The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-10
DEFERRED TOWN
CORRESPONDENCE.
MARSHFIELD.
Dora Wooster is i'll

frankie Kent is visiting at r. r.
Ide's,
Leslie Newton was at home for the
Thanksgiving vacation,
II. E. Tanner has moved to the
farm he recently purchased of Horace
Burnham.
Several additional places have been
wired for electric lights during the
past week.
G. E shepard has been re-appointed
town liquor agent by County Com
missioner L. B. Brooks.
e. w. McWain, who has been visit
ing at A. T. Davis for few days,
returned to his home in Rochester,
Monday.
M. G. Ide has finished work in the
livery stable of c. f. Bliss and AL
fred Kidder is filling the place vacat-
ed by him.
Nellie Williams of Cabot, teacher
in the primary department of the vii
lage school, is boarding this term at
S. Swerdfeger's.
A. W. Slocum, whose business head
quarters are in Worcester, Mass, was
in town to spend Thanksgiving
with his family.
The opening of the higher depart
ment of the village school was post
poned until Wednesday morning on ac-
count of the illness of Principal j. II.
Riley.
Rev J. 0. Sherburne, presiding elder
of the ST. Johnsbury district of the
Vermont Conference, spoke at the
Methodist house of worship on Sun
day evening.
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Monday, on business for the Mollys
Falls Electric Light and Power Com
pany, for which he is business mana
ger and secretary.
With the hope of improvement to
health Miss Bertha Swerdfeger will
next week accompany her aunt, Mrs.
H. @. Swerdfeger, to Lake Helen, Fla,
to spend the winter.
The district schools throughout the
town commenced the winter session
of school Monday morning. There
are few changes in the corps of
teachers, but we are unable to give
them.
To G. A. Kelley is due the Gre dit
of the inspiration to start Thanks
giving Offering for the benefit of
Everett Carpenter, which, with one .ex-
ception, has met with generous re-
spouse from all who have had oppor-
tunity to aid, until the fund now
amounts to over $50.
Mrs. Hannah Davis Edison passed
away very suddenly at the home of
her son, Ira III. Edison, on Wednesday,
November 10. Funeral services were
held at the house on the following
Saturday, Rev. l.. F. Fortney of
Plainfield officiating Interment was
in the village cemetery beside the re-
mains of her late husband.
Uncle Abiel Davis passed away on
Tuesday morning of last week. The
end came about four O'Clock in the
morning and was very sudden. AL
though he had been in feeble health
all the fall it was thought he might
linger for some time. Funeral services
were held in the Universalist church
on Wednesday, Rev. G.. w. Manning
officiating The remains were in
tered beside the body of his late wife
in the village cemetery.
Nine cases were set for hearing at
E. w. Gilmans store on Monday
Counts were all for unsettled store
accounts due Mr.. Gilman. There are
also three similar cases set for hear
ing December 10, and we understand
there are more to follow. Some of
the cases to be heard on Monday were
postponed, some were settled and
Judgment in default given on others,
and one case tried. f. j. Marshall of
Montpelier was attorney for Mr., Gill
man.
The depravity and low estate to
which one will fall to appease the
appetite for liquor was strikingly
brought out on Saturday evening
when the blankets in the team of Ivan
Carpenter, in which he had wrapped a
pint flask of whiskey and a dozeI
oranges to take home for use in the
sick room of his brother Evervett,
were undone and the whiskey stoler
by some unknown person. We hope
that the conscience, if spark of any
such thing still clings to person who
would stoop SO low, will so trouble
them that they may find no peace 0.
mind or rest of body until restoration
of fourfold is made and forgiveness
sought. Unless thus moved to act, {
coat Of tar and feathers administered
in the presence of the whole com
munty would be far too mild a pun
ishment for him