The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-12-03

Mrs. Fred Bancroft is quite sick at
this writing
Herbert Hall is now selling milk in
this village.
Ida Stone is ill with heart trouble.
Mrs. Hassam of Northfield is spend
ing few weeks wi tn her son, Fred
Woodbury..
Mrs. Irene Holt, who is now eighty
nine years old, is very sick and her
recovery is doubtful
Mr.. Danforth of Coos, N. FL :. the
lumber dealer, is to move his family
here this week. into Mrs. Amanda
Batchelder's house.
Mrs Ruth Laird, who has been E.
j. Bartlett's housekeeper for a long
time, has gone away. Mrs. Della
Ormsbee of Calais will take her place.
About 100 persons gathered at the
Odd Fellows hall one day last week
in honor of Mr. Nelson Shorey's fifth
eth birthday. A very pleasant time
was enjoyed by all present and they
left Mr.. Shorey about $40 as token
of their regard,
The village school opened on Mon
Lottie Dodge of Brattleboro, VT, and
| Miss Flora Batchelder of South Barre,
vt.
Earl Bartlett, who has been stop
, ping in Illinois since February last,
has returned home to spend the win
| ter
The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist
church will hold a chicken pie supper
| Wednesday, December 10. There will
be an apron sale in connection.
Gardner Spencer's family from st.
Johnsbury visited in town over Sun
day.
Mrs. John Foss went to Concord
last Tuesday to visit her son, Carl
Foss.
Mrs. Ellen Hathaway has moved in
to the Sanborn tenement.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety meets next Wednesday afternoon
with Mrs. Irene Page.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. d. L.
Page gave them a pleasant surprise at
their home last Friday, in honor of
! their twenty fifth marriage annivers-
airy. A very pleasant evening was
passed; games were played and cake
|
gard were left
r. W. Dunsmore of Roxbury organ
lied lodge of Good Templars in
! town last Saturday night with thirty
two charter members, under the name
of Charity Lodge, No. 1873. The Off
GERS are Harry Cutting, chief templar
! Grace Cree, vice templar; John Foss,
past chief templar; Alison Smith,
chaplain; Glen Bartlett, financial
! secretary; Ed Bartlett treasurer ;
! Susie Renfrew, secretary; Bessie Pit
| kin, assistant secretary; Herbert
Flood marshall Mrs. E. ID. Bartlett,
deputy marshal; Guy Bartlett, guard ;
Mrs. Glenn Bartlett, sentinel.
WILLIAMSTOWN.
Will o. Martin, son of Ophir S.
Martin, came down from Ottawa,
Canada, last week to spend Thanks
| giving with family friends
! Charles Crane came here last Fri
day, from Cape Breton Island, where
he has been for the past two months,
! going from here to Brooktield to visit
a brother and sister for a day or two.
| He will return this week to his home
: in Dexter, La. The company for which
| he has been prospecting on Cape Bre-
! ton Island for coal and mineral lands,
| is made up of western men together
with men on the island
( Miss Lucy Paine of Bethel, vet
eran canvasser, was in town last week,
where she has put in valiant work in
the past.
Rev Charles Farnsworth, now of
| Manchester, N. H., came here last
week, and with his wife and the fam
! lily of John Farnham, spent Thanks
giving at the home of Horace N. Farm
ham in East Montpelier.
Druggist George Adams came over
from Fairhaven last week, and with
his mother and sister went to East
BrooLfeld for Thanksgiving with his
sister, Mrs. Mary Adams Reed.
Charles G. Staples has received his
deed for the Mrs. Elisha b. Gale
house in our village and expects he
may move to it next spring.
A son was recently born to Mrs. Flora
ltilby, wife of Charles Howe, in Barre.
Mrs. Howe is remembered here as a
school teacher for several terms. Miss
Hattie Briggs is with her, as nurse.
Rev. o. d. Clapp was in town Wis
iting old friends and parishioners last