The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-25

Dey, the old Hazen CLARK farm, years
ago.
The concert given last Saturday
evening, in our winters enteItainS
meut course by the Whitney Brothers
Quartet was largely attended and
greatly enjoyed. The next in the
course will be a lecture. IN March.
Harvey L. Cheney was at home
from Mortified, on Saturday last,
for brief stay.
DR.. Charles W Young, who is ex-
pecting to go to North China, as n
medical missiUary, under the support
in part or wholly of the Congrega-
tional churches of Orange county, we
think made an excellent impression
here, in his visit to our COngregat.
ional church last week Tuesday.
Much good may be reasonably hoped
for through his labors in that land.
At the home of our old townsman,
Horace Flint, which is Gibbon, Ne.
brasks, the winter is said to have
been an Indian summer. Mrs. Barney
ID. Flint writes from near Denver,
Col, that the winter has been very
pleasant one. Dentist Will Flint son
of Mrs. Barney d. Flint, who is pros
pecting in Arizona for good place
for his business, will, if unsuccessful in
this search return to Colorado, and
open an office in Denver.
Mr.. Van Rondeau, son.ln-law
of Paul Wilfore, has gone 70 house
keeping over the store of j. b. Brock
way and Son. He had been living in
= copper district in our county.
The suit brought against George t.
Colby by our selectmen was postponed
again till last Tuesday.
A son was recently born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Gallant. The mother is q
daughter of Joseph Sanders.
Rev. Frances A. Kimball last Sun.
day morning began series of sermons
at the Universalist church, on
deacon Lights in the History of Our
Country"
Our community was again startled
last Sunday by the sudden death of
Mrs. Marcella Williams, wife of Luz
oius 5. Simons, while sitting and
sleeping in her chair. Her dau. liter.
Mrs John Dow, who lives very near
ing and left it at about ten O'Clock to
make ready for church. AT that hour
Mrs. Simons seemed as usual. Mr..
| Simons was reading in the room with
| his wife, with no thought of any
thing else than that she was sleeping,
as she had way of doing in her
chair. But later, on going to her it was
| found that it was death. Mrs. Simons
was daughter of the late Abel S.
| Williams and had outlived the other
members of his family. To her were
| born four sons and two daughters, all
of whom but the late Arthur oimons,
survive her. OF the sons, one lives in
| Louisiana, one in northern Illinois,
and the other in Providence, r. |.
A daughter also lives in Providence.
| One daughter lives here. Home duties
and cares had always occupied Mrs.
Simons largely, and to all these she
| had given much of her life. We think
| she was greatly beloved as a mother
and we hear only kind words spoken
of her by any outside her immediate
family. She was some seventy -four
years of age. Her funeral will be at
the home at two p. M. Wednesday,
Rev. Frances a. Kimball officiating,
assisted by Rev. William Schofield
| The burial will be in the village GEM
terry.
Mrs. John Farnham has been suffer.
! ing of late with an injured wrist bad
| ly sprained If not indeed broken. Her
son. in. law, DR.. Lewis ID. Martin of
| Barre was called to treat her. She
was on stairway when somehow that
at times awful force known as gravity
got the better of her and laid her low.
THIS is no joke. We have just had
letter from the west written Oh let
| ter paper the heading on which is
| Grim q Barritt, hardware. The
writer is friend, who has more than
once visited us here and for one thing
! tells us of a stack of alfalfa hay he
| had seen that measured 105 tons. and
was cut on fifteen acres of land in one
| season.
Miss Julia Simons came up from
Providence. r. l., Monday last. to at
tend her mother funeral. Her broth
er, Bert Simons, will also come from
Providence for the same purpose.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Flint were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. X. Lynde
on Sunday. They attended the Whit
ney Bros. concert Oh Saturday. even
lug.
Our village creamery paid 1872 cents
for butter fat, for the month of Janu-
airy.
Lie law sui Oh Jlle uOWu W.. 0eOrRe
7. Colby was begun on Tuesday, but
wa spostponed till Wednesday. The
jury are to be residents of Brooktield.
The boarders in Harvey l.. Cheney's
family expect to remain there no
longer than about the second week
in March, as the family will probably
go to Mortified not far hence.
Messrs. r. M. Harvey of Montpe-
lier and Chester Dickey of Washing
ton were in town on Tuesday last
Of late the fact has been emphasized
by portion of the press in the State
that the towns which are liKoly to
be prosperous IN manufacturing way
as Mortified, for an instance-aPe
the ones that take hold and encourage
such establishments. with pecuniary
helm Last fall. our place was asked
to encourage granite plant by gift
of thousand dollars. the plant
known as the l.. o. Barker Granite
Works. The work done by this COM
pany makes decided item in the in
terests of the place. in the money
paid but fortnightly, and it is hoped
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