The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-19
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SEVERAL Of oar bouse-builders arc working
In Barre.
REV WILLIAM SoHoFIHLD has refused sixty
dollars for fine colt few months old
THE selectmen have bought small piece of
ground of Asa s. Simonds, on which to erect
hearse-house.
REV Mr. SYKES returned to his theological
studies at Canton, N. Y, on Monday. We
hear bis services will be sought again here
OUR place is remarkably free from sickness
at this writing, rs indeed it seems to have been
Tor long time. Typhoid fever is found in but
| one or two families.
MATTE ABBOTT, long time a successful
teacher in the Montpelier schools, has earned q
right to the rest she is taking from her labors
| as a teacher this year.
ABOUT the first man we met Monday morn
ing was an out-of-towner in earnest quest Of
three and four year-old colts. Good ones are
excellent property here these days.
WE hear that Lyman Martin and his daugb-
ter, Mrs. George Lynde, will return to the old
nome farm in the spring-Mr. Lynde to look
| after the lumber interests at the Gore, as well
rs to home matters. The family will be well
coined back.
ONE of our aged farmers, who has never
condescended to book-farming but little il
any further than to use phosphate on a small
piece of ground set apart TO india-wheat, ad-
nits that the pigeon-grass stepped out when he
h'u ohSo useu Iuo phosphate.
The Moline Iron Works." Moline, ILL.,, of
wnlch company our ex-townsman, Henry A.
Ainsworth, Is member, invites friends tosvisit
their exhibit, at the Cincinnati (Ohio,) Expo
sition, of a half dozen or more machines of
their own manufacture, which can be seen in
| operation.
REV. MR. CLAPP has been stopping for sew
eral weeks among his old parishioners here, in
the effort to bring back health to his sick
BODY Fishing, hunting, Warmers Entire
Wheat Flour" are among his dependencies in
notwithstanding. He says he has been using
| the flour for many months and it Is a sine qua
| non in his diet.
Two OF our religious societies are undergoing
| the strain of having had very generous gifts
wlled to them, but which are by no means
UNANIMOUSLY wanted according to the letter of
| the respective wills, and hence the strain Some
Interesting and we think very important les
sons will grow out of these cases, that it will
40 the public good to know when once they are
settled
| WILLIAMSBURG has many comforts IL not a
great many luxuries. We have not one house
that can be said to have all the modern con-
| veniences. AS we can't have them it NAV
afford us drop of cold comfort to be told. as
was the recent meeting of the American Social
| Science Association, by an authority on the
subject, that it is impossible to make house
safe to live in where such conveniences are
enjoyed.
BERT ROYCE, youth in the midst of the
teens, having been granted by his father forty-
1--WE rods to lay himself out on devoted it to
potatoes, and has just harvested sixty-eieht
| bushels, therefrom. He experimental with
| phosphate From row on which no phosphate
was used he took tifty-one and one.half pounds
OF potatoes. From an adjoining one, on which
ne used one-half spoonful to the hill, 1.-THE
weight being one and one-half pounds phos-
phate in the row. he got seventy-four and one
fourth pounds OF potatoes. From another row
close by, in which he used spoonful of phos-
phate to hill, he got eighty-sx pounds of
potatoes Comparing this with the first men
toned row 1t is seen that three pounds OF
| phosphate gave an increase of thirty-four and
one. half pounds of potatoes. So faithfully
tended was this patch that hardly weed was
to be seen, says our informant.
MRS. ESocH HOWE has of late buried her
sister, Mrs Sherman of Muskegon, Ill. Mrs
Charles Perry is sick with fever Arthur
Ralph is working for Montpelier firm and on
the road. James K Lynde, Frank Sibey,
Quincy and VIII Carpenter and Others visited
inc state fair last week. -. Willis Gale went
from the White Mountains some weeks ago &c
Salem, Mass.