The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-13
WILLIAMSTOWN.

sister, Miss Lizzie Work.
Lewis M. Seaver put 5000 trout
from the Roxbury fish hatchery last
week into brooks in our town, and
this week will put in an additional
5000. Mr.. Seaver will go to New
York City this week and from there
to Illinois and perhaps to Nebraska.
Mrs. Leslie d. Gale and little son
have returned from Boston where
they have been in late months, and
will remain on her husbands farm
for the summer.
A petition is circulating this Mon
day morning to send to Governor
Prouty asking that he will appoint
Walter e. Granger to fill the vacan-
cy as Republican justice of the
peace here.
Our selectmen were called out
last week to determine just where
the new wire fence, about to be put
on the west side of the village GEM
etery, should be put up. We under
stand it that the Cemetery asso-
citation wanted to put it little
nearer the main road than where the
old fence stands, but the objection
was made to that by one Of our
townsmen. We think the matter is
not yet fully decided at this writing,
but we hear that the new fence may
likely be built on the line of the old
one.
Mrs. Norman G. Davis has re-
Gently gone to Aledo, Mercer county,
Illinois, to live for the present. This
county adioins Rock Island county
on the south in which have been a
few old Williamstownians and their
families
On Sunday next, the 10th inst
will occur the 50th anniversary of
the marriage of Rev. and Mrs. Will
liam Schofield, which event occurred
in England. But for the present
very feeble health of Mrs. Schofeld
there would be the usual golden
wedding celebration of this ami
versary. AS it is, however, Mrs.
Schofield hopes to be able to receive
calls from friends on Saturday af
ternoon of this week from till 4
or o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard E. Walker
returned last week from North Van
couver, British Columbia, after an
absence of year and half. They
are very heartily welcomed now.
Mrs. vel r. Farnham, who has
been a great sufferer at times in
late years, here, went to the Heaton
Hospital in Montpelier last week
for the determination of what sur
gerry, if any, shall be resorted to in
her case. 1t has been the occasion
of the very severe attacks she has
suffered from at various times.
We have just had the pleasure OF
learning from the Family Bible of
the grandfather of our late esteemed
townsman, Warren S. Covell, some
facts in the family history. The
name of this ancestor was Ruel Cow
ell, who lived and died in Berlin
and whose age lacked only two
months of 80 years. We saw the
printed account of the celebration, in
New State of the celebration of the
goth birthday of this mans brother,
at an earlier day. There were ten
children in Ruel Covell's family, one
of which lived to be 81 years old,
and four others lived to be over so
years of age. Another lived to be n
years old. Of the ten children, four
were born deaf and dumb, and
among these was the mother of our
former townsman, David Andrus,
Cor Andrews. Williamstown has
had occasion to rejoice in number
ing some of the Covell stock, among
its citizens.
H. II. Martin, one of our princi-
pal farmers, has just shipped in here
from Vergennes carload of stock
hay" at a cost laid down here, he
tells us of $14 ton.
Will o. Martin, son of Ophir S.
Martin, has lately made a little
business trip that took him to
Plattsburgh, N. Y, Burlington, White
River Junction, Woodstock and we
| think one or two other places. We
wish there were inducements fol
Mr.. Martin to locate in business hert
in his native town.
1t was not very long ago tha
Orange Bannister sold his place t'
Samuel Thompson, at one time o
South Barre, the father of Mrs
Charles Holden of our place. On thu
road to the village from the Ban
Gov fro