The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-22
WILLIAMSTOWN.

Clayton Dirty and wife, now of
Salem, Mass, visited the family of
Windsor Dirty here last week. Mr..
Dirty is collector for business firm
in eastern Massachusetts.
John Rice and wife have bought Il
farm of two hundred acres about five
miles from st. Johnsbury.
The household goods of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Erskine including fine
organ, that were stored i'll Albany,
n. Y. last season on account of Mrs,
Erskine's ill health, are said to have
been burned, and that without any in
surance.
Master Walter Church, now of Roch
ester, has been visiting here of late
and was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Windsor Dirty.
Martin Durham tells us that mon
ey is so abundant in the section where
he lives, III and around Watseka, Ill.
that it can be hired for per cent in
terest, on good security
George Beckett shipped a carload
of dry-siXteen-inch wood to his son in
New York city last week, calculating
that the entire cost, delivered, will be
about 50. 90 per cord.
Allie Wilfore buried his youngest
child, girl of five years, last week.
The disease was of the throat and
it is reported as membranous Group, al
though one claim is said to be diph-
liberia.
Mike Elliott, for years i'll the gran
lite business here, has bought Horace
+. Whites home farm, a mile or so
northeast of our village.
Sixteen excursion tickets were sold
here last week for Boston. Among
our citizens who bought them were
Albert r. Martin, Harvey i. Cheney,
Charles M. Edison, and wives; Mrs.
X. p. Blanchard and daughter, Nellie,
Mrs. Leavitt Hayward, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank LathrOp, and Nelson Carleton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison went to New
York from Boston.
Commercial traveller Herbert Col
by was in our town last week, visiting
his mother.
George Beckett was in Montpelier
last week, at the meeting of the His
torical Society of which he is a mem
Der.
On Tuesday evening of last week
section of the town, came to our vii
Drury's birthday. She was the recip-
lent of sundry presents and good time
was had The club met in the Rebek-
abs hall i'll the Lynde store.
Last week we had the pleasure of a
call from Mr.. Bromley, Of Granville,
~ Y. the only brother of the wife
of Rev. j. p. Demerritt, a former
Congregational minister here. The
home of the Demeritts is now Exeter,
N H. At present Mr.. Demeritt is
not preaching. Frank the older son
is connected in a business way with
"The Review of Reviews, " in New
York city, and his only brother is at
school in that vicinity. The only
daughter is at home in Exeter.
Carl Sawyer, a nephew of Mrs DeX-
ter Jones, and Il recent graduate from
Goddard Seminary, has just returned
from two months stay at one of
the White Mountain hotels.
Mr.. and Mrs Kinsman p Martin
were invited to attend "A public recep-
tion given Mrs Lucy Martin Curtis,
last Friday evening at the town hall
in Orange. Before going to California
nearly a score Of years ago, Mrs. Cur
It's was a resident of Orange. She will
return to her home in Dutch Flat,
Placer County, California, ere long.
A recent visitor here is Vernon Lew
is, now of Texas, who has a niece and
nephew here. He is remembered as
having been employed in our village,
years ago, Going later to Texas, he
is among the number who have been
benefited by the discovery of oil there.
He has lately bought the old Tom San
ders farm in East Brookfeld, to which
his brother, e. N. Lewis, at one time
"A resident on the Alvin Flint farm anC
also on the III. ID. Abbott farm, will
move
Mrs Hiram. Davenport, who has
been at the home of her only daugh
ter, Mrs William w. Canes at West
Chazy, n. y, since Last April, return
ed here last Friday
Our ex-townsman, Charles Crane
now of Dexter, Iowa, has been il