The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-03

ONT WATCHMAN Il STAT
Nelson Lugor's infant daughter is
seriously ill. DR.. Chandler of Barre
city is in attendance.
Fred McPitchin is on the sick list.
Mrs. H. B. Oliver has been engaged
to do solo work in the "Cantata of
Daniel"
James Moran's son is quite ill with
bronchitis. DR.. Macarthur was called.
J. G. McLord is moving into the
new house built by j. M. Boutwell, at
his quarries
George Getchins of New York was
at the quarries Saturday.
SOUTH WOODBURY..
Sarah B. Lyford, aged eigthy-three
years, widow of Daniel Lawson, died
at the home of her son, George, Janu-
ary 28 after an illness Of four months.
Mrs. Lyford was born in Woodbury.,
July 26, 1920, and here her life was
spent, except a few of her early years
when she worked in factories in Low
to Daniel Lawson, and five children
were born to them, one dying in in.
fancy, one at the age of ten years, and
one at the age of thirty-three. Two
sons survive her. She was one of q
family of ten children, but only two
are now living, George Lyford of
Cabot, and Monroe of Woodbury.. Mrs.
Lyford was daughter of Peter and
7 Gal al
der of the War of 1919, and one of
the earliest settlers of Woodbury.. Be-
sides her brothers, children, and
grandchildren, she leaves a wide cir
Gle of friends to mourn her loss. The
family relatives thank the neigh
bors and friends who had so kindly as
sisted them through the sickness and
deatlI of their mother and grandmoth-
er.
WILLIAMSBURG.
Our ladies' reading club will meet
next week Saturday with Mrs. Annie
Martin WILDER. The subject of study
will be Impressions of Modern Italy. "
Mrs. John Farnham is recovering
FROM the injury done her ribs land not
wrist, as we wrote it last week. by
her fall, down stairs.
On account of the illness with pneu.
monia of Mrs. Charles Guild. she does
not yet know of the death of her son
Frank, who died last Friday evening
For this reason the funeral of the boy
was held at the house of Lucius ST.
mons, her nearest neighbor, on Sunday
afternoon, Rev. ID. H. Strong officiat-
ing.
Arthur Tindall who has been a
clerk for some time at the Monument
House, returned to Burlington on
Monday. His place has been taken
by Charles Williams, SOD of the late
Walter Williams.
Don A. Earle and son, now of Mid
dlesex, were guests of George @. Earle
the first of the week. Mr.. Earle has
long had charge of the Viles electric
Plant at Middlesex.
Miss A. Geneva Burnham, daughter
of Mrs. Aurora Howe Burnham, came
here on Monday to be the guest of her
sister, Mrs. Orville D. Bosworth, for
a little time, She has been teaching
in New Hampshire the past year or
two.
Jesse Aubin, long time stone cut
ter here, and who has recently sold
out, left on Monday with his family
for Dover, Delaware, and purposes to
engage in farming. He has net the
best of health.
Mrs. Mary Simons Snow Of Mont
pelier has been staying with her BROTH
er Lucius S. Simons, since the death
of his wife last week.
A large and promising choir, made
up of boys and girls in the teens, is
taking the place in part of the hither-
to small choir of older persons, in the
Congregational church, under the
training of Mrs. j. X. Lynde.
When advocates of high license in
our State find fault with prohibition
lists, who want prohibition not only in
their own individual towns, but also
in towns about them, we may be al
lowed, perhaps, to tell story of per-
sonal experience in the early days of
the old Barre Academy. With other
students we were under the sheltering
roof of the Congregations parsonage
then occupied by Rev. Andrew Royce.
One day we had an alteration with
a chum, who insisted on his right to
Sob up d pleCe VI lurulUur6, IOunQ IN
the parsons back chamber, that we
insisted ought not to be there, to so
disfigure the room. But all in vain.
To settle it, being he older of the two,
we said the room should be divided,
and, in his half, he could do, or put,
anything he chose to- One dav later.
while we were working hard on les
son, he entered the room, and set up
a whistling that was death to all our
intellectual effort. But, it did I'M
loose the tongue, and we fred dyna-
mited inquiry at him, as to what he
was doing " He was all gentleness as
he replied, "Only whistling in my
half of the room" We haven't "di-
vided any rooms" since.
Charles Davenport has rented his
farm to granite cutter and and sharp.
ener, John Edwards.
A chance to renew your youth. The
Y. p. s.. O. E. will give sociable at
the hall, March II. Men and women
will appear as children under twelve
years. Get your costumes ready. Make
no other engagements for March IL.
H. Baker of Eastern, Mass, who has
been in town for some months with