The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-01-21
WATERBURY,.

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There was public installation of
the officers of Mentor lodge, l. .. @.
f. and the kebekah lodge on Friday
evening of last week. After the in.
stallation banquet was served by
| the ladies and social good time en-
| ioyed.
Miss Mabel Reynolds spent Sunday
in town, the guest of Wheelocb Towne
and family.
Miss Mabel Randall of Burlington
spent Sunday in. town with friends.
DR.. W. f. Minard has returned
i from Boston. He brings the report
that ID. O. Jones, who has had an
operation performed for appendicitis
at the hospital there, is getting along
nicely and ought to be about in two
weeks
Miss Blanche Stranahan, who has
| finished teaching in Duxbury, is TO
teach the remainder of the term in the
| school at Waterbury Center vacated
by Miss Nellie O'Brien.
Miss Nellie O'Brien has been en-
gagged take the place of Miss Mary
Roscoe, who resigned as teacher in
the village school, recently. Miss
o 'Brien began her work on Monday.
The regular meeting of Alhambra
encampment will be held on Friday
evening. January %. The patriarchal
degee will be conferred.
E. E. Campbell, who went to Bos.
ton on Thursday to attend meeting
of the Occidental Development Co.,
returned on Monday.
The following unclaimed letters
were advertised at the local post office,
January IS: Mrs. b j. Howes, l..
A. Mers, Miss Alice Campbell, Miss
| Ellie Cady, Mrs. Mary Cove.
Henry Marshall Of Burlington wa in
town on Friday.
O. @. Warren has gone to New York
to attend meeting of the automobile
club. He will leave New York next
Saturday for Ormond, Florida. to at
tend the automobile race to be held
there. From Ormond he will make
an extensive trip through the south
and west for about two months. En-
vim Cooley accompanied Mr.. Warren
to New York.
Mrs. j. e. Greene ana son retained
from Worcester Mass, on Saturday,
after an extended visit.
j. M. Dillingham;, who was confined
to the house by neuralgia, for several
days, was able to attend to his duties
on Monday.
The lecture on "John Ruskin, "
given by the Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills of Brooklyn, on Wednesday
evening. was we'll attended and much
enjoyed.
Leo Marston was in Boston last
week.
The whist club met with Prof. E.
M. Roscoe.
The young men will meet in the
Chase building on Tuesday to arrange
for the organization of social club.
Drew Daniels was in Sodom on Sat.
urdav on business at his quarry.
For the first time this winter the
Mt Mansfield electric road failed to
make the regular time The big
drifts along the line proved too much
for the pillow on Monday. The mail
was carried to Stowe by H. D. Brown.
Mary S. Watts, widow of the late
home of l.. J. Elliot On Wednesday,
January ID, at the age of eighty even
years. The funeral services were held
at the home of l.. j. Elliot on Satur.
day at 2 O'Clock, Rev. +. B. kellogg
officiating. The interment was in the
village cemetery. Mrs. Watts had
been totally blind for the last thirty
years of her life and was always pa.
tient with those who were in attend.
ance upon her. and was beloved by all
who knew her
Waterbury, Jan. 1S.-As result OF
a shock sustained about week ago.
Mrs. Kate Billings died at her home
here this morning about 10 10 o'clock.
She is survived by a husband, H. W.
Billings, son, Arthur W., daugh.
ter, Mrs. John Deal, two brothers,
Charles and Michael Morrisey, and
three sisters, Mary, Ann and Mar.
garet, all Of this town. The funeral
will be held from her late home Wed.
nesday morning at 10 O'Clock and the
burial will be in Waitsfield.