The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-04


If the Republicans on the east side Of Or.
ange county want to know how some Re
publicans here look and feel after having
had q very bitter sickening dose forced
down their throats, let them come over here
just now while Saturdays convention is
fresh in their minds.
Henry Martin, son OF the late Allen Mar
trouble he has 80 long suffered from. DR..
j. Henry jackson OF Barre wes called
counsel in his case lest Sunday. The situa.
ton is not thought to be hopeless, but very
serious.
There was a good attendance at the post
poned Children's Day exercise3 at the
Universalist church last Sunday morning
An appropriate and bea tiful feature OF the
occasion was the floral adornment of the
audience room OF the church. Barbara
Dream" was given by the CHILDREN in sat
isfactory matter.
DR.. Charles A. Briggs, son OF the late j.
Wright Briggs, and in late years a resident
Of Pasadena, CAL, has son, Charles III
who graduated last month from Cornell
University, N. Y, at the head OF his c'-ss
A lucrative position 1t is said YVES waiting
him in Minneapolis, MINI, upon which he
hf7 to enter the first Of this month.
Mrs. Emiline Whitney Richardson OF
Chicago, who is visiting her brother, Hor-
ece e. White, here, is having a granite
monument built by Henry Nixon to place
on her lot in our village cemetery. Her
son, Arthur " hitney, is an insurance man
in Chicago. with a family OF six children.
Her married daughter, Ella, lives in sub
urb of Chicago.
The concert on Monday evening by Will
ders Orchestral Club, Montpelier, was
greatly enjoyed. We suspect it will be
the opinion Of more than one that nothing
in it's special way has been given in any OF
our entertainment COURSES quite equal to it.
! 1t is no secret here, now, that our public ia
indebted to Mrs. j. X. Lynde for this mu-
steal feast.
Charles Nixon's little girl and one OF FIRE.
mont @. Little's boys are among the latest
cases of scarlet fever here. There are said
| TO be other cases. In some OF the suspect.
ed ones, the symptoms are 80 vague al first
| that it is said to be very difficult to deter.
mine with certainty what may develop
later. We are told that not alone in our
| own place Is this fever an epidemic Just
now, and that it is very important that il
be stamped out il possible before cold
weather comes else it will not likely wear
the mild form 1t now assumes.
Our Grange at its last meeting had good
program: The three inventions that have
most benefited mankind the best method
of keeping books on the farm, and why
necessary; the resolution that the income
OF the farm in proportion to amount in
vested is greater than from other sources
were among the topics. On Saturday even.
ing, June %, the Children's Day exercises
filed the time pleasantly. On Thursday
evening of this week, July 3, will be Mems
Night. To what extent the glorious Fourth
will tell, in one way and another, on the
male members of the Grange on this occa
sion, time will show. But the other side Of
the Grange house will not forget that oul
lock up is in the town hall building, and
whenever did woman fail to shut mar
up il she tried TOP
Waterbury Center.
MI. and Mrs. @. H. Stone, who have beer
visiting their daughter, Mrs. Lottie Law
renee, in Middlesex, returned home Satur
day evening and left again Monday TO
White River Junction, where they will
make short stay and then 60 to New
Hampshire to visit relatives.
Mrs ID. O. Hayes and son, Master Leslie
returned from a months stay at Old Or
chard Beach Tuesday evening.
Mrs. #. E. Robson and daughter, Mis-
Miriam of Salem, Mass, we're in the plac
last Friday, making calls.