The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-20
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Minor Events from the Vermont Field, Condensed
Tor Our Busy Readers Notes from
FAR and Near of General Interest
and of Local Importance.


Importance.
Niddlebury grange has decided to
buy the old Baptist church in that |
town for a grange hall.
The Waterbury health officer re- !
ports 125 cases of measles and seven |
cases Of mumps in the town.
The Rev. F. I. Sargent will close |
his pastorate at Wheelock about |
June y, when he will go to Loudon |
Center, N. H.
President John NJ. Thomas of
Middlebury College, will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon to the Proc
tor high school graduating class.
Walter E. Kendall has been APP
pointed carrier and Chandler 3.
Whitney substitute on rural free de-
livery route No. 2 from the Barnet
postoffice
Missisquoi park at Highgate
Springs will be opened Monday,
May "a, when an excursion will be
run there from Canada, it being
Victoria Day. T
The Central Vermont railroad has |
closed a contract for $4,000 tons of |
coal for its southern division to be |
delivered at New London, Palmer,
and Brattleboro.
Upon the recent death of a COW |
belonging to A. P. Burlington of |
Jericho, it was found that she had |
II nails and nut from a medium
sided bolt in her stomach.
Guy A. Woodward of st. Adams, |
a locomotive fireman, has filed pc
tition in bankruptcy with Clerk F.
S. Plat Of the federal court. The |
liabilities are $27O, with no assets.
Charles White, painter, Of Burl-
ington fell thirty feet from ladder |
Friday morning and struck on his
head. He was badly hurt but was
taken to a hospital andis likely to |
recover
From letter from Congressman
D. J. Foster of Burlington, who is
now in Washington, it is learned that
Mrs. William H. Taft intends to
accompany the President on his trip
to Vermont next July.
Early risers at Bennington We'd
nesday saw white frost covering |
the ground before sunrise. AS cherry
and pear trees are the only fruit in
bloom, it is not believed serious
damage will follow. A heavy frost |
occurred in Swanton the same |
morning
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Blakelys, George c. Sanborn,
Mortified, E. F. Leavitt. Plainfield.
The Rev. e. F. Campbell of
Mortified is negotiating for the pur-
chase of the old Catholic church
property at Middlebury, for the use
of a sect called the Pentecost Naza-
renes. He will make arrangements
for a series of meetings which the
Nazarenes intend to hold in June
and July.
The Rev. +. L. Bullard, formerly
of Brandon, is preparing a Cham
plain tercentenary story and writes
that he stumbled upon an old vol
ume of rare interest" 1t is recalled
that Mr.. Bullard had a like exper-
fence in a Boston bookstore previous
to his leaving Brandon.
Since the last report of Commits
sioner H. G. Thomas of Stowe, re-
garding the work done at the state
fish hatchery at Roxbury, between
seven and eight hundred thousand