The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-01
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two weeks for a vacation.
THE foxes are committing fearful depreda-
lions upon the young churches
THE sellers Of the Cincinnati buggies failed
to come to town yesterday as advertised.
Miss CHLOE BACON is quite feeble, requiring
the neghborly and churchly kindnesses due her.
BARNS filled with plenty seems likely TO be
the order Of things with our farmers this year.
Mrs. AFRO NICHOLS is at her old home in
Massachusetts, called there by the sickness
OF her mother.
AN exchange between the ministers OF the
Universast societies here and at East Montpe-
lier was made Sunday.
Mrs. ]. K LYNDE is teaching music in
Barre and Brookfield as well as at home. She
deserves thus to prosper.
REV. G. L. WELLS is expected at his post
next Sunday Mrs. Wells accompanied him to
Old Orchard beach last week.
FRANK Fay one of our boys, nov en-
gagged in the jewelry business in Massachu-
sets, Is In town with his wife.
OUR ex-townsman, J. Ebert Briggs Of New
ark, N. Y, celebrated the twenty fifth ami
niversary of his marriage Monday
KATE BASS goes to Lowell, Mass, this week
and thence to Marthas Vineyard t9 spend
some weeks at the cottage Of her'broher, Dr.
William Bass.
BARNET GOODRICH, having by experiment
satisfied himself that he did not wantyto live in
the w est, mas come DHCK anu puICuhseu INC Olu
Daniel Bean place.
JOHN WALKER is taking vacation, having
been to the White Mountains and the Green
Mountain section of Rutland county before
coming home. 1t is good to see him in our
midst, always.
THE Free Baptists recently took missionary
collection and sent to Miss Ellen Folsom, one
of their number formerly, but now mission
airy in India. We count it one Of our pleas
ures to have the reading of Miss Folsom's let
tiers, that are printed occasionally in Boston
periodical. They are excellent, indeed,
WE have just heard this pleasant anecdote of
one of WiIliamstowns little three-year-old
granddaughter in the West. Her mother had
taught her this short passage of Scripture to re-
peat in Sunday-schoOl, " Let not your heart be
troubled" To make sure she could do it cor
rectly, she was asked just before going to
church TO repeat IL, when she said, " Be care
full and not let your heart bower you"
FARMER HENRY MARTIN and wife are to
drive to the vicinity of Old Orchard beach,
Maine, for few weeks rest and refreshment
1t would be good to see a " caravan y of our
Woodworking farmers and their wives start
out on just such trip, at this season. 1t
would aud to the wealth of the place. increase
health, intelligence. happiness and virtue, If 1t
could (rather let us say tcould) be done.
WE ere told that Porter and Lyman Martin
furnished the late Professor Moses Marston
means with which to go through college, Mr..
with a life insurance policy. We doubt if their
children will look back upon any other of their
outside kindnesses with more satisfaction than
this. And what pleasure it ought to be to
persons who are able to do so to encourage and
substantially help worthy young men like MIR.
Marston to an education. 1t is better than any
four per cent semi-annual dividends from bank
stockf in genuine satisfaction, il rightly ap-
precfted.
-. RBJeARpISG Dakota, of which so much is
5axyo fritz frOp
saying the whole country is under big
boom Just now, and fortunes are being made
quickly, and sometimes unmade as quickly.
Concerning spectators and speculatioDs he
says the farmer are " as thick as candidates
for a vacant Office hundred, more or less tc
every call Now and then one succeeds, but
the great majority, l think, fail. AS to specu
laton, he ADDS, 1.-THE whole thing is a trade
u and needs pretty sharp practice to succeed.
This is from one who is great friend OF Da
kota, and is doing much to draw men to tina
section, and who has unusual facilities TO
watching the trend of things there.
ONE of our octogenarians, to whom we 60 TO
"reminiscences of the olden times, has beef
telling us of Baptist society that used t.
worship on the East Hill. Their meeting
house used to stand near where Mrs A. Smitl
HiaItine house now stands, though no trace o
1t Is TO be seen there now. 1t was plain, one
story building, that was often quite we'll tille'
with worshipers. One of the foremost men il
the society and sort of lay-preacher, or ex
horter, was Deacon Robert Seaver, father @
Robert, Ansil, Ebenezer and Stillman Seavel
well-known citizens here though but one c
them is now living. Among other prominer
members of the society were Joel Bass, Sr
Epoch BuFnham, ST., Hiram Stafford, Jonatha
Martin james Flint, ST., Elan Clark no
gone ovef to the majority. The pulpit wa
usually Supplied by ministers residing out {
town, SIS Elder Hovey Of Brookfield, Eide
Parker Of Sharon (?l, ETC.. The road runnin
past Mrs. Smith Martins house, north an
soutPf, is yet known as Baptist street" III
Baptist society afterwards built meeting
9iouse in the village, but the society being III
+ able to support preaching it was sold. Most
+ our resident Baptists now belong to the churC
OF that denomination in Montpelier
OF course a hundred years hence, hunte
for antique things will discover and write U
the queer ways of people of nowadays, an
thank the stars they did not live in this SLOW
going age when conveniences and luxuries we
so few. So the only way to get revenge is
do the same way with hundred years ag
One Of our leading citizens tells us of the inn
yations made in vehicles many years ago. Ii
father bought one of the first buggies broug
to town from Connecticut. 1t had Meth
springs nor thorough braces but the body WI
bolted behind to the axle, and in front to II
cross bar. The seat knew no luxury OF
cushion. This man was then a boy of ten year
Arrived at his majority, and about to marry,
bought that buggy, but no longer to use in tn
old fashioned way, that lacked tone. The
would be nothing startling in the new body
. gave it, but who guesses how many eyes al
mouths may have been agap as he ADDED to
set Of thorough braces Did the worthless
that day honestly think they saw disaster al
ruin ahead of the young man? Well, he h
lodged very clear of such fate thus ia
Another curious feature of those days was t
manner of debt-paying. October LIST and Jan
airy LIST being days specially set apart for t
purpose, the former for paying with stock a.
the latter with grain. Another of our ctize
tells an interesting incident of an Octot
/ meeting of farmers, when single COW ran t
gauntlet of paying off number of debts,
ing transferred from one farmer TO another,
she squared number of accounts. Them Il
1t seems little strange that the fine linen
our grandmothers was cotton instead of lint
We have had the pleasure of seeing some
these cotton fabrics where the cotton was sp
and woven at home, and was sacred to " Co
pany use"
Waitsfield.-Mrs Henry Campbell is quite