The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-02
WILLIAMSTOWN,


| The pastor hopes to have the assist
ance in these services of Rev. Walter
Dole, of Mortified, and Rev. Marcia
Selman of East Montpelier.
Spring opening in the suit depart
ment uf Homer Fits store in Barre
! all this week.
Our creamery patrons received twen-
| ty-six cents per pound for butter fat
in February.
/ The Universalist ladies will give
new sugar sociable on Tuesday even
ing of this week.
| Ensign j. T. Poole, of the Salvation
Army will give stereopticon lecture
at the Methodist church on Tuesday
evening, subject, 'Alone in Liver
| pool"
| Rev. Walter II. Davenport, princi-
pal of the Methodist Seminary, Mont
pelier, has just taken brief rest here
in the family of his sister, Mrs. E. f.
Walker. His wife and son were with
him. On Sunday morning he assisted
Rev. ID. II. Strong, at the Congrega-
tional church in the service. He is
greatly tired out with the burden of
his work.
Mrs John M. Duffus went to her
Olu IOIut Ill waterbury ldbb Tludy
and remained till Monday
The freeze on Sunday and Monday
last ought to have given a new lease
to the sugar making here. 1t needed
it greatly.
George E. WILDER, secretary of our
school board, has been chosen super
intendent of schools here, for the
coming year.
Mrs. Chester Martin is about to
leave Watega, Illinois, where she has
been for some time at the home of her
| late brother, and 90 to st. Cloud,
Minnesota, to visit her daughter, Mrs
George E. Maloy.
Howells Roberts now of Granville,
N. Y, is here visiting the family Of
his sister. Mrs. Carl w Seaver.
Eugene L. Marshall returned here
the first of this week after fortnight s
absence. At his second wedding re-
ception at his home in East Brookfield
last week Wednesday, eighty-fve of
his friends were present. His swife,
an only and adopted daughter, is COM
PEELED just now to be at her home in
Braintree by the sickness of her
mother.
Miss Ella Carr, daughter of Eugene
Carr, who has lately come to Dr.
Lewis ID. Martins farm here, was mar
RED last week to Fred Mancastroppa,
of Barre, we believe.
Orrin Simons, who has been fol
some weeks at the home of Ed Ward,
in East Brookfield, has so far recov.
cred from his sickness and surgical
{ operation, as to, be able to be up and
, about the house.
, W. Ashline, who came here from
Roxbury not very long ago, has moved
from one of James NJ. Beckett's tene-
ments to George Z. Colby's place
where he is hired to work on the farm
Mrs. Charles Bennett, wife of the
} engineer on our railroad, has been il
! of late.
The young lady from South North
field who has been ailing at ouI Monu
, ment House, of late, has been very
sick in tn > last few days.
Will f. Croudis writes us of til,
, granite business being good at Nortl
i Conway. N. H., where he has hat
employment for quite a long time.
g Mrs. Frank Godfrey and children
we're in Mortified last week, visiting
family friends.
, J. K. Lynde recently received thre,
l carloads of corn that were to be GROUND
at George W. Lynde's grist mill. ;
: Lawyer Frank A. Bailey who ha
t been so long ill with typhoid fever il
Montpelier, came to his old home her,
D last Monday for the first time sine,
his sickness. His sick room having
been on the north side of his house h
did not see the sun for ten weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs j. Edward Ainswortl
l of Moline, ILL.,, plan TO come to thei
summer home here about June
n Other members of the Ainsworth fam
: lilies III that city are also looked for
in the summer season. Their visit
" are occasions of great pleasure t
themselves and friends.
It Herbert l.. Platt is staying at TIL
! home of Elmer G. Dewey in Berlin
r while Mr.. Dewey is attending cour
in Montpelier. Mr.. Platt has bee
- nearly sick with cold of late.
IS Our beloved townswoman, Mrs. A
Smith Martin, now eightytwo veal
n of age, recently walked from her ne'
= home in the Charles A. Perry hous
y to Herbert L. Platt's house in our vi
"a lage.
One of our citizens who has meta
- roof on his house, tells US that an OF
% of town man. who came here to pail
" such roofs offered to cover his roof Il
twelve dollars. The offer was d.
u clined He then went himself an
s. paid for the material, that has prove
better than the outsid er used, the SUI
N of one dollar and eighty-fve cent
he and member of the family applied i
er in a brief time that dollar or lei
would have paid for, he said.
l. Liberty Jeffords, though wholly col
IN fined to the bed, is thought TO be in
proving, in some ways in health.
% WAITSFIELD.
Mrs. L. O. Berry returned on MOI
IN day from her trip to Montpelier al
x Waterbury.
Rev. Mr.. Bissell of Warren wi