Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-12-07
Waterbury Items.

The Boston Opera Company will give the popu-
lar operetta, Betsey Baker, In Hotel hall to-mor-
| row Thursday evening, the 9Th instant. The
members Of this company are all cultivated sing
ers and accomplished actors The operetta en-
braces selections from several OF the best operas
bubbles over with f1n and is indeed one Of the
popular entertaipments Of the day Its presentation
here In a pioneer enterprise, and II 1t receives a
satisfactory degree Of encouragement others Of
similar character will follow. Manager Pratt OF
Capital Hall, Montpelier, to whom this community
IL indebted for this prospective treat, has brought
| to Montpelier the best companies that have ever
played there. It is iucopvenient and expensive
for our people to go 10 Montpelier to attend an
evening entertainment. One OF high quality and
character full OF laughter and enjoyment, is now
offered at our doors. Occasionally very cheap
show stops here; very seldom has good COM
pany favored our village. Give the company a
rousing welcome and thus insure the coming Of
Others. The teachers meeting at the Center
on Saturday was thinly attended There are
seventeen school districts In town, requiring the
service Of nineteen teachers. Less than one
fourth OF this number was present in the small
audience The exercises however, were worthy Of
full representation OF teachers committees and
citizens. The young ladies assigned to lead in
the discussion OF primary instruction in geogra-
ply were not present and the subject was post
poned for consideration at the next meeting. Mr..
Wright, the town superintendent opened the
discussion Of the next subject, School discipline
The discussion continued In its various bear
ngs at some length, and many suggestions OF a
practical nature drawn from an experimental
knowledge Of the subject were brought out The
remarks Of the Rev. Mr.. Church, OF the Green
Mountain Seminary, were certainly worthy OF a
wider hearing and OF universal application. No
teacher could fail to be benefited by the sugges-
lions and the illustrations drawn from an active
and ripe experience such as Mr.. Church has evil
IDENTIFY had. Experience, wise counsel and apt
examples were given by him in q manner at once
comprehensive, suggestive and diverting. It is
not our purpose to report papers OF discussions.
Teachers and others should attend these meet
ings, hear for themselves and profit by what IL
said. 1t Is certainly desirable that they should
all hear again from Mr.. Church He should
make school discipline the subject of special
lecture and on some future occasion not only the
teachers Of this town but OF the county also could
listen to him with profit. Good discipline lies at
the foundation Of teaching and so the subject is
elected secretary and treasurer and the remaining
officers were continued till the next meeting,
which will be held at The school house In Water
bury village, Saturday, December 18th. Sub
Jects for discussion, first, Primary instruction
in geography; second, Reading. As Saturday
is the teachers weekly holiday, devoted to needed
rest or to necessary imperative personal duties,
1t would seem desirable to have these meetings
held on some other day in the week. For this
purpose half day should be given the teachers,
and 1t would be a gift that would return many
fold benefit to every school in town. Let the
school committees consider this matter ... "A
great and sudden sorrow came to Mr. and Mrs.
George W. Jackman Saturday. the Both ut On
that day In the forenoon about half-past eleven
O'Clock, Charley, their only child, bright and
promising lad of nearly eleven years, was drowned
In Buffers pond, small sheet Of water, a bend
in the river cut off by the road bed Of the rail
way, short distance below the village His
father had been there with him to assure himself
OF the safety of the ice and cautoning his son
against an obvious point Of danger, had left him
Several other boys were there, but all had gone
except Edward Bosselle, a lad about the age of
Charley On the northery side OF the pond was
large area OF open water caused by warm springs
at that point. While performing some boyish
feat in skating Charley approached dang erously
near this open water, and being unable to control
his movements gided over the fatal edge into
eight feet Of water. His companions attention
was first arrested by an outcry from Charley
whom he discovered wildly struggling in the
water. The lad went to the brink of the ice,
reached out his hand to Charley but was power
less to rescue him from his perilous position, and
no other assistance being at hand the poor boy
sunk to rise no more, his hands raised In mute
appeal for help. His frightened playfeow made
his way up the track to Mr.. Jackman's granite
shop but not finding the father there and ap-
parently possessed with the idea that he must
tell the terrible tdngs to him alone, did not dis
close his GRAND to the workmen but sought Mr..
Jackman at his house near the station. Frantic
with apprehension, the father was driven to the
spot to find the worst the messenger had reported
was true. boat having been procured, the body
was recovered after it had been in the water
about an hour. hopeless effort at resuscitation
was made but the vital spark had fled" The
funeral, largely attended was observed Monday
forenoon, the Rev. Mr. Wheeler officiating. The |
remains were conveyed to Barre for burial Mr..
and Mrs. Jackman are overwhelmed by the shock |
They have the heartfelt sympathies of this en-
tire community. I'D Chesey, clerk for W. II.
Ashley, took a cold bath in Buffers pond while |
skating Friday evening, the % inst A young |
man attending school at the Center took a meas |
nrement OF the depth OF water while skating on |
Colbyville pond Saturday forenoon. Mrs Nelson |
German kindly wrung him out and dried him off |
and sent him on his way rejoicing. Nv. f. Car |
penter has moved into his very cosy tenement |
which under the charge OF Hugh Griswold's skill
full hand he has prepared in the second story OF |
his drug store Mr. Carpenter and his better
half should be as "snug as a bug in rus" in |
these very pleasant rooms which embrace a full |
and ample suite with bath room and every means |
Of comfort and convenience. Willie, a lad of |
sixteen, the standby OF his widowed mother,
Mrs. A. +. Pixley, living on Waterbury river,
died OF typhoid fever Thursday, the Both ut. lie |
was fine boy, steady and industrious. :. IL. NJ.
Bruce has rented the sawml and shops attached
at Colbyville. He will manufacture buttertubs,
dress clapboards, do custom saving and planning
and engage In general lumber business He /
advertises for three thousand logs, hard wood,
spruce, hemlock, bass or ash, for which he will |
pay cash on delivery in the mill yard This has
a promising look for Colbyvlle and for the neigh
boring farmers. 1t is understood that Mr. Fred
E. Smith, the owner OF the property, is financially
interested in the business connected with the saw
mill. The supreme court for Lamoille county
has decided against Mrs. L. j. White in her suit
against the town of Stowe for damage received
on the highway In the summer of 1878 She OBJ
tanned a verdict for So, 200, in the county court.
The town appealed, and the supreme court dis
allows the damages Oh the ground OF insuiliciency
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