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

cart three times week to Barre. He
W i'll have meat market in our viii
lage.
Ophir S. Martin was able to ride to
the village on Tuesday, accompanied
by his wife.
Our empty tenements are filling up.
A good sign.
Ed Whitney SON. law of the late
Deacon Francis Carleton, wants to sell
his farm on account of i'll health and
come to the village or nearby. The
farm was earlier known as the Hazen
CLARK farm.
Mrs George w. Lynde is improv-
ing at the Mary Fletcher Hospital in
Burlington and hopes to be able to re-
turn to her home before many days.
Our Grange expects a treat in the
presence of Hon. O. j. Bell, State
Master of the Grange, at their meeting
on Wednesday evening of this week
az the town hall.
1t is expected that the General E.
Bass farm in our village will be sold
this week if there is no hitch in the
proceedings The purchaser to be is a
resident of Barre city
Mrs Newell r. Farnham is quite i'll
and it is feared she may have fever.
Charles M. Seaver is buying potatoes
to ship, paying thirty cents per bushel.
The first in our coming seasons en-
tertainment course will be lecture
by Rev. Ora Samuel Gray, native
of Vermont, ON Friday evening Of
next week, Oct. 16. His lectures are
highly spoken of. Tickets for the
course will be on sale at George L.
Edsons store on Thursday morning
of this week.
Rev. Carey Watson of Greenfield,
Mass, WHO is taking vacation at his
old home here, preached at the Con-
gregational church last Sunday morn
ing. His theme was the Impotence
that characterizes the day, in our
country at least, and that shows itself
in all departments in life; in the
haste to be rich in the short cuts in
studies, in lynchings etc. 1t was
fruitful and needed theme and more
than one of his hearers must have
gone away with purpose to cultivate
more of this grace. The text of dis
course was Romans s 20. But if we
hope for that we> see not, then do we
with patience wait for it. Rev. Mr..
Watson's heightened stay as Con-
gregati onal pastor would confirm the
report we have heard that he is doing
an acceptable work there.
Miss Bertha Seaver has been visit
ing in Springfield Mass, of late and
meantime Miss Edie Brush has occu-
pied her place at the cashiers desk in
George l.. Edson's store.
Martin Sewers daughter, whose
sickness in Barre is elsewhere spoken
of, has since suffered another and Sc
verer one in Essex Junction.
Tom Saunders of Haverhill, Mass.
has been in town of late.
Chauncey Lougee last week closed a
trade for his place in our village with
Miss Ann Eliza Penniman of Barre,
who will come here to live within a
few weeks. Mr.. Lougee and his sis
ter, Cornelia, will go to Wisconsin for
the winter to visit widowed sister
there For Miss Penniman we be-
speak cordial welcome here.
Rain is much needed here to fill the
springs gone dry.
Mrs. Marion Bruce Kathan, who has
been so feeble here for months is
thought to be improving.
Return S. Davis and son are moving
their effects to their farm in North
Danville. They will drive sixty head
of cattle there. Their post office will
be ST. Johnsbury.
The missionary rally at the Congre-
gational church on Friday of this
week will begin in the afternoon in
discussions upon methods of work.
Tea will be served in the vestry, and
in the evening will be the ADDRESS of
Mrs. Woodbury., who represents the
American Missionary Association.
Such is the character and ability of