The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-26
WilliamstOwn.

DEACON CIRCUIT ABBOTT place in church
which is very seldom vacant, has been SO
for two Sundays past by reason of i'll health
DEACON BURNHAM SEAvER of Burlington
is visiting this his native place. We hear he
has been in poor health to some extent OF
late.
ELIOT WATSON Is to teach the winter term
OF our village school. Tracy l.. Jeffords will
teach in South Barre, and Miss Lucia Har.
riman in Gospel Village, Barre.
THANKSGIVING services will be held at the
usual hour, on Thursday morning, at the
Methodist house, and all who will, may join
in them, with assurance of hearty welcome.
MEssRs. GEORGE BLANCHARD AND WILLIS
II. GALE are in demand as vocal music
teachers, this season, the former working
south of here and the latter in northwest
erly direction.
THE i'll health of our townsfolk, Mr.. and
Mrs. Asa S. Simonds continues but we are
glad to note that Mr.. Simonds' physician
speaks encOuragingly of his case, for which
his friends are thankful.
Mrs. JULIA BECKETT MARTIN and son
went to Washington, ID. O., last week to re-
side, her husband being employed in one Of
the district institutions. We are sorry to
lose this family from our midst.
AT a " benefit - for Rev. Mr.. Grain, pro-
jected by l.. G. Norris, and to be held at
the Free Baptist church on Tuesday evening
of this week, some of our best singers will
assist James Walbridge in the musical pro-
gramme.
WILLIAM G.. PUTNAM, a very successful
farmer here, explained to us, the other day,
somewhat of his reasons for believing that
he has been more successful on his small
farm of seventy-five acres, than he could
have been on a large farm
est. MARGARET's HOME" in Boston,
where our townswoman, Mrs. Barnet Good
rich, is being treated, is Catholic institu-
ton. Only the best of news continues to
come concerning her case, and she hopes to
return in two or three weeks, healed.
GRANITE-woRK has been in some measure
disturbing factor in the farm-labor ques-
ton hereabouts, in late years. A man with
a family, who left the farm to labor in a
quarry, tells us he concludes, after his ex-
pertinent, that he can save more in year
to hire out on a farm.
DR.. C. G.. ELLIS and wife of Nashua
N. H., propose thanksgiving this week at
Barre with DR.. j. G. Briggs family. The
doctor is again in poor health, and seems to
be tempted to come up here, and live on his
-. M. Palmer farm" as a matter of health
and longer life. That would please his
friends here.
If our citizens shall duly encourage it,
there is hope that some of Mr.. George
Blanchard's former classes and our own
singers would unite for day and evening
shall be in the best condition. 1t is to be
hoped that such an arrangement can be per-
fected before long.
THE centennial of our place will be
"marked " by Mrs. Harte Dickinson Hub
bard's pretty new house, now in process of
erection. 1t is to be hoped this town will
not take on the habit of the "century plant !"
and thus not blossom with another new
house till the next centennial. With grit,
"get-up," and our own granite, this need
not be-
THERE is to be Congregational society
meeting at their vestry on Thursday even
ing at eight o'clock, to consider the question
of securing the services of Rev. G.. j. Rich
ardson of Newbury if possible. Mr. Rich
ardson is liked here, after few Sabbaths'
trial. but it is an open question whether he
can be had, another church also wanting
him. Let the meeting on Thursday evening,
then, be fully attended.
A FARMER in Caledonia county, a stranger
to us, but a member of The WATCHMAN
family, writes that he has just sold his farm
ana wants TO investigate the inducements
to come to Williamstown to live. He wants,
II he purchases, to get place worth one to
two thousand dollars at convenient dis
lance from church and the village. Parties
here who have such places to sell can be
put in communication with him by notify
ing u.s.
dohCu Jul young IlSI1dD, James
n. Adams, who this fall went to seek his
fortune in the West to give us his opinion
of what he should find Under recent date,
from Chebanse, Iroquois County, H., he
writes that it now seems to him as if that
section offers greater inducements to a
young farmer (even without any means)
than Vermont does. He finds the rent for
farms one half less than here; fertilizers
not needed. etc.
DON'T we all understand that the teacher.
preacher, or writer who sets us to thinking,
is doing the best work for us? A certain
periodical of note has done this work for
ourself by the following statement, written
upon and since the recent presidential cleo
ton. What say you to it, reader? The
writer says, " Our personal prosperity is
as intimately bound up with the condition
of our roads as with any but half dozen
exceptional bills which congress is likely to
pass. The most important election is that of
the school district next, that of the town
ship; next, that of the county; next, that of
the state; next, that of the congressional
district; last, and least of all comes that of
the president" Who agrees with this?