The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-24

l.. and Miss Estella Cross gave a
whist and dancing party to their
friends at Gross hall. About twenty
| five couples were present. The first
| part OF the evening was spent playing
whist and later dancing was INDUCED
in for a couple of hours Il. j. Uon-
nell and Cadets Moore and Doe fur
nishing music. Refreshments were
served and jolly good time was had
from the first of the whist to the last
of the dance
MARSHFIELD
Mrs. Flora B. Bliss is quite ill with
grip
| Fred leighton has rented the j. p
| Newton place on East Main street.
Mrs. W. H. H Mears visited her
daughter, Mrs. l.. P. Slack, in st.
Johnsbury part of last week.
The new boiler for the creamery has
arrived and will be placed in position
| at once.
Leslie O. Tucker has sold his horse
to Frank Talbot of Wells River.
Miss Lou d. Miller is visiting in
Boston and vicinity for few weeks.
II. E. Tanner has withdrawn from
the meat business for the present, be-
ing unable to conduct it in connection
| with his farm duties.
p. G. Bemis has leased the S. II.
Packer farm and stock for one year.
He took possession March 10.
Dennis Folsom has moved his family
| and effects to the f. H. Brown place
GU Gilman street.
Wesley D. Lamberton is learning q
baggage masters duties on the NJ. q
W. h. r. with which company he has
| registered as spare man for this SER
vice.
A. W. Cole has purchased the old
creamery boiler.
| A. w. Mears of Barton and Merrill
Mears of Holiiston, Mass, are visitors
in town.
April / will soon be at hand. That
| dog of yours has price on his head
which the the town clerk, w. H. FL.
Mears, will be pleased to receive into
his hands on or before that date.
o. H. Smith has been drawn as petit
juror and was notified to appear at court
laSt MONDAY morning.
Lyman Flint who recently pur.
chased the saw mill property of Mar.
shall and Co Inns, has rented of j. W.
Mears the place he owns near the
mill yard, known as the A. H. Davis
place.
Several members of the local lodge
knights of Pythias attended the dis.
trict meeting of that order which was
held in Barre on Tuesday evening OF
last week.
The case of DR.. w. S. Minard of
Waterbury against the estate of o. S.
Adams, when was to have been heard
in county court last week, did not
come to trial. Settlement was agreed
upon between the two parties on the
day set for trial.
Mrs. E. @. Preston wishes to return
thanks to the many friends and neigh
bors who assisted at the time of the
death and through the funeral services
of her husband.
@. H. Robinson, who has had quar-
tiers at the homa of Ira H. Edison for
sometime past, has rented rooms in H..
H. Meader's tenement house on depot
street. This change was necessary fol
Mr.. Robinson owing to Mr. Edison and
family moving to Barton Landing.
There will be business meeting OF
the band at the band room Saturday
evening March 26. 1t is important that
every member of the organization be
present
The ladies' aid society of the Meth
odist church will hold new sugar
and plain doughnut social at the
church vestry Thursday evening Of
this week.
The selectmen have posted notices
of town meeting to be held at the
town house Tuesday the 9TH of April
to transact the following business
"To see if the town will vote to pay
the outstanding orders drawn by the
former road commissioners, G. J. Bux.
ton.
On and after Tuesday morning the
creamery will receive milk every day
S. H. Packer of Fiskdale Mass. is il
town this week called here by the
death of his mother, Mrs. Lovins Par.
ker.
j. A. Ennis has leased his home
farm to his son, Ora Ennis, who will
take possession about April /. Ora's
sister, Mrs. e. @. Preston, will keel
house for him.
Edward Hedges of Boston, Mass.
and John Heon of Philadelphia were
in town last week to meet Mark Mears
in relation to property interests in the
south.
The funeral of Mrs. Laura Davis
Lamberton, wife of M. h. Lamberton
who died on Monday evening or las,
week was held Wednesday the 10Th al
the Congregational church, Rev. W
e. Newton officiating. The fora
tributes were many and beautiful
Mrs. Lamberton had been in pool
health for several months but passed
away very suddenly at the last She
was in the fifty-first year of her age
most estimable woman and had many
friends who will miss her kind face
Especially will she be missed in the
home which she loved so we'll, by he
husband ana daughter Lillian, whit
cared for her so tenderly and to whom
much sympathy is expressed.
entered into rest-Lovina Newton
Packer, wife of the late DR.. !. Q. A
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