The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-25

of hay.
Mark Hall 10 attending the G. A.
X. encampment at Worthwhile.
O. M. Lsmberton and wife visited
in Plainfield recently.
Mrs. Irwin Kellogg who has been
an invalid for many years is very low.
Mrs. D. L. Reed is ill with neural
gia and Mrs. Ida Barr is staying with
her for few daysl.
SOUTH WALDEN.
Mrs. ID. S. Ferguson is very ill,
her daughter, Mrs. Jackson, is caring
for her.
William Rollins, who has been con-
fined to his bed and nearly helpless
all winter, from the effects of can
Ger, passed away Tuesday night at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. O. w.
Thurston, funeral services at the
church, burial at North Walden.
Rev. Mr.. Ross otficiated.
Theron Boyce is in poor health.
j. r. Houston and wife visited her
parents, Sunday
EAST CALAIS.
Many are sick with colds and the
prevailing dstemper. Among them
are Mr.. and Mrs. H. Pike.
Thirty couples attended the old
folks dance Friday evening. 1t was
nice company and all had good
time.
G. J.. Ferguson of Burlington will
deliver a temperance address at Union
Church Friday evening, Feb. 26. Mr..
Ferguson is attorney for the Anti-Sa-
loon League and is highly recommend
ed as a speaker and one who is &C.
quainted with the license law and its
workings. 1t is hoped many will
avail themselves of this opportunity
| to hear the Law we'll explained.
| EAST BROOKFIELD.
Ernest W. Rich of Chelsea is work.
| luS lOI IlllOb ". JhChsOD'
Fred W. Smith of Randolph was
the guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
o. W. Smith, last Sunday.
Miss Bessie Ryder of East Ran
dolph is the guest of Mrs. j. A. Pea
body.
George Miller was in South Wash
ington on business last Saturday
DR.. Tenney H. Wheatley of Brook
Ign, N. Y, returned 20 his home last
week Wednesday.
Herbert Isbe1 wood, who has been
working in the lumber woods in
Plainfield this winter, returned to
town last week and is working for a
short time for j. M. Angel.
Fred E. Hall, who has been with
his parents in South Barre since early
in December because of illness, was
in town last week.
Charles A. Bigelow sold fifteen
head of cows and yodng cattle to l.
N. Abbott Of Brooktield Center last
week.
w. W. Dutton is visiting his
daughter, Mrs. J. M. Buzzell of Con-
cord, N. H.
Carl Reed is i'll with pneumonia a..
the home of his grandmother, Mrs.
John Adams, of Williamstown.
M. W. Stoddard has imported some
white holland turkeys from Canada,
I and we wish him unlimited success in
this new enterprise.
GROTON.
Bernard S. Eastman returned Mon.
day from Lowell and.Boston On his
way to Lowell he had an unpleasant
experience of being stalled with his
car of potatoes for thirty-six hours in
a snow drift. Mrs. Eastman remained
in Boston for few days longer visit
ing friends.
Lawyer Lamson of Cabot was ia
town Monday Oh business.
DR.. Lee of Wells River was called
in council with DR.. |. N. Eastman re.
Gently in the case of Elsie Scott, but
gave little hope for her recovery.
Arthur H. Hough of White River
Junction spent Sunday with his par
ents at the Methodist parsonage.
A mock trial will soon be in prog
ress here. Orange Morrison to answer
the serious charge of stealing a rooster
from Charles Jones. 1t will be the
most hilarious event of the season.
A young man spent Sunday with his
parents and others. 1t is understood
that the others were young lady and
a horse. The horse he returned with
in the dim dawn was not the same
that drew him forth on his tender
mission. In sort of dream he har-
messed the wrong horse for the return
journey, end Landlord Sherry thought
he must have snapped horses when he
came out with the lanteIA to greet
him. But he hadn't and the horses
are feeding again at their old familiar
cribs.
Scarcely a ripple stirs on the surface
of pubic opinion week before town
meeting. But it may be calm before
a storm.
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