The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-11
EAST CALAIS.

Mrs. L. Q. Leonard has been con-
fined to the bed the past week with
severe cold and heart trouble.
The local lodge of Modern Woodmen
hold their meetings in Good Tenn
plars' hall the second and fourth
Wednesdays in the month.
The pupils of the village school gave
All exhibition in Levison q Lambs
hail, Friday evening, consisting of
songs, recitations, tablesuX, a panto-
mine and farce, "That Rascal Pat. -"
The hall was filled with an audience
which showed Its appreciation of the
excellence of each number. Much
praise is due the teachers, Mrs. Charles
Pierce and Miss Carrie White.
The newly installed officers of Mos.
COW lodge of Good Templars are Ivan
Gray, chief templar; Mrs. Florence
Waite, vice templar; Inez Pearce, past
chief templar; ID. B. Dwinell, chap
lain; Berta Hopkins, sec; etary Mrs.
Ola Gray, financial secretary; f. II.
Gray, treasurer; Arthur Bullock,
marshal Mrs. Susie Lamb, deputy
marshall; Ruth Gray, guard; Rich
Waite, sentinel.
LOWER CABOT.
George Gould has the contract for
furnishing the wood for the creamery
the comfy year
We hear that there are forty three
families in the village of Marshfield
deprived of water by the freezing of
the pipes of the village system.
Nahum Haines and Orlando Heath
have the job of putting in the ice for
tho for tha VI
The clerk of the school board has
completed the taking of the census of
the school children. There are 22S
children of school age in town.
The water famine is quite serious
matter in town to the farmers and
many others. A number of farmers
have to draw their water for stock
one-half mile and others mile and a
half In the village two or three wells
still hold out. Most of those supplied
by running water have pipes frozen
and no water in the springs. The viii
lage pump and river still hold out but
how long this will last is a question.
Eight schools i'll town all close this
week. The winter term in each dis
trict has been success although ow.
ing to the very severe winter the at
bcDuduC0 Wdb lnOIo DlOhOn tlldh uSudi
but as good as could be expected under
the circumstances.
A letter received from our towns
man, l.. g. Fisher, who is spending
the winter with his son, DR.. G. W.
Fisher, in San Mateo, Cal, reports
himself and wife in good health and
enjoying the pleasant, warm weather
very much. He thinks there is quite
q difference in living in a climate
where the mercury is 10 or so above
zero or 30 or 40 below.
We copy from the health officers re-
port to the State board of health in
regard to the mortality of the town
for the year 1908 There were fifteen
births and twenty-five deaths. One
case of diphtheria and one death from
the same; sixty-three cases of measles
and no deaths; four cases of scarlet
fever. The mortality has been I'M
usually large among the old people OF
the town; the death rate as to age be-
ing as follows: stillborn, | ; under one
year of age, /; between the ages of ~
and 30, q; 30 and 40, /; 40 and 30, l;
90 and 80, /; so and 70, Q; 70 and 80,
4; 80 and 80. s; 80 and 100, 2.
The board of civil authority will
meet at the town clerks Office for the
abatement of taxes next Saturday at IL
O'Clock q. IN. The auditors will meet
at the same place on the following
Monday.
THETFORD.
Mrs. Loder is away on vacation
Charles Thurston is spending severa
days at Wilder.
Mr.. Goodwin and wife, who were
burned out recently, have gone tc
spend the remainder of the winter
with their children.
Mr.. Pixley has so far recovered a
to be able to be out again.
Died in Oxford Jan. 81, Webste
Newoomb. aged seventy -four. HI
was highly respected by all who knew
him.
Fred Carey spent the Sabbath witt
his family.
John Sweet was in town the first O
the week.
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