The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-07-16
EAST ORANGE.

calling on friends.
A e. Prescott and wife and Ora
Hutchinson and wife spent a few
days at Morey Lake
Bernice Colby is spending a few
weeks at O. NJ. Colby's.
George Merrill visited his son Leon,
Sunday.
Nelson Jewell and daughter, Lucina,
of Chelsea, Mass, have joined the
Brooks family at their old homestead
Mrs. N. Burroughs is visiting a
niece at West Topsham.
} Married, July 4, MIS- Anna Huntoon
and Arson Parker. Congratulations.
Hon Chester Dickey Of Washington
was in town the first of last week on
| business.
SOUTH OORINTH.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Huntington and
| Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Hood spent Sun
| day in Barre with Mr.. and Mrs Aus
tin Huntington.
Rob Wilson is at home from Pier
mont for the haying season.
@. J. Slack recently injured his knee
quite severely so he is unable to work
much.
The new telephone line going by
M. II. Dickinson's has the wire strung
| and the instruments are being put in.
Rev. Mr.. Mcclellan of Topsham
held a very interesting meeting at
our school house last Sunday morn
ing, after which a Sunday school was
organized.
Mrs. Hannah Comstock has moved
to her home she recently bought of
Orange Rowell. Mr.. Rowell has
moved to the Corner to the Heath
place ~
Mrs. Grace ROBBIE has returned home
after spending two weeks in East
Barre with her son, G. G. Robbie.
SOUTH DUXBURY.
Mrs. George Fletcher of Muncie,
Ind, and Mrs. Wheelock and daugh-
ter Hazel were the guests of Mrs.
Omri Bruce last week.
Claire Turner, son and only child
of Lyman and Hannah Turner, was
drowned while in bathing, Wednesday
forenoon. The funeral services were
/ at the house on Friday morning, Mrs.
Paul officiating. The lnterment was in
the cemetery near the Union church.
The Friday evening meeting will
| be at Martin Hills.
Mr.. and Mrs Gilbert Nelson recently
visited friends in Barre and Cabot.
Samuel Somerville was in Burling-
ton on Tuesday.
Miss Edith Butler led the evening
! prayer service this week.
NORTH MONTPELIER.
The Rev. Ned Whitman of East Mont
| pelier, will hold services at the Union
church Sunday. July 10, at 2. 80 p. IN.
All are cordially invited to attend.
| Miss Alice Butterfield returned last
Saturday to her home in West More
| land, N. H., after a visit of five weeks
at j. W. Butterfield's.
The promenade and dance given by
the North Montpelier band was very
we'll attended. The boys cleared over
$40.
Miss Carrie Sibley has gone to the
Isle of Shoals for weeks vacation
Mrs. Elmer Davis has returned from
the hospital at Montpelier.
p. H. Smith and wife of Amherst,
Mass, are visiting at j. w. Butter
fields.
Mrs. W. G. Nye is visiting relatives
in Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. Alice Jones and daughter Mat
tie, of Waukegan, H., are spending
the summer with her mother, Mrs.
Flora Hollister.
W. G. Nye returned from Saratoga,
/ last Saturday.
Hope Lodge entertained the East
Montpelier Lodge on Tuesday evening.
| A very good entertainment was given,
with refreshments of ice cream and
cake. About eighty were in attend
ance.
WOODBURY..
| Carl Drenan and wife aud Will Has
| kins and wife broke camp at Dog pond
last Tuesday. They report good
time and good catch of black bass
one weighing five pounds, another
| three, and some smaller fish.
Dan McLane has moved into the
"Yellow Tavern so called.
Martin Clark has bought the Glen
Parker place and takes immediate pos
session.
Aaron Carr, an old resident of
town, died last Tuesday, aged eighty
years. He leaves a wife and six chill.
dren, three of them living in town,
the others in Hardwic Burial SER
vices at the church last Saturday, n.
A. Ross of Greensboro, officiating.
Carl Thomas, Eli Smith and Tru-
man Moses attended the dedication of
Ora DoW's new barn in Cabot. Ice
| aba n
company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Cheney are
both sick at the home Of their daugh-
ter, Mrs. G. B. Wheeler. They are
old people and there has been some
doubt Of their recovery but they are
now somewhat better.
The band boys had an outdoor CON-
cert last Saturday evening. Ice cream
and cake were served. The proceeds
were about $40.