The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20
WilliamstOwn.

HAwLEv GALE and Leavitt Hayward are
building barns.
MR. AND MRS. B. F. SHELLEY are visiting
friends in Winooski.
REV. G. L. WELLS has oficiated at the three
funerals here in the last week.
DIR. +. c. LEWIS and wife are in town, hav-
ing come to attend his mothers funeral.
WILLIS GALE and Lester Gale are to stay at
one of the White Mountain hotels the coming
season.
VERMONT is now in her June glory, In these
parts. Our farmers are looking for an abun-
dant hay crop
FRANK MARTIN has finished his course at
the Worcester (Mass.) academy where ne
achieved worthy record.
JACOB and Orlando Flint, and their sister,
Mrs. Waldo, have been visiting friends in New
Hampshire and Connecticut
WE are told that the last census showed
that quite a large per cent Of the married men
in our town were younger than their wives.
MRS. CALVIN FLINT gains, II at all, but
slowly, sitting up but very short time She
is without the use Of her right arm and limb
THERE are yet living here six persons born
and raised in the Barney Delano district whose
average age is seventy-four and three-fifths
years.
IT isn't safe to Judge always by appearances.
They would make out that Prentiss Waldo Is a
naughty man; whereas it is only colony OF
boils that is pre-emptng the back side OF his
neck.
THERE will be delegation of girls from here
to the White Mountain hotels, usual this
season, while everybody, male and female, who
will work, can find plenty to do here at home.
1t ought to be prosperous time for the en-
ploye, il employers do think wages high.
Ware told that farm hands are getting a
dollar and quarter day at the present time
nd that txpa nj q dau 10 he the priCp. in
one instance at least in haying. 1t is to be
hoped that the matter of employing foreign
help in Vermont will not by any means be re-
garded a failure Causes of dissatisfaction on
the part of these foreigners ought to be inyes-
tigated and remedied On recent trip from
home we we're told OF an instance-and there
may be many such-where they had come to
our state, supposng they were being taken
West, from New York, and hence hasty de-
parture on learning the mistake. Do not the
interests Of our state require that the needed
effort be made to give this help full and fair
understanding Of the situation before coming
here, and full value for their services after they
get here, with the kind and consderate treat
ment which every faithful man deserves?
An interesting incident has just been related
to us by a Williamstown soldier in the rebel
lion. In the summer of 1864, he was doing
duty in provost marshals office in Winches-
ter, Va. One day the guard brought in fine
looking lady, who wished admission through
our lines to visit her MOTHER" living not very
far off. The question of granting her wish
was discussed by the marshal and his clerk,
the Wiliamstownian, the former favoring it,
the latter opposing. After an examination OF
the case, and finding only small quantity OF
quinine in the ladys possession, permission
was given her to do as she wished, and the
clerk accompanied her carriage to the line,
some three or four miles distant. Nine or ten
years passed, when one evening as our friend
was at the house of his brother, near New
York city, lady, known to this brother s
family, called, and he was introduced to her.
She recognized him at once, as he did her,
though not able to "place" her. Immediately
she said "I have seen the time ! could run a
knife through you" and he then remembered
her as the lady he met at the provost marshal
office in Winchester in 1864. A pleasant even
ing was passed together, in which the event
was recalled. She was southern woman, but
the wife of a New York lawyer, himself a
warm Union man, while she was thoroughly a
rebel. On the occasion alluded to she had
come from Washington, d. c., and while want
ing really to see her mother, she had hel
skirts filled and quilted with medicines for the
soldiers in rebel hospital not far off. She
told our friend that she had resolved, if he haC
prevented her from getting through the lines
to take his life, as he should accompany bel
back which he would have to do, some dis
lance. When eleven O. clock arrived, to put al
end to the later pleasant interview, our friend
told her that if she hadn't knife about hel
he would accompany her home, politenes:
that she assured him would be entirely safe
and thus ended their second and last inter
view, the woman having since died.
DEATH has been busy in our midst the las
week. The first to fall was Mrs Edison Martin
on Sunday, the 10th inst She had been yer,
feeble for months, but it was hoped when sh
left her farm and moved to her new house il
the village last spring, that she might be bet
ter, but this hope was disappointed. Perhap
the loss OF other woman town WOull
be more generally, or more sincerely mourne'
than Mrs. Martins. 1t comes with especa
weight upon the Methodist church, of whic
she was so long faithful member. Her las
legacy to the cause Of religion-the best an
one can give-was her life But she and he
husband, the late Edison Martin, having no chill
dren, left a handsome legacy in the way of finan
cal help to this cause, it being large part G
the earnings of successful life, the use of whic
is to 60 perpetually to the Methodist church
She was nearly sixty-four years of age.
The next to follow was c. Holloway Merrill
who died of cancer in the stomach on trida
morning last. He was brother-in-law of MIR,
Edison Martin, equally beloved and equal
nourned, was for many years an earnest men
Der and officer of the Methodist church here
Such expressions as, " He was good man
1--WE have met with a great loss" 1t is
loss to the town" that have been falling froI
the lips of his townsmen since his death ties
ify to the universal esteem in which he wa
held His own church feel that one of il
strongest pillars has been removed. He wa
fifty-nine years of age. On Friday last Mr.
Jonathan Lewis died at the advanced age
eghty-four years and six months. She hf
long been well known resident of our plac
the last two years of her life having been yea
of great feebleness; years which make h,
niece, Lucinda Waldo, who has had the col
slant care of her night and day, seem nothir
less than heroine, in this care for her; year
too, which have brought out the luster, fin
than gold, of the neighbory qualities of N
and Mrs. Warren Poole, deeds worthy to
held in perpetual remembrance. May it
meted out to them with the same readine
with which they have given.