The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-01
North MnnfnaIiar.

Twenty-six tickets were sold to parties in
this place for the Wilder concert at Mont
pelier last week the unanimous verdict Of
all being that 1t was musical treat.
Oliver ButterAeld OF Wslpole, N II. is
here assisting his brother, j. W. Butter
field, in the erection OF his new saw-mill.
They have the frame up ready to cover and
expect to be ready to do saving in the
course OF week or two.
Miss Blanche Moorcroft Is In town, the
guest OF her sister, Mrs. W. q. Nye.
Albert I. Gray, after an absence of sew
eral weeks at Laconia, N. H., where he
went for treatment, is home very much i'm
proved in health.
Mrs. Julia HOLSTER was at East Calais
two days OF last week, being called there on
account OF the serious sickness of her father,
Levi Dwinell.
Flora l. Slayton, daughter of our estim-
able neighbors, Mr.. and Mrs. AFRO p, Stay
ton, was married March q to j. A. Symon
of Sault Ste Marie, Mich, the ceremony
taking place at the home of the groom.
Miss Slayton was graduate from Montpel-
Ter Seminary in business course in the
class OF 1896 and short hand class OF 1897.
John A. Symon the groom, is at the head of
the furnishing hardware firm OF Symon 81
Campbell in Sault Ste Marie. The many
friends from this, the brides life lorg
home, extend to the happy couple their
nearly ROOu Wishes
Miss Nellie Conway was in Barre over
Sunday on q visit to Mr.. and Mrs John
Conway, her parents.
Miss Ellen Huntington of Barre was at
Mr.. aud Mrs. Arthur F. Stevens all OF last
week.
School began in our district on Monday
with Miss Ethel Hamilton of Orange as
teacher with every prospect Of large and
very successful term.
Miss Katherine Aldridge of Goddard
Seminary wes the guest of her sister, Rev.
Anna Belle Aldridge, over Sunday.
Mess Alice Fostor of Montpelier is visit
ing friends near her old home.
Heaps of praise are due to the active
workers of our church society, known as
the "Ladies Circle" for their more than
generous financial support towards the
bea1tity ing the interior of our church
They, not content with what they had al
ready done, at the meeting last week voted
to purchase and pay for a new carpet for
the audience room, so as to make the re-
pairing complete in every respect. They
have been very ably seconded In their
work by our pestor who he's entered heart
and hand in the good work.
d. II. Hollister has on exhibition a mag
nificsnt pair of OK horns, measuring be-
tween three and four feet from tip to tip
They were set up by George E. Houston OF
IL
A deer was found on Tuesday on land
owned by o. X. Hollister, near the village
Both hind legs we're broken above the gam.
brel Joints, and the animal he'd undoubtedly
been shot 1t was killed to put it out OF
misery and the State Fish aud Game com.
missioner was notified
Wore ester.
Mics May Brigham of Norwich is the
guest OF Mrs. p. II. Carpenter, her grand
mother.
The Ladies' Aid met last Wednesday a.
ternoon with Mrs. Carrie A Towne.
R. X. Batcheder has vacated his farm
and is living at the Corner.
Mr. and Mrs. H e. Morse OF Montpelier
were at Fl. g. Clogston's on Sunday.
Frank Tewksbury has sold his farm tC
Thomss Utton.
Mrs. Carrie A. Towne and @. NJ. Ladd
went to Williamstown lest Thursday to at
tend the funeral OF j M. Seaver.
Mrs. Sadie Dugar Morse of Lowell, Mass
is in town caring for Mrs. M. P. Wheeler
her mother-in-law.
G. Fl. Putnam and II. B. Hancock have
| been remodeling the interior of their
houses.
Misses Gertrude Leland and Lucie Hutch.
ms OF Montpelier visited at f. F. Tewks-
bury's few days last week.
| Miss Frances Hatch IS teaching in the
primary department at Maple Q jrner and
Miss Rose Atkinson at Shady Rill.
Seldom Wiley died very suddenly of ap
oplexy on Monday fternoon while working
on the roof of his house. He was seventy.
five years of age, Funeral services will be
| held at the Congregational church on Wed.
nesday at one O'Clock,
| Union services we're held at the Congre.
| nj on
| the Methodist church in the evening, Rev
| G. W. Morrow was present aud gave very
| interesting discourse on temperance at both
services which we're we'll attended
Schools commenced on Monday with the
follow teachers: Blanche Granite OF
West Berlin, in the higher grade of the viii
lage school, and Ella Watson OF Woodbury.,
in the lower grade; Mrs. Carrie A. Towne
in the Mo- tn school; Faith Wheeler OF
Woodbury. In the Wheeler dis riot; Carrie
Beal of South Barre in the Minister brock
district; Miss Lawrence of East Peecham
on Hampshire hill, and Ida Martin OF
Montpelier in the Parsons district.
STAFFORD.
L. D. Parker he9 sold his Olough farm to
Heman Brown.
M. j. Robinson has bought OF A. @. XIII.
ling the Wedge hill lot.
ID It NJuluuUy uh3 oOlu MS ItSldtuCo al
South Strafford to James o. Kendall He
has removed the small tenement opposite
the conveyed promises to his Green lot and
will soon remove his large stone buildipg to
the site OF that tenement,
Mr., Carr OF Sharon has rented the Byron
Prescott farm for the year and moved his
family TO 1t. III, L. Durkee from Highgate
carries on the l.. D. Kibing farm OF 225
acres at the halves.
Roy Hatch, who went TO Boston TO engage
in hospital We rk and study, is quite i'll with
jaundice and Is baing carei for at the home
Of Mrs. Emily Marshall in Roxbury.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Pennock, aged pso.
pie, parents OF Mrs W. r. Scribner, were
riding in the highway beyond South STRAIT
ford, their wagon was oapsized, owing to an
obstruction in the road, and Mrs Pennock
received serious injuries, likely 10 prove
fatal
| Our latest marriages were Frank ], Chase
and Bertha Alger, both Of STAFFORD, kuol
| tied at Hanover N. H.. G. Herbert Dow, 9
| STAFFORD boy now residing in Claremont
N H., and Myrtle X. Wheeler OF Sharon
Rev N. n. Lambert Of Thetford officiating
The wedding presents were choice and in