The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-29
WILLIAMSTOWN.


quarantined last week. as Mrs. Will
liams was thought to have diphtheria
Winfred Cram, son of Clinton j.
Gram, has been home of late, on IA
vacation from work in Boston.
Thomas @. Waldo, one of our most
prosperous farmers, took two first
premiums and one second one, on
grade ayrshire stock, at the Wash
ington fair.
Rev. D. II. Strong will take his an
nual vacation after next Sunday.
We have hardly seen higher tributes
paid to the character of a Christian
woman than are paid to the late DR..
Josephine S. Briggs, wife of our ex-
townsman, DR.. Scion Briggs, of Pasa-
dena, California. In the Daily News
of that city, which is before us, is a
part of the beautiful eulogy of her
pastor, Rev. DR.. A. W. Lamport, of
the First Methodist church there. 1t
the weekly four page leaf1et put forth
by the church of which she was a
member, it is said that ono one in all
the membership of that church had a
closer relation to its sanctuary, its al
tars, and the real heart of the church
than did Mrs. Briggs. Her sweet
voice and loving manner have been a
large part of its working capital for
years. y
Mrs. Frank Downs father, Mr..
Morse of Bakersfield, has been work.
ing in town for some time past, hav-
ing been one of the painters of the
Congregational meeting house.
d. s. Mcfarland has sold the old
Ophir S. Martin farm below the Free
Baptist church to Norman McAulay,
of whom he had it, and has bought
the Chester W. Bstcheller place in
Washington.
The president on our entertainment
course committee believes that the
coming seasons course will be better
than any of the previous courses, and
he says that 'to get choice seats, the
tickets should be secured at once"
House Builder John A. Perry has
been asked to Join O little company
of his fellow craftsmen to go to south
work at IS a day. He says they can
get special rate of $40 for the trip
from here there.
One of his neighbors tells us of the
high state of productiveness to which
Lewis M. Seaver has brought his
farm. We suspect 1T is owing to
what might be called 'uhe Kelley
oure'-or "the gold cure" applied in
leetle' surer, every time, than in in
ebriety-gOod as it may often have
been in the latter.
A son vas recently born to Mr.. and
Mrs. John German.
Andrew Burnham is with willard
Olough of Washington, at the Tun-
bridge fair this week, exhibiting the
petri6ed man. They will return here
on Friday, and exhibit the hardened
fellow at the town hall here, Satur.
day afternoon.
The granite manufacturers we are
told have work come in plentifully,
and cutters find employment accord.
ingly.
Mrs. George @. Earle tells us that
the young doctor, Fred ID Marshall,
who was killed in the recent Melrose,
Mass, dynamite disaster, was cous.
in of her son.iu-law, "Gus" Holt, OF
Barre.
Thomas Q. Waldo's little girls have
been having sore throats, but we heal
OF no diphtheria in the family.
Whooping cough has come to the
place.
David Gale has sold his interest il
the paint store he has been in, in Col
orado Springs, Col. and taken anoth 81
line of work.
We are all glad to hear of Henry b
Wsldo's success in his late farm sale
Mrs. Frank Downs brother. who
has been fighting consumption fol
some time past, is said not to have
slept indoors since May of last year
He is stronger than at one time. Mr.
Downs father returned to his home
in Bakersfield this week.
The Grange will have social a
the town hall Friday evening.
Will #. Croudis, long and favorabl,
known as 8 sharpener in our QUAR-.
district, after having been in NORTH
Conway. N H.. two or three year
past. Low finds work near his home
in Yarmouth, Maine.
DR.. Charles A. Briggs found grea
relief from hay fever when he frs
went to Pasadena, California, som,
years ago, but the disease has ap
peared again, after the manner o
some such troubles, in the circum
stances.