The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-05-14
MILLIAMSTOWN.

julius Montini has taken a position
as book keeper in Barre, after some
months here with the Fontana Broth
ers as book keeper
Lewis NJ Seaver was in New York
city through last week.
There is a pleasant prospect that the
old Calvin AinsWorth residence will
be occupied this season by members
of the Ainsworth family now living
in the west and other relatives.
a daughter was recently born to
granite polisher Frank Page living
in Hal Cheney's house
! Mrs. Henry Wood began work in the
Hopkins q House store on May >
and the same day Will j. Young
entered upon work in the Lynde store.
/ The proposed change of ownership
of the Lynde store will go into effect
Jnne l. Meantime goods are to be
sold at lower prices to reduce stock.
Miss Edie Brush is teaching in the
Jacob Flint district
Jerry Fifields son, Lyman, who has
been soldier in the Philippines, and
is now III this country, has just re-en-
! listed in the United States army. He
is expected here soon.
Mrs. Nettie D., only daughter of
Horace and Mrs. Sue Whitney Flint
and wife of Romano A. st. John,
died at her home in Gibbon, Nebras-
ka, April IS, at the age of twentyfour
years and three months. A recent
Gibbon paper pays her very high
praise for her many admirable quail
ties. Born into home Of means suffi-
| al To r,i, Hnn Il a,,ta CT, a
seems to have been ready to "lend a
hand" and to scatter sunshine" to
all about her. When seven years of
age her twin sister died and since
then she had been the only and idol
lied child in the family. Those alone
who have drunk a similar cup can
realize the grief of her parents now,
| to whom so much of our sympathy
| goes out
Taken in many of its aspects, per-
haps not few here would say that
the Chester Martin farm at the south
end of our village, was the most to be
envied of any farm i'll our town. 1t
| has Just passed into the ownership of
| William H. Pratt in the quarry dis
trict and in sense we look at it as
the legitimate offspring of Mr.. Pratt S
other farm that, in an early day,
would seem as little to be envied as
any farm in town. But with the de-
velopment of the granite industry
in the quarry district the farm
sloughed off its disfgurements of
boulders and brought forth crop of
shekels that has enriched its owner,
and the end is not yet.
A dainty little lump of sunshiny
humanity is the second daughter of
Conductor and Mrs. James Kanaly,
whose second birthday came last
March. 1t would be hard to tell just
when she is at her prettiest but she
is pretty enough when toddling along
beside her mamma TO church and Sun
day school,, on a Sunday morning.
That the exercises of this church and
school are not lost on her was lately
shown as she was engaged in one of hel
private amusements, playing meet
ing" Quickly rising from her little
chair with book in hand, she repeat
ed her beautiful creed, 81 'lieve il
God whose natur' is love. Amen. y
1t was an echo of the catechism she
had heard in the Sunday school.
George B. Harrington met with {
strange and dangerous accident a
his home in Princeton, Ill, recently
: He had been putting hay down to hi
horse, from the upper part of hi
barn, and was about to descend iron
it when a loose board tilted and let
him to fall partially through an open
ing in the floor. Just there, he wa
a caught by one arm and an ankle, an
his tall body was suspended betwee
the upper and lower floors. In vain h
, cried for help. Finally he manage
, to loosen himself from the upper foo
and fell to the lower one, with fortu
natoly no other bad results than tn
dislocation of shoulder
Joel A. Bass (Alden Bass write
of the disbanding of his THEATRES
company and So inability to be
these parts at present, as he had plan
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