The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-07
Williamst0wn.

THE number Of bushels Of onions raised by
N B. Davenport on less than three-eighths OF
an acre is one hundred and eighty.
"HIs face is all mud" Is what one Of our
citizens heard little fellow tell his father,
who was showing mummy to him, in one OF
our large cities.
SOME Of our people remember John Howe,
who lived here many years ago, and will be in
terested to know that though past four-score
years he IL living, and with one OF his daugh-
tiers In Chicago. His brother, Hezekiah Howe,
is also living in Ohio, and in his ninety-eighth
year.
WE recently had the pleasure of calls upon
old ownians-Mary Glysson OF water
bury, whose home school numbers thirteen
pupils; and DR. N. w. Perry's family, Burling-
ton. The doctor is the same cheerful man to
meet, and his face kindes as he talks Of the
old home and friends.
"ELLEN WALDO and Jennie Fuller are good
teachers They can't be beat" This was the
remark made to us the other day by Principal
of our Williamstown ladies, who are teaching
in Randolph. Why should they be allowed
go out OF town to teachI
SOME one has had the curiosity to get the
following statistics: There is one person in
town over ninety years OF age; fourteen at
least, who are between eighty and ninety
forty five who are between seventy and eighty
at least forty mine widows; some thirteen wild
overs; all in a population of about one thou
sand.
PRINCIPAL EPSON Of Randolph is 80 greatly
interested In the town system Of schools that
he tells us he will willingly take an evening in
due time to meet the citizens of our town. and
talk over the matter of the system, giving
what information he can of its working, its ad-
vantages, and allowing all the objections to It,
in the mind of any, to be expressed and dis
cussed We must not let this kind offer pass
unimproved.
A RED-LETTER day was one we recently spent
in the beautiful town of Derry, N. H. a town
whose beauties are appreciated by city people
in the summer season But for us, the chief
charm of the place lay in the fact that there,
sixty years ago, that noble Christian woman,
Mary Lyon, was beginning her labors as q
teacher and philanthropist, which resulted
| finally in the establishment of the Mt Holy oke
female seminary at South Hadley, Mass. II
| was an inspiration to go about the old building
| in Derry known as the Adams female acad-
envy" but now unoccupied, and think what a
| work had grown out of the humble beginnings
| there. We should think the place would be a
Nj coca for the great host of the admirers OF
Miss Lyon.
OUR townswoman Violetta Hubbard, who has
been in town recently, is a graduate Of the
| Bellevue hospital training school for nurses,
| in New York city. She tells us that the COM
mittee of the Methuen street hospital training
| SCnOOl LOT nurses IN DAWrenCe, MASS, are ue-
srous of getting good Vermont girls into their
school. The requisites are good moral char.
acter as testified to by some clergyman, and
good health as assured by some physician at
their homes. 1t requires two years in the
school to get diploma. The first year pupils
are allowed 50 or $40 month and found;''
the second year $14 or $15 a month and
found" Miss Hubbard tells US that these
graduates GET in large cities, $40 land more
sometimes) week as nurses. Often they are
very generously feed besides In thirty-thret
weeks of the past year Miss Hubbard received
S725 and board for nursing. She tells us tina
among these nurses are found graduates o.
ladies' seminaries and colleges, and the train
ing is made by some a stepping-stone to tn,
practice OF medicine. From twenty-five t
thirty-fve years of age is considered the mos
desirable time of life to enter these schools
Ladies desiring to enter the above mentioned
school In Lawrence should address the commit
tee as above for circulars.
WILBUR F. ADAMS is to teach the comm
winter in the John Farnham district. :. Orvill
Briggs has been visiting his father and broth
ers in central New York. :. "A Miss Hunt O
Barre ia to teach in the Talcott Perrin distric
the coming season. One of our Vermont girl
got more than $40 in gifts, at White Noun
tain hotel last season, above her regular wages
80. Mrs. Ellen (Kathan) Morse has pleasan
home in the charming old town of Derry,
H., to which place they have just moved fror
Manchester, N. H..