The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-11-05
LOWER CABOT.

MS nome place ana personal property
at auction, October 10.
Will Gerry, former Cabot boy,
but of late years of Holyoke, Mass
called ON few friends on Friday
evening last. Mr.. \Gerry has been
engaged with paper manufactcry for
the past twenty.three years in Hol-
yoke but has closed his engagement
with that firm and gone to Cornwall,
Canada where he has very flatter-
ing opening.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Pike were very
pleasantly remembered by friends and
neighbor last Friday evening, it be-
ing the 59th anniversary of Mrs
Pixies birth. The evening passed
pleasantly with the company with
singing old hymns and tunes and visit
ing. Cake and coffee were served.
The company departed wishing their
host and hostess many such anniver-
sa1ies.
Henry Daniels has had his house and
barns all wired and lighted with cleo
tricity.
The medicine company that has
been entertaining the people that
wished to hear them for the past ten
days left this town, Saturday evening
and departed for Marshfield Monday
morning They shook the dust of the
town from their feet without regret
as it has been losing game and de-
clared they should never visit this
town again.
! Rev. Mr.. Sweet has been attending
the Adve Itist convention at Water
bury the past week.
The fruits of the past season have all
hoou fynthora1 anH tha rac,It 10 uha
as follows: Hay on the lower lands "A
bountiful crop, but many of the hill
! farms are short from one-fourth TO
one third, the usual crop; corn, about
two-thirds of the usual crop; potatoes,
on the whole large crops oats,
good yield; Indian wheat, fair; APP
pies in this location, a good crop, on
the river farms very few, if any;
pumpkins, a crop that every farmer
used to think he must raise, none of
any account was secured in town; bee
keepers report a very light deposit
from their bees; beef has sold fairly
we'll all summer and also fine hogs;
butter has brought good price all the
season; fresh dairy COWS are pretty
well sold up at very fair prices; the
sales of young stock is slow and low
priced, all things considered in spite
of the drouth which prevailed last
spring and as yet is not fairly broken,
the past season has been on an average
with the farmer for prosperity and
good returns for their labor.
EAST ORANGE.
Charles Burgin was called to Wash
ington to the burial of his nephew,
George Burgin, last Friday.
Frank j. Colby of Barre has been
spending the past two weeks in town,
returning home on Monday.
Mabel and Thomas Hutchinson were
il East Barre on Friday.
Mr.. Hodge and Annie Wilson of Cor
NTH spent Sunday at H.IG. Simpsons.
Mabel Hutchinson closed her term
of school in the Clark district last
week and will return to Bradford
where she expects to finish her course
in the high school this year.
Mrs. Dickey, wife of the late Cryus
Dickey, his daughter, husband and son
of Iowa with Mrs. @. A. Divoll of
Warren and Cyrus Dickey and wife of
Washington visited the old Chester
Dickey farm on Monday. They also
called on other friends in the place.
Lewis Hutchinson is improving his
barn with a coat of paint; he has re-
sh ingled one side of the building and
early in the season painted his house.
SOUTH CORINTH.
Eugene B. Parker lis stopping in
Montpelier for an indefinite time.
Grace Cook has finished work at Mrs
A. l.. Parkers and is going TO spend
the vii ter with her uncle, l.. r.
Greenwood.
Mrs. David Ward has returned home
from her labors at Dana Huntington
and her daughter Eunice takes her
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hudson have gone to
Marshffeld. their home, for stay of
month.
Miss Jennie Bell Robbie OF Boston
is spending week with her grand
mother.
About thirty-five of the friends of
Mrs. Elizabeth Robbie assembled at
her home on Thursday afternoon,
October 30, to commemorate her
eightieth birthday. Friends from
Newport, Lebanon and Berlin, N. H.,
and Bradford, VT, were present.
The gifts were many and substantial,
consisting of sum of money of about
$25. and many articles of wearing APP
parel, etc. Cake and coffee were
served. Rev. Mr.. Harding made the
presentation speech and j. S. Chap
man responded.
The funeral of Orange Rowell was
held at P. E. Norris last Thursday
afternoon, with burial in the ceme-
terry on +. P Munn's farm.
Frank Avrey died last week Mon.
day at Albert Flanders. Burial at
Corinth Corner, Thursday afternoon.
No funeral service was held.
Special needles for bead work at
Fits
HORN OF THE MOON.
II. L. Averill of Piermont, N. H.,
spent Saturday at W. H. Sanders.
Mr.. and Mrs f. O. Jackson and
Miss Blanche Grandfield spent San
day in Plainfield.
7. O. Wing and wife recently visit
ed at G. W. Sanders.