The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-04
WilliamstOwn.

CHARLES ERsKINE is TO have the care of the
Methodist farm this year.
CYRUS A. LATHRoP is administrator of G.
Holloway MerrilPs estate.
ANNA ScHoFIELD has closed very pleasant
term of school in Worcester
WILL1AMsTowN will have to 20 a-visising to
celebrate the Fourth this year.
CARRIE HILL was the guest of her friend.
Mrs. DR.. Braley, several days last week
IT is said that Deacon Horace Wares estate
| settled for about twenty thousand dollars.
GEORGE ADAMS, who is clerking for DR.. E. c.
| Lewis in Rutland, Is taking vacation at home.
| CARLOS ADAMS was at home from Dartmouth
| college, and preached at the Methodist house
| on Sunday morning.
A Mr.. FOSTER of Lowell. Mass, delivered a
temperance lecture at the Congregational
| house on Sunday evening last
STUDENT from the Universalist theological
| seminary at Canton, New York, is to supply
the pulpit of that denomination here, during
the coming three months.
ELLEN WILD and Jennie Fuller have re-
| turned from teaching in Randolph this sum-
| mer. They will both return to Randolph to
teach during some part OF the coming year.
| Mrs. ELBERT BRIGGS of Newark, New York,
continues to gain till now there is no appear
| ance of cancer Her friends regard the case
as marvellous. The cure is attributed wholly
| to prayer.
| DR.. CHARLES ELLIS of Nashua, n. H., is
| obliged to give up his practice at this time on
account of i'll health. He goes to York beach
| for little time and then will come to Will
| Jamestown
| A DELEGATION from the Universalist society
of Barre had picnic at the Springs yesterday.
| Judge White of Washington and his son, and
Ira Calef and his sister, Miss Lucy Calef, were
with the party.
| THERE will be society meeting at the YES
| try of the Congregationalist house on Saturday
| evening next. matter of importance is to
| come up, and it is hoped every member of the
| society may be present.
In the pressure of work of replacing his barn,
| burned last year, we hear that Leavitt Hay
| woods farm work is compelled to suffer Sc
verely. II this is so, would it not be quite like
| his large-hearted townsmen to give him big
| bee?
MARY AND ELLEN CRANE of Dexter, Iowa,
| daughter Of our ex-townsman, Charles Crane,
and students in the Mount Holyoke Female
seminary, South Hadley, Mass, are spending
their summer vacation with friends in this
| town, and BIookfield.
THERE was large attendance at the sale of
| c. Holloway Merrilps property on Saturday
last, and good prices were in many cases OBJ
| talned. COWS sold as high as tity dollars in
| some instances, and averaged twenty-nne dol
lars each. We hear the horses, too, went for
| all they were worth.
NEITHER Mr.. Barnum nor Mr.. Forepaugh
has combined all the wonders of the world in
| their show We have one here in Williams
| town. 1t is group of intelligent young ladies'
in well-to-do family who have never banged,
| frizzed, crimped, waved, and what not that
which the good book declares is a glory to
| woman.
JAMES F. JILLsoN, who went from this place
| to Chicago in 1S45, and has had twenty-seven
years experience in undertaking." writes US
| fhaff into oil
in that city, in these twenty years, as
| last season. He thinks the new quarters of
his firm, G. II. Jordan & Co. the most commo-
dious and the most elaborately fitted up, of
any in the western country. However, the
only " cheerful +" feature of the establishment
to us, is Mr.. Jillson himself, who seems always
cheerful.
WE found sermon in remark OF an out-of-
town lady to us the other day. She is a Chtis-
tian woman of much intelligence, and fair
share of this worlds goods" and is doing
just what any such person ought to, interest
ing herself heartily in poor family of her
town Said she, in speaking OF them " am
happier in that family than would be in the
family of a king on throne" In thus walking
in the steps of her Master, has she not found
what so many folks miss, the secret Of happy
life ? And how worthily such people are build
ing Such living is the salt of the earth.
AN old townsman has lately shown us an ac-
count book used in the store of John Campbell,
in 1903 Mr. Campbell lived at that time
where Asa S. Simonds now lives, using the
building for hotel. His store was across the
road near where Charles Perry's house now
stands. The feature of this old account book
that strikes one now, most strangely, is the
great number Of entries of liquor sold. Count
ing the charges on several pages, taken at ran
dom, nearly or quite half were partly, or
wholly, for strong drink in the form of " one
half sling" "one-half flip" one mug sling"
lone mug toddy" 1t was probably in this
year, 1903, that the "meetng-house" was built,
which has since been remodeled, and is now
occupied by the Congregationalists. We find
charged on the 18th, 10th and 23d days of June
OF that year, ten quarts of rum, each day, to
the injecting. house committee and on the 2nd
OF July there was charged to them twenty gall
Ions of rum, S33 81, and twenty pounds of
maple sugar. 1t was likely raising day "
What tale the old building might tell of
those days! But it is entirely silent over the
olden times" covering them with " the man
tie of charity" and hoping maybe for better
days for us all.
If ones life must needs be on wheels. no
fairer road to travel can be asked than Yer
mont in June. Last week we had the rare
pleasure OF a day or two about Waterbury. 1t
had been a bit of a wonder before that summer
visitors should make r stop there but the mys-
terry is solved ride to Waterbury Center
on the Stowe road, with depression from that
point to the house of James Demeritt, on such a
One could but feel that the Free Baptists Of our
state made an admirable choice for beauty of
location when they selected Waterbury Center
as the location for their seminary. As their
yearly meeting is to be held at that place in
September next, we hope they will all go up
to it and see for themselves what an opportu-
nifty for lasting good is offered them there, with
the energetic and accomplished Miss Lizzie
Colley at the head of the school and Professors
Church and Marsh as assistants. Miss Colley
is just now building a boarding house for the
accommodation of the increasing number OF
students, and nothing would rejoice her like
seeing few scores of good fat pocket books
without regard to persuasion ") dumped into
the basement of the building that is to be. Her
own denomination ought certainly to dump
literally, and great good would be the reward.
THE eight-year-old son of minister not a
thousand miles from White River Junction
seems to follow very naturally in his father )
footsteps. Recently some strawberries were
placed ON their sumner table and this bow. with