The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-08

| church for nearly two centuries, now
set to modern music, could hardly
move us more.
Ernest Hutchinson is to be clerk at
| the Monument House,. in place of
Rocsoe Lynde who is about to enter
Williston Seminary, Easthampton,
Mass
The East Barre base ball team
played the Williamstowns here last
Saturday, and whipped them badly.
The Gulf was "tne STORM centre"
here, in the way of celebrating"
Labor Day, Monday.
| Cornelius Pettis did not get the
South Barre V. O. r. II. station. A
telegrapher was needed for the place.
Mr.. Pettis went to Hardwick, Mon.
day. to visit family friends
Rev. r. l.. Sheaff, formerly of
Barton, and now of Plainfeld, will
! preach here next Sunday in exchange
with Rev. d. H. Strong.
Clinton N. Field of New York city
| is in town visiting his family.
| l.. o. Morgan and wife are at his
old home, in Richmond.
Mrs. Nelson Vassar is in New York
in the interests of her dressmaking
| business here.
There are two cases of bilious fever
in John Edwards family, on the
Hiram Davenport place.
There was base ball game at the
| Gulf on Monday afternoon, between
| the East Barre and Brookfeld teams.
| The latter was victorious, on score
of to 10 in its favor.
| Mark Eastman is ill
Gurdon Martin is in Nashua, N.
Nathan Harrington, wife and
daughter, now of Grinnell, Iowa, are
visiting in town. Mr.. Harrington
! is in better health than when here a
few years ago. 1t was thought then
he might not live but short time
Mrs. Wesley NJ Saaver is the guest
of cousin, the daughter of the late
Arial Hell, at her cottage at Round
Lake, N. Y.
Lewis M. Seaver's recent visit to
grants quarrles in Maine was really
! in the interests of the Humane AL
lance, in New York city, Of which
, he is the secretary and treasurer 1t
seems t. be a favorite method with
this Alliance in dispensing it's char
! titles to give public drinking foun-
! tains to cities, and the bowls of these
! fountains are of granite. One day,
while on a boat. on the Maine coast,
Mr. and Mr.. Seever had taste of q
very rough sea, that may make them
I content to be known as "land lub-
! bers" hereafter.
On Saturday last, Ralph Spencer of
our village, formerly of Plsintield,
was married to Miss Jear1ie Mcleod
| of Graniteville. They went to st.
! Johnsbury the same day to visit Mr..
| Spencer's brother.
| The Universallst society has lately
! painted its church, outside and inside,
and otherwise improved the inside,
so that it never presented so fine an
appearance we think, as now.
Preaching was resumed by Rev.
Frances A. Kimbal' last Sunday.
Mrs. Merville Martin was last week
the guest of her sister in law, Mrs.
Harley Martin. She is well known
| here as Gertrude Stoddard, of Waits
led, having taught here quite long
time. Her husband is on the Morri-
son farm in Barre.
A nephew cf Mrs. Chester Martin,
a son of her Lite brother, Scion Wood,
and now resident of Gslesburg,
illinois, was here last week accom-
panied by his wife.
! Frank Hunton, after trial of the
granite business in South Barre, de-
cides to remain here, in the business.
Neil B. Smith stal Jed for the Island
of Trinidad, last week, where for some
years he has been in the employ of sn
asphalt company.
Mrs. Andrew Edison of New York
city has been guest of late of her
relative, Mrs. Charles r. Benedict.
Her sister. Mrs. Ellen Paine Wheat
ley, has been gnest of Mrs. John
Farnham, also a relative.
DIR. Jason Q. Briggs wife and son,
and Mrs. o. c. Ellis. all of Som
erville Mass, accompanied the body
of Mrs. j. Marshall Palmer for burial
here last week.
The late Mrs Palmer, whose death
is noticed elsewhere in this paper, was
born Susan Wheeler, little more than
eighty years ago in Randolph. Fol-
lowing her marriage to the late James
Marshall Palmer, we'll known, es-
teemed resident of our place, she came
here to live. Two daughters were
born TO Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer. who
now reside in Somerville, Mass.
Among the earliest remembrances of
these daughters, we suspect is that of
the great invalidism of their mother,
which was one of the most marked
and long continued instances of the
kind that we recall in the history of
our place. What such sickness meant
to the subject of it, every way, only
similar invalids can understand How
Mrs. Palmer could have maintained
the cheerfulness which we have so
often seen in her in these years is
nothing less than surprising. With
her social nature it could have been
no small deprivation TO be kept aloof
SO largely and so long from active life
in society, and it will never be known
what might have been done but for
sickness One of our good women has
just told us of having been Mrs, Palm
er's close by neighbor here at one
time, and of the unremitting kindness
she received from Mrs. Palmer-kind-
nesses that our own experience enables
us to understand and appreciate.
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