The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-10-13
NORTHFIELD.

The regular meeting of the Modern
Woodmen Of America will be hello
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Abbie Baker is visiting Mrs.
William Rumbaugh in Burlington.
Bishop A. o. Hall will make his
annual visit to St. Mary's church Nov.
20.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Brown returned
froin st. Johnsbury on Thursday,
where they visited their daughter.
Harry Cady spent Saturday in Mont.
pelier
DR.. Wesley Davis of Worcester,
Mass, visited friends in town on Fri
day.
Major and Mrs. f. L. Howe attend
ed the Governors reception at Mont
pelier on Thursday evening.
Harroll M. Howe and W. E. O..
Washburn returned Wednesday even
ing from New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Petty re-
turned on Wednesday night from Har-
rison, N. Y.
Mrs. William Kingston, who has re-
Gently recovered from a severe attack
of pneumonia, has gone to Poland
Springs. Me-, for her health.
Robert Sanborn, who had the mis-
fortune to break his arm last week, is
doing as well as could be expected.
John Gokey has moved his family to
Ohlesea. He has exchanged his place
here with Dr. Edwin Porter for a
farm there.
S. H. Kent was in Boston and
Brookton last week to attend the
Brockton fair
Miss Minnie Hurley, who has been
spending the summer with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hurley,
leaves this week for Milwaukee. Wis. !,
where she makes her home with her
uncle, Lyman Hodges.
Miss Belle Houston is in Burling-
ton.
Miss Minna Cady and Miss Marion
Eastman are assisting at Miss Smith s
millinery store.
The Socialists here held meeting
at 2 O'Clock on Sunday afternoon to
enter protest against militaryism
in labor troubles such as the trouble
Colorado, also the recent difficulty
in Italy. This was a branch of the
general meeting which was held at
the same hour III all States of Amer
lea and countries abroad. The protest
is to be sent to the king of Italy and
his aid is asked to assist in these
troubles.
Mrs. Richard Giffin and Mrs. Irving
Kerr left on Thursday for visit in
Hinesburg.
Robert Selby has moved from the
Whitmarsh house on North Main street
to the tenement recently vacated by
William Legier on East street.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs
Clinton Berry died in West Berlin on
Tuesday after a severe illness. The
funeral occurred on Thursday Rev. E.
W. Sharpe officiating. Interment was
at West Berlin. The parents have the
sympathyAof all.
Joseph Miller has finished work for
+. p. Houston.
The first of series of dances to be
given by Go. f. was held ON Friday
evening. These social affairs are to
be given every other Friday evening
during the winter. Good music will
be furnished and all are cordially in
vited.
The farm known as the Lynch farm
will be sold by public auction on Wed.
.
Dunsmoor will act as auctioneer.
Mrs. B. F. Early returned to her
home in Lowell, Mass. today. Mrs.
Ellen Ryan, who was so seriously i'll
last week, is rapidly recovering.
1t is expected that the Grange will
give dance in armory hall on Friday
evening.
Miss Veronica Sploid is visiting her
parents in town.
Mrs. Jefferson Houston is quite ill.
The first social of the st. Mary's So
Ciety of the season was given on
Thursday afternoon and evening in
the form OF o rummage sale and the
regular supper. A large attendance
assured the fact that the society had
gained goodly sum.
Col. o. W. Scarf of Burlington was
in town on business on Wednesday.
Col. Scarf is now member of Gov.
Bells staff.
e. l.. Field is in Boston on bust
ness trip.
A new phone has been installed in
+. l.. Fields residence. So.
The annual excursion to Boston be-
gan today.
A special meeting of the selectmen
was held on Saturday at O'Clock in
the afternoon in regard to the Almon
electric system.
Miss Harriet Hurley, who is teach.
er in the Cutler district, is seriously
ill with diphtheria at her home in
Gouldsville.
About dozen people are now busily
engaged in husking seed corn at the
canning factory.