The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-29

Remarks were made by Messrs. Lucia
and sundry members of the Post.
Miss Mile Drury, an active member
of the Corps for two years as its
president, was given a mantel clock
by the ladies of the Corps.
At Il recent meeting of the Congre-
gational ladies' aid society Mrs. ID.
II. Strong was chosen president for
the coming year.
Our ladies reading club will meet
next Saturday with Mrs. George E.
WILDER. Keats and Shelley will be the
subject of study.
The body of Mrs. George II. Wat
son, who died at her home in Mont
pelier last week. was brought here
for burial beside that of her late hus-
band in our village cemetery. The
early part of her married life was
lived here in our village. We have
only pleasant remembrances of her.
Carroll B. Slayton, living on the
farm lately sold by Alfred Carnes, is
visiting in st. Adams and North Troy.
Not very long ago we %chronicled
the birth of IA second reading club
here, made up Of young misses. But
some untimely frost nipped it in the
bud and now we have to say Here
lies, " etc.
Clayton II. Martin was able to sit
up long enough on Sunday to have his
bed made.
N. d. House of Waitsfeld, spent
last Sunday with the family of l.. ID.
Carr. Lynn Carr of Barre, a nephew
of l.. d. Carr, is also visiting this
family.
Mr.. and Msr. Arthur b. Carr, left on
Monday for Winchenden and Gardiner,
Mass, on a business trip.
Certain of our friends to whom good
books are meat and drink, were re-
Gently talking of the matter of how
to find out the real merits of books
before sending for them, and reading
them for themselves. These friends
have, in the past, had to make selec-
ton for libraries, ana have known
what it was to be disappointed after
getting the books, because they did
not come up to the representations i'll
book notices they had read. Perhaps
and probably there is no infallible
remedy for this state of things, but
we are dependent i'll some good meas
ure, upon such notices, and we all
want the best if possible. For years
we have had the Literary World, pub-
lished now monthly, by E. II. Hames
q Co., IA Beacon street, Boston,
Mass, and enjoy it very much in the
way of reviews and notices of new
publications. The price is only II
dollar per year, and it is a very large
number of books that one learns of
in the course of a year. Ten cents
will bring any reader a sample copy,
if sent to the address above.
A full house greeted the Hungarian
Gypsy Orchestra last Monday evening.
REGULATIONS were interspersed with
music and applause vas generously
poured out.
A western lumber syndicate, of
which our former townsman, Charles
r.. Ainsworth, is a member, has just
completed a purchase of pine lands
in Louisiana that makes 1870, 900 acres
owned in that state by the said syn
dictate, to say nothing of other south
ern lands in which Mr.. Ainsworth is
interested.
We were pleased a day or two ago,
to heal a man who has had not a few
years experience with the Central
Vermont railroad, and who has al
ways ItIGlOlOlt DtllCNCu tlHlu Jul
railroad would not, in a long while,
be extended to Royalton, say hat it
now seemed to him the present man
agement of the road will be compelled
to extend it, and that not far hence.
1t was good to hear this change of
opinion.
BARRE.
D. rJ-..o D.a $40 80 +lo o1do..
residents of Barre, died on Wednes-
day night, aged elghty-six years.
The most of Mr.. Pratt's life was
many years a Congregational clergy
man. He retired from the active
ministry several years ago. Rev. f.
A. Poole conducted his funeral SER
vices on Friday from his late home
on Elm street and the body was taken
to Mortified for burial.
The presentation of "Zephra'' I'M
der the personal direction of r. w.
Averill of Boston, author of the piece
and owner of the copyright, occupied
the stage at the Barre opera house the
last four evenings of this week,
with a Saturday matinee. 1t was
given under the auspices of the Civic
II euerdblOU VI WOIutl > OluDS III DdIIS
and the financial success attending
the venture was very encouraging.
Miss Katherine Conway, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Conway, of
Jockey Hollow, died on Wednesday
after an illness of eighteen years.
The deceased was thirty-two years
old and eighteen years ago had a Sc
we're illness with typhoid fever which
left her a suffering invalid. Burial
was in the Catholic cemetery on Sat.
urday morning.
Miss Eunice d. Smith of this city
read a paper on my wild garden"
at the annual meeting of the Yer
mont Botanical club held at Burling-
ton, on Friday, January "a.
Clan Gordon of this city has this
week won another prize of $50 offered
by the royal clan for the largest gain
in membership during the past six
months. The local clan has had, a net
increase of fifty-one members and now
has a total membership of 495.
At the annual meeting and i~nstalla-