The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-05-07
WILLIAMSBURG.


The leading business event of last
week here, was the selling out of a
part of his large business by James X.
Lynde to his brother in-law and part
ner III late months, George L. Edison.
Mr. Lynde's physicians have told him
of late that he must give up part of
the load he had been carrying, in a
business way, so he is to transfer the
department store and the flour trade
to Mr.. Edison and keep the hotel, liv.
cry stable, feed store and the coal and
wood trade. 1t is believed that he is
gaining slowly in health by Dr. j. II.
jackson of Barre who comes every
third day to see him.
Post master George L. Edson's long
experience in the Lynde store, not
many months ago, led to j. X. Lynde'
taking him as partner and now that
he is the sole proprietor of the estab.
lishment he will surely put forth all
his resources to maintain the large
trade of the past and add more if pos
sible. 1t is said he may retain much
if not all, of the help Of late employed
in the establishment.
Will j. Young, after all the prepare
tions he has made of late, to 90 tC
Cape Breton Island to engage in bust
ness has changed his plans and viii
remain here. He is to move back t.
J. NJ. Beckett's fine residence, that he
had occupied the last year or more
and his wife's parents will go to the
same house. 1t is said he will entel
the old Lynde store under the new
management, and it is surmised tina
if all is satisfactory all around, h,
will later take a partnership interes
in the business. The success he ha
made in his work here in the las
decade augurs well for the future.
Ed @. House has sold the business
OF his BARRIERS shop to Warren Grear
son, of East Barre, Min law o.
Charles @. Staples Mr.. Grearsol
will take possession of the shop, anC
Mr.. House will now give his who'll
time to the mercantile business. O
Hopkins and House, successors O
Charles M. Seaver. This firm viii
put delivery wagon at work thi
week and for the present Mr. Hop
klns will do the work of soliciting ant
delivering We look for hustiln,
times, such perhaps, as we have neve
had before in this line.
Cornelius Perrin has been NOR
poorly in health of late.
William Hanson is thought to b
gaining.
Prentiss George, for time wit
Charles Dickinson, in the hotel a
Chelsea, is working in the Lynd
store.
Windsor Ditty has rented and NOV
ed to the Charles r. Benedict hous
i'll our village. His widowed mother
Mrs. Ralph Ditty. lives with him an
is improving in health after five year
of illness.
D. Martin Seaver was shipping pc
tatoes from here last week, payin
seventy-five cents per bushel for them
James M, Fowler of East Bethel
has returned to the Cheney paint sho
here to engage in his trade as paint
er.
Mrs. Nathan Hall died suddenly
week before last, at the home of a sol
IN Orange and was buried in tina
town. For some twenty years she ha,
lived here as the third wife of Mr.
Hall. She was sister of Mrs. |
element Little, and one of whom w
have heard only kind word spoken.
Charles G.. Moore, a brother.
OF William Grearson, Just returne,
from New York city, is to run a pneu
matte surface-cutting machine JUS
bought by the Grearson- Beckett Gran
lite company.
At Charles G. Nixon's auction las
week, ten cows brought over $500
Best hay sold for $40 ton at the barn
Jerry NJ Hutchinson will soon be
gin second house on lots bough
from the old Joel Bass, Jr, property
near the village cemetery.
EXtownsman Charles Crane of Dex
ter, Iowa, has been elected by the De
Moines Presbytery as a commission
er to the Presbyterian General assem-
bly, that will meet in New York cit,
May 10. His eastern friends will con
graduate him on this honor, and hope
surely, for a visit from him before h,
returns home.
Since the first report, some day
ago, of the very serious illness of Mrs
Barney d. Flint's only daughter will
scarlet fever in Littleton, Col, tn,
absence of further news has been in
terpreted as hopeful
Miss Rhoda Brown, who has JUS
come from Oneonta, N. Y, to worl
i'll the Monument House, reports hel
sister, Mrs. Arthur Simons, in poo
health.
The increase in the number of poll,
here, as shown by our new list, tn,
total being some 447 in number, il
gratifying as being some thirty 81,