The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14
NORTHFIELD.

Rev. George E. Herrick, a mission
airy from Turkey, preached in the Con.
gregational church on Sunday.
The land was surveyed for the site
OF the new school house on Saturday
Prof. A. E. Winslow had the matter
in charge.
M. D. Smith is in Barre today on
business relative to letting the con-
tract for the three new tenement
houses about to be erected by the
Mortified Building Association on
Western avenue.
DR.. W. II. Hurley was operated on
at Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burling-
ton on Thursday for appendicitis
The operation was successful one
and the doctors many friends hope for
complete recovery.
Alex Joslin has sold his residence
on Main street to Mrs. Celeste Aldrich.
Consideration nominal. Mr. Joslin
expects to leave in the near future for
Boston where he will enter business
with his brother in that city
Miss Bessie Dumas arrived on Sun
day morning from Boston for a ten
days visit with II. u. Marble in town.
Charles H. Spooner, the new presi-
the degree of LII. D.. from the Univer-
sity of Vermont at Burlington on
Thursday.
Mrs Ruth Andrews died at her
home in Gouldsville on Tuesday even
ing after five days illness of pneu-
monia. The funeral was held on
Thursday at 2 O'Clock in the after
noon. Rev. +. w. Sharpe officiated
and interment was in the cemetery at
Gouldvsille. Mrs. Andrews was sew
enty years OF age and is survived by
four daughters and one son, Mrs. Ida
Quinby, Mrs. David Locklin, Mrs.
Sam Thompson, George, and Mrs.
Charles Whitmarsh. The deceased
has been resident of Gouldsville for
many years and was a good Christian
woman whose good work will survive
her.
Henry l.. Kenyon has purchased a
lot on the Holland addition on Wsst-
ern avenue and expects to begin the
erection of residence in the near
future.
The reading room will be moved on
August first to the Jones house on
Main street. which has been taken
possession of by the library commit
tee. The front part of this house will
be remodelled into library and the
rear portion will be rented as tene-
ment A. Il. Denny has charge of the
affair. 1t will be remembered that
George Brown of Boston purchased
the site and buildings and donated an
appropriation sufficient to build a
most modern structure. This fund
will go toward the buying of new
books to replace those recently burned
in the old library The town is to be
congratulated upon the success of 80
fine.a library and reading room as this
will surely prove to be-
The marriage of Jack Mckenzie and
Miss Alice Winch occurred on Wednes-
day.
The new routine of office hours for
the dental rooms of Drs Gokey and
Allen went into effect ON Wednesday,
when their rooms were closed for the
afternoon instead of on Saturday af
ternoons as has been the custom before
this date. The change of the half
holiday will prove of much more con-
vienence to the public.
A freight train drawn by the fatal
engine 85l broke in two and ran to,
Rether with such force that three cars
were derailed near Bethel on Satur
day afternoon. The first train through
was twelve hours late. Not much
damage was done but the accident
proved decided inconvenience to the
travelling public, who reached theiI
destinations about half day late.