The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-11
VILLA STOWN.


Charles Adams now Of Michigan.
W. II. Davidson of Nova Scotia and
Miss Luella Gross of New Brunswick
were married here last week by Rev.
f. e. Currier and went to Montreal
and Ottawa, p. O., on wedding trip.
The bride is a sister of Mrs. Willard
Walker and Mrs. William Grearson,
and both bride and groom are in the
employ of the Grearson-B Beckett Gran
lite Company. Good wishes in abund-
ance to the twain made one.
l.. o. Barker of Montpelier, has
moved his family here having taken
the @. G. Moore house, on Construc-
tiou Hill. He is here as an assistant
superintendent in the Grearson- Beck
EFT Company S granite works.
Albern j. Briggs, one of our long
time farmers, was buried from his
home last Friday afternoon, at the age
of eighty years and five months, Rev.
+. E. Currier officiating at the fu-
neral. His wife, three sons, and two
daughters survive him. Mr.. Briggs
had been a resident of the place for
probably sixty years. His wife was
Mabel, daughter of the late Riley
Whitney. Her mother dying when she
was very young she went to live with
her grandfather, the late Elijah Whit
ney who lived on the place that has
been the farm of her husband since her
grandfather death. The farm has
been thrifty one. Perhaps no other
farmer in our place was more of
home man than Mr.. Briggs. Our
memory goes back now many years
when as clerk in our village store it
was always q pleasure to have Mr..
Briggs come to trade. Boy clerks
don't forget such men. Mr.. Briggs
has been failing in health for some
weeks or months, and his death may
be called the result of old age. He
met death calmly, telling his pastor,
Rev. f. E. Currier, of his trust. He
was buried in our village cemetery.
Rev, and Mrs. Jesse A. Martin came
down from Canaan last week to at
tend the funeral of Mr. Martins
grandfather, Albern j. Briggs They
will not return until this week Thurs
day. They are keeping house in
new parsonage and Mr.. Martin preach
es three times each Sunday having
two out stations, each of which he
visits fortnightly.
Last week here. was one of drought,
smoke, dust, frosts, heat but without
fires, or floods. The situation how
ever, is desperate for the farmers and
so for us all. None recall such a
condition of things here at this exact
season in the past.
There have been deaths of two chill
dren in the quarry district from diph-
iberia of late in the families of Mr..
Lucas and Mr.. Phillips.
Rev. d. ii. Strong returned last
week Wednesday from his two weeks,
vacation and was so ill that he had
to tike his bed at once. He had a
hard cold and there was trouble with
the liver.
There were frosts here number of
mornings last week.
Mrs. Effie A. Whitney, who has
been ill for months past with nervous
prostratiol, is better and of late has
been at the home of her brother, Fred
Whitney, on a visit.
Orrin Simons is improving in health
and is staying at present at the Gulf
Spring House, where he finds work.
Willie Flint, son OF the late Barney
d. Flint, has lately graduated the
sixth in his class of some eighteen
members in the dental college, Den
yer, Col.
We recently saw newspaper state
ment that Moses Parsons is the oldest
person in our place. There are, we
believe, two WHO are older, an aunt of
Warren S. Covell living in his family,
and the mother of Mrs. William H.
Pratt.
Principal Daniel R. Martin and
wife of Pullman. ILL.,, will take their
summer vacation in Colorado, where
Mrs. Martin has family friends.
The first installment of taxes here
will be due August 26.
The line from Washington to our
central Office has just been completed
by the Orange County Telephone Co.
Already quite large number of our
farmers now have telephones in their
houses, and more are to be put in. 1t
is desired that all having these tcle-
phones should at once pay their switch
fees for this year OF 1908, to Miss Mil
lie DIury at the central Office.
The East Barre base ball club played
our club here last Saturday afternoon
and beat il, 16 to 1.
Mrs. Frank Jeffords has been seri-
ously i'll in the last two or three weeks
put it is hoped she is better. Mrs.
Jason H. Jeffords is caring for her.
Drs. Tindall, and Reid of Barre, are
the physicians in charge of the case.
Miss Mile Drury tells us she thinks
there are thirty or more telephones in
| town ON the Orange County Telephone
Company's line.
Rev. D. H. Strong was not able to
be out on Sunday and Rev. Frances
A. Kimball preached to the Odd Fell
| lows and Rebekahs at the morning
service. We hear the sermon we'll
spoken Of
Children's day was observed at the
Congregational church last Sunday
morning and there were several bap-
tisms of young people, Rev. William
Sch ofeld administering the rite. The
church was decorated with flowers,
evergreens and ferns. an arch of ever
green and forgetmenots spanning the
pulpit platform. The varied exer.
cises by the children could hardly fail
to be of interest to the unusually large
congregation. Surely childrens day
was happy thought, a thought OF
genirs, but, if one may be permitted
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