The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-07-08

chusetts. lie will live here in Geo"ye
E Wilbur's old home, little way
| up On the ir0ol;field road. He ha;
wife and Child and he seems to !e
making a & "a impression here.
, Denny j. Briggs has sold his fine
| large roam colt "Bim," to some one
in Barre. He is said to have gotten
a good price for it.
Clinton Wilfcre son of Theodore
Whore, and now a partner of Wav-
erley A. Murray in a granite bus
mess, in Cambridge, Ohio, has lately
married St. Johnsbury lady.
We had delightful visit one day
! last week with our former towns
woman, Mrs. Phoebe Hibbard Ba-
con, now of Elmore. She was
daughter of the late Samuel Hubbard
an excellent man but lived for some
years in the family of the late Alex
ander Smith. She gave us some
very interesting "reminiscences of
! ner carrier years.
We have out here certain small
| boy whose small age can be told
with only one figure, but it might
require several figures to tell how
often he had been warned by his
! mother against going in swimming.
| The other night he had a surprise.
and It was a big one, too. If he were
| not such little fellow we would
say he was Overwhelmingly sur
| prised, although we doubt whether
4 grown up man would be content
to consume adjectives with only five
! syllables, if he were in the same
situation The boy was in the act of
undressing himself in the presence
of his mother for bed. Everything
was gong on swimmingly, till he
came to the place where his wee
shirt ought to be, but wasn't! The
real fact was that he had WANDERED
by the brookside and away from his
mothers commandments, earlier in
The day and it was at most criti-
cal time that the school bell rang
else the lad would not have parted
company with his neither garment
for the remainder of the day But
he had forgotten it all on that fate
full evening as in his CONSERVATION
he exclaimed, "Oh mamma, where
has my shirt gone tor Too late!
"The cat was out of the bag" and
then out came the family cat O.
nine tails.
At the Gulf Springs celebration
on the Fourth, our home team was
victorious in a game of base ball
With the East Randolph team, on a
score of to 4.
Mrs. Flora Benedict Colby arriv-
ed in Burlington last week from
Southern California after an abb
sepce Of two winters. Her coming
here for visit at the old home is
eagerly looked for by her friends.
Herbert ]. Colby was in town the
first of the week or short stay.
Ii is told that Farmer Fred H.
Whitney, on the old George w
Nichols place in the David Gale
school district, will have hundred
, bushels of strawberries to sell this
season.
! Miss Rachel, daughter OF Der
, Bruce, is at home on vacation
, from work in Springfield, Mass.
g Mr.. and Mrs. j. 2. Ainswortl
t will have as guests this week thei
: cid time western friends, Mr.. an
D Mrs. Emil Gerber, now of Pitts
r burgh, Penn.
A. N. Fellows, now living on tn
), old Col. H. G.. Weeden place, ha
, given It the pretty name of "Twir
a Brook Farm" because of the tw
y streams that unite on the farm.
y One of our Swiss citizens, Mrs
Frank Passera, has lately been Of
~ Grated upon, and apparently SD
!. cessful, at the Mary Fletcher Ho
!. pital for appendicitis and ga
l. stones.
Rev. Charles II. Farnsworth al