The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-07-16
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gave DON SOCIAL ldsU MOuuty eNbulIB. |
Neal Godfrey is said to have caught |
pickerel at the Cutter pond recently, |
that weighed two pounds and three
quarters. His father was lately at |
Camp Martin on Lake Champlain and |
is reported to have taken a pickerel |
that weighed ten ana one-half pounds.
Lawyer Bert Bailey of Montpelier is
at his old home here for a few days,
to recruit in health if it may be-
Ten members of the Bigelow family |
from Washington. ID. O., New York |
city, and Rochester, n. Z b, arrived |
here on Wednesday afternoon and are
at the Gulf House A Bigelow re-
union will probably soon follow.
An eight pound boy was recently
born to Mrs. Jennie York, wife of
Frank Densmore, of Barre.
Mr.. and Mrs. William N. Grearson,
after a stay at The Willows in Salem,
Mass, went to Old Orchard Beach,
Maine. Mr.. Grearson is improving in
health.
Our entertainment committee has
made arrangements for another course
the coming winter season.
DR.. Henry Downs decides to locate
in Oil City, Penn, instead of in Du-
Bots, in that State. He is expected
here in few weeks.
The Grearson- Beckett Granite Com
pany is putting in new air COM
pressor at their plant.
Mrs. Leavitt II. Hayward has been
visiting friends of late in Brookfield.
Mr.. and Mrs Luuius Kinsman of
Beaver City, Furnas county, Nebraska,
arrived here last week to remain here
a short time on visit. Mr.. Kins-
man was native of this town, and
went to Illinois in 1849. Meantime
he has not been back to Vermont till
last week. His first wife was Nancy,
a daughter of the late Sanford Hatch,
and at least four children were born
to them, who are all living Mr..
Kinsman had lived in Illinois and
Iowa before going to Nebraska, more
than thirty years ago. In addition to
his farm life there he has been, i'll the
time. clerk of the county, real estate
and a government land agent. He is
accompanied by his second wife, a
western woman, who is in frarl health.
George Kinsman, a son of the late
Aaron Kinsman, and a resident of
Colorado, is expected here soon, ac-
companied by his wife, who is a sister
of the husband of Mrs. Laura Work
Dennis, now of the State of Washing
ton.
Gilbert O. Smith, son-in-law of
the late Joel H. Sheperd, died in his
sixtieth year, at his home i'll the
southeast corner of the town, last
Thursday, and was buried from his
home last Sunday afternoon, in our
village cemetery. Rev. Mr.. Allen,,
the Methodist minister in Chelsea,
officiated. The Grand Army post of
Chelsea to which he belonged, and the
post of our own town were in attend =
ance, and there was "A large number Of
people at the funeral. He left wife,
two sons and daughter. His father
and several brothers survive him. In
the war of the rebellion he was sol
der and received an injury TO an arm
that allowed him pension of $50 a
month for years, and last spring it
was increased to $40 a month. He had
taken great interest in the gather
ings of his fellow veterans, year by
year, and has often been found III
them. He was active in the interests
of the Free Baptist church, of which
he had for years been member He
was member of our Grange, and fell
low members were in. attendance at
his funeral One of his neighbors
tells us he was a very kind neighbor.
Located as his farm is, we judge that
his business interests were, perhaps,
more largely with Chelsea than our
town village, though Barre offered
him good inducements to go there
with farm products. One who was
present at his funeral tells us that he
hardly ever saw so large number OF
persons present, in the same circum-
stances. He was sick but a few weeks,
and whatever complications there were
we hear that his liver was very badly
affected. He suffered terribly at the
last.
Miss Emma Adams accompanied her
brother, WILDER +. Adams, to the
national educational meetings in Bos-
ton last week. They had fine time.
Mrs. Preston Cross has returned
here after quite long stay in eastern
Massachusetts.
Our young eX-tOwnSman, Will Flint,
son of the late Barney ID. Flint, who
lately graduated from a dental college
in Denver, Col. lacked only tenth
of mark in his last examinations to
place him as second in his class of
some eighteen members, as the best
workman. He is practicing now in
Denver, and in his home, Littleton,
twelve miles from Denver.
We are told that one of our ex-
townsfolk has paid physicians $1,000
for numerous visits, in the last year,
and little mora. And we are also
told that physician in neighboring
town recently said he should ask $50
to come here for consultation in a
certain case.
We are pleased to tell this story of
one of our favorite little misses, that
is as new to us almost as it will be to
our readers. We think there had been
visitors at her house that day, and
that one subject of conversation was
"a narrowing tale" that she had not
been able to put out of her mind be-
fore her bedtime. When she began to
speak of it, it was suggested to her
that she drop all thought of it, and
think only of something cheerful. Her
prayers were said, and she was in bed,
and presently she told her attendant
that "she was thinking of something
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