The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-25
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MR.. AND MRS JAMES s. ABBOTT we're in
town over Sunday.
REV. O. d. CLApp is visiting friends in town. |
His health is somewhat improved
DR.. G. LYNpE, youngest son of John Lynde,
came from the West few days ago.
DIR. BAILEY's house approaches completion,
and will doubtless be occupied before many
weeks pass.
OUR ex-townsman, Myron Bass of Chicago
is seeking health in the East, at Saratoga and
the sea-shore.
OUR national capital fellows, Frank Beckett
and John Walker, are expected home this sea-
son for a little vacation.
LoRA and Kate Bass are taking carriage
ride to Derby, the true way to travel for pleas
ure in Vermont, at this season.
ALICE EDISON, for many years an invalid,
was at church on Sunday last She is able to
ride out quite frequently of late
OUT OF town visitors at the Gulf Springs
hotel on Thursday last, swelled the number of
diners at Mr.. Lang's table to sixty.
THE high prices and scarcity of good horses
here are the subject of frequent remark. No
other kind of stock rules as high, or is as scarce
here.
REV. GEORGE CROCKETT of Barre preached
at the Methodist Episcopal church last Sunday.
Next Sabbath gospel workers from Barre Will
conduct the services
FRIENDS of our ex-townsman Henry A. Aims
worth of Moline, Illinois, will celebrate the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage the
last of this month at Moline.
MRS. II. NJ CLARK of Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
wife of one of the firm Of wagon manufacture
ers whose goods are being sold hereabouts, is
visiting the family of o. Ii. Dickinson.
Mr.. AND MRS GEORGE LYNDE of Plainfield
were in town last Saturday. Mr.. Lynde has
recently bought more timbered land, and he
knows how to drive, and thrive on the lumber
| business
AT last we are to have new hearse here.
1t was purchased in New Bedford, Mass, and
| is a great improvement on the old one in
appearance. la fact it is a very handsome one
and costs about four hundred dollars.
MRS. SUSIE r. GRAHAM CLARK, an author
ess, was in town several days last week, the
guest of Mrs. Elisha X Burnham. We are
glad she had the chance to see some of the
beautiful scenery about us, and hope she may
find something here, to work up, as warp or
wool, in her future writing.
ELISHA MARTIN, son of Denison Martin, has
taken a wife unto himself and removed to
Highmore, Dakota, where he is practcing law.
His cousin, Cory Watson, of this place, is
spending his summer vacation in the same
place. Mr. Watson has engaged to teach in
Wyonet, Illinois, the coming year.
"YoUNG DAN" TOWNSEND can make faces
at high priced horses, for he has trained pair
of oxen TO draw his mower on which he rides,
horns. He moved three acres in four hours
the other day, with them. He also harnesses
a single OK to his horse-rake, and uses it sat-
isfactorily.
WONDERFUL" is the word we want to use
when we see Enoch Howe, now in his ninety
second year, wheel-barrowing wood into his
she'd and piling it, And it seems remarkable
to see Warren Poole, who was eghty-one years
old last January, daily swinging his scythe in
the hay field, as if younger man. viii the
fact that he has not used tobacco for many
years account partly for the fact of his vigor?
: ARTHUR f. BURNHAM married some months
ago, in Waupacca, Wisconsin, and went to
Sherman, Brookings county, Dakota, where he
has purchased farm. He wrote back some
time ago of planting corn with an axe and with
an overcoat on He ought to give the WATCH
. MAN readers full account of matters about
him. They would possess much interest fol-
eastern readers, now that so many eyes are
looking Dakota-ward
PHILANDER HOLDEN, a native of Middlesex
, VT, and latterly of Swampscot, Mass, has beer
rusticating here few days of late. Forty five
years ago he served General E. Bass about 4
year in his hotel here, hence his visit now. Mr.
!, Holden is one of Vermont's tall sons, standing
, six feet and three inches in his boots and weigh
, ing more than two hundred and fifty pounds
at his best. He is a - true blue" republican
, and has taken the WATERMAN for years. He
has crossed the line of three score and ten, ant
, has given up the grocery business in which he
, had been engaged for years He has served
the town Of Swampscot in various official ca
; pacities.
| News has come to this place of the death O.
= one of its sons, Professor Moses Marston O.
the Minnesota state university at Minneapolis
+ In what esteem he was held in the West will
be seen in a notice of his death in anothe
: column, taken from the Daily Pioneer Press O
/ st. Paul and Minneapolis. His native towr
q has reason, surely, to be proud of the man, fo
| il knows the obstacles he MI n tha xuo,
of success, as well as his worth as young man
!, as teacher, preacher, and the author of thu
' memoir of the late Rev. +. S. Bliss. He is wei
!, remembered in his native state and his memor,
8 will be cherished East and Vest, as that of
8 noble man.
). MARY Z. GLYssoN, for the past twenty-eigh
g years resident of Waterbury, but before tina
y a lifelong resident of Williamstown, was her
Is last week to take look at the old home, an,
/ friends. 1t could but be saddening to her T.
IS see the old house deserted and crumblin,
It away, as also the other changes that have com
), over the place. Comparatively few person
= probably have given SO many years to tn
}, grand work of teaching, as has Miss Glysson
h and how many twigs" she has " bent" In
h the private school taught in her own hous
10 since going to Waterbury she has had one hur
l. dred and fifty different pupils and how man
n hundreds before that we do not know Blu
d who that can appreciate her work will not bea
~ WiehCoo W hCi idilhiuiuCsS as d ttdCu6Tg
~ WHAT hardy boys lived seventy years ago
~ General E. Bass tells us of ride he took aboI
rs that time, as a lad, to Connecticut. The ses
o. .. was a chest placed in wagon that had netht
u. springs nor thorough-braces, and in such
u vehicle the journey down and back to tn
VI place was made. Yes, and the girls of thos
"a days were brave ones too. Some one has ju
~ been telling us how the late Mrs. Calvin Ain
40 worth and her sister, Mrs. DR.. Elias Smith, no
se of Racine, Wiconsin, came three evenings
~ week, one winter, both upon one horse, to eve
y, ing schools, at the village and returned home Il
~ same evening, their father living several mil
I've from the village and when Presby Hopk
now lives. And did they have a GOVERN
of buffalo robe or the like?" we aske
ell Nothing of the kind" was the reply, IN
is did ladies dress as warmly then as now
When shall we see the like again?
'o- East MOntpelier.-Rev. Mr.. Miller preach
seasonable discourse at the Centre last Su
"h day upon intemperance and some of the stat
tics which he gave were quite astonishing.
ng MRS. A. L. HATHAWAY goes to Edwin n
Knights this week.
tut Mr.. AND MRS. CHESTER came from Bost
Saturday, and will spend few weeks at /
in fathers.
DAVID FLEMING is entertaining guests frt
full Michigan. His granddaughter arrived Sat
day accompanied by her husband