The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21
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JULIA BASS is attending school at st. Johns
bury.
FRANK LoUoEE will teach In the village OF
Sharon the coming season.
Mrs. ]. f. AINswoRTH of Iowa arrived last
week for short stay at this, b. or old home
Mrs. MARTIN s. ADAMS and daughters of
South Royalton have been In town some days
Mr.. AND MRS. Enos +. WALKER have an
other boy. to gladden. their lives we may hope.
CONDUCTOR FRANK W. FLINT has returned
from his long western tour. He had a fine
time
CHARLEs BARNES reached home last week.
after weeks OF canvassng In Canada. He had
successful trip.
GEORGE LYsDE has recently lost horse pur.
chased OF Wesley Seaver. Death was caused
by stoppage Of the bowels.
MRS CARRIE SEAvER EDGERLY Of Middle
sex, and Mrs. Laura Townsend Atherton of
Waterbury, we're here with their friends last
week.
COMMON horses are not bringing the prices
they will" said some one to us the other day
But where, we want TO know, can common
horse" be foundi
MRS. MARTIN SMoNs, and Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Poole, go this week to visit Superin-
tendent Nash Simons Of Wilton, N II. They
will be absent till after Thanksgiving
ORANGE DICKINSON has sold his farm TO
young Dan Townsend and we probably shall
lose him from our town and possibly from the
state. He Is to sell off a lot of his stuff at
auction soon.
FRIENDS Of Rev. Mr.. Freeman, who went
from Tunbrdge to Manchester, N H., this
year, will be glad to know that the society to
which he ministers are repairing and greatly
improving their church building, "a we found
by recent visit to 1t. Some $1,000 are to be
expended in the work.
HrRBERT MARTIN and wife have recently
returned from an extended trip thro ugh the
West Mr.. Martin brings back quite a number
OF pounds extra of flesh. improved health and
good report OF the West He thinks that
section offers better inducements now for a
young man than the East.
1t was given to the Congregational society
to furnish everything needed for successful
oyster supper recently, except poor weather
The rain watered the stock" materially.
nevertheless the gross receipts were a little
over 900. Both the supper and the other en-.
tertainment did great credit to the ladies who
were chiefly the getters-up of the same There
we're good readings by Mary Beckett, Auua
Schofield and Stella Martin, and the tableaux
were exceptionally fine.
DOES not the travelling public fail to appre-
ciate and recognize the dangers that locomotive
engineers and firemen, as we'll as some other
employees on railway trains, are constantly ex-
posed to? We were recently talking with an
engineer In New Hampshire on the subject.
who told US that he had met one man who had
way OF going forward to the end OF train
after safe journey, to speak to the engineer,
in recognition Of his risk ETC. As this man
thus spoke to one OF that class the tears coursed
down the cheeks Of the engineer, as he said
that for more than thirty years he had been in
the railway service, and he was the first man
that had ever shown any such interest in him,
or appreciation of his work, and dangers.
Who doesn't know that one of the great ad-
vantages gained by sometimes getting away
from home, is the better appreciation OF the
good things at home? We wish that people
here in the small places in Vermont could all
know how many real advantages they have
over those in our large cities, In good many
respects. In nothing Is this work more appar-
ent, perhaps, than In the opportunities for
reading, study and selfimprovement found in
country life The other Saturday afternoon we
dropped into the Rev. DR.. Merediths famous
Bible class Of one to two thousand persons, in
fremont Temple. Boston, and In the short time
we stayed, we heard nothing in the way of an
swers that could not be easily matched in our
own country Sunday schools. We believe, too
that many city pastor envies the talent, OF
the use of 1t, as found in our country social
meetings. o, there is lots of pith in the re-
mark that imam made the town and God
made the country" taking 1t in other, as we'll
as material, sense.