The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-12-04
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ents here.
Joshua f. Bailey's entire family
was at home on Thanksgiving day.
Mrs. Major d. Flint is thought to
have gained faster physically, in the
last month than at any time since her
first paralytic stroke few years ago,
but mentally she is like n child.
Mrs. AFRO f.. Nichols died last
Thursday evening and was buried
from her late home Sunday afternoon
The interment was in the Barre city
cemetery. She was the third wife of
Mr. Nichols and came here from Mas
sachusetts, her native state, between
twenty and thirty years ago She
was very kind hearted, social, genial
woman and devoted Christian. AS
member of the Congregational church
she was n faithful attendant at its
weekly service, and Sunday school
while health would permit Stricken
a few years ago with paralysis from
which she could get no relief, hers
has since been piitful case of in
vaIidism. and death would seem to be
welcome release to her. In this
sickness she has had the untiring devo-
ton of her husband, her daughter and
sister Although the suffering of
Mr.. Nichols himself has been so great
i'll the last year. that he could almost
welcome DEATH yet he wanted to live
for the sake of his wife, and now life,
with its present terrible illness, seems
to hold out but little to make him
want to tarry longer.
Henry Downs, an osteopathic stu
dent at Kirksville Mo-, is just now a
delegate to Young Mems Christian
Association convention i'll Columbia,
i'll that state.
Two late real estate purchases in
our village might be called bonanzas
if twelve to twenty per cent interest
on the investments i'll the way of
rents would make them such.
Recent inquiry concerning one of
our young men living elsewhere, who
has been paying so or more tuition i'll
a correspondence school, III the study
of drawing, etc. brought out the an
swer that he was well pleased with
what he is getting in the way of in
struction.
Horace n. Farnham's family of East
Montpelier, and DR.. Lewis ID. Mar
tins family of Barre, took Thanksgiv-
ing dinner with Herbert p. Martins
family.
There was good deal of a scare in
George w. Nichols tenement house
in the center of our village one day
last week. Gasoline had been used in
cleaning some clothing, and acct
dentally it took fire. An occupant of
the tenement was quite badly burned,
but fortunately the burning was not
fatal and the house was saved.
Miss Sadie Sheridan, who has had
years of experience as typesetter in
newspaper offices, has lately entered
the employ of the futile Company in
Rutland to operate type-setting ma
chine.
Mrs. DR.. E. B. Watson had as a
Thanksgiving guest her nephew, Per-
cy Ladd, a student in Dartmouth col
lege.
Frank A. Walkers family of Barre,
took Thanksgiving at the home here
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Enos +.
Walker
There is an epidemic of sore eyes
here.
Cornelius Perrin has been i'll of late
and under medical care.
One of our acquaintance, well
known citizen i'll one of our central
Vermont towns, whose ill health took
long ago, tells us that he prefers liv-
ing in Vermont rather than in the for
mer section.
Mrs. Ralph Dirty has sold her place
to stone cutter Gauthier of Barre.
The mercury at a. m. was eight
below zero one morning last week.
1t is feared that Henry j. Lazell's
youngest child has pneumonia.
The outlook for granite work, for
the winter is reported good
Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Hopkins re-
turned last week from Milford Mass,
where they had been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. |. w. Davis.
Clayton Fl. Martin plans to try cleo
trical treatment in Montpelier for his
i'll health.
The annual business meeting of the
Congregational church will be held on
Friday afternoon of this week at their
vestry. A full ATTENDANCE is desired.
We would call attention to the third
entertainment i'll our lecture course,
on Thursday evening of this week, to
be dramatic lecture by Leonard Gar
yer, and also to the temperance ad-
dress on the following evening by
Hon. Volney B. Cushing of Maine
The fourth entertainment in our
course will be week from next Mon
day night a lecture by j. Wight Gid
dings, an eX-lieutenant governor of
Michigan.
Walter Davidson of New Brunswick
began work last Monday as engineer
for the Grearson- Beckett Granite
Company.
The fifty-fif anniversary of the
marriage of Rev. p f. Barnard and
wife occurred on November 8. They
are living in Westminster.
Mrs. AFRO E. Nichols, who was
buried on Sunday, was fifty eight
years of age. She was married TWEEN
ty-siX years ago.
Mr. and Mrs Mike Somaini are Wis
iting this week in New York.
Mrs. Susie Benedict Erskine is Wis
iting her sisters in Burlington.
George Martin of Washington, d.