The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-17


promenade and dance at the vestry
halt on Wednesday, March is. Good
music.
Miss Nina Tibbetts went to North
field last Friday to stay over Sunday.
Mrs. j. w. Butterfield is sick, but
is improving.
MORETOWN.
The Tuesday Evening Club will
give concert at the Methodist church
next Friday evening at 2 :45 O'Clock.
An interesting program is prepared,
consisting of a cantata entitled 1.-The
Wreck of the Hesperus, by Thomas
Anderson; "Wynken, Blynken and
Nod" words by Eugene Field; 1.-The
Rhine Raft Song" Giro Pinsuti !;
Good Night, Thou Glorious Sun"
violin solos, vocal solos and reading.
Elmer Garter went to Rutland on
Saturday to spend few days.
Tom Nerney is visiting his par
ents.
Twenty eight members of Maple
lodge of Good Templars enjoyed a
leap year ride to Duxbury last week
Tuesday evening, where they visited
the Sunshine lodge The company,
after the regular meeting, had the
pleasure of listening to some fine re-
marks by All Mccullough and songs
and recitations by several members,
after which the tables were quickly
set and heavily loaded with beans,
cakes of all kinds, tea, coffee, etc.
The remainder of the evening was
spent in promenading. After giving
three cheers for Sunshine lodge the
company broke up, the Moretown
+ ladies taking their gentleman friends
home safely.
Work is progressing rapidly at the
tale mines, q good share of the ma
chiuery having been hauled up three
the past week. 1t is expected to be
in running order by May l.
DR.. Bisbee of Montpelier was in
town on Sunday.
Milo Pierce and Edith Hart spent
Sunday in Waitsfeld
The ladies aid will hold sale at
the town hall next week.
Mrs. John w. Thompson died IN
| Rutland last Saturday from paralysis
| She was born in town fifty-two years
ago and had lived in Rutland for
about eighteen years. She is survived
by her husband, one son, William j..
Thompson, and one brother, Henry H.
Carpenter of Waterbury
DANVILLE.
Carleton Oass of Craftbsury is work
ing for his brother, W. H. Cass.
Stephen Waterman of Providence,
r. l., has purchased the Warner place
| o.
Waterman plans to make extensive i'm
provements on his farm and make it
his summer home.
L. D. Lowering of West Derby visit
ed at Charles Tice's last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Oass we're called
| to Craftsbury last Saturday on account
of the illness and death of Mrs. Cass'
father, Major Robbins.
| Clark Wiley suffered very severe
shock of apoplexy last week and is now
slowly improving.
| Marshall Stocker is in Boston on q
business trip.
staying with her daughter. Mrs. Rog-
ers of Passumpsic, for several weeks,
returned home Monday.
Mrs Freeman Allison has gone to
| Boston, where she will visit her
daughter, Mrs. Carl Hopkins.
The concert at the town hall on Fri
day evening of this week for the bene.
fit of the Methodist church promises
to be one all should make point of
attending.
SOUTH RYEGATE.
Andrew Mills of Groton has moved
| into Mrs. Nancy Randall's tenement
| and will run the steam engine for
Rosa Brothers.
| Mr. Emerson, from Littleton, N. H.,
has moved into Mrs. Mary B. Mel.
sons tenement and will work for
Charles Green in the granite business.
The States attorney for Caledonia
| county was in town last Friday. The
results of his call here will be made
public later.
Mrs. o. E. Corwin of Bradford was
in town Monday visiting Mrs. Lind
| say, her sister, who is very ILL.,
Everett Forsyth of Topsham was in
town on business last Tuesday.
The remains of Willie Stevens,
twenty. two years old, were brought
home from Quincy, Mass, last Tues
day. Funeral service was from the
Presbyterian church ON Wednesday.
Rev. Mr.. Wallace officiated. Willie
was one of our most highly respected
| young men, of good habits and morals,
and liked by all. He had been serving
his trade as an apprentice for two
years with his uncle. Through some
mistake he got bar CT steel in his
hand upon the dynamo or the wire
and was killed instantly last Saturday
He leaves father. mother. brother
and two sisters. All the people in this
section are in deep sympathy with the
| bereav ed family
| TOPSHAM.
[ Rev. N. r. johnson has bought a
place of Mrs. q. A. Currier Mr..
Johnson is feeling somewhat better.
Miss Agnes Nolan, Alice Nolan,
Josiah Page and Mrs. Raymond Cilley
are sick.
The friends of John Bolan are sorry
to learn Of his death in Philadelphia.
Miss Ethel Hayward gave party to
a few of her friends Saturday evening,
| IL hainu har al uhtaanth hirtbday