The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-01-07
WILLIAMSBURG.

IL.
The board of civil authority will
meet at the town hall on Thursday
OK next week, the 10Th inst, to make
any corrections in the check list, with
reference to the vote on the referen-
DUN, Feb. B.
John Perry is working again, this
season, at the saw mill of George w.
Lynde in Mill Village.
Miss Maud, daughter of Will and
Mrs. Ella Perrin Wheeler of Des
Moines, Iowa, and student in Smith
College, Mass, lately visited friends
here.
Miss Belle @. Stone of Enosburg
Falls, the treasurer of the New Eng
land branch CT the Methodist womens
missionary society is the granddaugh-
ter of the late Perley Howe, one of
the earlier citizens of the place.
Arthur Martin of Barre is getting
out a lot of stove wood on the late
David N. Martin farm, now owned by
Mrs James Perry of Barre.
Gene Reynolds is saving stove
wood for j. X. Lynde, ON the H. H.
Martin place.
Jesse, the worthy son of Erwin H.
Martin, decides to enter, in due time,
the Methodist ministry.
Mrs. A. Q. Rich, daughter of the
late Andrew Burnham, Sr., and late
of Barre, writes from Sacramento,
California, that her husband and sons
find work at granite cutting there
and near there. Wages, $3.25 per
day.
The buildings on the late John D.
Abbott farm, between Graniteville
and Tough End. in Barre, have for a
long time been familiar sight. Mr.
one years old next month, tells us
of the barn there, when he was n lad
thinks. Lovias Wiley had framed
the timbers for it.. Mr.. Abbott was
not greatly given to strong drink, but
the times required rum and milk
punch, and the Parsons lad INDUCED
in the latter. When the work of
raising the barn was finished, some
thing in the way of speech was de-
manded and the late John Thompson,
the father of the late we'll known
teacher, Miss Persis A. Thompson of
Goddard Seminary, was called upon.
He was high up on the frame at the
time, and stepping forward, he said,
Gentlemen:
"Here stands a frame, without name,
And Lafayette shall be its name
Some build great, and some build
small,
And John D. Abbott beats them
all. -
A round of cheers followed and we
may well suspect that the Thompson
| ian toast" was washed down
with any bumpers that had sur.
vived the. raising. We may here re-
call that the name of Lafayette, il
that day, was one to conjure with.
| Hannibal Wood of Wataga, ILL.,, the
brother with whom Mrs. Chester Mar
tin has been staying for year ant
more past, died at his home last week
He was native Vermonter and
very worthy man as we'll as very
successful business man. One sol
survives him.
News has come here OF the death O.
Rev. j. r. Bartlett, formerly Meth
odist minister here. He is said tt
! have died in a soldiers home in Mas
sachusetts. For more than ten year
he had been newspaper man il
Brockton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry D. Erskine'
tenth marriage, anniversary was re
Gently specially observed by thei
Charles M. Erskine, and lives on tn,
old home farm with his father. Mrs
Erskine is niece of Mrs. H. Dwigh
| % rot LOT Ia h.
couple on what we judge to be a hap
Ply married life.
J. Our ex-townsman, Allen Martin
now resident of Essex Junction, i
about to marry daughter OF Jol
Bates of that town. Mrs. Bates is {
cousin of the late Mrs. George A
Ainsworth, and the bride to-be W,
hear highly spoken of. Mr.. Martil
has lately built fine house, and al
together the prospects would seem t.
be for happy home. Here's to tn,
same
Rev. Frances A. Kimball was abb
to be in her pulpit last Sunday.
Tuesday evening to Friday evening
meetings will be held here in on,
! of the churches, in observance of TIL,
week of prayer.
The Grand Army post installed
their new officers on last Tuesday
evening. The Woman's Relief Corp
was invited to attend the ceremony.
Miss Mabel Clark, niece of Der
Clark, was recently married to Cepha
Casavah, Rev. William Schofeld, off
ciating clergyman.
Mrs. Loren M. Downing of st
Adams visited her brother, Horace
Il. White, last week. She was &C
companied by her daughter, Mrs
Flora Harvey, of st. Albans. Mrs
Downing will spend the remainde,
of the winter with daughter in Bos
| ton.
The Grearson Beckett granite com
pany resumed work last Monday morn
ing.
PLAINFIELD.
A social will be held by the HON,
department Sunday school at the East
Hill school house on Friday evening
Jan. 8. A literary and musical pro
gram will be given, Admission ten
cents. The proceeds are to be uset
to purchase an organ for the Sunday
school,
II. E. Lane has sold tract of wood