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

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| L. Edison left for st. Louis, Mo, a
few days ago. After a visit at tho ex.
position he will go to Iowa, to see a
sister of Mrs. Edison and return home
next week. In late months Mr.. Edison
has been quite good deal out of
health, the result, 1T is thought, of
overwork and the care of his large
business.
Miss Belle Robinson is in our post.
Office, and it Is expected she is to have
the care of it. now.
Mrs. Annie Schofield Randall and
husband are about to go to Glover to
visit Mr.. Randall's mother In the
few weeks they are to be away, or till
about Sept /, they will visit friends
in Hardwiok, Morrisville, West Burke,
Lyndonville and Worcester.
William Witherill has Just made a
change in his plans and instead of 60
ing to Effingham. N. H.. he thinks he
will go to Newport in this State, to
make bis home henceforth, with a
niece of his late wife.
Roscoe Lynde has been ill of late
and under medical care but is now
better.
The temporary illness of Mrs. Aus
tin Young, nee Lenora Martin, for
babe the departure of herself and hus-
band last Monday for their home in
Minneapolis, Mimi. They hope to
be able to go yet, this week.
Ernest Nichols, son of the late AFRO
Nichols, plans, so we hear, to leave
this week for the Province of Alberta,
in Western Canada. He will be ac-
companied by George Gauthier, a
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will go first to the home of our former
townsman, Hamilton Wark, whose
post-offce is Gladys, in Alberta We
understand that this trip is to be
made with the purpose of locating in
that section if the country pleases
them, in which case we may lose the
Gauthier family, living ON the old s.
Talcott Perrin place.
A son was recently born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Eastman. Mr.. Eastman
has just moved from the Gen. E. Bass
house to the near by tenement house,
on william q. Pratts farm, he being
in the employ Of Mr.. Pratt.
In correction of an item of last week
we say that we have been misinformed
about the cutting of the hay on H. h.
Martins place. The work is being
done by the Mr.. Holt who lives on the
old John Farnham place.
Older Williamstownians will recall
the late John White, the youngest son
of the late Josiah White of our Mill
| Village in an earlier day. John White
died at his home in Vermillion, South
Dakota, eleven years ago. Last week,
two of bis daughters, Misses Amy A.
and Rose White visited our place we
think for the first time. They are
very pleasant young ladies and are to
teach the coming term in the public
schools in Minneapolis. They tell us
that Dana f. White of Union City,
Mich, is the only surviving member
of Josiah Whites family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa G. WILDER have
been visiting in Bethel Of late.
Mrs. Hiram S. Drury, who goes to
Boston occasionally for treatment fol
deafness, has been there of late.
John M. Stone and sons on the old
George Crane farm in the Judge Paine
district, advertise their place as Ma.
| pleview Farm"
The Greason- Beckett Granite Com
pany will add seventy feet to theiI
stone shed now.
We have taken look through the
new barn built by William u. Pratt,
on the old Chester Martin farm in oul
village. This barn is 42x84 feet an6
planed to meet the needs of this lat
ter day farming. 1t is to contain 6
large silo. The hay is taken to the
top floor to be unloaded, floor Oh
which three loads can be left on the
carts at any time it might be wanted
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completed but the probable cost viii
be, we are told, towards So, 900.
Ernest Riddell is a Scotchman liv
ing on the old James M. Bass farm,
and he has done not little to add tt
it's productiveness. Last week he hat
the great misfortune to have his three
prinipcal barns burned. One sinai
horse barn is left to him. The fire
started onl an afternoon while Mr.
Rlddell ana wife werein the hay field
There WAS time to get some thing
out of the barns and there was no los
of stock. The origin of the fire is no
known. There was a total OF insur
ance on barns and contents of 81, $50
Last year Mr. Riddell cut down some
what the amount of the insurance. II.
had secured only part Of this year.
hay crop, but we have heard it Is esti
mated that quite good many tons o.
hay were burned. 1t would seem tina
the loss above the insurance would fal
pretty heavily on Mr.. Riddell.
Mrs. e. B. Watson has as guest he
nephew, Mr.. Ladd, student in Dart
mouth College.
Check lists for the September cleo
tion are up The board of civil au
thority will be at the town hall on tn,
afternoon of August 90, to determine
questions pertaining to voters at tina
election.
Mrs. Austin Jackson is here from
Lexington, Mass, and, with her onl.
son, Fred Jackson, whose wife is no
we'll.
Hal Cheney has sold his nice hous
in Mill village to Frank Nichols o
Barre, brother Of George W
Nichols.
Edwin Prescott's family of Barr
were recent guests Of Mr.. and Mrs
Erskine Rowell.
Wesley M. Seaver has this season
put seventy.five loads of hay into hi
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