The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-05-28
WILIIAMSTOWN.


was at about the same point on Mon
day morning. The frost on both morn
ings WAS severe, killing potatoes,
beans, etc. One farmer tells us that he
thinks the apple crop will suffer in
consequence of it. Taken with the
drought of late weeks, no wonder the
outlook seems unpromising to people
hereaDOuts.
Miss Mary Ann Brown, the oldest
daughter of the late William Brown,
of the Judge Paine district, has been
living in late years in Athens, Geor-
gia, where her widowed sister, Mrs.
Adeline Brown Griffith, lives. Miss
Brown and her niece, a daughter of
the late Eden and Mrs. Lucy Brown
Sprout, have a home together there.
Word has just come to us that Miss
Brown has had stroke of paralysis
affecting one side of her body. She is
remembered by older Williamstown-
ians as a very worthy women
Miss Bertha, only daughter of Will
lard and Mrs. Dorcas Capron Sprague,
is to be married this week Wednesday
to Norris Wiggin, who came here
from New Hampshire not long ago.
Miss Sprague is one of our worthiest
young ladies and deserving of the
best wishes of all, as they will go out
to her now. The very favorable inn
preston made by Mr.. Wiggin in his
stay hereabouts leads us to be glad
that we may likely have the family
here in town for the present, and we
hope permanently. They will go to
New Hampshire following their we'd
ding where Mr.. Wiggin's mother is
very ill.
The ladies-of the Charity Chapter of
the Eastern Star Fraternity gave an
ice cream and cake supper at the home
of Mrs. Harvey l.. Cheney last Satur-
day evening, for the benefit of the
Chapter.
Whatever the response of our citi-
zens to other occasions they are sure
to turn out we'll to the exercises of
Memorial Sunday. Such was the fact
last Sunday. The pews of the Meth
odist church did not afford the needed
sitting room, which had to be supple
mented. Revs. +. E. Currier and
Frances A. Kimball occupied the pull
pit and the choir was made up from
the three church choirs in our village.
Their singing was fine. The members
of the Grand Army Post, the Sons of
| Veterans, and the Women's Relief
Corps had the reserved seats in the
| church. Rev. f. E. Currier took as
his text the passage from Hebrews,
HE being dead yet speaketh. ;" The
words will readily suggest the theme
of the sermon, a theme especially appro-
| pirate to such an occasion, though one
| of perennial and vital interest to any
thoughtful person. They who gave
their lives in the war of the rebellion
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and all who would speak lessons of
supreme value after death must
like them, have a devotion to the
noblest ends while living such that,
if need be, will lead one to make the
greatest of sacrifices. The speaker
put in a forcible manner the sacrifices
made by the soldiers themselves, and
by the many parents, wives, and 9th.
ers, to save our country in the civil
war, believing that the greatest were
made by the wives, and the betrothed,
of the soldiers. He used this memoir
ial occasion as a fitting opportunity to
exhort all to enlist as soldiers in the
battles yet waging for the right.
There was another note sounded in this
sermon that had we believe the right
tone, namely: That now we are to
feel that we of the North and they of
the South are brothers, under one flag
that together we will henceforth sus-
tain and uphold Whatever the excel
lencies of the sermon nothing was bet
ter than the spirit of the preacher,
manifested in all that was said.
Oscar Bowman, once a resident, ano
now a citizen of Mortified, was il
town on Monday on fishing tip, anC
accompanied by young son OF George
Bailey in whom we thought we de
tected the family look so familiar
here, half century ago.
Childrens' Day will be observed a
the Congregational church here thu
first Sunday in June.
Erskine Rowell caught pickerel il
Brookfeld last week that weighed
nearly two pounds and a quartz
dress ed Mr.. Fifield caught one nearl.
as large.
Oscar Bowman tells us that hi
uncle, William P. Bowman, a forme
resident here and now of Lowell
Mass, is in very poor health.
We are told that Mr. Barker O
Montpelier has been engaged to com
here to work in the office of the GreaI
( SON. Beckett Granite Company, an
= that his family will live in the @. G
> Moore house on Construction Hill.
Our creamery patrons got 241a cent
for butter fat in April.
A daughter recently born to MI
and Mrs. Perley Sanders was not lon
I lived.
Market gardener Oliver Dickinso
hoped for ten bushels of strawberrit
, this season but the hope was blighte
by the frosts Of last week. apples
plums, and all other fruits suffere
o the same blight.
: Mrs. George L. Edison was not {
well the first of the week, and Gale
4 back her nurse from Barre.
. Mrs. Lucy Earle Holt of Barre is {
y her old home here for brief stay.
Mrs. George O. Earle is in atten,
: ance at the convention OF the W.
r. u, in Barre.
u George L. Edison lost horse {
Tuesday that has been driven in h
delivery work, one that he paid .
q for, it is said.
Miss Annie W. Austin of st. Georg
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