The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-05-23
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Ernest Ditty is employed by Lynde &
| Cheney at teaming
There were hundred registered guests
at the Gulf House last week.
Henry Poole Is the principal officer in the
Odd Fellows lodge here this year.
Miss Edna, daughter OF Oliver Dicken-
| son, Ia teaching in the edge OF Chelsea.
Our creamery butter for April brought
eighteen and one-half cents per pound.
Preston Cross is expected home from the
Victoria hospital in Montreal this week.
George Carroll came down from st. AL
bans last Friday evening for short visit.
Return 8. Davis and son have lately pur-
chased Laval separator at cost OF $3.50.
Rev. Frances A. Kimball occupied her
pulpit last Sunday after few weeks vaca-
ton.
Last week II. II. Martin sold his three
years old bay colt to Philadelphia man
for $3.50.
Mrs. Lucna Martin Fogg is improving In
health since her return from the Mary
Fletcher hospital.
Miss Sadie W. Sheridan is in Rutland,
employed in setting type by the EUening
Neaos of that city.
Mrs, Fremont G. Little continues very
poorly and the report always is that there
is no hope for her recovery.
Frank Godfrey, past grand in the Odd
Fellows lodge here, was in Burlington last
week attending the grand lodge.
Return s. Davis and son recently sold
seven siX-months'.od pigs that weighed
| 1900 pounds, and brought good price.
Miss Clara Dickerman, an experienced
nurse, is living in Boston, where she has the
care OF lady OF means who has suicidal
| tendencies.
Henry P. Waldo, who has rented the j.
Howard Winchester farm, has been suf-
feriDg the past week with bad hand and
arm from erysipelas.
f. " Hassam of Gaysville is finishing up
his last block work for he season. He ex-
poets to takes up again for another season,
as an abundance OF maple Is offered him.
Mrs. Charles Lawrence, a former resi-
dent, who was buried here last week, died
of grip at the home of daughter in Haver-
hill, N. FL. She was fifty mine years of age.
Miss Emma Martyr Wooster, daughter
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Martyr,
now Of Northield, was in town last week,
in part to look after the family lot in our
village cemetery.
The Congregational parsonage is being
somewhat renovated, preparatory to the
coming of Rev. D. 81. Strong to occupy it,.
1t is hoped he may begin his labors here the
first of June.
Mrs. j. Fred Austin's illness last week
called council of physicians. Both tonsi-
litis and sc .rlet fever were reported at diff
ferent times as ailing her and she now has
nervous prostrat1on.
Misses Annette e. Edison and Matte
Robinson were detained from going to Bur.
lington last week by the illness OF the lat.
ter to consult DR.. Twitchell, oculist and
now hope to go this week.
Frank e. Cross, who has for months been
| troubled with some sort OF sore on q foot
which was once cut out, still suffers in foot
and limb and the trouble threatens to be
more serious II not helped.
Frank W. Ainsworth has lately visite
Iowa, and was at the home of our old towns
man, Oramel e. Abel. Mr.. Abel is seventy.
nine years OF age, but looks ten years youn
ger, Mr.. Ainsworth says.
Rev. f. e. Currier of the Methodist
church preached on exchange at the Con
gregationa church last Sunday morning
and gave his hearers an earnest, practical
sermon that was we'll liked.
j. The first on the new board of the three
executive committee of our coming enter
It tainment course is William Gresrson, who
has, we believe, served en- that board since
r. these courses were begun here.
John Ance, who came here year or two
:, ago and was burned out of house and home
Il on the John Byrnes place, has returned tC
his trade of stone-cutting in the village. HI
!. lives in tenement on the j. Howard Win
chester farm.
q 1t would make the bosom OF the WATCH
MAN swell with honest pride, to hear thu
k praise given 1t, that we heard not many
days ago, by a Vermonter, who grew al
n on it," bnt who has been absent from tn,
a State for some years.
1t was good to see the hope that lit up tn,
~ face last week of a Barre cancer patient a,
: = he left the office OF DIR. e. B. Watson in ou
n village, who Is treating him. The man ha,
!. been long time sufferer from his trouble
a but thinks he is getting help.
. The bridge across the mill pond in NIL
village cannot be used just now on account
Of defective abutment on the east We
, are little slow to adopt the theory of the
x man at work on the bridge, that this abut
ment was put in 5000 years ago.
d The veterans Of the Spanish-Americar
war, of Company Il, living in Barre auC
d Montpelier were at the Gulf House here one
evening last week. They passed through
d here with three four-horse conveyances
and jolly company they were, all show
n ing that it was after rather than Just before
the war.
n Arson Perkins, son-in.law OF the late
Russell Martin, who lately came here hoping
to make his home here, has decided to leave
q for Boston. An only brother, physician
Ia living in Dorchester, Mass, and the per
J. suasions to locate near him were 30 strong
that Mr.. Perkins yielded to them. He is
n said also to have fine position with a lnm
n Der company in Boston.
Liberty Jeffords who has been ill foI
it some time past was kicked by horse las
= week and received quite severe injury
thereby. His only child, Mrs. George q
. Earle OF Barre, was called back to care fol
! him, Mrs. Jeffords being quite feeble. Mr.
= and Mrs. Earle may decide to return here
u now to live, on account Of the advanced age
and infirmities OF her parents.
Walter e. Granger is to be marshal or
= Memorial Day here. The WILLIAMSBURG
! cornet band will furnish the instrumental
music and the singing at the town hall will
Q be under the direction of James II. Wal
t bridge The exercises OF the school child.
It rem will be under the direction of Miss An.
ME Woodland of Randolph. who has the
J, grammar school department in our village
!. school.
!. The town meeting last Saturday after
noon was called to consider the matter oil
4 adding to the school building in the quarry
/, district, as voted at the last March meeting
8 The school board was elected the build.
q ing committee. 1t was desire in the dis.