The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-21

George Porter recently received an
appointing mt in the railway postal SER
vice being the youngest mao Oh the
road.
Again the Barton base ball team has
been victorious, this time In closely
contested game with the Woodsville
Y. M. @. A. The score stood . A.
The Peerless factory resumed work
last Monday, after shut down of
three weeks.
Mrs. Eliza (Jones) wife of the late
H. o Whitcher, died Sunday evening
at her home in this village, where she
had lived forty two years. She would
have been seventy eight years ola
August /. Mrs. Whltcher was a men,
Der of the Congregational church
, where, until failing health prevented,
only few months ago, she had been a
constant atteudaut aud faithful work
er She was Il klud and obliging
neighbor and faithful friend. She
leaves son and dat ghter, thee grand
children, and brother to mourn her
loss
LYNDON WILLIE.
Ashley Jackman and wife of Little
ton, n. H., visited at f. W. Parker's
last week.
Born July IA, son to Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Daniels.
Born July IA, son to Mr. and Mrs.
Annss Morse.
Born July 10, son to Mr.. and Mrs.
| Clayton Libbey.
Robert McVicar of Franklin, Penn.
is in town for a week. He sails on
July 30 for England.
Lyndonville Reds will play with the
Littleton ball team here on Wednes-
day. The shops will close at o'clock
and work on Saturday afternoon.
wILLIAMSTOWN.
Lewis M. Seaver, whose business
matters call him to New York city
often, went there again last week.
Mrs. Clinton N. Field has lately
visited her brother, Hilton, in Proc
tor.
Mrs. Elisha B. Gale is with the
family of her only son, in Colorado
Springs, Col.
Henry Poole and A. Sherman
Winchester finished work at G. l..
Edison store last week.
Misses Belle Robinson and Amy
Wa.bridge went to st. Johnsbury the
first of the week, to attend the sum-
mer school there
We can laugh now, with one of our
worthy, hard working women, as she
tells of one OF her "high hopes,'' as
she was about to marry, namely,
THAT she would always be able to
take Peterson's Magazine. She says
her parents gave her the magazine
the first year after her marriage, and
she has never taken it since. Alas for
the many marriage blighted
hopes.
Neal B. Smith, son of Marcus A.
Smith, arrived here from Trinidad,
South America, last week, looking
| finely With his brother, Prof. Orren
! Smith, he goes into his fathers hay
| field, daily, just now, and lives over
his boyhood days. He is pleased with
his situation that he has had for
some years, with an asphalt COM
pany, and he expects to sail again for
Trinidad. the 2nd of September. He
has with him here, a sword that was
carried by the Venezuelan who re-
belled against the present administra-
ton and is now paying the penalty of
| it.
Mrs. William q. Pratt has lately
been visited by her brother, William
! Watterson, of Lowell, Mass. Their
aged mother lives with Mrs. Pratt.
AFRO A. Reed has lately been buy
ing live hogs for a Graniteville man
to ship to market
Word has come here of the sickness
| of Mrs. Orcutt Abbott. at the home
of her daughter, Mrs DR.. K. Bailey,
| in Oneida, N. Y. Although ill enough
to require the services of a nurse, and
with her advanced age naturally ad-
verse to her recovery, we are not
without hope that this esteemed
townswoman will again be better.
The Misses Comstock and Atkins,
respectively of Barton and Cabot are
| to return as teachers in our village
school next term. Two teachers in
the quarry district, well liked last
term, will go out of the State.
Willard Sprague, now seventy three
with the help of his son-in-law, Nor
ris Wiggin. The high prices COM
manded by, and the scarcity of help,
| in haying, makes him feel that he
must do as much as possible Of his
earlier-day work, now.
The proprietor of the Gulf Spring
House tells us he has some city board
ers, and that there are numerous Wis.,
itors to the Gulf. from towns about.
Last week some Providence, r. /. 4,
people stopping in nearby town
were there. We suspect it is still