Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-25
Williamstewn Items.

There will be public examination Of all per-
sons wishing for license TO teach school in town
during the coming year, at the village school
house on Saturday next, commencing at nine
o clock A. M,.. Harvey Cheney reckons that
there have been more than three hundred busi-
moss messages sent over the telephone line 10 this
place In the last four months. The firm name
OF j. Lynde & Son has been changed TO ]. X.
Lynde Mr.. Lynde went to Boston on Saturday
to purchase bis spring and summer stock OF
goods. Rev. @. L. Wells goes to the Methodist
Episcopal conference this week. His final SER
mon Of the second year here was preached on
IL Is hoped that he will be returned for another
years service. lie has had urgent calls from
two other churches where the work would be
easier than here but he will abide the decision
field will teach In Manchester, VT, the coming
season. Her last winter work Is reported as
good work" Miss Alma Adams will teach
In the J. nj. Bass district, where she taught
year ago, and that speaks well for her,-as did
our superintendent 10 his report Of that school.
Miss Ada E. Martin will teach in her fathers
(Ophir s. Martins) district, where she has Taught
several terms. Superintendent Il. H. Martin re-
ported the condition Of her two terms OF school,
the last year. In this district, as "a strong ar
gument In favor OF retaining good teacher as
long as possible. Mrs. Libbie Tarbel will oc-
cupy the tenement house belonging to Mrs. Ches-
ter Martin for a timed. Brockway Is re-
modelling the house once owned by Mrs. Joel
Bass, Jr., and will doubtless much improve 1t. It
Is not an easy matter, just now to find tenements
here. j. Holloway Merrill IL very feeble at the
present time and fears are felt that he may not
hold out very long unless soon helped. His
death would deprive the Methodist church Of one
OF Its best men, and our town OF an estimable cit
izen. 81. Ophr s Martin wants to sell one Of bis
two farms. His Joel Shepherd place" Is prob
ably one OF the best grass farms In our towp. ..
ii d. Abbott Ii town agent for the "Qninnipiac
phosphates," which Is guaranty that he has faith
| In them. George Beckett was recently elected
rttNa nare Eltpta
| intendent OF the Congregational Sunday-school
| 80. George Teston, the only grandson of the
late Darius Pride Of this place and rising young
manufacturer OF -four In Fairbault, MINI, marries
Dubuque, Iowa, lady on Wednesday Of this week
James s. Abbott and wife, Miss Matte Abbott,
| and Conductor Frank W. Flint were In town over
| Sunday. Miss Stella Martin has just returned
| from visit OF some months In Illinois. :. Fred
Martin talks some OF locating in Mortified o..
| Orvie Briggs Is one Of our most successful TAR
mers. He took good farm some years ago, and
| has increased its productveness about oDe-thrd.
He tells us that he takes equal weights OF bran,
| cotton seed meal and corn meal and feeds six
quarts Of the mixture per day to his cows He ad-
vses caution In the use OF cotton seed meal, but
thinks highly Of It,. =. Lewis Flint and win Wells
are working at stone-cuttiDg in Barre. HAL o
Hatch has started out rs farmer here, hoping to
/ regain his health. He has stomach trouble
which has necessitated the use OF graham flour,
but now gives that mp to use "Warrens entire
wheat flour as better. Our citizens are, some
Of them, trying this new -four and liking 1t much.
-. George House is grandfather, his daughter
Della having given birth to twin daughters last
week. Sugar-makng here is at big discount
| thus far, some farmers not having opened their
sugar places at all Our listers are not listess,
but have had a rough time OF It, owing to bad
roads. What the results will show as to our
| towns prosperity In the last year doth not yet
| appear. William G. Pratt seems to lead the
town in the quantity of maple sugar made thus
far, and folks are asking how he has done it. He
will need to rise and explain" Mr.. and
Mrs. Liberty Jeffords have just returned from a
visit of some weeks in Calais. Elisha Kidder
Burnham recently picked up some apples that ha d
lain on the ground, under the snow, all winter and
were not frozen at ALL but were as fresh IL kept
in the best OF cellars. We are told that there Is
a lack of twelve men to supply all the pulpts OF
| this district OF the Methodist conference. Two
years ago there were not places enough for the
supply of men. Rev d Field is negotiating
| for the purchase of the " Rice Davenport farm.