The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-21
WillIamstown.

REV. Mr.. SMITH OF the Vermont Domestic
Missionary Society will preach at the Congre-
gational house next Sunday
MEssRs. JOHN PERRY and Henry Poole are
putting up a building for the White Brothers,
in Barre, for granite-working purposes.
REV HARVEY WEBSTER will preach Me-
mortal discourse at the Methodist church a week
from next Sunday, it being so near Decoration
day.
WE are told that Newell Farnham has dairy
of twelve cows which is yielding fifteen pounds
of butter daily, and not a fancy lot OF cows,
either.
A WESTERN farmer who has just wintered
here, tells us he likes wire fence so well that he
should use it on his farm II lumber was ever
so plenty.
WE give it as a matter of hearsay that money
is pretty scarce about here just at present The
potato market for the last eight months &C
counts for 1t partly.
OUR meat-man, L. Smith, has just been pur-
chasing cattle in northern New York He re-
ports cattle as scarce, which means higher
priced meat, perhaps.
ONE of our leading farmers thinks our
farmers here have done more hard work, per-
sonally on their farms in the last ten years
than at any other time in the last fifty years,
perhaps.
OUR old acquaintance Mart +" Gale, son of
Lewis Gale of Barre, has been chosen dele
gate from Michigan to the Chicago republican
convention OF course he will not forget Yer
monter Edmunds.
A FARMER out of the state tells us that he
seldom works his hired help on Saturday after
noons but takes ii for q half holiday, and he
Is convinced that his help pays him better
every way by thus doing.
HERE is hint for the women. We lately
heard n man say to another, to whom he was
about to loan some money, "I don't know as
should let you have it II had not seen your
wife knitting as she was walking along the
road" pretty significant straw, after all.
FRIEND writes us from manufacturing
point in the west that business there is duller
now than last winter, and we see the statement
OF a Boston business man that he had never
known 30 many men out OF employment in the
city as at the present time Quite contrast
| is presented here where workmen are in such
| good demand at war prices almost
We heard a townsman, not long ago. signing
| because he had not the power to express him
| self better in words. We notice that promi-
| nent minister in Boston says, as a help to pre-
sent facts Effectively he depends on the constant
practice of reading the best books for boys and
| girls, and especially such publications as the
| Youths Companion, and the 50. Nicholas and
| Wide Quake magazines
IT does one good to hear of such announce
ments from the pulpit as Rev. Mr.. Grain made
| from the Free Baptist church last Sunday
| week. 1t was that, on a coming weekday, the
| farmers in the neighborhood would turn out to
| work, gratuitously, on the farm of one recently
| left widow in the neighborhood, with no man
in the family to do the springs work. Who
| doesn't like that kind of practical religion"
| WE are told with how much certainty we
| cannot vouch) that farmer we have known in
| this county has spent thirteen thousand dol
| lars in law over domestic infelicity. At any
| rate the case is bad enough, and is worth
| Op1x Off ubn
fipds himself unhappily married, when he can't
help it, from marrying his pocket-boo to the
| lawyers, which he can help oftener, IL he
wills. A divorce in the latter case may be
vastly harder to get than in the former.
CONCERNING the interesting subject OF the
sagacity of animals, trustworthy townsman
| tells us that his father, many years ago, owned
a dog that did valiant service in bringing home
the cows with him" peaceably if they would,
| forcibly ii he must, d" presumably. 1t was
found Necessary for some reason to kill the dog
But for years afterwards" our informant
says, when one went after the cows, he had
only to yell the name of that dog when the
cows If within hearing, would start at once fol
for the bars"
WE had a pleasant chat with Mr.. Enoch
| Howe, the other day. He Is the Oldest citizen
of our town, his ninety-second birthday being
| Tuesday of this week. He tell us that the first
stock of goods taken to this village, that he re
|
of Putney and sold in the back part of 8
dwelling, standing where the Congregations
parsonage now stands. This stock consisted Of
salt, Goldfish, tobacco, etc. The captain was no
popular here, and did not stay very long Mr.
Howe has had remarkable health for Ions
time, but in the last two years has been falling
more. He takes with him, into these declining
years. the respect Of his townsmen, which he
has 80 long enjoyed
ONE can readily see how an Old physician
who had been successful, might make himself
very entertaining, If he chose to open his store
house of experiences in life. 1t was trea
that we had in such an opening not long ago
In speaking of how large practice nigh
sometimes be gained by physician through |
constant, profuse expression of sympathy will
his patients-and particularly with mothers
which sympathy might be almost who'll.
feigned, his soul seemed to go out toward
another class Of physicians who said little, bu
who would walk the floor land perhaps IL
tears) through night preceding some yer.
critical operation to be performed, to whic
they would go without the betrayal of any o
the feeling they had for their patients. Tit
thought is worth carrying, always, that Their
may be much more sympathy for one than h
even suspects.
THE weather Of Friday last was rather IN
propitious for the celebration of the twenty
fifth anniversary of the marriage of Rev. an
} Mrs William Schotield. Nevertheless, a good
number assembled at the parsonage in tn
afternoon and evening. There we're few
guests from Worcester and Mortified, an
: among them, Mr.. and Mrs. George Denny G
South Mortified, former parisniouers OF MI
Schofeld, who have warm place in the heart
of their Congregational friends here. The tim
passed pleasantly in conversation and song
} Some choice gifts from friends OF Mr. and Mrs.
! Schofeld both in and out OF the parish, wer
presented to them by Judge John Lynde, il
! behalf of the donors. Response was made b
: Rev. Mr.. Schofield. Prayer was offered b
Rev Harvey Webster OF the Methodist church
Refreshments were served both in the after
noon and evening, and no pains were spare
by the host and hostess to make the occasion
as 1t was indeed, pleasant one.
a WALDO BASS of Connecticut has just bee
I visiting Bass relatives in town.. Alvin Fir
/ has gone to Manchester, n. H., to visit h
. children living there. Ebert Jackson
1 building barn that will improve his place.
: Alma Adams is teaching in Thetford Cente
( go. Emma Adams teaches in the Edison MART
district. E. James M. Hatch. son OF Reube
n Hatch, has Just started TIE lola Messenger,
Q lola Wisconsin. :. George w. House writ'
. that his eyes are now the best they have bee
q in thirty years. He is still being treated at a
A eye infirmary in Boston. Etfie House is no
: employed at an insane asylum near Providence
8 r. l., having recently left the Middleton, Conn
g asylum.
WOIcOtt.-Charles Bennett has receive
some over 81 900 pension and has bought u
=, Philander Smith place of T. Arbuckle,. Mr.
u Bailey, Rev Mr.. Whitney's mother.in-la,
. nearly eighty years OF age, died last ThursdG
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