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

| JOWn last Neunesuay.
j. w. Parmenter has been quite indis-
posed the past few days
Mrs. C.. H. Kibbee has been entertain
ing her sister, Mrs. Marshal Gaylord the
| past week.
Hon. Cassus Peck of Burlington was in
town two days last week.
Mrs Nancy Abbott has gone to Proc
tor to spend several weeks with her son
Prof. w. p. Abbott.
Last Saturday man came from Boston
to set up the gasolene engine, recently
purch sed by George Crane.
Mrs. Abercrombie's mother, Mrs. b,
Barnes, has been quite i'll for several
| days, confined to her bed with a severe
cold.
Lewis Panton is caring for the business
around the hotel during Mr.. Nye's sick
| ness.
The annual chnrch and society meeting
of the Second Congregational church will
be held on Wednesday, March 10, at one
o'clock in the vestry of the church.
j. j. Nye has been sick in bed for
several days with chicken-pox. Two
children of Ula Sprague are sick with the
same disease
The town library meeting last Wednes-
day was well attended. The bids on
books amounted to S1316. One right
was sold.
The Christian Endeavor Society of the
| First church will have sociable and one
half pound sale at Mr.. Blair's at the
Centernext Friday evening,
Mr. Coburn, who has been sick several
months with a sore leg, has gone to the
Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington for
treatment.
Arthur Washburn has bought the Alton
Kenyon farm, formerly known as the
Henry Parker farm, with stock and tools.
He takes possession March 2.
WATERBURY,.
James Hattie has purchased of John
| Parker the vacant lot adjoining the
! Parker block and is to erect two
story brick building there this spring,
| which he is to use as blacksmith
shop
The funeral of Mrs S. Moulton,
widow of the late Calvin Moulton,
was held from the house last Thurs
| day afternoon.
Several of the neighors of Mr.. and
| Mrs. William Anterior gathered at
| their home last Friday evening and
gave them q surprise party, the event
being the fifth anniversary of their
| marriage.
Mrs. Fred Shepardson and Nina, her
daughter, of Richmond, were the
| guests of Mrs. Thomas Farrell last
week.
Robert Knowles has finished work
at the Boyce furniture store and gone
to Burlington, where Mrs Knowles is
under medical treatment.
The funeral of the little child of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Deal was held
last Wednesday, Rev. f. B. Kellogg
officiating.
The spring term of school will be
| heightened by week this year to
make up for the week recently lost
Mrs. Frank Farnsworth died from
the effects of shock, at her home in
Duxbury last Wednesday, after an ILL
ness of few weeks. The funeral was
held from the house on Friday.
Miss Pearl Randall has retured from
her western trip because of the ill
ness of her mother.
E. J. Ennis has moved his family
from Montpelier to this village and
rented the tenement over the store OF
J. H. Haines.
E. E. Evans was off duty last week
because of the illness of Mrs, Evans.
Miss McCallum, designer for the
True Manufacturing Company, has
been in Boston for a week studying
the latest designs in wrappers. Thir
ty one-machines are being placed IL
the factory making siXty-tive in all
which will furnish work for seventy
five hands. The firm is making it,
spring shipments
Mr.. and Mrs. L. j. Elliott have
rented their farm to w. A. Elliott
their son, beause of poor health.
A special meeting of Dillingham;
grange will be held next Saturda.
evening, when an interesting debat'
will be held ON the question: Re
solved, that it is better for boys to d,
indoor work and girls outdoor work.
The affirmative will be taken by Mrs
Josie Anterior and the negative b,
Robert Hazeltine.
James Keefe of Grand Island, Neb.
| MIS-. VI. VI. benueUU Oh OHlCdBO, du
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Labelle of Esse
l Junction are guests of David Keefe
their uncle.
The Pensioners of St. Andrews churc
are to give an interesting literary and mt
steal entertainment on the evening of S
Patrick's Day.
WASHINGTON.
II. G, Carpenter has moved his famil
to Chelsea where he recently purchased
FARM.
Mrs. Frank Thompson of East Corint
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. F.
Huntington.
A daughter was born last week to M
and Mrs. j. ID. Bresette.
Z. G. Smith has finished his years lab
for d. M. Miles and has moved his Fl
mily to Royal Ordway's tenement
Blanche Foster is seriously i'll with b
ious fever.
Mrs. M. A. Turner and son, WILL a
visiting friends in Worcester, Mass, for
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