The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-30
WILLIAMSBURG.


Our milk dealer, Carl W. Seaver,
now has the largest list of customers
he has ever had. We take it as another
indication of the growth of our vii
lage.
The intended, and reported, pur-
chase of the old Tom Saunders place,
III East Brookfield, by Return 5. Da-
Wis & Son, does not yet matcrialiZe.
Harley Averill of Barre was III town
last week wanting to purchase a car
load of cider apples. George 7. Colby
was loading car of the same here
last week.
Friends of Joel \. Bass (Alden Bass
had been expecting him TO appear III
q play in Barre last Saturday evening,
but news came earlier that for some
cause unknown to them he had left
the company he had been with this
season.
\ recent call at the old Elliott gran
lite plant, lately bought by an Italian
firm, known as the Williamstown
Monument company, showed a highly
encouraging state of things there.
This company, made up Of four ltal-
ians, is putting III an air compressor
and pneumatic tools new machinery
to use III connection with their der
rick, and otherwise improving their
plant for what we hope will prove a
great success. 1t was pleasant to hear
one of the firm say he liked Williams
town better as he stayed on here, and
alluded to the healthfulness of the
place, saying he gained quite num-
L., &c Il. I'll, L.,
here He also added that he believed
other firms would be induced TO come
here if sheds could be had. thought
well worth the consideration of our
citizens.
A service preparatory for the com
muniOn service at the Congregational
church next Sunday morning will be
held III the veStry of the church next
Saturday afternoon.
Miss Maggie Hibbard will again be
i'll the family of Mrs. J. Munroe Sea-
yer the coming winter.
The illness of Mrs. Enos +. Walker
i'll months past prevented Miss Alice
Walker from doing her dreSSmaking
work at home and in other families.
But now she has resumed this work,
her mother having somewhat recOv-
cred her health.
1t surely will not tempt the regular
readers of The Waterman to lower
their presumably high standard of
living, to relate anything that adds TO
the presumption that electrocution is
painless way of taking life. One of
our new citizens tells us that at one
time his work brought him in vital
connection with a live electric wire
that instantaneOuSly felled him and
he remained unconscious for some tif-
teen minutes, hut the operation was
almost, or wholly, painless.
Our creamery patrons received 20
cents pound for butter fat in Sep
tember.
The Stanley family, on J. B. Brock
ways place, near Mill village, are
sadly afflicted III the death of their
little daughter, some ten years of age,
which occurred last Thursday after
noon. The trouble was said TO be scar
let fever at one time, and the
house was quarantined for it. Later
it was reported as diphtheretic. She
was pupil in Miss Emma Adams
school in the David Gale district and
the teacher speaks very kindly of her
pupil.
Miss Lucy H. Paine of Bethel still
remains here to enlist interest in the
Home Correspondence School of
Springfield, Mass. She has increased
the number of pupils since our last
report and expects more to enroll. 1t
Is good to hear that even among our
older farmers some interest has been
expressed in the agricultural and
commercial law courses of the school
and that may lead them, too, to yet
enroll as students.
Samuel Foster of DuXbury was in
town last week looking after his farm
matters.
Mrs. Manoel Benivides, only daugh-
ter of Alfred Carnes, has Just won
prize from the Union Tea company
for the best ten or twelve recipes for
cooking, in which she was certain of
family scales. Mrs. Benivides has
been sadly afflicted i'll late weeks with
trouble with her eyes, and, failing to
get the needed help, last week began
treatment with n Montpelier physi-
clan.
A Second Reading club, made up of
the younger ladies, has been organized
here, and is now well under way.
Painful reports have been coming of
late of the illness of Mrs. Susie Bene-
dict Erskine in her home in Albany,
n. Y. Bilious fever, rheumatic fever
and gastric fever, or the like, are
mentioned in connection with this
sickness that have greatly reduced her
weight.
Miss Martha, daughter of C. James
Cram, was recently married to Gin
ton Dimham of West Randolph.
DIR. E. B. Watson has lately pur-
chased slabs of Mortified slate to use
for walks about his house.
Archie the little son of Charles C.
Staples, who has been ill so long with
rheumatic trouble affecting the heart,
seems to be in the last stage of his
sickness, as indicated by bloatcd feet,
limbs and body. No pains have been
spared by loving parents to save the
life of the boy.