The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-18

here Mrs. Williams has had large
experience as compositor in printing
offices in Montpelier, Rutland, and
Barre Her friends will wish her a
happy home.
Mrs. Henry Wood has been visiting
at her old home in Fayston of late.
We were recently talking with a
merchant not thousand miles away,
whose store affords many opportunities
for thieving He told us that he sus-
pected his yearly loss by stealing of
his goods was in the hundreds of dol
lars 1t is known we'll enough where
some of these goods go, though the
guilty ones may not think of it. But
the end is not yet
1t is good to know that Mrs. David
Gale, recently gone to Colorado
Springs, COL, to live, finds it very
pleasant home for her.
Record of winter term in the village
primary ROOM Pupils having no alb
sent marks during the term: Alfred
Ciardi, Marian Erskine, Elsie Frs
kline, Blanche Godfrey, Doris Kanaly,
and Louis Passera. Those having one
day or less absences Johnnie Clark,
TANK HuntOn, MaDel LaVarnWay.
Thirty-one pupils had no tardy marks
during the term. Number of pupils
enrolled, fifty. During the year.
seventy-one pupils have been in at
tendance, Average daily attendance
for the year, 80.
The ladies' reading club will meet
next week Saturday with Mrs. E. B.
Watson. The subject of study will be
"The Language and Literature Of
ITALY,"
The Good Templars netted nearly
$40 from their valentine social last
Saturday evening. The Congregation
al ladies valentine social the evening
before proved very pleasant occasion
and added number of dollars to the
their treasury.
A party of score or more persons
from East Barre took supper at the
Monument House one evening last
week.
On Tuesday evening of this week,
DR.. Charles w. Young is to speak at
the Congregational church here in the
interests of the work he is about to
take up as missionary in North
China and In a way under the wing of
the Congregational churches of Orange
county. DR.. Young was born in what
is now part of the city of Chicago,
on May 81, 1874. He was educated
and after his graduation. taught in
his native State. In 1899 he entered
the'Johns Hopkins Medical School and
graduated in 1908. He is yet connect
ed in way with that institution. In
1896, during his attendance at the stu.
dent Summar cOnfarauoa at Toka Con
eva, ILL.,, he declared his purpose to 90
later as missionary to n foreign land.
He will 60 to the north China mission
and will probably be locs ted at Pao.
ting .fu.
On Saturday evening of this week at
the town hall there will be another
entertainment in our winters course,
that we believe will be one of the most
delightful of the season. 1t will be
concert by the Whitney brothers quar-
tet, that comes highly spoken of. One
of the brothers is a professional read.
er, who will give selections during
the evening Let them have full
house.
The school entertainment on the
south hill last Friday evening was
we'll attended and seems to have given
great pleasure.
Leon Dirty is about to move to
Northhelu.
The Grearson- Beckett Granite Com
pany put more men at work last Mon.
day.
With all his gettings in the past,
Kew. ID. ii. Strong got the art of print
ing and with his printing press at the