The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-15
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"Chic" undermuslins are superior to all
other makes, and you will find them at He
mer Fits, Barre VT
Mrs. FLA. Owen and daughter OF Burling-
ton, daughter OF the late Bingham Seaver,
is visiting in town. For years she has been
DEVOTED to the art of painting and a teacher
of it, At present she comes to Montpelier
as a teacher.
Norman G. Davis had quite poor week
last week, having been a good deal troubled
for breath and confined to the bed more or
less of the time. His physician, DIR. Whit
| aker of Barre, was out to see him several
| times.
Miss Susie NJ. Benedict's success as
teacher makes good demand for her SER
vices here, but her health forbids her to re-
| turn to the work at present.
] Miss Amy Walbridge will enter the Ran
dolph Normal school the coming term.
Mrs Davis, who has been very i'll at the
home of David Martin, since the recent birth
OF child, died last Sunday.
| Mrs. Will Lougee and little daughter are
at her old home in Greensboro for two
weeks.
Mrs. DR.. Jason G. Briggs OF Somervile,
Mass with some or all of her children, is to
| come here this week for vacation.
| William u. Pratt, the two Robinson
brothers, James 8. Hopkins, Van McAllis-
ter and Wallace Hunter went on Monday to
Camp Martin, Milton, for few days. where
| they are sure OF fine fishing.
Miss Gertie Martin, who 5as been in the
| family of Lewis M. Seaver in Westfield, N
j., for weeks past, returned with the fami-
| ly last week and remains in it to care for
| Mrs Seaver.
Lewis NJ Seaver is getting settled on the
| farm here, formerly owned by his father,
the late Ebenezer Seaver, and on which he
| himself was born and lived until he was
~ lfD fat q N n
died early in the sixties, he went to Illinois
and lived for time with his brother Ira,
| who had charge Of a railway station. Be-
fore he himself was twenty-one years OF age
he was in charge of a similar station Liv-
| ing in Iowa for time, he later came east,
| to Chicago, where for some wears he was
employed as bookkeeper. He afterwards
| took up the advertising business in Chica-
go and then in New York city, where he
has pursued it till of late, and in which he
is supposed to have been successful. For
| the present his time will be divided be-
| tween his home here and New York city,
where he still has business. On his farm
| he has fourteen horses, some OF which are
of fine stock. His wife is yet very feeble in
| health, but hopes are entertained of her inn
| provement here.
Frank Cross continues very poorly and it
| would seem he can hardly hold out long,
| unless there is a change soon. His trouble
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and it is extending to his body.
Mrs. Fred A. Jackson is reported as no
| better in respect to her mental condition.
Road Commissioner o. A. Blanchard ID
| doing q fine job on the road passing the
house of Deacon Edwin Q. Smith, and q
| section OF the main thoroughfare to East
Brookfield. 1t is said he may raise the
road-bed some three feet, probably, from
the hill near the county road to the hill
south of Mr.. Smiths house.
A business friend, familiar with the ways
| of Chicago and New York, tells us there is
| this difference between things in the two
cities, as regards the chances for the success
| of men starting in business. In Chicago il
| is asked, HAS he push and is he reliable in
word?" while in New York it is HAS he
means, and is he Knickerbocker or Ply
mouth Rock?"
DR.. w. ]. Tindall was called to the Mary
| Fletcher Hospital in Burlington last Fri
day, to see patient he had taken there
from here. He reports fsvorably of the
case.
Both Republican and Democratic eau
cufes will be held in the town hall building
here, at 1880 Wednesday evening of this
week. AS to the senatorial question among
| Republicans here, it would be a wise man
who could tell the relative proportions Of
Grout and Dillingham; men.
Mrs. Mary Simons Snow, now of Mont
pelier, and her niece, Mrs. Nellie Snow
| Cushman of Brockton, Mass, daughter OF
Henry j. Snow, were visiting relatives here
last week.
Mrs. Anna Benedict Franklin and fam
lily have been staying at Berlin pond for 8
few days.
Mrs. Ella Perrin Wheeler and family Of
Des Moines. Ia, are visiting Wheeler rels
tives in Calais. They will return here later
Miss Ada Sargent will teach the coming
fall in the @. Prentiss Waldo district. Two
daughters OF George II. Adams of South
Barre will teach, one In the Rodney Seavel
district, and the other in the Jacob Flint
district.
Joel A. Bass and sister, Miss Julia Bass
returned to Massachusetts last Saturday
Mr.. Bass will go to New York where he hsi
professional engagement with the compa
ny called 1.-THE Poor Relation Company,
that being the name Of the play given by
the company.
Two Of our farmers have just received {
carload OF sawdust from out of town to HI
used for bedding. 1t Is estimated that Il
costs them here about one cent per bushel
This is straw that points to the change
between the present and the past, wher
there was plenty OF straw raised here fo
such purposes.
Miss Lizzie A. Work had delightful
outing at Camp Martin, Milton. from
which she returned last week. One day
while out ON the lake fishing with two othel
ladies and a gentleman, one Of them tool
a thirteen pound pickerel that measured
thirty-eight inches in length.
James Gregory has sold his steam engine
in his machine shop, to Gene Call, and will
put in a gasoline engine he has just ordered
from the west.
One of our smaller farmers tells us thai
he never knew 1t 80 difficult here to ge
help in haying as 1t has been this year. Al
though over sixty years old, he did his hay
ing alone.
The anecdote Of one of our former worthy
townsmen has come to us. As much as any
man we know OF we believe he endeavort
to square his daily life by the Bible, and il
that respect he would make good charac
ter for one OF Charles M. Sheldon's books
The time came in the life of our friend wher
he felt he had a call to go as a missionary t.
foreign parts and under circumstances tina
would require that he should leave his IA
mily behind for time and he was not disc
bedient unto the vision. His family friends
not sharing in his belief that he had beer
thus called, were for the time in great grief
and their countenances were sorely fallen
Nothing seemed to break the SPELL till the
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