The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-11-26
VILLA STOWN,

Elisha b. gale, and MISS Edle, young
est daughter of George w. Brush, are
to be married on Wednesday evening
of this week, at the home of the bride.
They will go the same evening to
Dedham, Mass, where Mr.. Gales
mother resides, to spend Thanksgiving
Day with her. and the next morning
start for Colorado Springs, Col,
where Mr.. Gale has business. They
will take with them the good wishes
of friends left behind.
John Adams, a grandson of the late
Enoch Howe, has lived for years in
northern California. His uncle, J.
Henry Adams, also our former townss
man, lives two hundred or more mile
from him, in that State of "magnif.
cent distances. - The eighteen years
old daughter of John Adams has been
visiting her great uncle of late. About
four miles from his home is pic
turesque spot, known as Bear Creek
Falls. The rocky walls rise precipi-
tously above the falls. and it was the
ambition of Miss Adams and gentle
man friend, two Of a party of SIX Wis.
iting the falls, to write their names
higher on the rocks than any former
visitors had done They had climbed
a distance of eighty to one hukdred
/ feet. the gentleman going ahead, and
holding Miss Adams byt hand, when
he lost his footing, and both went
down the precipice. The man went
down to the bottom of the cliff and
suffered no other injury than tenn
porary Inconsistencies. Miss Adams,
after falling sixty feet, was stopped
by bushes that grew among the rocks,
and one leg was broken twice above
the knee, and once below it. She
was rescued from her peril by ''ropes"
improvised out of articles of clothing
worn by the party. A surgeon was
called, twenty miles away, who hopes
Miss Adams will recover. Had her
attendant in ascending the rocks,
(said to be some five degrees only,
from perpendicular, where they
fell) had the presence of mind to let
go her hand, Miss Adams would not
have fallen, as she had good foot
hold. She is the oldest living great
granddaughter of the late Enoch
Howe.
The mercury went to two degrees
below zero on Saturday morning last,
at the nome of Deacon Edwin @.
Smith.
A farmer told us last Saturday as
he was taxing a load of hay to Barre,
that he should get SIS per ton for it,
and he thought that was SO less than
some received.
Chauncey Lougee reached duly
Burnett Junction, Wisconsin. some
fifty miles westerly from Milwaukee.
In the short time he has been there
the weather had been quite Vermont
Ii 10 ho1
storms, and mercury last week We'd
nesday was ten above zero. But when
it comes to farm crops, we wish YER
mont was more like that portion of
Wisconsin. His sisters farm this
year produced eight hundred bushels
of barley, twelve hundred bushels of
oats. two thousand bushels of corn in
the ear, besides more to be fed with
the stalks.
DR.. Henry Downs, Osteopathist, now
Of Oil City. Penn, will visit his old
home here next month, it is under
stood, when his incomplete anatomy
will be supplied with d missing
crib"
Veteran John Bacon has had his
pension increased to $l2 month.
Henry Stewart, son-in-law of Mrs.
Denison Martin, has lately buried his
mother, resident of Berlin, who had
attained great age, having been up.
wards of ninety years.
There will be sale of some house-
hold goods, etc., at the General X.
Bass place next Friday, November
~, to begin probably soon after noon.
We are asked if there will be offered
for sale, at that time, old-time furni-
ture, dishes, ETC., that are so much
sought after by some, and we answer
that there will be but little, if any
of that.
Asa G. WILDER is about to start for
Jennings, Louisiana, and George
Seaver and wife will accompany him.
They may later go to California.
There will be a union service at the
Universalist church on this week
Wednesday evening.
Return S. Davis, now of North Dan
vile, was in town on business day or
two the first of the week. The family
is much pleased with their home there.
Ed J. Poor's creamery paid twenty
three and three-fourths cents per
pound for butter in October.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ophir S. Martin are
with their daughter. Mrs. Henry J.
Lasell, Just now.
One of our prominent men. active in
business, predicts that our place is on
the eve of business boom. May that
day speedily dawn upon us.
Charles g. Moore, foreman in the
Greason, Beckett Co.'S. shops, has
lately been away on vacation in
New York.
Mrs. Gilbert o. smith is about to
move to Montpelier. She and her son,
Arthur, will keep house there.
Kirk Ellsworth at the head of the
high school department inf Cambridge.
this State. has been this week, the
guest Of his cousin, Station Agent l..
o. Morgan.
CHELSEA.
]. A. r. Corwin and son took in
8.377 pounds of poultry last Thursday,
| mostly turkeys, for which they paid
| 81, TAT. 10. e. A. Oorwin went to
Boston on Saturday to look after the
poultry. Mrs. Corwin and Harold ac-
companied him, and all will remain
for week or more.
The Weddinp of Col Charles X