist church next Sunday
morning Subject, "rhe Boy Preacher"
Mrs. H. II. Meader is visiting her sister,
Mrs. III. II. Graves, in Hartford, Conn,
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. j. Lance of Cabot accom-
panied her.
A southern preachers meeting OF the st.
| Johnsbury district OF the Vermont Metho-
| dist Conference Is expected to be held In
this place October II and 18.
| Our village school now numbers 81 pu-
| pills, n in the primary department., taught
by Lillian Shepard, and "a in the grammar
department., taught by Miss Moses.
A. e. Lamberton is suffering from blood
| poisoning in one hand 1t is supposed to
have been brought on by smut from corn
getting into a slight scratch while he was
cutting ensilage.
Miss Helen Marsh OF Rochester, grad
uate Of Goddard Seminary last spring and
| now teaching In the HOLSTER district was
the guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Davis and
school friends here over Sunday.
There will be forget. me-not" social
under the auspices OF the Ladies' Aid 80.
| ciety at Mrs. James Bouldrey's next Thurs
day afternoon aud evening, September %.
Special exercises will be held and good
time is anticipated.
l.. ID. Mute is fearful that he will have to
abandon his trip to the Gettysburg battle
field, as one of the committee in charge Of
the monument to be erected there by the
Thirteenth Vermont regiment, owing to the
poor health OF Mrs. Mute.
L. f. Dudley of Hartford. Conn, is a
visitor in town and IN company with l.. d.
| Mute attended the fair at st. Johnsbury.
Mr.. and Mrs II. ID. McCrilis, Mr.. and
| Mrs. o. s. Adams and George Kelley also
attended this fair Wednesday.
The young people who are attending
school at Goddard Seminary were at home
over Sunday. None of them s feeling very
well owing to the scarcity of good water at
the Seminary. They also complain that the
board is not quite up the standard of pre-
| vious terms.
Waterman Screwton who has worked for
G. j. Wood this summer, finished last Sat-
urday and has gone to Passumpsic where
he has work indoors for the winter. He
engaged to be there the first Of September
but no was allowed to stay and help fin.
sh the library.
Lizzie Preston has on exhibition at the
Commercial House mammoth potato
raised and given to her by o. II. Gerry. 1t
l.. 4. .ts,l,
two pounds and five ounces, with circum-
ference one way of fifteen inches and the
other, eighteen inches
There will be monograph entertainment
a. the Methodist church Monday evening,
October 2. The proceeds are for the organ
fund. Selections which can be distinctly
understood in all parts OF the house will be
bands, Orchestras, quartetts and soloists.
The admission will be Is and 10 cents.
l.. b. Adams has the carpenter work on
his new store all finished. He is now dress
ing the interior walls with hard oil finish
and an soon rs dry will move his goods in.
When all completed he will have as large
aud ell equipped furniture store as can be
found in many places much larger than this
| Owing to lack OF power caused by the
present water famine in Mon peier some
Inconvenience and delay in the publication
OF the WATERMAN has resulted. Marsh
| uelu lOCdlS 4u1IbIeu Win sOne OUTFITS Jntre'
fore copy OF Thursdays DAILY JOURNAL
which contained the omitted list was mail.
oil gratis to regular subscribers to the
weekly.
The New England Telephone Company
has just placed long.distance TRANSMITTED
in the local station at Mark Mears' store
which will greatly improve the service. A
more marked improvement and one that
would be as greatly appreciated by the pat
rons would be the introduction OF "a booth
Other places OF no more Importance have
these conveniences. Why should not this
place?
j. M. Batchelder, proprietor OF our water
supply spent Thursday in town negotiating
for new springs. He now has in mind taking
up about 200 rods of pipe and abandoning
what is known as the Newton spring, ant
in place of 1t bring water from the spring
on Herbert Eddy's land, if satisfactory
terms can be made for the surplus waite
that is to be had there. During the dryes
season thus far there has waste water rur
from this spring at the rate of six gallons
per minute
The "Stars" were defeated by score O.
eight to fourteen in their game against nine
professionals and the umpire at III ard wicl
last Saturday, and the wonder is at they
were able against such odds, to make al
good showing as they did. The team wa,
greatly handicapped by having to substi
tute Woodbury. man in place OF @. j
Buxton who has played such good ball il
center field this summer. In the absence o
Smith, Lance of Cabot was engaged u
catch. Davis made his record of the season
by striking out eleven men and not giving
base on balls. This probably was the las
game Of the season, unless game is playet
with the second nine who seem very
anxious to get at the "Stars."
SOdOm.
The school in Sodom numbers twenty
five pupils.
Bertha Sanders was married to Wrigh
Conner last Thursday.
Jessie Wood, who has been very i'll will
cholera morbus, is better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thaddeus Taylor have
, new boy weighing eight and one hal
pounds.
James Martin, aged seventy years, fel
down stairs last Saturday morning an,
; broke his neck. He was the father OF Will
bur and William Martin OF Sodom, and ha
reared a large family in the town of Calais
East Calais.
Miss George Wilson has retuEned to Mrs
| DWinell's lOr the coming season.