The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-27
WILLIAMST0WN.

their custom has been, on Decoration
Day, at the church.
Governor Prouty, in response to a
petition from here, has appointed
Walter f. Granger a justice Of the
peace.
Mrs. Newell r. Farnham returned
home from the Heaton Hospital the
last of last week. If surgery shall
DE resorted to later on, it is said it
will have to be when she is better
able to bear it than she is just now.
Mrs Theodore Alexander, one OF
our Belgian townsfolk, has lately
gone to the Heaton Hospital, Mont
pelier, for treatment.
george L Lane now OF st. AL
bans, was in town last week.
Misses Helen Kimball and Mile
]. Drury seem to be giving fine sat
isfaction here in the use of their
Ideal Vacuum Cleaner. In answer
to the question whether all the dirt
under carpets is removed by their
process without taking up the car
pets, they say that it is. What a boou
it would seem to be to housekeep-
ers!
Mrs. J. X. Lynde has just heard
from her son, Mayo, for the first
time since reaching the sheep ranch
in Utah. where he expects to remain
pr a year or two if all is we'll He
IS over 5000 feet above sea level,
and a long way from a railroad sta
ton. But he writes Of some very
pleasant factors in the situation.
George H. Miner of st. Adams,
whose wife is a sister of Mrs. W.
N. MeEnany, has lately come here
to work in the Edison livery barn
The families of the two sisters keep
house together in one of the Nelson
Carleton tenements.
We are glad to write that we are
to have with us now as residents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Will E. Randall, who
have been living in Chicago, in late
years. Mrs. Randall is the only
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. William
Schofeld and she has been here of
late caring for her invalid mother,
as only such worthy daughters can
DO. Mr.. Randall may not get here
for a few weeks yet.
Flower Day" at the home Of Mrs.
J. n. Seaver, for the Ladies Home
Study Club, last Saturday, we Judge
to have been very pleasant and
profitable time. The other Ladies
Reading Club also had a Flower
Day" at the same time with Mrs.
Oliver Dickinson.
We hear that Bert. son Of the late
Albern Briggs, who has been in
Southern California in late years, is
just now in a fruit packing house in
Whittier, Calf, and boarding with
our former townsfolk, Mr.. and Mrs.
Orville D. Bosworth.
Norwan Pratt on the old Chester
Martin farm in our village, and fine
farmer he has long been, has Qua
ker City mill for grinding grain for
his stock that he runs with gaso-
lene engine. 1t seems to be sue
cess too.
The survey of our Main street last
week, is said to have proven that
our Village Cemetery association
had the right to locate their new
wire fence where they started out
to do it.
Andrew Burnham has so far re-
covered from his ailments in late
months that he has returned from
Barre City, where he spent the win
ter with a sister, and is again at his
post as the local editor of the Will
Jamestown Herald.
We have just heard for the first
time a story that is not so fresh as
il once was, but the lesson of it is
as fresh as ever. A young man from
another Vermont town had wooed
and won to all intents and purposes
a very nice Williamstown girl, al
though, sad to say, death claimed
them both before marriage was con-
summated. At one time when he had
a letter ready to send here to his
beloved h@ was asked by another
man to write letter for him to his
wife from whom ne was temporarily
separated who was living in near
by town. When the two letters were
ready for envelopes, each letter was
put into the wrong envelope, by some
mischance, and the married woman
got a genuine love letter. We die
not hear what the sensations were
when these two women opened thei
letters and read, but we wonder
they may have been like what som
of the survivors Of the San Fran