The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-08-04

farmers.
Word comes of the improved health
n. Y.
Mrs. o. A. Badger learns Of the
death of her brother, Lester Abbott,
| of Plainfield. He was once a stone
cutter in Barre. He leaves wife and
two little children His wife is a
daughter of Mrs Annette Lyman
Griswold OF Brookfeld
George t. Edison reached st. Louis
all right.
Deacon Edwin o. Smith is able to
ride to the village now.
Will o. Martin came down here
from Ottawa, Canada, on Tuesday.
Horace Flint and wife recently Wis.
tied for two days, his nephew, Charles
Ii. Beckett, in New York City.
DR.. Henry Downs and wife, now
of Oil City, Pa, will visit the st.
Louis Exposition.
Ed. J. Poor has twenty acres of very
promising corn. He has two silos
with capacity of seventy five tons
each. He also stocks q good deal of
corn, that in the winter he steams,
The has good facilities for this), for
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as ensilage. He paid his creamery
patrons 10 cents for June butter fat.
George Robinson, a brother of N. B.
Robinson, has gone to Richmond to
work at his trade as tinsmith.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Flint visited
our old townsman, George Martin, in
Washington. D. O., ON their way
home to Nebraska.
Word came here Tuesday of the
death in Calais of Will H. Wheeler of
Des Moines. Iowa. He had been sick
for some time with what was pro-
nounced here to be Bright's disease.
He married Ella, the youngest daugh-
ter of the late S. Talcott Perrin of our
place, and for years has lived in Des
Moines, Iowa. He was long in the
employ of the Studebaker Brothers
Wagon Manufacturing Company of
South Bend, Indiana, as a general
travelling agent and commanded a
yearly salary of some thousands of
dollars, it is said. His wife, two sons
and two daughters survive him.
Mrs. S. Martin Seaver of our vii.
lage has just had IS guests three of her
nieces. and members of their families,
viz, Mrs. Laird of White River juno
ton, the wife of Dentist Sherpurne of
Springfield and a Mrs. Holt of Mont
pelier.
To the work of repairing the Con-
greagtional meeting house here, Mr..
and Mrs. James E. Ainsworth Of Ma
lone, ILL.,, have given $500. Mrs.
Ainsworth is a daughter of the late
Calvin Ainsworth Her sister, the
late Miss Emma l.. Ainsworth, left
$500 to go eventually to this church,
and it is thought it can be made
available now, for use in repairing
the Westinghouse.
William Randall of Chicago, son.in..
law of Rev. William Schofield, who is
here on visit might likely remain
here now if he could find in our viii
lage a suitable place for his trade.
Building is largely at a standstill
here. One dwelling house, in the
quarry district, another one in our viii
lage, the Seaver warehouse, and the
addition to the Grearson. Beckett Com.
pany's stone shed about tells the story,
this year, so far.
Clinton N Field, son-in-law of
George ". Brush, is here flom New
York.
The great amount of wet weather
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farmers who want to finish their hay
ing.
EAST ROXBURY.
J. A. LaRose and wife from AL
berta, Canada, are visiting at Peter
LaRose's.
Mrs. John Perham of Brookfeld,
spent Friday with Mrs. Farnham at
Clarence Mudget's.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wardner and
daughter, Ruth, spent Saturday in
Barre and Montpelier.
WARREN.
Miss Ivy Pierce of Fitohburg, Mass.
is spending few weeks with rela-
tives in this vicinity.
Miss Nose Hatch of Montpelier is
the guest of her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs Carlos Martin,
Mr.. and Mrs. Noel Kathan went
Monday to Medford, Mass, where they
have employment with O. A. Reed.
Mrs. Hiram Russell of Roxbury
spent couple of days in this vicinity
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Thayer are
spending few days with relatives in
: Montpelier and Barre.
Erskine Lyfurd is taking his annual
vacation in New York.
: Mr.. and Mrs George Bonnette OF
: Montpelier were guests at Frank
Towns.
Misses lila and Florence Austin OF
Mortified spent week with their
grandparents.
Harrison Pierce had the misfortune
to lose O fine horse Sunday.
o. M. Jones was i'll part of last
week, having had an attack of tonsl-
: litis.
Mrs. Theodore Wakefield of Burling-
ton is visiting her friends here for
couple of weeks.
LOWER CABOT.
j. @. Harvey has gone to Kingston
to visit his daughter, Mrs. Allen
Hazen, and also hoping to improve his