The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-08
WILLIAMSTOWN.


Road Commissioner and Representa-
tive o. A. Blanchard improved a part of
the legislative recess last week in putting
in a bridge on the road near Charles
Woolcutts house.
Frank Martin. our first selectman, last
week sent water from the brook near.
Frank Boyce's house to Burlington for
examination, because of the fact that Mr..
Boyce's daughter has been having typhoid
fever, and the school children of that dis
trict drink water from the brook, as does
Mr., Boyce's family.
Our Ladies Reading Club is to meet on
alternate Saturdays, that day of the week
having been chosen for meetings to ac-
commodate teachers of our schools who
could not otherwise attend, Last Satur-
day the club met with Mrs DR.. +. Is.
Watson, NictoriaS reign, with quiz on
Dickens works, was the theme of the
occasion. The next meeting will be with
Mrs Geo. WILDER ON Saturday of next
week, the 18th inst, the subject to be
Rome with quiz ON Raphael.
Our old townsman, Charles Crane, now
of Dexter, Iowa, has Just been on sec
ond visit this year to the British provinces,
New Brunswick and Nova SEQ tia one or
both, and presumably on business errands.
Rev. j. n. Perrin and son Porter were
in town last week for brief stay, and
may likely be here again before their re-
turn to Sanbornton, n II.
Mrs Susie Benedict Erskine has left
the hospital in Burlington and gone to
Chatham, N. Y, where her husband is
teaching.
Saida daughter of Frank Boyce, i'll
with typhoid fever, is thought to be doing
well.
Mrs. Barney ID. Flint writes more hope
fully of her daughter Nellie, and the lat
ter thinks she shall gain faster when she
can get to the home of Horace Flint in
Gibbon, Nebraska.
Our ex-townsman, Henry A. Aims
worth, large manufacturer in Mo-
line, ILL.,. is the principal shareholder
in the firm of Williams, White &
Co., which has just received an order
from the United States government
for large machine for which they
have been bidding against several big
Eastern firms 1t is to be used at the
Puget Sound Naval Station, and weighs
lOlOJ uOhoB JULIE tllC StSu ludOilluO
of the kind that this company has
ever made.
The nurse with Mrs Arthur Simons
at Oneonta, n. Y, writes Mrs. ST.
mons friends here that she seems to be
doing fairly well, after her late opera
tion for appendicitis.
Mrs. Emma Burnham second daugh-
ter of the late David Burnham, died
at the home of her sister, Mrs Henry
Rowland, of Randolph, last week,
and her body was brought for burial
in our East Hill cemetery last Satur-
day She was in her seventy first
year. She was well known and re-
spected, in the many years she
lived here, in which time she was
member of the Baptist church while it
existed, and after it's dissolution she
had membership in the Baptist church
in Montpelier for some years Her
final illness was long, and exceedingly
painful at times, and death was mer-
ciful release, and bendiction to her
Rev. Frances A. Kimball attended
the Universalist's State convention
last week. Her friend, Miss Louise
Baker of Boston, returned home on
Friday.
The Unlversalist ladies did well at
their plant sale, last week Tuesday,
Week before last some of our school
teachers improved the opportunity
given them to visit schools elsewhere,
and reports of the visits were heard at
the teachers meeting in our village
school house on Friday evening of
that week. This weekFriday evening
there will be a similar meeting in the
same place and further reports may
be given then.
Mrs. Henry j. Lasell some days ago
was more poorly, at least she suffered
more, but is again somewhat improv-
ed. Her illness is a long, sad one,
the cares of her large family have
worn greatly upon her previous to
her being taken down, some two
months ago.
James II. Walbridge has lately
visited his uncle, Leander Wal
bridge, of Cabot, He visited the
scene of the cloudburst and consequent
washout in Walden. His account of
it reminds us that, however firm the
earth on which Vermonters tread, the
heavens above may unsettle us most
any day.
Charles NJ Erskine is getting W
from a painful illness of few weeks,
in which DR.. Bailey of Graniteville,
treated him.
The sad accident to the arm of Ly.
man Hayward itemized last week, il
haliaupd RI baua ooonrra6 in tbic xuica