The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-01-22

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and Mrs. Brockway. Refreshments
were served aud at tn close all seem
ed dcligted with the days experiences.
Cloaks and tailored suits are being dis
posed of at small prices at Homer Fits.
H. H. Martin, one of our leading
farmers is feeding fifty swine and
fifty COWS, this winter.
Rev. f. e. Currier ofiiciated at the
funeral of Mrs, Harry Fogg on Tues
day.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
McDermott will rejoice with them i'll
the birth of a daughter last Sunday.
One of our prominent farmers tells
us that help is so scarce for farm work
that owners of large farms will have
to give up farming on large scale
and do what work they can them
selves.
The subject of study by our Ladies
Reading Club next Saturday afternoon
meeting with Mrs b. f. Sibley, will
be Wordsworth.
The rector of the Episcopal church
of Barre was here last Saturday, pre-
sumably calling upon some who are or
have been, members of that branch of
Ine CIuTCll.
Teamster Jerry Fifeld hauled load
of ice from G. M. Edson's pond, last
Saturday, with one horse, that weigh
ed {, 100 pounds
Miss Lizzie Lane has returned to j.
| p. Brockway's family from a fort
nights visit in or about Middlebury.
Mrs. Jason johnson was at our viii
| lage last Saturday for the first time
after her runaway some days ago. She
has not recovered from the great and
| painful shock to her nervous system
! by that experience on the east side of
our town, when she was riding with
! her young grandson and driving her
| self. The horse ran to the village and
| the two persons were thrown from the
sleigh near the Methodist church. In
! her state of infirm health it is won
| der that the strain upon her body did
not itself work worse results even
than it did.
What may be done in growing, sue
cessfully, lilies of the valley, III flow
er pots, may be seen in the drug store
of Fred A. Ainsworth, where such are
in blossom.
Mr. and Mrs. Hal Cheney now of
| Randolph, came here Saturday as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey L.
Cheney.
We have just been favored with the
sight of a well preserved printed let
| ter that appeared fifty one years ago
last October in the Methodist paper
| known as the christian Messenger, :"
and printed in Montpelier. 1t was
from the pen of Rev. Lewis Hill,
the Methodist minister here at the
| time, and records the terrible death,
by burning, of Widow Harmony Cliff
ford, grandmother of the late Lyman
| A. Work, and in the house now occu-
pied by the family of Henry Poole.
| She was some seventy five years of age
and lived alone. Some of the readers
of the Waterman may recall this
tragic event and the thrill of horror
that went through them ao they saw
her charred body in the chair in which
she had died before discovered.
Rev. d. H. Strong officiated at the
funeral of Archie NJ. Staples, last Sun
day afternoon, and Rev. F. +. Currit 7
at the funeral of Mrs. Orange Bannis-
ter, as also at funeral in East Brook
field, the same day.
George W. Lynde has resigned his
position that he has held for some
years as one of the directors of the
National bank of Barre.
Lewis NJ. Seaver will go to New
York next week. on one of his periodi-
cal business trips.
At the celebration of the thirty fifth
anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs j. b.
Brockways marriage, last Friday,
| there was an expression in the poem,
specially furnished for the occasion,
that led Mr.. Brockway to recall and
tell an event in connection with his
wedding day With his bride elect,
Miss Kate p. Dodge of Barre, he had
started III a sleigh for Montpelier, to
have the knot tied. In those days the
ice on the river, this south side of
Montpelier, was used good deal for
trotting and driving, and Mr.. Brock
way, at the proper point i'll the high
way left the latter for the former, and
| just as he was about getting on to the
ice, the bride be was thrown from
the sleigh He offers no other ex-
PLANTATION for the catastrophe, than
that it was kind o. sidlin there.
But however it happened he WASH t
long, as it seemed to him, i'll rescuing
the woman from her plight. With the
weight of three score and more years
| on his shoulders now, he thinks he
could not accomplish a similar rescue
i'll the same time, if it were needed.
But the twain went on and were soon
made one and their life journey since
may not have known more of acct
dents than are common to mankind.
May its ending be the best part of it
all.
The mercury went to twenty-five
degrees below zero at our depot, Mon
day morning last.
Mrs. Lucina Martin, daughter of
the late Russell Martin, and wife of
Harry Fogg, died on Sunday forenoon
at the age of some sixty nine years,
leaving "A husband, son and daughter.
For several years past she has been
suffering from cancerous troubles.
One after another these cancers have
been removed, but others would come
and at last, after her long, brave, pa
tient struggle, her body succumbed to
disease. Death must have been
sweet release to her, and her friends
may well believe it was gain indeed,
to her. She was buried from her
home on Tuesday afternoon.
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