The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-06
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Frank Griggs OF Burlington spent Sunday
| at home
Van Henderson is soon to finish work AS
porter at the hospital.
A son was born last week to MIR. and
Mrs. II. s. Woodward.
Miss Josie e. Grifil n OF Mpretown is the
guest of Mrs. # Tracy.
DIR. ID, ID. Grout spent few days this
week fishing at Shelburne pond.
DR.. Il. g. Hooker is steadily recovering
from his recent severe illness.
The graduating exercises of the High
school will be held Friday evening.
The Mothers Club was entert ined Thurs
day by Mrs. Myrtle Huntley Palmer.
Mrs. d. w Cooley is in Lynn. Mass 4,
with her husband She will remain for the
summer.
MIR. and Mrs. Sherwin Flint OF Burling.
ton were guests OF P. A Hill for few day 8
this wetk.
Frank Elliott OF Burlington spent Sunday
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs W. X. FL
lott.
Farnsworth Tioe is soon to take posti
at the Summit house on Mount Washington
for the summer.
The stills for the new canning factory are
now in position and work on the building
will be rapidly pushed until completed.
MIS-. ". r. ClouBh IL 10 move 10 tne zen
ter, where she has purchased home. Her
residence in the village will be sold.
II you are at all interested In tailor made
suts 1t will be worth your while to read
Homer Fitts' advertisement in this issue.
MIR. and Mrs. d. f. Fsiley of Fsiley,
Massachusetts, were visitors in town this
week, as was Hon. Il. w McGettrick OF St.
Adams.
A carload OF potatoes loaded here this
week for the Boston markets only brought
twenty five cents per 0ushel, delivered at
the car
Miss Clara Parker, stenographer at the
hospital left Friday Tor a Two weeks vaca-
ton which she will spend a. her home in
Essex Junction
Rev. l. X Whitman delivered an excel
lent sermon Sunday morning before the
graduating class of the High school. A
large audience was present.
The abandoned team found by Mr..
o Brien last Sunday has been claimed by b
party in Rchford. Sheriff Graves started
north with the team Friday morning.
Mrs.~ bbott and little son, who for two
weeks have been guests of Mrs. Hutchinson
at the hospital, left Friday Tor Boston be.
fore returning to their home in New York.
The Consolidated Lighting Company has
the poles for the street lights in position
and will begin next week to hang the wire.
1t is now expected the lights will be in run
ming order within three weeks.
Fred Luce has moved to the Murray farm
which he recently purchased and is to re-
main there during the summer. In the
meantime extensive repairs are being made
upon his residence in this village.
The musical extravaganza under the aus
picss of the Ladies' Auxiliary OF the Y. M.
Q. A. and knights of Pythias at Banch-
ards opera house, Montpelier, this We'd
nesday and Thursday evenings, will be the
event Of the season. 1t is under the man.
agement OF George n. Wilder and includes
the best OF talent. Over 100 persons take
part.
The first of the series Of lectures to be
given in the Vermonters' course was an in
teresting illustrated lecture on che subject
of Fish and Game" by Hon. j. W. Tit
comb of st. Johnsbury, given at the opera
house Friday evening to good sized and
course will be given next Thursday even
ing by Rev. G. o. Judkins OF Montpelier.
Owing to other pressing engagements Hon.
ID. j. Foster OF Burlington will not be able
to take part in the course.
The community was shocked yesterday
morning with the intelligence that j. Gill
man Moody had passed away. Although
he had been in poor health for some time
nothing serious was apprehended until
about week ago when he suffered a
shock He seemed to be recovering and
his friends were encouraged to hope that 1t
might be permanent, but second shock
came Monday night and at three o'clock
yesterday morning he passed away. Mr..
Moody was in his tifty.seventh year. Fu-
neral arrangements will be announced lat.
or.
The Philomathian club observed red let
ter day Friday afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. Ayers and Mrs. Fife. AS 1t was the
last meeting OF the club this season the an
nual election of officers for the ensuing
| year was held. The officers as elected are
President, Mrs. George Randall; vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Q. ID. Robinson; secretary, Mrs.
| William Clark; treasurer, Mrs. Helen Son.
erville; critic, Mrs. George Morse; journal
list, Mrs. Alice Cooley. After the election
| the members were served with light re-
| freshments. The meetings OF the club will
be resumed in October.
o. E. Scott has arranged the show win
| dow OF his jewelry store in novel and ar.
| tistic manner. 1t has been done with the
use Of rocks and moss to represent a typical
| Vermont woodland scene. A waterfall
dash-s over rocky cliff into little brook
| with pebbled bottom and then along to a
basin in which several fish sport as natural
as life. The arrangement by which the
| water supplies the fall is the invention OF
Mr. Scott and is as simple as it is unique
| A double pump operated by what Is prob
ably the smallest motor ever constructed in
the world-both the handiwork OF Mr.
Scott-conveys the overflow Of water in the
basin TO the top of the fall over and over in.
definitely. The case of the motor is but lit
tie larger in diameter than a silver dollar
and is made from the case OF Spauldine
cyclometer. The stream which supplies the
power for operating this tiny motor is but
1882 Of an inch in diameter and besides
doing the work named also provides sufi
cent power for operating the latter used by
Mr.. Scott in his business of jeweler.
| S0QOm.
Fred Weeks is very low.
Maggie Hall Is visiting in Topsham.
l.. Mrs. Frank Bacon has been i'll for soInt
time. Her daughter. Mrs. Rich of North
fl I'D, Las been with her.