The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-03-05
GROTON.

Rev. G. W. Clough, last Saturday,
shot an animal, near Walter Pierce's
house on the village hill, of the cat
species weighing about twenty pounds,
which was pronounced lynx. One
of it's fore feet was gone and it's feet
and mouth was full of hedge hog
quilts.
A party of Italians gathered at
Peter Rattazzi's, Sunday to bid fare
we'll to some of their number, who
were to leave on Monday morning for
Italy.
Miss Pierce is continuing her series
of meetings through this week. A
minister from Woodsville, N. H., will
preach Tuesday and Wednesday even
ings, and Rev. Mr.. Wright of Plain
field on Thursday evening.
Percy Lund has purchased John
Wilson'S farm in Barnet.
F. M. Page will sell at public auc-
ton Saturday afternoon, March Is, at
Hall q Cochran's store, the Nelson
Whitcher farm and timber lot on
Whitcher mountain.
j. r. Darling is moving his saw
mill to East Corinth where he has a
lot of lumber.
The remains of Emma Foster were
brought here last Tuesday from Water
bury asylum and placed i'll the vault.
G. F. Jones was in Rutland last
week to attend the encampment of
the G.. A. r.
A. L. Hooper has sold his farm to
S. l.. Hobart, consideration, 81, 600.
VILLA MSTOWN
A child was born last week. to Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Blaine.
Mayo and Roscoe Lynde came home
from Bakersfield, last week, for two
weeks vacation. They were accom-
panied by Harry Wellman, a fellow
student and known to some of our
citizens in former stay here.
- Individual communion cups" were
used for the first time at the Congre.
gational church here last Sunday.
Former Station Agent j. W. Flint,
and now of Montpelier, was in town
last Saturday afternoon. lie was full
of his usual good cheer.
The following are the officers of the
new Good Templar's Lodge; Deputy,
Ira Rowell; G. T., Charles Hayward;
V. T., Emma Clark; Sec, Mrs.
George L. jackson; Fin. Sec, Glen
McAllister; treasurer, Melvin E.
Burnham; marshal, George Lane.
The next meeting of the lodge will be
at the Methodist vestry, on Thursday
evening of next week, March IL.
, Word has just been received of the
death of Mrs. Hannah Scott, widow
of our late ex-townsman, Judge Fran
els Clark Of Waukegan, Ill. Mrs.
Clark was native of western Massa-
chusetts, and many years ago, made
visit to our place as the guest of
Mrs. Lucy Ainsworth, a fellow stn-
dent at Mt. Holyoke Female Semin-
airy, South Hadley, Mass Later she
was teacher in the Kimball Union
Academy, Meriden, N. H. Marrying
later, she went to Waukegan, where
she had beautiful home, presiding
over it, as a woman of her high char
acter and education, would do. Three
daughters were born to her. The final
long sickness of her husband involving
the care and anxiety it did, left her in
a weakened condition, and when, last
October she was taken ill herself. it
seems she had not the vitality to sue
cessfully resist disease, though alter
mating between hope and despair of a
cure, uIednWnliS, Jlll IL sIiOIb bliilo uBO.
She died last week. Her three daugh-
tiers survive her.
Mrs. Luther Waldo has recently been
the guest of the family of Thomas
Waldo. her brother-in-law.
Rev. Frances A. Kimball had as the
subject of her sermon, last Sunday
morning, "Profit and Loss as Applied
to High License and Prohibition. .
We venture the opinion she found
little or nothing of profit" in higl
license, for our town, or for our State
Already the Peoples Telephone line
has been constructed to our village
from Brookfield and committee hal
been appointed to arrange for centra
Office here. 1t is said that it may
likely be in the Beckett block, will
Miss Mile Drury to have charge of it,
1t was "A pleasure to see our forme
townsman, Doctor George Il. Bass O.
South Chicago, ILL.,. looking so wei
on his recent visit here. 1t will be re
called by his old acquaintance, tina
when he first began the study of medi
cine he was quite long way from be
ing rugged in body, and they ma,
have not suspected that at this tim
in his life, the lacks two or tire
years OF n1ty) he would nave tne I'D
physique he has. Yet his large medi
cal practice has at times been carrie
on under great degree of weakness
but with "Bass will" at the helm
He seems to be achieving marked sue
cess as physician.
Miss Horsford, principal of our hig
school, is spending part of her vaca
ton, now with sister in Mortified
She also has sister living in Water
bury
The family of A. @. Rich, son-in-la,
of the late Andrew Burnham, Sr. VIII
have been stopping in Sacrament
county, California, for few month
. past, are going to Portland. Ore