The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-06-25
MARSHFIELD.

About twenty-five couples attended |
the cotillion party at Marshall's hall |
Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Berton Pike attend
ed the commencement exercises at the |
Montpelier Seminary last Week
George d. Ormsbee is at work upon
a motorcycle which he expects to
have completed in about month.
Efforts have recently been made to
organize ball team but for lack of
good material the project has been
l.. A. Tucker and Elmer Powers
were at Greensboro for few days
fishing the east week. Mr.. Tucker
reports catch of three trout aggre-
eating in weight six pounds, while
Mr.. Powers caught one which weigh
ed four pounds.
Miss Josie Cookson has finished
work at the Commercial House and
is now working at Hotel Spencer.
T. r. Barton has taken lease of
the "Beckley Block now owned by
III. G. Carpenter and will soon move
his household effects to the tenement
over the store.
Miss Florence Burnham has finished
work in the home Of E. W. Pitkin and
returned to her home in Roxbury.
Miss Glare Bemis has Miss Burnham's
place.
DR.. H. S. Carver was in Burling-
ton the past week to attend the four
days sessions of the State board of
health.
j. A. Woodward has much improved
the appearance of his residence, form
erly the Methodist parsonage, by
painting and other needed repairs.
Misses Edith Smith, Josephine
Mute and Grace Wooster have re-
truned for the summer vacation from
their studies in the Moody school at
East Northfield. Mass.
Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Hamilton of
Danville and Mr.. and Mrs. p. J.
Hamilton Of Newport were visitors
among their friends in town during
the later part of the week.
@. D. Smith has the lawn, terraces
and side walk in front of his residence
completed, an improvement adding
greatly to the appearance of his place,
the library adjoining and the common.
GA. Kelley has similar improve.
ment in front of his residence in
hand. Let the good work go on.
Rev. &. w. Manning of East Burke
will preach memorial sermon before
the Knights of Pythias at the Metho-
dist church on Sunday morning, June
20. Special music will be prepared
for the occasion and there is pos.
sibility of some special selections by
outside talent.
Byron Phelps of Barre was visitor
in town for few days recently. Re-
ports are conflicting as to whether or
not he was the guest of E. A. Folsom.
Children's Sunday was observed by
the Congregational church last
Sunday. The exercises By the chill.
dren were interesting and well con-
Quoted.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Meader and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Meader visited at
their old home in Danville for day
last week.
E. O. Ellsworth, travelling salesman
for B. J. Kendall, was in town Sun.
day, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. FL. III.
Meader.
S. Swerdfeger and and family are
in camp at their cottage at Green's
boro pond. They expect to remain
there for two or three weeks.
The next regular meeting of Myrtle
Temple lodge of Rathbone Sisters will
be held at K. of p hall Saturday
evening. The annual election of Off
GERS of the order will be part of the
business of the meeting
The town tax bills voted at the an
nual meeting in March are now in
III. H. Mears. A discount of four per
into his hands on or before Sept. 28.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Davis were in
Barre ON Sunday and the first of the
week to attend the graduating exer-
cises at Goddard seminary, the chief
interest to them being the graduation
of their brother, Mark A. Davis, who
has been a student of vocal music at
the seminary.
A change of time went into effect
on the railroad Monday morning and
trains are now due to leave our sta
ton, going east: Freight, 5.45, mail,
8. SO; express, |. "A /; mixed, SOY; 60
ing west, mixed, $50; accommodation,
11.16, express, 1927; mail, 4.3O. This
arrangement will affect the closing of
mails of the local post office in only
one instance that of the morning west,
which will now close at 10. 40.
J. Fl. Eaton. trustee of the Jaquith
cemetery fund is making considerable
repairs upon the Jaquith and Wooster
lots in the village cemetery. We un-
derstand that these repairs when COM
pleted will comprise a concrete walk
of suitable width extending in front
and across the ends of the lots. A
special meeting of the cemetery as
ISOLATION was recently called to see if
some compromise and arrangements
might be made to remove the fence
between the main yard and the
" Wooster yard" so called, and raise
sufficient funds by subscription from
those who had lots on each side of
this fence to replace it with concrete
walk, but the project fell through,
and for cause, as we understand it,
which it would seem ought not to
have entered into the effort but there
are always two sides of an issue and
doubtless there was certain of justice
in the claims of both in this matter,