The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-18
WilIiamstOwn.


him.
GEORGE G. EARLE suffers greatly from SCI
atica.
LILLE wHEATLEY is summering in Green |
field, Mass.
MRS. DAMON D. MARTIN has purchased a
house In Barre.
Mrs. GEORGE II. WATSON and daughter are
visiting friends In town.
ONE of the twin granddaughter Of George
House died Sunday afternoon.
wILLIAMsTowN sends five walters to the
White Mountain hotels this season.
REV. G. L. WELLS will spend a three weeks
vacation at Hardwick, Stowe, and Old Orchard
Beach.
WE hear the lamentation that it has come to
this--that more help can't be had at any price,
on farms, now.
KATE BASS arrived at Chicago last week,
having taken in Saratoga, Lake George, Lowell,
Mass, and Burlington, on the way.
Mrs. WILLIAM SCHoFIELD doubtless strength
ened her hold upon her Sunday-school class OF
little folks last week, by an afternoon visit and
tea at the parsonage.
DIR. JASON G. BRIGGs, Rev. George Crockett
and other workers of Barre, conducted services
at the NJ ethodist church, in the absence of Pas
tor Wells last Sunday
WHY don't those who plan cheap excursions
to the White Mountain region, take the not
arrange for one the last of this month, or early
in August?
IT is no lapse in the morals of our friend, DR..
Jason Z. Briggs, but wholly his inexperience
with bicycles, that has Deen sending him
heels over head " lately. But be sure that
bicycle is to be servant, and not master-yet.
DR. CHARLES ELLIS and wife of Nashua, Nh,
arrived Saturday last and are at their IA
Tiers, J. NJ. Palmers. The doctor has been suf-
fering quite seriously from an affection of the
heart, that compels temporary cessation
from work.
DEACON JONATHAN FAIR, many years ago a
well known resident of this place, was in town
| over Sunday. Though seventy seven years
old, he is on the road as salesman. His nome
is now in Thetford. His only living daughter,
| Julia, is the wife of q missionary at Treblzond,
Turkey His only son, Edward Payson Farr, is
married and settled i'll Harold, Dakota.
The schools teach that by going westward
| far enough, one loses day. From what one
| of our Wll.iamstown boys IN the very far West
! writes, one concludes that Sunday has been
lost entirely there, and that, much this side OF
| the line commonly supposed to divide the old,
and Il new, day. Better be back in this land
of Sundays, shaky though they seem to be
| getting
In the line of specialties, we Judge that Dem
| ison Brown and IL. D. Abbott are the leading
cheese-makers; Opnir 5. Martin, the largest
wool-grower; Frank Martin and Ed Poor the
| largest butter-makers; Otis Walker and son,
the leading onion-raisers; j. NJ. Palmer, the
principal hop-grower; just at the present time
| In our town Asa s. Slmonds PROBABLY raises
the most from the least ground.
HENRY F. ERsKINE has help in haying that
wont run away, tinds no tault with tle table,
works early or late and doesn't grumbe, never
shirks, never is sassy and is ready for Dusi.
ness any minute 1t is horse hay fork with
arrangements by which it lifts hay from the
se Exyxa
forty by slxty-four feet and unloads. The cost
OF it was about twenty-five dollars, all told
Mr.. Erskine has used IL for eight or ten years
and sees not why it may not last many year,
more. He thinks 1t about pays for itself every
year and is Indispensable In these days Vi
scarcity of help. He keeps no hired man. and
uses very low wheeled wagon, thus enabling
MIN to load his hay without mans help.
The part that the mind may play in the cure
OF disease, all know, Is an Interesting question
and will be suggested afresh by u iudicrous
J but real occurrence that we know of. A certain
| person was seized In the night with a severe
pain in the stomach and bowels, which hi
felt would be relieved by an outward ap
pcation OF some liniment he had in tn,
house and which he thought he could get with
out light. He arose, ana got what he sup
posed WAS the right bottle, applied the content
thoroughly and returned u the bed, to IA
asleep. On awaking in the morning, the frs
, thing to greet his asJonished vision was a hant
of an indigo color. He had, In the night, mis-
taken and used bottle of liquid blueing TO
liniment, but was cured all the same.
WE have just received copies No. and No
=, OF the commencement annual, also copies O
:. the jubilee Daily, published at ODerlin, Ohio
one OF the editors and publishers beng a.
Alnsworth, whom we suppose to be the son O
, our ex-townsman, Henry A. Ainsworth of Nc
! line, Illinois Annual No. l has number G
illustrations and contains a long and most in
nf la nriu md
, Oberlln. Ii may be matter of prize to Vel
, monters to know that the two founders OF tn
. place and college, though not natives of GU
4 state, got schooling" in IT, one of then
' Phllo L. Stewart, the designer of the Stewal
. stove, having come to Vermont to live at te
! years of age. Nothing shows more vivid
q tnan does tue history oil Oberhn how the prime
a pies one might be hanged Tor to-day, may Il
! morrow be lauded to the skies
: IT is quite common and proper in these day
. TO report sermons. We heard one the otht
;. day tnat won't be reported unless we do it, &
. | we were the entire audience The sweetnin'
d was poured III from molasses hogshead III
Y preacher WAS an unOrdained layman outsiC
It the pale OF the church, but the preaching col
@ tanned powerful deal of truth, to which, tn
!, not :. a shoutin' Methodist" we could lust
say, "amen." 1t was plain, pointed. pinchin
peppery, practical, and the audience" Nil
l. ali audiences, tet that it ought to be large
d peddled out. Inc occasion ot this sermon w,
the asking for a subscription to pay regul,
parsQn for preaching. We got the preachin
and hope for the subscription, yet. But, in &
III seriousness, the preaching was what ought
be heard oitener, we respectfully submit, fro
n the pulpit. 1t was drive at the horse-tal
and crop-talk, and various other sorts of bu,
Of ness talk constantly heard on SUNDAYS abo
the meeting houses, and stores. This was
10 part OF the good sermon. But won't it be
sorry day for the world when the pulpit Civ
place to the molasses hogshead, from which
10 deal the deserved blows at these and simil
sins?
observation-disclosures Staples of Lowe
q, Mass, is In town, visiting his brothe r-in-la
al John q. Lanphier.
,o Hattie Ballard of Norwich is visiting frien
no in this place.
~. FRED FULLAM commences repairs upon
IL house this week.
al On Thursday while Chester Simonds "
~ moving, one OF his horses dropped dead.
II w. H. IL. CLAFLIN Of Mortified is to sup
- intend the work of repairing the church.
7 BERTHE HovEY of Everett, Mass, ia visit
~ his grandfather, Albert Hixson, who is in DC
I'll health.
-, REV. Mr.. GAY is giving course of lectu
mo- upon Galatians, at the weekly evening me
% ings, which are very interesting.
M, REV. MR. HERRIoK of Chelsea supplied
no pulpH In East Brooktield last Sunday in
' change with Rev. j. A. Sherburne