The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-26

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WiiliamStOWns
ELLIOTT WATSON il to teach in jefferson, N.
H., the coming season
MRS. LrBBIE TARBELLi is having considerable
sickness In her family just at present
MRS. J. A. 8. White of Claremont, N. H., Is
expected here by her friends, this week.
WE hear the work done In our village school
by Elma Ralph Of Warren highly spoken OF.
ANNA BENEDICT, OF whose work as teacher
here we have heard warm commentator, began
on Monday of this week, a term Of school In
the Brney. seaver district. She has not en-
gagged for the winter, though her services have
been sought already, we hear.
JAMES F. JuLsoN OF Chicago has for many
years visited this, his native place, In his an
nual vacations. But this year we are deprived
Of his pleasant calls he having gone to Massa-
chusetts to visit his sister, without stopping
here. We know, though, he has warm side
for the place yet.
CARY WATSON, has taken one hundred
and sixty acre farm In Highmore, Hyde
county, Dakota, and broken up tenth of it.
He also has built the best house In the town on
a village lot, which is occupied by one Of our
ex-townsmen. Mr.. Watson devotes himself to
the work Of teaching in Illinois.
REV. WILLIAM SoHoFIELD has Just intro
duced new feature In the morning Sunday
service at the Congregational house, viz the
| reading in unison of 1.-THE apostles creed, !"
| followed by the gloria patri. collection, to-
| wards detraying current expenses, Is also a
| new feature of the morning service.
JACOB FLINT who is blest with abundant
means to do good with, has been furnishing
some material which the ladies Of the Freewll
Baptist society are preparing for room In the
| new Green Mountain seminary boarding house
at Waterbury Center. Such work rejoices and
encourages the heart of the principal of that
seminary who is working 80 hard for it.
| n
| ter farm in March He has purchased the
farm formerly occupied by the late Daniel
| Field Mr.. Carnes has done nicely, we Judge,
on the Foster farm, in the time he has had it.
This season he took seventy-one bushels OF
wheat from two acres of ground. A Mr..
| Clark OF Worcester, we hear, Is to succeed him
as renter.
WILLIAMsTowN has no fairs nor races after
the manner of 50 many towns. And so we are
compelled to display our wares, IL at all, In the
news items OF the papers. On our table, rs we
write, are two apples OF the Ben Davis /" va.
riety, picked from the same tree by X. L. Wat
son, one on Monday of this week, the other
one year ago. We think the suspicion would
not arise That one was year older than the
other. Frank Martin recently took fifty
bushels of potatoes from sixteen square rod,
of ground that he had coddled we'll with ma
nure and phosphate. Joshua f. Bailey (or
whose tombstone it might honestly be said
she didn't shirk hard work") and his Sol
Bert, a stripping OF a boy, the other day due
thirty-five bushels of potatoes in two hours
which Mr.. Bailey loaded in the time. Dal
| Royce and hired man dug, assorted picked
. up and sacked, seventeen bushels in fifty-fv
minutes, all of which we should call Maut
S." work.
| IT ought to be pleasure to listen to recita
, of an old person Of how things used to go, |
, only for the zest with which he looks backward
, to days that were 80 much better than these
~ q
!, cents per bushel, being spoken of, was wha
! opened the door into the far past, and led GU
q man of four score and more to tell of the quar-
titles of potatoes the farmers used to raise her
300 bushels to the acre. and sell for ten cent
= bushel. % can remember" said he, "whe
q my father put into the cellar, lit was on tn
East Hill,) thousand bushels of potatoes, an
!. fed out TO his stock through the winter. II
u would take them out to the barn, and poB
~ away the snow and empty them out for his ca
tie to eat. And then the next spring he woul
o take them to market in Massachusetts an
would not, perhaps, get much more for the
% than he would have gotten in the fall. ont
bought pair Of working cattle for $50, vel
n poor in flesh, kept them through the SUNNI
- ana sold them to my father for 500, and
wintered them and sold for $50 in market
i How did they get their money in those days
70 we asked. But "the how" was an old stor
They did not live in those days as folks do mo-
to My father made hundred pounds of sug
If one year 60 through the year in family of t
or twelve, and | don't believe he bought
IN pound at the store, either!' "And what W
r.. the substitute for sugar % we asked. 90
"a pork, bean porridge, milk porridge, and /
IN eyes twinkled ana snapped as he spoke of he
much healthier folks were then than no
-. There was then called up the memory OF t
u. Thanksgiving dinners at his fathers, elephal
~ inc in size. And there were no organs
% those days" another suggested, to help on t
as old gentleman's reverie. But who will dispr
a. a that there were many good things in the
u days, that we might we'll envy.