The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-01-17
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The little four-year-old daughter OF o. j.
Gale died Monday morning of tuberculosis.
Late news from granite-cutter John
Mari at Denver, Col, was that he is well
pleased there.
Lawyer John w. Gregory OF watsfed
| was at his old home here last week, with
health improved.
1t is estimated that some $4,000 were ow-
| ing our farmers by Batchelder q Co., OF
Boston at the time of their failure.
Clarence Tarball has fine position with
the U. Is, a. q. railroad as a mechanical en-
gineer with headquarters now at Hannibal.
| Mo.
Fremont 9. Little will not go to Colorado
before another fall. lie has had the luck
| to take sixteen foxes this season whose
| pelts were worth $48.
Landlord Brown OF the Monument House
will soon take possession Of the Red Lion
| Inn at West Randolph 1t is not known
who will be his successor here.
Daily evening services, with the excep-
| ton OF Saturday, will be held at the Meth
odist chu ch this week. cordial welcome
will be given to all.
Our creamery patrons, payment for whose
| milk had been in arrears, as the result of
the failure of Batchelder q Co. of Boston,
are to get TO ty per cent of their claims.
William Fl. Martin, son OF the late L.
Moseley Martin, now in Indiana, has buried
and died OF disease contracted there.
John Byrnes will get the insurance, $780,
on the house burned on his old farm last
week, that he sold John Ance. Mr.. Ance
may yet rebuild.
An old gentleman named David iGreene
recently died here in the family Of Alvah
j. Little, whore he had been living. His
body was taken to some town north for
burial.
The furniture for the new Gulf House
has arrived and is being set up. The h use
| will be open to the public ere long, with
! Elgin j. Gale as proprietor, man of expe-
| rience.
Fred winslow's father has been to DR..
E. b. watson, with a generous affection at
the corner of au eye. He had previously
consulted an out of town physician, who
had, as was hoped, removed it.
Mrs. G. Elizabeth Martin Tarbell is stay
ing with her brother, Principal Daniel r.
Martin OF Pullman, ILL.,, where she will re.
main for the present Late news is that
she is a victim of the grip.
Rev. Carleton Hezen, who supplied the
Congregational pulpit last Sunday, will re.
main here through this week and preach
again next Sunday with reference to a call
here If everything is mutually satisfactory.
George L. Williams has been suffering
the depredations of a hen hawk this win
ter He succeeded in killing it a day or
two ago. 1t measured three and one-half
feet from tip to tip OF his wings.
Mrs. Clinton N. Field, now OF Barre, who
is soon to go to New York to live, will leave
her little girl with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. w. Brush. Later her sister, Miss
Mamie Brush, will accompany the child to
New York.
, A delegation of thirty members of our
l grange attended the installation of officels
at washington last Friday evening. Past
Master Frank Martin Of our grange was the
installing officer and was assisted by Miss
Mile Denny. After the installation pro-
gram most excellent supper was served.
In addition to the newly elected officers
OF the Grand Army post, given last week
are .. A. Blanchard, adjutant; George w,
Slavery, quarrermaster; Jason johnson,
Cram, officer of the day; Charles G. Staples
guard; f. Seaver, sergeant major; and
Frank Gross, quarter master sergeant
= Mr. Hawley, the manager OF our cream
cry, recently received letter from broth.
or IN Massachusetts who was wanting tc
visit him, asking him about the running OF
: the trains here. few days later tee
gram came announcing his death. He had
Just stepped off a train of cars, and was
" struck by passing train.
The last entertainment in our winters
It course will be given Saturday evening, Jan.
uary q, by the Stephenson Ladies' Quar-.
n tette Of Cincinnati, assisted by Addie Chase
Smith, talented recter. These ladies are
10 not singers but play the piano. violin, VIC.
% loncello and viola. A fine concert is looked
for.
o western man who went from here years
ago. and OF whom this, his native town has
reason to be proud, finds time to visit here
:. but seldom. Now he writes, wishing that
h in some wav arrangements might be made
with old Williamstownians like himself to
If come back here together for a grand re-
Nc
summer season would be the time for that
a VIII not this suggested movement meet
T. WIN hearty and general seconding all
- around?
II Albert W. Morrill, of East Haverhill. N
# H., former employe OF G. A. Ainsworlh
anu well and favorably known about
waterbury and Barre, was visiting here
y last week. Two years ago last November
o while out one night coon hunting, he fell
@ from tree to the ground, a distance OF
. thirty feet. Though not bone was broken,
Q the shock was 80 great that he has never
Z yet FULLY recovered. He is in Barre repre-
sentlng the aluminium goods OF an Illinois
firm, and will be in Washington county for
some time If prospered.
q The death of Mrs. Frank G. York on Fri
DAY morning last at the age OF thirty nine
years, was great surprise to every one
> mere She had not been well for a few
/ weeks but did not give up and call physi-
clan till the Monday before. While The
8 main trouble had seemed to be in connec.
i ton with the stomach, in the way OF indi-
gestion, and finally inflammation the heart,
from which she had suffered in wears mast
4 failed, unexpectedly. She left a husband
a and five children. She was born in Mil.
i waukee. Wis. her father dying when she
was about eight years of age. She was
- Then taken into family OF Vermonters in
Y wisconsin, who went from Bolton, to which
y place. they returned to live. She was a
: genial, kind-hearted woman and kind
: neighbor.
I West Corinth.
: Z. r. Blake has finished his work for the
present at Lyman Porter's.
Mrs. Susie Dickinson has been stopping
= at j. L. Virgins the past few weeks.
/, Mrs. Bessie Cunningham's little daughter
a Anna 10 Just recovering from the chicken
: pox.
) Fay Blake from Woo isville, N. H., was