The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-10-06

George l.. Edison is to build up his
health by exercise on the General f..
BASS farm of which he is II OF the
two purchasers. We saw a potato dig.
ger steering for his house on Monday
that was apparently wholly uncon-
sclous OF the cyclone 1t was about TO
set IN motion in a potato patch, in the
old Bass meadow. Oh, what if that
same "medder' hadn't been used to
such things in the last dozen years
Mr.. and Mrs j. E. Ainsworth were
to leave Olaremont, N. H., for their
home in Mobile, ILL.,, last Monday.
Daniel D. Royce makes Ocean Grove.
N. D., his home ana finds his health
very much improved there. His son.
Bert, lives in st. Louis, Mo.
! In addition to the sale of ARTICLES at
their fair on Thursday and Friday of
next week. Oct. 10 and IA, the Meth.
Udist ladies will have a chicken pie
supper Thursday afternoon, followed
by an illustrated lecture in the even
ing by Col. A. @. Brown of M~ontpe.
iier, relating to his visit to the Vel
lowstone Park. On Friday evening
there will be an entertainment, in
which Miss Mabel Hamilton, teacher
OF %elocution in Montpelier Seminary.
and Mrs. Kate Brush Field, of our
PLACE, Will take part.
Mrs. Horace M. Farnham has Just
accompanied her husband to St. Louis.
he having gone for a car of horses.
James Z. Lynde is in Boston this
week buying \goods for his store here.
Andrew Burnhsm will accompany
Willard Clough of Washington on
Friday OF this week in the exhibition
OF the prehistoric woman at West
Randolph. They will ere very long
visit in Barre city, East Barre, Mont
pelier, and probably Waterbury and
Burlington.
Our Representative elect. Walter
E. Granger, is a genial a who
loves a good joke, and can both give
and take. Last Tuesday morning.
with his face set in the direction of
Montpelier, he had occasion to drive
along our main street, with a one
horse farm wagon, such as would be
used in a hay field, and on the wagon
a porker that evidently had lust been
dressed for market. After what has
/; lately been said and done by sundry of
the citizens of the capital, in the
matter of board for Representatives in
the coming Legislature, it will not be
hard to imagine the kind of "peltinp"
Mr.. Granger received that morning.
from waggishly disposed fellow citi.
zens, whom he passed.
Our entertainment course onaned
most auspiciously last Monday even.
ing. There was a large attendance.
the Wilder Orchestra of Montpelier
having had remarkable s'draWInp
power. Their music was considered
very line, and all who ministered to
this entertainment must have been
satished with the abundant applause
given them. If the "~slogan'' is to
be Vermont for Vermonters," by all
means let it also be "a Vermont Or.
chestra. like The Wilder for Yer
monters." 1t was the second time
MIR. Wilder has been here, but we
hope it will, by no means, be the last.
WAITSFIELD.
Charlie Bigelow of Montpelier Sem.
mary was at home on Sunday.
Miss Edith Norway of Waterbury
was a guest at the Waitsfield House
one day last week.
James Ryle is at home from Gran
i~teville.
Mrs. Thomas Maxwell is still gain.
ing IN health.
MI. and Mrs. Clayton Hersey, who
have been in town the past summer,
returned 10 BOSTON on Monday.
Sam and Dan Somerville have sold
their village home to Hiram S~toddard.
Mr.. Scott and wife are now running
the Waitsfield House.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. II. Bushnell, who
nave been visiting relatives and
friends in Hudson, n. Y, for the past
few weeks, returned home on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Henry and chill
dren of Fayston were in town Oh Sun. /
dav the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Clay
ton Henry.
Mrs. Betsy Boyce of Waterbury is
visiting relatives and friends in town.
There will be services in the Con.
gregational church next Sunday.
BROOKFIELD.
Many of the farmers report their
potatoes are rotting badly.
Mrs. Loomis is nursing Mrs. Eugene
Marsh and baby.
Oliver Dutton came up from Con.
COru, ~. IL, ouuuhY morning Tor q
short stay. and called ON relatives
here in town.
Terence Caligan was quite sick the
Of the week with stomach trouble
and confined to his bed for a day or
two.
The circular conference will be held
with the Stcond Congregational church
next week Tuesday.
A goodly number from this vicinity
attended the Douglass auction last
Saturday.