The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-08

Mrs. Woodbury. that her coming here
is anticipated with great interest. Let
her be greeted by large audience.
A debating club has been organized
in our high school department with
which will be merged the must
cal club previously organized and
found to be so helpful and interest
ing An organ has just been bought
for this department, by the scholars in
it.
Charles M. Seaver has just bought a
piece of land north of the depot and
adjacent to the railroad track Of j. M.
Beckett and it is supposed that ware
house is to be built there. These are
welcome indications of improvement
here in the business of our village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Covell we're in
attendance at the free Baptist quarter
ly meeting at Corinth Meadow last
Saturday and Sunday.
Albert M. Goodrich reports as a
very interesting meeting the Free Bap-
fist Quarterly meeting at Oorinth
Meadow Saturday and Sunday last.
Nine ministers were present and
among them Rev. II. Perkins of
Canaan, n. H., who will preach at
our Free Baptist church a week from
from next Sunday, Oct. 8, at 2 p. m.
He will come with reference to pos
sible call as pastor of this church and
the Free Baptist church in Washing
ton.
In the last week or more Ophir S.
Martin has seemed to gain little in
strength with an improved appetite
very hopeful signs.
Royal Ordway, formerly of Wash
ington or Chelsea, visited this place
last week. He was once the landlord
of the Cottage Hotel in Barre and now
lives in the vicinity of Boston.
Mrs. John Farnham has three board
ers, who are taking osteopathic treat
ment of her son-in-law, DR.. Lewis d.
Martin.
Charles @. Staples is recovering
from the injury to his ribs from a fall
from load of corn. DR.. e. B. Wat
son has attended him, instead of DR..
Lewis d. Martin as we reported last
week.
There are said to have been at least
three coon dinners here last Sunday as
the result Of Saturday nights hunt.
These might be increased by two, per-
haps.
We are told that there have been
more real estate transactions here this
year than for some time previously.
We hear it said that more houses will
be needed.
Thirty cents per bushel were paid
here Monday in our village for pota-
toes to ship.
A means of pleasure and health to
our worthy townswoman, Mrs Aaron
G. Martin, the past season, has been a
flower garden in which we found her
on recent pleasant morning One
of our early memories is of meeting
Mrs. Martin as an invalid at Saratoga
Springs. She was more than fifty
years younger than now; meantime
she has had quite great deal of IN
validism and yet she is now about to
come to the eightieth milestone in her
life's journey in apparently pretty
good health. This may encourage
some young invalid to whom a short
life may now seem inevitable. Alto
ghter Mrs. Martin has borne many
heavy burdens but they failed to crush
her, sustained as she is by her cheer.
full Christian faith. For years she has
not been able to attend church but
her home is open to cottage prayer
meetings led by pastors of the Metho-
dist church of which she has long been
a member. She keeps in touch with
the outer world by her reading and al
together makes call to her home a
very pleasant one.
Our ladies reading club will in
January observe the twentieth ami
versary of its existence IL these
twenty years vast amount of most
excellent work has been done. The
study of Italy and subjects pertaining
thereto will have the attention of the
club for some time to come.