The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-12
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JABAN NORRIS, one Of our aged citizens, 1t
Is feared may not live long.
SOME sixteen or more OF our young people
are away at school this fall.
OUGHT MT Vermonters to be petitioniDg their
congressman for postal telegraphy?
J. M. PALMER has much improved the APP
pearance of his buildings OF late by changes
made.
MEssRs. ORviLLE BRIGGS, Leavitt Hayward
and Charles Hayward are to connect their
houses by telephone.
MEssRs JACKSON & TOWNSEND were fortu-
nate enough to find home ut II. d. Abbotts
for a real handsome Oshkosh carriage, recently.
THE Whitney Brothers, who rent the Alvin
Flint farm this year, raised forty-five bushels
of Lost Nation wheat from little less than an
acre of ground.
REV. Mr.. SYKES, who has supplied the Uni
versalist pulpit to the great acceptance OF that
society this summer, is about to return to his
theological studies at Canton, N. Y.
SANFORD DUTToN has registered Devon
COW, eight years old, that In seven days in
June last gave two hundred and eighty-four
pounds of milk, from which seventeen pounds
and eleven ounces Of butter were made.
FIVE years having passed since the marriage
of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Burnham, their friends
feel that they would wood EN- on Tuesday
| afternoon and evening of this week. 1t prom
WE hear that $500 would not purchase q
yearling colt bought of Prentiss Waldo last year
| for George Lypde. He thinks him as promis-
| ing as the horse Twinkle" mentioned In
these items last week, for which $4,000 is said
to have been refused.
| THE frosts of last week did damage to corn
here, the season having been unfavorable to
| maturing the corn before the I" bite" This,
with the failure of good sugar season last
| spring, makes it q little hard on some Of ouI
| farmers. But then we don't have volcanoes
| nor earthquakes here In Vermont, nor any
| thing like the western cyclones
On looking at some ancient tomb-stones in
| one OF our old cemeteries, recently, we found
on one an eptaph on the wife Of clergyman
beginning
| "Alas my Sarahs left my bed,
| Chariot of Israel and Its horses fed,
she's with the prophet no more to die" etc.
On another OF these stones we found the nam
Freegrace" given to a son. The boy dice
young.
WE think we have found the place some o
our townsmen will want to go to. A frien,
who has recently gone from the North to
beautiful section of the South, writes that al
opportunity being about to be given one of hi
neighbors to see an organ, the neighbor SAT-
that he should bring all his family to see an,
hear it, for he was bound his children shout
see something. II all talk Is to be taken a
| par, III wOul0 Do paradise reRalneu IOr some
our folks to go where there was such desrt
of this musical article.
ARTHUR MARTIN is making flying visit i
Illinois. y. Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Shepherd wer
in attendance at the Freewill Baptist annus
! meeting at Waterbury Center last week..
Mrs. Mary Jillson Spear Of Neponset, Mass
came as near to this her old home, recently, q
East Randolph, but i'll health prevented
nearer approach, Eta Martin begins he
, career as school teacher this fall in the Jaco
Flint district II we do not misjudge, she bs
| the elements of a fine teacher. =. Mr.. and Mr.
: j. M. Seaver and Alma Trask visited the Maj
! chester (N H. fair last week, stopping at Ii
Weirs on the way. Mrs. Ellen (Katbar
Morse Of Manchester, n. H., came last week |
Z visit again her friends here and hereabout
Her health is somewhat improved of late.
Lora Bass returns West this week, after a 81
journ of a year or more in her old home her
We are sorry to lose her from our midst.
Mrs. A. Wilbur started on a western trip c
Monday. She will go as far west as Iowa for
q few weeks stay. Mr.. and Mrs. Harve
Cheney took in Weirs in the excursion la
D week, and enjoyed it much.