The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-05-20
WILLIAMSTOwN.

Ralph Spencer tells us his little
boy, who has been sick of late, is
much better.
Our Decoration Day exercises this
year will be held in the new
Grange hall.
The union Memoria Sunday SER
vices here will be held in the Metho-
dist church, May 30.
1t is said that Haden Jeffords
limb is doing well, since his return
home from the Mary Fletcher hos
pital.
In will left by the late Mrs. Al
bern Briggs. her son, Charles A.
Briggs, was appointed executor of
the will.
Mrs. Emeline White Richardson is
expected here yet this month from
Chicago to occupy roms in John A.
Perry's house.
j. A. BROMLEY, our station agent
pro TEN, rendered good service in
the Congregationalist choir last
Sunday morning.
The patrons of our village cream
cry were paid 20 cents per pound
for butter fat on Monday, the 18th
inst. They are paid semi-monthly.
Charles Holden, grandson of the
late William Hanson and living on
the old Hanson farm, on the Brook
field road, had horse that died last
Sunday.
Mrs. Prescott F. Blanchard's
daughter-in-law, wife of her son
Horace, of Boston, has returned to
her home after a stay of several
weeks here.
Station Agent L. o. Morgan has
visited Connecticut since his pres
ent vacation began, and this week he
will go to his home in Jonesville
to try his luck at fishing.
James Hogan, a brother-in-law of
Dexter M. Jones, and living on Mr..
Jones place in the G. W. Lynde dis
trict, is not improving and has taken
his bed with tuberculosis of the
bones of his legs.
Arthur L. Davenport has rented
his house in Mill Village to Granite
Cutter Frank Lavine and moved
some, or all of his household goods,
we hear, to the old j. NJ. Cheney
house.
Will /. Martin, son of the late
Ophir S. Martin and a jeweler by
trade, went to Brandon last week to
see what inducements the place
might offer = siness there. We
think he dio AoC find sufficient ones.
We think Mrs. Heman Smith is
thought to be gaining since her re-
cent return from the Mary Fletcher
hospital, but she is not yet able to
attend fully to her household duties.
Miss Hattie Briggs has been with
her of late.
Capt. A. S. Cowles opened his
Gulf House the first of this week He
seems pleased with the prospect of
having satisfactory help in the house
the coming season. 1t is consoling to
think that our place can now have
a hotel within it's boundaries, even
if it must needs be three or four
miles from our village.
Mrs. Newell R. Farnham is yet at
the Heaton hospital. Montpelier
Her husband tells us that her ply
sicians are yet undecided as to what
course to take in the matter of sur
gerry or not. 1t has long been said
that her great suffering at times was
likely due 10 gall stones and that
surgery might be the only thing that
could cure her.
For some months past Mrs. James
NJ. Cheney has been boarding in the
family of John c. Burnett in Mill
Village. 1t is said Mrs. Cheney will
ere long return to her old home, now
| the property of her nephew in Rock
Island, Ill, and that Mrs. Fanny
| Luck, whose first husband was 6
son of the late Major d Flint, will
| go there and care for her in hel
great invalidism.
Carpenter John A. Perry begar
last week the work of repairing thu
house of DR.. w. B. Mayo OF North
field. Mrs. Mayo, daughter of thu
late Mr.. and Mrs. John Lynde o
our place, is so poorly in health JUS
now, that it looked at first as If sh
hight not be able to endure tn
noise of the work, but as it wa
managed, Mr.. Perry RENAME
through the week and went bac
again the first of this week.
Guy Badger and John G. Lane
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