The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-05-12
EAST WARREN.

MIS-. Myra Falmer is visiting In
Waitsfield.
The dwelling house of~G H. Camp
bell containing the post-office was
destroyed by fire last Sunday after
noon. Nothing was saved in the
chambers which contained SIX beds,
nearly all the family clothing, and
ninety yards of carpeting. The gov
eminent stamps and money were saved.
A strong south wind was blowing
and other buildings caught fire, but
with plenty of help and water the
fire was soon eXtinguished. W. j.
Estey carried nearly everything out
of his house expecting the house
would be burned. Mr.. Campbell has
moved his family into his other
house, occupied by Clint Greenwood's
family. The insurance is small Mr..
Campbell aud family have the SYM
pathy of all.
There will be preaching here next
Sunday at 3 O'Clock by Rev. F. M.
Barnes of Waitsfeld.
CALAIS.
Mrs. Mary Delaney visited at Mrs.
Aliens last week.
Rev. Alvin Smith will preach at
the "Old West church, next Sunday
at 2 :15.
Elgin Mann and wife spent Sunday
in Cabot,
Walter Stoddard and family visited
at Omar Wleelook's last Sunday.
Harry Morse ana wife were in
Montpelier last Friday.
The ladies of the Universallst So
nipty inyitld Tn tha old
church next Thursday afternoon and
get it in readiness for holding SER
vices.
WOODBURY..
Carl Drenan is preparing to keep
house in the Mcknight house where
Ely Burnham lately moved out.
A daughter was born to Burt
Wheeler and wife on May Z.
Burt Wheeler is expecting to go to
Montpelier to work soon.
Mrs. William Lewis has been con-
fined to the house with grip but is a
little better at this writing.
Ernest Dotey's youngest child has
been quite sick the past week, also
Mrs. Doty is poorly. She recently
had twenty -four teeth drawn and al
together 1T has been quite hard for
them.
The remains of Mrs. Mason Wheeler
were taken out of the vault at Har-
dwick Sunday and inferred in South
Woodbury. cemetery.
h. +. Drenan is nearly ready to
open his saloon and Harley Ricard
is about to establish beer garden.
Some are evidently PATIENTLY CD
awaiting these events.
VEkSHIRE.
Died in Lancaster, N H., April Is,
Oliver Samuel Rice, brother of Mrs.
Mary W. Parker, of this place. Mr..
Rice was born in CRANKY, moving
from that place to Lancaster at the
time of his marriage to Miss Mary l..
Metoalf. daughter OF Deacon Thaddeus
Metcalf of Lancaster. When a young
man he united with the Congregations
al church in CRANKY and after he re-
moved to Lancaster he transferred his
relation to the church in Dutlon, N.
H., of which he remained a devoted
member until his death. In the full
strength CT his young manhood Mr..
Rice was stricken with sudden and
severe illness, which left him but
wreck OF MS former belI-anQ IOr
many years he had been an almost
helpless invalid But through all these
long years of earthly martyrdom his
religious faith was never dim, and his
serene courage, patience and endur-
ance of pain and suffering was ever an
inspiration to those who were blessed
with his society and influence. He
was in life great lover of flowers,
and these sweet tokens of love and
friendship, and emblems of the purity
of his own heart and life. surrounded
him in death. The funeral was at mis-
late home, Rev. Mr.. Harrington of
Whitefield officiating and he was laid
to rest in a beautiful spot and near
the graves of little ones who had gone
before. Mr. Rice was educated in
the schools of the town and at the
Academy in Barnston, p. @. He fit
ted for college at st. Johnsbury Acad-
envy, under the instruction of the la
mented Prof. j. X. Colby On the
death Of his father he assumed charge
of the farm devoting himself to the
care and support of his widowed moth
or and aged grandmother and a young
brother. He was gifted writer ana
his thoughts expressed in beautiful
verse, have found place in many
publications. He was we'll styled
"The Part of the North Oountry.b A
wife and two daughters, and two sis
ters arc left to mourn his loss.