The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-01
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Mrs. Hiram Ellis is In quite poor health
at present from asthma.
Miss Edie Brush is visiting relatives in
Cambridge for few weeks.
Thomas Saunders, now of Haverhill,
Mass, is the guest OF AFRO A. Reed,
Dana Wright aud family are visiting in
Tunbrdge, Mrs. Wright's old home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Covell are the happy
parents Of daughter, born last week.
A daughter WIS born last week to Charles
Pasaro, living in Frank j. Martins house.
Lewis M. Seavers family is expected to
| arrive here the last Of the week for q per-
manent stay.
Albert Ii. Norris has been working OF
late on the road for Commissioners o. A.
Blanchard.
Save money on your purchases by going
to the August sale at Homer Fits, Barre,
Mrs. D.. John Morgan, with two chill
dren, OF Stowe are visiting her aunt, Mrs.
Albert r. Martin.
Mrs. Daniel 9. Townsend, who has not
had good health for years, is not as well az
a year ago.
More of our former residents, 1t is ex-
pected will return to their old homes here,
for visits next month.
Ill health prevented Miss Matte Robin
son accompanying Miss Lizzie Work last
week to Milton for an outing
win back his health by out door life and
thinks in some respects he is better,
Our venerable townsmap, Moses Parsons,
now in his eighty'ninth year, is seen occa-
sionally on our streets in fair health.
Mrs. Adna b. Downs has lately had quite
a severe attack OF measles, following the ILL
ness Of her two sons from the same disease
Miss Saida Mckee will go to her home in
Canada this week. This will bring to an
end for the present stay of some years in
our town.
DR.. W. j. Tindall accompanied q patient
to the Mary Fletcher hospital in Burling.
ton on Monday. Burlington Is the DOCTORS
old home.
Mrs. Ethel Benedict, wife of o. d. Bos-
worth, was greatly reduced last week by
hemorrhaRes from the RoomS after the ex-
traction Of teeth.
Erwin II. Martin, wife and little boy 60
this week for an outing at Joe's Pond in
Danville at the cottage and with the family
Of Rev. f. e. Currier.
Mrs. Elisha B. Gale was called from
Waterbury on Monday by the illness of her
mother, Mrs. Hiram Ellis. Her son Davie
Gale is at home from Barre.
Mrs. Eta Perrin Wheeler, youngest
daughter of the late 8. Talcott Perrin, now
resident OF Des Moines Ia, arrived here
last week with three children for visit.
Frank Benedict is putting in his whole
n
Abbott, and is likely to continue at it till
his return to Tufts College about Septem
Der 90
Work is progressing on the bridge ovei
the mill pond A lot OF piles were driver
to a depth OF fourteen to twenty feet or
which to build the abutment on the cas-
side Of the pond.
A party of jolly fishermen are planning tC
90 from here to Milton next week for lake
fishing. With such fishers as Bert N
Robinson and brother to chaperone them
success Is assured.
Methodist church had sale of cake and
ice cream on the parsonage lawn last Sat
urday evening to swell the fund for the
organ lately purchased.
: Preston Cross came hom last week from
the Victoria hospital, Montreal, after an alb
senee of some months. His health is bette
y, and hopes are entertained that he will con
tinue to gain in health.
nd Mrs. Fred Webster, formerly Miss Fannie
Hopkins, now resident Of Adams, N. Y.
of has been visiting here lately. Her husband
who is in the canning business, finds him
self very busy with his work.
-e There is said to be another case of scarle
=, fever here in the family Of Granite Cutie
:" Bennett, in the Kinsman p. Martin district
In no other district have there been 81
IN, many cases. But it appears mainly in
ast light form.
Dennis Csrlin, engineer at the Grearson
K Beckett q Co. granite plant, met with al
Ar accident at grindstone on Monday fore
noon that cost him the end of thumb
of Foreman Will Kibbee, at the same place
ed met with quite little accident to q ham
that forenoon.
wv Miss Mary A. Ainsworth returned las
he Thursday from a pleasant week at tn
Summit House, Mt. Mansfield, and in com
20 Mo will sail next week for sojourn G
100 some months in Europe, Asia and Africa.
on "Poor hay weather" has been the cry thi
IL season here, but he farmers have forge
along at the expense sometimes OF hay get
=, ting wet. The crop, as whole, will not b
IN q very heavy one which may mean highe
y. prices for hay later on.
Al The statement given us sometime ago, or
what would seem unmistakable authority
'r, that the beautiful residence OF our oil
raj townsmsn, the late Judge Francis Clark G
IN. Waukegsn, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire
lgs tinguished before the house was consumed
ire the injury to the building having been q
great by water as by fire.
Ill. Our old townsman Henry A. Ainswortt
m, and wife, and niece, Miss Mary Waterman
no no are at his cottage on the eastern shore Q
three summers he has been there he think
ev there have been hardly dozen days tina
nd the mercury has gone above 800.
a .n1 Photographer George r. Bosworth too
Q" some new views on Monday last for Mis-
Bertha Payne OF Minneapolis. One was th
Universalist church In which her fathe
used to preach, another was OF the Gene +
ON Bass house where her mother lived year
es, ago. when Mr.. Bass was her guardian, as o.
It's, orphan.
he While there has been some questionin
nd about the matter of our selectmen borrow
old ing money to build the new school house II
the quarry district, owing to possibly som
technical fault in the warning for lat
town meeting, the chairman Of our schoo
board believes when the case Is passed NJ
on by good legal authority there will be n
ner trouble about the matter, and that the
bids will be wanted for building It,
old Our place has failed thus far to get all tn
granite business 1t has wanted in the pas
the despite some advantages we think our vi
lage offers, and 80 jump at anything ths
ph holds out hope OF more OF 1t. Ii now tn
AL Bolton FAILS electric company can DC per
susded to give us electric power for shop
90. here it may give us start in the right d