The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-10-28
MARSHFIELD.

Mrs. L. d. Mute is visiting for
week in Enosburg Falls.
John Shaw, of Barre, was in town
last Saturday
Mrs. Jack Morrill, is with her sis
ter, Mrs. Charles Buxton, in Barre,
this week.
Miss Anna Durham was in Burl-
ington last week to attend the teach
ers' meeting.
Misses Florence Wooster and Flea
nor Cole, of Barre, were at home over
Sunday.
C. H. Mahlin, of East Montpelier,
was in town last week and bought
over 1000 bushels Of clatoes, pay ng
forty cents per bus /
Rev. and Mrs. Henry Howard, Of
Lunenhurg, visited at Aaron Browns
for a week, returning to their home
last Wednesday.
The Ladies' Aid Harvest Supper
and dinner which were held at the
Methodist church last week Thura-
day were very successful. The pro-
ccede amounted to $1,000. Thanks to
thcse who brlv,d he storm.
Ms. James Bou dry is on the sick
list.
ulant Brown Archie Cole, Hary ~
SlIham and Dennis Lamberton went
into camp Sunday near the old Sleep-
CT lot so as to tc ready for the break
Of day Monda, for TIE deer.
Samuel Meadrr sold seven
months and a half old calf to Howard
Tanner that dressed $50 pounds.
B. w. Cameron was in Hardwicl1
last Saturday.
A. E. Lamberton has wired his
house for electric lights.
Mrs. Emily Burnham visited In
East Hardwick over Sunday.
Asa Preston has moved into Mrs.
Flora Bliss tenement, having sold
his farm to Daniel Holcomb and Pc
ter Urban, of North Troy.
E. c. Merrill is painting the Con-
gregational parsonage.
Mary Brown is working for Mrs.
Cora Preston in her millinery ROOM
as trimmer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Meader, of
Randolph, are visiting his brothers,
H. H. and Samuel.
Ralph Ide is building shop near
his house on Creamery street.
A. w. Cole visited his aged grand
mother in Roxbury last week.
There was quite good deal OF
moving in our village last week. j.
w. Davis moved into his son, Burts
house; Rev. ]. A. Lawrence moved
into the house vacated by Mr.. Davis
and Edgar Taft moved into the mill
house.
S. S.. Ballard, B. M. Shepard, H
B. Moulton and Mr.. Wilson, OF
Montpelier, came to town last week
Thursday in an auto hunting after
the feathered tribe.
w. H. H. Mears is on the sick
list.
Over 100 licenses have been issued
from this town for hunting.
Mrs. F. j. Marshall, of Montpe-
lier, visited her grandmother, Mrs.
Lydia Benton, and sister, Mrs. H. II
Carpenter, recently.
Mrs. Jerusha Dwinell is on the
sick list.
Albert Ingerson is working for G..
f. Bliss in the livery stable, while
Grant Brown is hunting for deer.
The Ladies' Aid of the Methodist
church will meet with Mrs. B. B.
Nowns Friday, Oct. goth, from to
o'clock.
We have four old men in our vii.
lage that are over 80 years of age
Remember Cole is 80 years old, but
his mind is very clear and he does
some work and reads the daily paper
every day. Samuel Bemis celebratet
his seth birthday last week. He is
unusually smart and can enjoy visi
with his old friends. He and his wife
live alone. They have been married
over Sc years. j. l.. Severance Il
| "a years of age and has been marie.
SO years. He works every day ant
sometimes walks two or three miles
to commence a days work. Las
winter he took his OK and cut his owl
wood a mile from home. George
Wooster is "a and has done bushes!
in town for over Go years. The frs
freight train that came over the Cen
trail Vermont railroad brought an in
voice of goods for him to Montpelier
He still keeps his own books and hi
journals have no other handwritin,
in them. He has two farms abou
five or six miles out of the villag
and he rides to them two or tire,
times week to look after the Wort
there.
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