Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-18
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Our place Is suffering from a snow blockade
the hill roads being impassable with teams. J.
Bass thinks he never knew the road from the
village % his house 80 bad as II Is at the present
time II i continues, we shall have to take to
sugar-makiDg Is poor enough at the present
time. John Greene, who works an exceptionally
good sugar place, did his first boiling last week
Tuesday, and had, as nest egg, enough for
about forty pounds Of sugar. One tree ran, from
two spouts, three pals OF sap In thrty-six hours
on Monday and Tuesday OF that week James
M. Bass has been made executor OF Mrs. Alvah
Simons' will. General 4. Bass rode out twice
last week for the first time since last December
-. .Wetmore & Morse OF Barre have tempted
Oliver Martin to go down and learn the stone
cutting trade. 1t Is all right. We shall want
when we get the railroad, land that we must,
and are TO have, II the reports that come to are
correct). and our own boys we shall be glad to
see bossing them. DIR. Bailey and wife pre-
side over j. K Lynde's household in the absence
OF Mrs. Lynde. The doctor will soon begin re-
pairs on the house he has recently purchased. -.
II was no uncommon sight to see Mr.. Lynde be-
hind fine horse recently. He has, as usual,
some OF that kind OF horses on hand, fitting up
for market. Mrs Abby Howe Pierce occupies
| a tenement In the Nathaniel Jillson house. -.
The man who will tell us where six or seven
| years old dark bay horse, minus white hair on
| him; with black name and tail; standing strong
| sixteen hands high, and weighing eleven hundred
pounds or more; sound in every spot,-oan be
| found, to match horse Of that description will
stand chance to learn something to his advan-
| tage,. Sherman Winchester returns 10 the old
home to live this year. 90" Can you tell me
where can find good school teaeher2" asked
Joshua =. Bailey Of district No. IA the other day
"very scarce" he said Had been to Barre twice
| to find one, but failed. Miss Anna Benedict will
teach the village school, and Miss Lucia Hartman
In the district north Of the village. Vershire
L..k
town court OF inquiry concerning the residence OF
| person needing help from the town, and ap-
pealed to the county court In the case. ...W We
| hear that 1t was the prospect OF a lawsuit that
| made our town at the last March meeting, e.
pecially unwilling to excuse Mr. G. U. Lathrop
| from serving as town agent the coming year. i.
At second meeting Of the town in March, Nathan
Hall was elected overseer OF the poor, In place OF
| Holloway Merrill excused and Olney Seaver was
elected third lister In place of Warren s. Covil
| excused. The town voted to raise fifty-fvt
cents tax,-hve cents TO be abated on taxes paid
on or before the first Of September. The " town y
versus the " district system OF schools was duly
discussed. That we are walking-as the WATCH
MAN would call it" towards the light" wal
shown by the town System being defeated by no
large majority Our town superintendent
Erwin II. Martin, In bis report published by volt
OF the town, says: st must also be admitted,
think by all thoughtful persons that the presen
, system under which our schools are conducted 1
inadequate to produce the results which we ough
|
; tenn may not have ou'grown its usefulness en-
tirely, but 1t has become aptiquated, and some
thing better should be substituted in Its place.
| 80. Albert Pierce has gone west James Burn
ham OF Washington takes his place In Enoc
> Howes store. Carl L. Adams, OF the JUNO
class OF Dartmouth College, was at home las
week. He recently preached for Rev, L. o. Sher
burne at White River junction. Mr. and Mrs
Micah French are talking OF trip west now tina
he has rented his hotel -. William G. Pratt
said to have made ~ pounds OF sugar up to tn
i. middle Of last week. q. We hear that Rev. Nj
! Grain OF Berlin will serve the Free Baptist societ
another year. and that Rev. Mr.. Dckey OF Wash
=, | iDgton will supply half the time II his service
can be obtained. Friends OF our old townsma
l. Ira Smith may be interested to know that h
: goes ere long from Texas with his only daughter
: family to Philadelphia to reside, where his SO
George Il doing very successful business whic
|, may call him to Europe in the not far-off future
Q I've recently had the pleasure OF a visit wit
: our old physician, DR.. N W. Perry. and his fan
], know that though eiglty-three years old, tn
! doctor has fair health and retains warm intel
est In his old friends Those who know the doc
tor know that he has always been an immens
reader. We are told that in some Of the lat
= years he has read the Bible through each month
: emitting only the genealogies. This would brin
up the average Of Bible reading by doctors littl
> above what we feared. &C. c. Barnes, who ha
: returned from winter in North Carolina and Vii
! ginia. says he was everywhere kindly treatet
: though known to be Yankee. But time an
| progress go slowly down there. 1t is onl
about 1888 In some points there. Asa S. S
monds coaxed enough out of his thirty-fve acr
: (seven acres Of which is woodland) farm last yea
/, to keep eight cows and three horses with surplu
!, enough for fourth horse half a year. Wha
might Vermont be II every thirty five acres OF ii
I farming lands had a similar coaxing ".....
> William S. Wood of West Randolph has jus
! purchased Carpenter organ through the agenc
! | OF G. A. Ainsworth Of Williamstown. On on
. table, as we write, is a photograph of a priz
|, painting awarded fifty dollar prize in an al
. exhibition in New York, a scene in cobbler
shop In Alabama. The painting was sold fc
!, $500. How many Of our townsmen are aware
u the success the painter OF this picture, Mosel
= Greene, has been achieving in New York; Dor
u here fifty-two years Pgo, he will be membere
here as a boy; and some Montpelier people wi
= remember him as working at the printers trad
y | in the WATCAMAN and Freeman offices, 500
. after entering his teens But he was born a
. fist, and Dame Nature was not to be thwsrted
q her plans by printers ink. As portrait painte
: suffice it to say that Rev. DR.. L. II. Chapin's 81
q ciety in New York once employed him to pair
2 DR.. Chapns portrait. He has served the Harl
ers for years, his artistic skill having been en-
Z ployed on their magazine, as also Frank Leslie
= illustrated paper. His work is in constant d.
= mand. His house is at Tappan on the Hudson.
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