The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-11-10
VILLA STOWN.


George l.. Edison and family plan
to 90 to Iowa, this week for visit of
some weeks If, as we hear, he is to
return here before January /, it would
indicate that he will engage N work
hereabouts much to the satisfaction of
many friends.
Mrs James X Lynde goes 10 East
hampton, Mass, this week to visit her
son Roscoe, student at Williston
Seminary. She will not return till
next week
a brother of Mrs. Willard Walker,
and OF Mrs. William n Grearsou,
returned with Mrs. Walker from her
late visit to her Old home in New
Brunswick.
After some six months the Oongre-
gatioualists held last Sunday morn
ing's service i'll one of the lower rooms
of their church building. that has
meantime been undergoing changes
and repairs. There could hardly be
more welcome sound than that of the
Gid church bell calling to this service,
that fittingly opened with the DoXol-
ogy. The main room in the building
Will not be ready for use for some
weeks perhaps, bus the larger of the
lower rooms proved to be very at
tractive one for the service, as 1t
promises TO be for the ne cessary uses
of the church in days to come. The
needed warmth Of the room came into
one side of it, from one of the gifts of
the late Perkins Bass, while on the
opposite side were pulpit furnishings
the gift of the same man. But wnere
should we stop now if we were to try
to emuDmerate all the gifts large and
small that have entered into this
house of worship that promises so
much in the future, if spared all dis
aster, OF blessing May its occupants,
and may the towu-yes, even the
whole world be blessed throught it.
Then shall it best fulfil its design
We know no reason why there shall be
any interruption Of Sunday morning
services in the building henoeforth !;
or of any of the evening services when
lamps shall have been placed in the
rooms.
The high school social at the town
hall last Saturday evening we judge
proved more successful than was anti.
cipated financially, the result having
been over $l3 to be used, we hear, for
books for the school library. The ex-
ercises musical and literary were good.
In the discussion of the Eastern war
question it was decided rs shown that
Japan rather than Russia should have
| our sympathy.
L. d. Carr, on the old ALVIN Flint
farm, has been selling some of his
| COWS as the health of his wife is so
poor the trouble being rheumatism
For Some reason, which he thinks can
only be ii e quality of the feed Mr..
Carr says his COWS have yielded less
butter this year by perhaps few hun
dred pounds than usual.
Jeweler George r. Bosworth, will
/ make the effort to close out all his
stock within the next few weeks aud
move from here. He says single
man ought to do well as jeweler
here and we wish for the sake of the
town good one might come here
now. Mr. Bosworth thinks he can
offer fine Inducements for buyers of
Christmas gifts to come to him now
| We have just been told the high
tribute that Michigan lady of cul-
ture pays to Vermont and to our own
immediate section, after year and
more in Europe. Let us be alive to
the beauty of our surroundings, as
lowered with by nature
1t seems likely that we are to have
with us through the winter. MIS-.
Emeline White Richardson, of Chi.
oago. who has had rooms for some
months past in James S. Hopk ms
house. Mrs. Richardson has "a son
and daughter in the west by her first
husband. the late Alden Whitney. 1t
does one good to see her CHEEKY face
here
Martin G. Erskine has diphtheria,
aud his house is duly quarantined
DR.. W. j. Tindall cares for him.
William III. Witherell writes of hav
ing reached Effingham, N. H., ant
thinks he may have home while ht
lives. with his half brother there.
ED. " Whitney is working in thu
Seaver feed store.
Eddie CLARK OF our high school
who has been in G. W. Brush's famil,
in late years. thinks he may be Ii
Gene Calls family the coming win
ter.