The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-02
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1HB hay crop here threatens to be much
lighter than last year
THE Congregationalists hope for some ar
raDgement for preaching ere long
THE grand list of our town is a little larger
than last year-a hopeful symptom.
REV. ]. p. BooTH of Mortified Is supplying
the Universalist pulpit Sunday afternoons for
the present.
WILLARD Snow, a grandson of the late
Thomas Snow Of this place, was buried at Ran
dolph on Saturday last.
AS was the way to do, number of our peo-
pie turned out last week and helped Ralph
Whitney move barn. May such helping
"bees never cease TO swarm here!
MEssRs. DIR. BAILEY, B. f. Sibley, J. X,
Lynde, Frank Martin, and ladies, were "fes-
tive" at Berlin Pond on Saturday last. They
were well cared for by Landlord Stewart.
Is Williamstown to Guido Tewksbury, Mass,
in the tanning" busness2 We had live
Barre man in a tan-vat out here lust lately,
much to the amusement OF the proprietor,
George G. Earle.
How easily one gets tripped on the pro-
nunciation of common words The latest trip
we happen to have noticed was over the word
maniacal." How many in every ten that will
try 1t now will get 1t right?
WILLIAM G. BROWN of Massachusetts,, whose
mother was Maria Fisk Of this town, has Just
| taken an M. d. at the Harvard Medical Col
| lege, Cambridge, Mass. He paid his friend,
Frank j. Martin, delightful visit last week.
FRIENDS here have received invitations to
the wedding of Miss Emma, daughter of our
ex-townsman, Charles r. Ainsworth and Mr..
| Stephen II. Velie, Jr., on the tenth proximo, in
Moline Illinois, where the parties reside. Mr..
| Velie is grandson Of John Deere ESQ.,, Of
| plow fame in the West.
| HARRISON JEFFoRDs, son Of the late Jacob
| Jeffords, has Just returned, in very Door health
after residence OF many years in the West.
For long time he was not heard from, and
| fears that he was dead were changed into a
" dead certainty "(N by clairvoyancy, the
particulars Of his death being clear to the sight
of the clairvoyant. So much for that art
A PETITION has been in circulation to call
town meeting to Reconsider the vote to repair
the town hall at an expense bordering on a
| thousand dollars. Thirty sgners are wanted
Towns :" do not live by bread alone" The
highest interests of people are to be thought
Of as well as mere monetary ones and who
can doubt that these higher interests Of our
town demand much more suitable place for
gatherings than the town hall now offers
Ought we to be satisfied with anything less
than what has already been voted in the way
of repairs
WE recently saw the enquiry in the New
York Tribune how some knowledge of law was
to be obtained, presumably by one who had no
thought Of law as a profession. book that
we increasingly prize is " An Encyclopaedia of
Law and Forms, for all the States and Canada"
by Hon. Hugh NJ Spalding, of which Judge A.
W. Tourgee author of several law works, says /:
I'll have carefully examined Spalding's Law En-
cyclopadia, and am simply amazed at its full
ness accuracy and simplicity of arrangement
have no hesitation in saying that it has been
the best work Of its character, either for the
professional or business man, that have ever
seen, and one OF the cheapest and most valua-
| BILE works offered"
MR. AND MRS DENIsoN Brown, at the last
| pnaJt bair ,Nlo O., Io md
went to Old Orchard Beach, Maine, with their
daughter. :. Miss Anna Schofield will spend
the summer at the White Mountains. Mrs.
Manchester of Randolph officiated at the
funeral of Mr.. Robert Seaver last week Tues
day.. Mrs. Chester Martin is visiting friends
in Burlington and St. Adams. Mrs. Barney
ID. Flint buried a sister, who had been living
in Chelsea, last week. Eliot Watson will re-
. turn to the White Mountain region for the
summer, and then go to Wyanet, ILL.,, to assist
, his brother, who is teaching there DIR. Jason
Briggs and family are now staying at j. NJ.
. Palmer's on account of his sickness. Mr.
Palmer's condition is very painful one. -.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Benedict took de-
/ served !" outing at Middlesex, recently
where Mrs. Carrie Seaver Edgerly resides
r Tracy L. Jeffords is vacationizing in Barre al
present. He will stay at Augustus Cladin's
while Mr.. Claflin makes the western tour, or
Z which he starts this week. Russell Martin is
! in very poor health. He has disease Of the
heart. =. Freeman G. Lathrop who wintere6
here, has returned to his home in Minnesota
Miss Emma Fogg is doing her first teaching
t in the Enoch Martin district in Washington
Y 80. Mrs. Lucy Martin Curtis daughter OF Rus
t sell MARTINI and husband have recently gone tt
7 Alta, California, to reside. Her first impress
l sons of that state are pleasant Miss Cynthis
8 Merrill has just finished one course at the Ran
t dolph Normal, and is engaged to teach thu
Q coming fall and winter in Braintree. DAME
l Martin is engaged as principal of the Pullman
Illinois, schools for the coming school year
: He will attend the National Educational Con
Q vention at Madison, Wisconsin, this season
George Adams is home from Rutland for few
days. His employer, Dr. E. c. Lewis, will CONT
: here with his wife on Mr.. Adams return.