The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-05-07


Canada score of years ago and had
been of late foreman at the quarry
of Milne, Clarihew & Gray. He not
long ago met with an accident in a
runaway that is thought to have par
italy caused his death. He left wife
and five children
Cornelius Perrin has been very poor
ly in the last week and his family
friends here think his chances few for
being better again, yet he may rally
from his present low state
Homer Fits makes it point to sat
isfy every customer in having per-
feet fitting garment, when altered at
his store.
Mrs. Thomas Sheridan has had for
the past week as her guest Miss Flos-
sic Tyler of Chelsea.
Miss Goldie B. Sheridan is working
in Montpelier for Conductor Stephen
j. Colby.
An effort is being made to have our
stores closed on Wednesday and Fri
day evenings each week. The post office
department is willing thst tile post
office be closed after 80 clock on
these evenings.
Hal Cheney has rented his good
house here to the fireman on our rail-
road.
We want thiIty-six men in our town
who will agree to give at least 500
each to help secure first class gran
ite company to locate here more has
been promised on condition the SO, 600
shall be pledged. 1t has come to pass
here in the matter of towns having a
satisfactory amount of granite work.
in our village that the situation can
be summed up in that forcible if not
elegant command root, hog, or die. "
Lewis Dragon is shipping his house
hold goods to northern New York
where he will 90 on to farm. He is
worthy fellow and we wish him
stronger health and general prosperity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Cheney, now of
Randolph, were in town the first of the
week, the guest of his brothers. fam
lily.
Rev. Jesse A. Martin when down
here last week took his horse and car
riage back with him to Canaan. That
means pastoral work of course.
Adna Benedict who has been living
in Tampa, Florida few years past
has moved to place not very far from
there and will have five acres in to.
matoes this year.
| William n. Grearson is sick this
week, requiring DR.. E. B. Watson's
| care.
Mrs. S. l.. Underhill, whose mis-
| fortune it has been for few years to
/ have to be helped by our town, being
about to go to East Bethel to live
with her niece, wants to express her
! heartfelt gratitude to Overseer G. w.
Nichols and to the several families
in which she has been kept: Messrs
Palmer, Hall, A. K Martin and A.
| w. Farnham and to other citizens of
| the town for all the kindness shown
her, in trouble such as she hopes they
may never know by experience.
Mrs. Ida Ainwsorth Nogle, our
former townswoman, is living in Post
Falls, Idaho, where we judge her
family is prosperous.
If the following is ga newspaper
story it is so now for the first time,
so far as we know. Both persons in
it were of our personal acquaintance,
and the judge himself told it. He
was formerly of bibulous turn, and
opportunity for self qualification was
|
distant One night he returned home,
after lark, to find his family in
/ bed. AS he went to his own bed, his
wife, who understood him well,
"played the 'possum," in a dead
sleep ca. The judge quietly crawled
over to the back side of the bed, and,
with his face to the wall, "settled
down" to both the conviction that he
was undiscovered by his wife, and that
he was to have quiet sleep-when,
presto, his wife, calling out his name,
| informed him that he did not need to
turn his back to her, for he was drunk
clear through" He was reformed
man, later.
VERSHIRE.
Miss H. r. Darling is teaching in
Chelsea. and Miss Edith L. Parker in
Piermont, N. II.
Mrs. Lila Clough is at home from
Post Mills where she has been for sew
eral weeks.
A donation was given Rev. A. O..
Dodge week before last.
Rev. O. II. Merrill of st. Johnsbury
preached at the church the first Sun
day in May.
Mr.. Smith has moved his family to
Mr.. Browns and will work for him
the coming season.
Frank Cushman Of Bradford was in
town Saturday, to attend the funeral
Of Mrs. Staples.
Clarence Grant is working by the
season for Theron Dow.
Miss Ellen Waterman Of the Thet.