The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-27
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MISS BIcKFoRD of Barre is finishing out the
school in the Calvin Flint district
Miss KATE BASS Of Chicago Is expected here
soon to spend some weeks with her friends.
Miss LUCIA HARTMAN has been obliged to
give up her summer school on account of i'll
health.
THE Congregational society is likely to adopt
the plan of one sermon on Sunday, for the
present
ONE Of our young men has just returned from
few months stay in Iowa, entirely satisfied
with Vermont
Miss FLORA HERsEY was compelled by i'll
health to give up her school, and Miss Clara
Tempeton will finish It,
LAWYER J. w. GREGORY and wife Of Waits
field were in town last week visiting his sis
ter, Mrs. Frank Godfrey.
Ike" MoULToN and James K Lynde last
week deluded quite string of trout as to "the
true inwardness" Of bait
JOSHUA BAILEY, an authority on bees, says
they are doing well this season. 1t is refresh
ing, too, to know that potato bugs have win
tered we'll We hear it said that there are
now ten to one Of last year.
THERE will be Sunday-school Missionary
Concert at the Congregational house one week
from next Sunday evening. The work Ia in
the hands of a committee of young ladies who
will be likely to make it a success. Come and
see for yourself
DEN1soN Brown raised barn thirty by fif-
ty-six feet on Friday last. While about the
work, a small sedge hammer fell from the
frame, striking Mr. Brown on the back of the
neck, leaving him but narrow escape from
death, apparently.
AN acquaintance of ours sits under the preach
ing of minister who, in speaking of the mar
rage relation, pronounces the word q" MARITAL"
" martial" The conundrum is, whether he
knows too little of pronunciation, or too much
of the relation"
If man wants to buy span OF handsome
black four-years-old colts, weighing about
1900 pounds, and nearly sixteen hands high,
let him take $500 in his pocket and go to James
Bartlett in Washington. He has another hand
some four-years-old that $500 will buy.
THERE will be one Of the largest auction
sales on Saturday next, at the farm of the late
Edison Martin, that we have had here in long
time 1t consists of the personal property OF
the late c. Holloway Merrill, including thirty
six cows, and other things too numerous to
mention. Mrs. Merrill concludes that the care
OF the farm is too much for her, and will give
it up. 1t now comes into the care and posses
sion of the Methodist society.
"MARKET-DAY" in Boston requires buyers
and shippers of stock here to start out in
the "small hours" of Monday morning for
the railroad train, as consequence, and to the
great grief of some of our citizens. Sunday
evening here smacks strongly of market day
on account of the delivery by cur farmers of
their stock. But it is not without much discus
sion of the question of the rightfuness of the
course that Christian men In some instances
have concluded that it is "a work of necessity
and so justifable. One of these men has re-
Gently confessed that though he had brought
himself to believe "a pretty hazardous work
generallyO that it was justifable, he never
brought in stock of a Sunday evening but he
was ashamed of it, and he was sure that it
could be done after twelve o'clock on Sunday
night That this should be done in every case
seems absolutely clear to some and also that,
in the long run, everybody will be the gamer
thereby.
WE recently came into possession of book
of peculiar interest to ourself. 1t contains the
Account OF Stock April l. 1927 of Rodol-
plus Ainsworth and Cnauncey smith, two of
our townsmen in trade in Washington, Vt.
The familiar names of Calfe, Bartholomew, Fl
field, Downing, Pepper, ct al, with many other
names wholly unfamiliar, are found in the
book. We hope there are no mouths to
grow moist at the thought of tobacco, costing
twelve to fourteen cents in those days or of a
stock of cider brandy and rye gin invoiced as
costing two shilliDgs-and in those days a part
of the common stock of a country store-a
state of things which we cannot be too thank
full no longer exists. How many of our young
folk. know what fired dogs are which we
lind inventoried here? There were over 100
bushels OF ashes on hand" also pearl ash
and over 800 bushels of grain, a condition of
things very different from the present state of
things in our country stores.
WE have rarely heard richer practical Joke
than was played upon his mother by a three
years old Martin boy in the West one of the
Williamstown stock of Martins that have gen
orally shown an ability to look out for them
selves" The boy knew that his mother feared
he had exhausted the patience Of a neghboring
family OF the name of Lund, by his frequent
visits to the little girls of the family, and that
she purposed to keep him at home for while.
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his mother, one day, ready to start out, and
suggested that he play that he was Edith Lund.
Without suspicion of his game, she assented
to the play" He says, now mamma, am
Edie Lund, amt % and she replied yes
10 be doubly sure he repeated the question.
once or twice more, 81 am really EdIe Iund
amt l?' And having gotten the positive assur
ance from her that she considered him so. he
coolly replied, well, guess | will go home,
then. and started off The mother seeing she
was fairly outwitted by the youth, allowed the
play to be carried out, and the desired visit
was made.
WE have recently discovered what a beauti-
full ride by rail it Is from the Connecticut tn
the Merrimack river, starting at Claremont
N H., junction, and crossing the mountain
range 10 concord one might well be 10th to
leave behind the grand scenery about the
starting point, but he will not be disappointed
as he goes on. The ascent at once begInS and
he climbs up to Newport, and on to n beauti-
Iul lake known as Sunapee lake, and whose
shores offer line, wonderfully fine, attractions
to summer visitors. This lake is nine miles in
length, and of varying width, though in no
place that we saw Of great width The DELAY
of our train one hour at the head OF this lake
the otner day gave US an opportunity to see
enough to decide that one in search of rest
rare scenery and recreation will not go amiss'
II ne goes to some one of these hotels near the
lake; or, better, with a party of friends
camp out on its shores. From this point
the descent on the east side of the range be-
gins and goes on at the rate of one hundred
Ieet to the mile, we were told in one section
Down we went till within an hours ride Of
concord, when we stopped off for the night at
warner, place of resort for summer visitors,
anu once the nome OF several governors Al
tnis place there Is large hotel belonging TO
Governor ordway OF Dakota, with accommoda-
LIONS ior quite a large number OF summer
guests; Inc Governor and Secretary William y
Shandler Doth nave summer residences in the
town. Governor Pilsbury of Minnesota the
famous and wealthy patent flour man of Min.
neapolls, used TO live here, and we were shown
the little country store where he once did hnsi
ness. Governor Walter Hartman was nstive
OF the town, and our landlord gave us a racv
account OF his boyhood days on the farm. and
his later life. lie was at one time p Universal
list minister, but concluded 1.-THE business didn't
pay at all, he said. He afterward came ont
OF government office rich He il said To be
a very fine speaker. How Governor Pillsburv
tailed up" out West and settled with his
creditors for twenty-five cents on the dollar
and then went to work and paid off rho ranoin