The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-16
WilIiamstOwn.

FIT Tor a King is such sage-cheeSe as our
townswoman, Mrs. j. Albeen Briggs, makes.
BARRE, whose "heart" is "stone,' is about
to rob us Of the family OF Stone-cutter Oliver
Martin.
MINNIE CLARK, who has been stopping in
Concord N, H., for some months, is visiting
this her old home.
GEORGE CRANE and Marcus Smith are COM
missoners on the estates OF both the late Mrs.
Alvah Smons and George A. Simons.
JOHN TUCKER, who resided here years ago,
has been In town some weeks He has been
living in Orange, where he has buried his wife,
j. X. LYNDE is frequently to be seen on our
street at his knitting-work OF evolving speed,
and q fine appearance out OF the horse kind
He now has three or four In training
THE church bells In Mortified we're 80 dis
tinctly heard here on a recent Sunday that q
family familiar with them could distinguish
the Methodist from the Congregationalist.
SOME Of our ladies have just organized
reading club. They will first take up for read
ing and study Shakespeare's king John"
The character OF these ladies insures its COM
plete success.
ENoCH HowEs house was built more than
fifty years ago, and has never been unoccupied
a day In the time, nor has there ever been a
death in it. Wonder II this can be said OF any
other house in town?
MRS. MELISSA (DAvENPoRT) STILES was
buried on Saturday last. She had been very
i'll of dropsy, and was finally seized with lung
fever. She had been three times married, and
had nearly reached the limit OF three-score and
ten years.
"ARITHMETro" will be the subject for con-
their meeting this wednesday, evening, at
the village scbool-house. Superintendent Mar
tin tells US that all who desire to attend these
meetings are welcome to do 80.
PROFESSOR W. RooHELEAU OF the Randolph
normal school will give an illustrated lecture
on Astronomy at the town hall on Friday
evening next, to begin at seven o'clock Ad-
mission five cents for pupils Of the schools, and
ten cents for all others. 1t will doubtless pay
well all who shall attend 1t. Give him a full
house.
Ir Is settled that Willis Gale is to have a
vocal music class here. Tuition, one dollar
per scholar; time OF the meeting OF the class,
Tuesday evening; place, Methodist vestry. Mr..
Gale proposes to give special attention to be-
ginners. Let every body in town that wants
such an opportunity fail not to improve
this one
How the times change! On our table, as we
write, is ruler, every look at which is to re-
mind us that J. K. Lynde has to sell the
greatest relever Of pain" II, some two.score
years ago, it had been told some of us boys,
as we lay across school-house chairs, that a
should have thought 1t lunacy.
DR. CHARLES ELLIS has been obliged to give
up valuable practice in Nashua, N. H., on
account of i'll health, the trouble being an
organic disease of the heart, we hear. He will
come to Williamstown to stop for season on
farm. II the doctor can show us how homeo-
pathic doses OF labor can yield allopathc
profits, we will guarantee him "killing "
pactice in that direction.
TtrA o1nr hut ~, .
one of our boys threw off, in speaking OF
another one somewhat on the wild order.
Said he, in substance, II the folks who are
pulling him down would work as hard to help
and build him up, he would be very different
man before long" There is good deal in
those few words. Suppose, townsmen, we all
try to carry out the sermon.
ALTHOUGH having been mysteriously led To
engage in farming for three weeks past, we
do not propose to steal away the occupation of
the agricultural editors of the newspapers by
solving for correspondents the legion OF vexed
questions pertaining to the farm. But we will
say, concerning the best method of keeping
cows in the winter, that we should prefer to
keep them in meat-barrels, well supplied with
good, wholesome brine.
MR.. KMBALL the teacher OF the village
school, will give select reading at the town
hall on Saturday evening of this week. There
will also be declarations by some of his sohol.
ars and music, in which some of the leading
singers of the place will take part part OF
the evening will be given TO a sociable, espe
cially for the teachers and their pupils. Ad
mission, ten cents for adults and five cents fol
pupils Of our own schools. The proceeds are
to be used to purchase maps for the village
school.
How many child-heart in this town ha.
been gaddened in the years long past by tn,
coming to their homes of Miss Louisa Royce
81.
Nights. These hearts, now grown older, would
! be panied to see her in her great feebleness
at the advanced age of eighty-three years
She has lately had stroke of paralysis which
renders her right side nearly helpless. Alto
gether, she is a pitiful sight, and the enc
seems not far off. But she seems to b,
cheered by the hope of glad exchange O
worlds when the end shall come to this earthly
life.
WILLIAMsTowN feels an honest pride, no
only in her worthy children. but also in he
childrens children. An Oberlin (Ohio) cor
respondent of an Illinois paper writes as TO,
lows concerning the son Of our ex-townsman
Henry A. Ainsworth, now of Moline ILL.,, ant
student in Oberlin college: Moline has al
honored representative in the senior colleg
class. His name not only heads the list alpha
betically, but it is openly said that Harry
Ainsworth leads his class in literary ant
scholarly ability. He holds the position O
editor-in-chef of the Oberlin Reuie,o, literar,
monthly conducted by the undergrad yates
which position j. conceded to the best man il
the senior class"