The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-02-26
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able for his living long.
Mrs. Dennison Hopkins, now in her
eighty fourth year, has been with her
niece, Mrs. Friend Whitcomb of Barre,
the past eight months. She has lost
her hearing and communication with
her has to be had in writing.
Conductor Frank w. Flint,
whose home is now in Windsor, is
staying at present at Washington, d.
@. He was not very long ago the re-
cipient of writing desk from ex-
Congressman Grout, which has been
used in the past by the General.
Mrs. Marion Bruce Kathan was taken
to the Mary Fletcher hospital, Bur-
lington, last Monday.
Will II. Martin, oldest son of the
late L. Mosely Martin, is living in Nc
Coysburg, Jasper county, Ind.
AS usual the ladies of the Method
| list church will serve dinner at their
vestry, March meeting day, to which
| everybody is invited We know not
| where else one will get so good a
dinner for the small sum of ten cents
| Following the dinner there will be
the annual meeting for the election of
officers of the Ladies Aid society. A
full attendance is desired.
A preparatory lecture will be held
in the vestry of the Congregational
church next Friday afternoon, i'll an
| ticipation of the union service to be
held at the church next Sunday morn
ing.
We have just had the pleasure of the
perusal of letter from John K. Stone
to his father, living on the old Ariel
Crane farm in the western part of
town. Young Stone is in United
States hospital service in the Philip
pines, moving about the islands as cir
cumstances demand. He writes of
beginning to build stockade of
bamboo around the camp as protec-
tion against bolo-men not that they
could not cut it down, but the first
stroke would give the alarm, since
striking a stick of bamboo makes
almost as much noise as beating a
drum. But this does not do away
with the need of sentinels inside the
stockade Mr.. Stone writes of assist
ing in taking three prisoners one day
and capturing boat forty feet long
by five feet i'll width, that it was said
by the natives it would take six men
six months to build 1t was well
shaped and of fine Workmanship. We
wish we had the space for Mr.. Stone S
interesting account of getting this
boat, capable of carrying sixty per.
sons. 1t was said that certain insur.
rection officers were planning to leave
the island in that boat Another
smaller boat was taken by Mr.. Stones
party. Mr.. Stone thinks that section
beats the world for rain. He hopes
soon, now, to be through with hi;
| xunrk tbara on6 ratur, to Arnarica
The Farmers Meetings under the au
spices of the State Board of Agricul
ture, at our town hall last Thursday
proved fine success. The day wa!
beautiful and favorable for good at
tendance, day and evening. The sub
jects for consideration as per program
were corn, by George Aitken, of Wood
: stock farm barns, Hon. Ernest Hitch
cock, Pittsford dairy type, JOIN
! Gould, Ohio; tuberculosis, @. j. Bell
, Walden; the man with the hoe, George
Aitken, Woodstock the grass crop
d. H. Morse, Randolph and an ad
, dress by Mr.. Gould of Ohio in the
evening. We think our farmers con
sidered these meetings among the bes
they have had here. They seem tt
be well worth the cost.
Lewis.M. Seaver makes flying bust
ness trip to New York city this week
The warming for our March meet
: ing would indicate that school matters
including the question of higf
, school-are to have prominent place
in the meeting. The matter will alsC
come up of exempting from taxation
, for ten years, possible building in the
quarry district, to be erected if at all
| bv tho ordar Of Mo6arp Wno6roap
Other matters are the usual ones a.
such meetings.
Jerry Hutchinson is said to have
rented his farm to John Rice of North
field, whose wife is to be our new
milliner, succeeding Mrs. j. W. Flint
The Universalist society here is hav
ing Lenten preaching services at thu
church ON successive Friday evenings
Rev. J. Edward Wright of Montpelier
, was here last Friday evening. Rev
, Effie X. NJ. Jones will be here on Friday
evening of this week. On the follow
ing three Friday evenings the Univer
salist pastors of Washington, Eas
Montpelier and Lyndonville, will b'
here in the order written above.
At the "sock social at the tow
hall, given on this Wednesday even
ing, by the LADIES OF tne OOnBreBa
tional society the admission for eacl
J person will be twice the number o.
pennies indicated by the size of the
sock each wears. This will not apply
to the sockless eX-Oonrgessman o.
Kansas and his ilk, should he or they
seek for admission.
Irving Wilfore is away on busins'
trip for the Italian granite firm OF
Fontana Brothers. He visits Boston
New York, Buffalo and may extend
his trip to the far west.
Miss Rhoda Brown, for months il
the family employ of j. X. Lynde il
visiting sisters in Oneonta, N. Y.
Our new Monument House landlord
, is to be Mr.. Harrington of Sharon,
who has been keeping the hotel il
Royalton of late.
} Mrs. Rev. F. f. Currier son and
daughter are visiting in Lunenburgh.
Stanley W. Slayton of Springfield,
Mass, is visiting his father and broth,
er here, on the old Alfred Carnes
place
| Ono Of our oood friandS who ic a