The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-11-27
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His health was very poor, from
bronchial and nervous trouble. He
finally began osteopathic treatment,
with Dr. Lewis d. Martin, and later
went to work at the livery stable of
j. X. Lvnde. His health has greatly
improved and he is said to be heavier
in weight than ever before.
What if winter has now set in, in
good earnest, with springs as low as
they are at present here?
Our long time granite cutter Tom
ME Matson, who removed to Concord,
n. H., not very long ago, has recent
lv made a flying visit here. But he
thinks he will not return to work
here.
Our Universalist ladies will have
their usual sale in connection with
their annual chicken pie supper on
December II, and they find themselves
busy enough in the work necessary
for it,
Our ladies' reading club will take
up Robert Burns, at their meeting
next week.
Henry Wood has lately taken the
place of Herbert Farnham, as driver
of j. K. Lyndes team, the latter hav-
ing been laid up from a cut on his
foot with an axe.
Thomas Sheridan will soon move
from the place he has so long lived on
to the Barnett S. Goodrich place, that
Have you seen that extraordinary
showing of silk waists at Homer
Fits?
1t is feared that Mrs. Mabel Carnes
Benevides may lose the sight of one
of her eyes.
his sister, Sabra Sheridan, living in
Rutland, has lately bought.
Our creamery patrons got twenty
one and half cents per pound for
butter fat, i'll October.
Lewis NJ. Seaver has Just had a
granite monument that pleases him
much put up on his lot III our village
cemetery. 1t was made here, by Frs
kline Rowell.
Miss Sadie Mcconnell of Chelsea,
will teach in the George w. Lydne
district
Our school board is wanting four
more teachers for the town schools
next season. They are a scarce arti-
Gle.
Elgin j. Gale has moved his family
from the Gulf Spring house to South
Royalton.
Mrs. Aurora Howe Burnham is
said to be in quite poor health, in
Montpelier
Harley Stockwell, brother in-law
of Bert Robinson, has sold the Mehet-
able Stebbins place i'll our village to
Joseph Gregory.
Theron and Oracle Williams are to
be pupils in the Spaulding High
school. Barre, the coming term.
Mr. and Mrs. Ophir S. Martin last
week visited the family of Luther
Ramsdell, now in Illinois, on their
way home.
1t was said on Monday that the bad
spell that befell Mrs. AFRO E. Mich
OILS last Friday may not prove to be
second shock.
George L. Williams is one of the
thrifty kind of men, and this year is
getting something ont of the more
than sixty bushels of butternuts that
he gathered in the fall. Already he
has sold eighty pounds of butternut
meats that he gets forty cents pound
for. He gets three to four pounds
out of bushel of the nuts.
A former merchant, in one of our
booming Vermont towns, has just
told us that nine-tenths of the mer-
chants there were not making
money, but simply living from hand
to mouth, and not all were able to do
even that This ought to help our
home farmers to be more cOntented
with what they get,
TT was fitting that friends of our es-
Unable townswoman, Mrs. A. Smith
Martin, should last Thursday observe
at her old home, her eightieth birth
day. For years past, Mrs Martin has
been laid aside, by age and its in
firmities, from much of her old time
activity in the Methodist church, and