The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-09-17
WILLIAMSTOWN.

cite recently refused an offer of S1S5
! for it.
WILLIAMSBURG.
Loren A. Howard of Barre has been
engaged to teach in the l.. II. J. Mer-
rill district this season.
Mrs. David NJ. Smith is in very
poor health with kidney trouble.
Neal b. Smith mas been compelled to
! give up his contemplated vacation at
the old home here. One of his fellow
! employees on the Island of Trinidad,
has lately died, thus requiring his stay
| there.
More than fifty years ago the late
| Judge Alvin Smith on his return from
a visit in western New York brought
home in his trunk little horse chest
nut sapling that he planted near his
farm house here. For time it was a
struggle for existence that it had, but
1t survived and is now something of a
tree. SO far as we know there is no
other tree OF the kind here.
| 1t was treat that we had last Sat-
urday in visit to the old John Lynde
farm, now owned by Jerry Hutchin-
son. Mr.. Hutchinson makes a special
| ty of fruit and has some 100 trees,
apple, pear and plum. And such fine
fruit as we saw. We had not expect
| ed to find the like in these parts. In
| its way it should serve as an expert
ment station for farmers. Mr. Hutch
inson will have ZOO bushels of potatoes
and finer looking lot of tubers we
have seldom seen. From portion of
branch five and half inches in
length Mr.. Hutchinson picked some 81
plums this season.
j. Frank Demeritt, son of Rev.
John p. Demeritt once a Congrega-
tional minister here, is now living in
Syracuse, N. Y, and on the Sd inst,
married Miss Lena Belle Waterman of
Clinton, n. Y. The bride is spoken
OF as young lady of many accom-
plishments. and the groom as popu-
lar young man in Syracuse, where
they are to reside.
Fred, son of Melvin E. Burnham and
a student in Tufts College, Mass, has
just taken few DAYS at home before
returning to his third year of study at
Tufts. This young man deserves much
| credit in working his own way through
| college and the same grit will likely
take him to success in after life,
AS result Of Labor Days excuses,
| there have beeL seven trials here. for
drunkenness, ETC., fines and costs of be-
tween $500 and $500. There is to be
another trial yet.
The money necessary to induce
Messrs. O. U. Lathrop and j. X.
Lyude to engage i'll the granite manu-
featuring business has been raised here
and work is expected to begin before
long.
A young Free Baptist minister by
the Dame of Kemp, and from East Ran
dolph, is to supply for time the pull
pits OF the Free Baptist churches of
Washington, and this place, beginning
next Sunday.
Warren Poole, a son of our former
! townsman, the late Charles Poole of
chicago has recently visited friends
here.
We have just learned of the sudden
death of our former townswoman
| Mrs. Fanny @. Smith of Princeton,
LII. She retired at night IN her usual
health and about midnight was strick-
en- with apoplexy, and died the next
morning. She was in her eightieth
year. She was a sister of Mrs. Deni-
son Martin. A son in New Orleans,
! another in one of the Dakotas, and a
daughter In Princeton, ILL.,, survive
her. She is remembered here as a
bright, CHEEKY, good woman, and a
school teacher. For many wears past
she has lived in Illinois and in some
OF them had been great invalid and
unable to walk, though her health had
been much better IN late years.
! ~
j. M. Beckett three and third acres,
the remaining portion of the old War
rem Poole meadow. Consideration,
| 500 an acre.
The Gilbert o. Smith farm with
| stock tools etc., is to be sold at auc-
tion ON Friday of this week.
A son of Will Wheeler of Des Moines,
Ia, and grandson of the late S. Tai.
colt Perrin, has lately visited his
cousins, here, Mrs. j. K. Lynde and
Mrs. George l.. Edison.
The Universalist Sunday school had
picnic at Berlin pond last Saturday
Photographer George r. Bosworth
Will have some of his work-views here
and elsewhere-on exhibition at the
Northfeld fair this week.
Return S. Davis will move to his
farm in North Danville before long
Mrs. Norman G. Davis will go there
with them for little stay before her
return to Waterloo, Iowa.
Mrs. Jane l.. Smith Davis returned
to Greensboro Bend on Wednesday.
Miss Adalgisa SASH and Gaetano
Giudici We're married at the home of
Michele Somaini in our village by
Rev. +. e. Currier on Monday last.
Miss Helen Harrington of South
Barre and Nelson Vassar were mar
ried on Tuesday of this week by Rev.
Frances A. Kimball. Mrs. Vassar
will continue her business of dress
making in the Beckett block.
State School Superintendent W. Il.
Ranger will be here on next Friday
evening to give talk ON educational
work at the village school house.