The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-06-30

out for it, az he might have done.
Will o. Martin, son of Ophir s.
Martin, will come from his home in
Ottawa, Canada, ere long, for va
cation. His wife and daughter will
accompany him.
After three surgical operations in
considerably less than year, for a
canoerous trouble, Mrs. Ophir S.
Martin is now in much better health.
She is using the extract of clover,
and at present there is no apparent re
turn of the disease, as we are most
happy to record.
After much enjoyed visit of a
left for his home in Racine, Wiscon-
sin, the last Of last week.
The "Star Club" in our grammar
school challenged the inter mediate
department, in the matter of finding,
this season, the greater number of
wild flowers, shrubs and trees about
here. In all, two hundred and TWEEN
ty-five kinds were found, but each of
the two departments found two hun
bred kinds. AS reward, the teach
ers, Misses Atkins and Oomtsook,
gave the two rooms, occupied by
these departments, each microscope,
and a book of school songs. The
primary department found one hun
dred and fifty kinds of flowers,
ETC. Frank, son of Jerry Hutchinson,
and Eldon, son of Erwin H. Martin,
(the former in the grammar depart
ment, and the latter in the intermedi.
ate), found the largest number of
flowers, etc.
Next Sunday morning the Congrega-
tlonalists will begin to hold their
morning service in the town hall.
Their meetings with the Methodists,
in the last six Or eight weeks, have
been very pleasant.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Dean Corliss on Sunday, weight
eleven and one-half pounds.
Miss Comstock of our village school
held picnic with her pupils one day
last week, on the old General Z. Bass
farm. They presented her with a
set of fruit knives, and other gifts,
in token of their esteem for her. She
went to her home in Barton last Sat-
! urday.
Tie parents of Rev. Frances A.
Kimball have just returned to their
home in Maine after prolonged Wis
it here.
The glass blowers are to be here
| through this week under the auspices
| of the l. o. o. f.
At the meetig of the Masonic
| Grand Lodge of Vermont, in Ben
nington, last week, Henry Poole was
elected to the office of Tyler. Mr..
Poole has been one OF the most active
! and devoted members of the Masonic
! lodge here since it's organization.
There is an active demand for goo6
| tenements here and if there were more
of them, they would doubtless fine
ready takers
| The largest strawberries we have
] saen, that were raised in town, came
from the farm of Willard Spragut
last week. Certain fourteen of then
| filled pint measure.
| The parents of Miss Edna Diokin
son report that she seems to be i'm
proving nowadays. May she con-
tinue to gain, till fully restored, will
be the wish of many friends.
George Jeffords is staying at the
present time with his sister, Mrs.
Darwin Goodrich.
Charles NJ Edison is attending the
three days meeting of the Under.
| takers Association, in Burlington,
this week.
Erwin H. Martin had nearly finished
his haying last Tuesday morning.
Francis II. Staples, youngest SOL
of the late Isaac Staples, was recently
oo lla6 from tho National Soldiars
Home, in Togus, Maine, to Reading,
Penn, by the illness of his daughter,
Mrs. Bert Royce.
Mrs. Warren Grearson and Miss
Nellie Murray were in Northfield,
last week. Miss Murray will be in
DR.. W. B. Mayo's family for time.
George Mari will sail in few days
for his old home in Scotland, to be
ther some weeks. We are glad to re.
I! port the benefit to his health that
Rev. #. E. Currier seems likely to
have received from his trip to Pacific
coast. 1t was the soul of brotherly
kindness" that he put into his words
last Sunday, as he spoke of the pleas
ure it had given him, that the men,
bers of the Congregational church had
worshipped in late weeks with his
own people while their own church
! was undergoing repairs. This favor
from the Methodists will not be for
gotten, and when their church, too,
(perhaps in the not distant future)
shall undergo repairs, they will be
shown a similar favor.
Elmer Clough of Lowell, Mass.
was recent visitor at the home OF
Waverley Murray.
HARDWICK.
Mr.. Brien's people nave moved
from Marshallville into the Oungre-
gational parsonage.
Ada, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Mason, died at the home of
her parents on Sun lay, June 10. Had
J she lived until next October she would
have been eighteen years old. She
had been i'll with consumption for q
long time.
A union temperance service was
held Sunday evening at the Baptist
church. Rev. Mr.. CLARK of the Con-
gregstional church was the principal
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