The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-01
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here.
Mrs EDWARD CRANE was buried in Nor
risville on Sunday last. She died of con-
sumption.
SEVERAL of our young ladies have been
employed this season at the White Noun
tans in the Profile House.
MELVIN BURNHAM, who has rented Dea-
con Edwin c. Smiths farm for two years
past, is to leave it this fall and move into
the mill-village for the winter.
THE Gulf Spring House, which has stood
unused this year, has passed. we hear, into
new hands, and will be occupied by a for
mer landlord, David Comstock.
MISS ADA f. MARTIN is teaching fall
term of school in her home district. Some
pupils outside the district are in attendance,
which speaks well for the teacher.
Mr.. AND Mrs. f. A. HANNAFoRD and Miss
Anna Stickney, who have been visiting
their mother, Mrs. H. NJ. Stickney, left on
Friday for their home in Clinton, Mass.
MEssRs. BoTsFoRD BROTHERS of Connec-
ticut, two young friends of Frank j. Martin,
have been visiting him here of late. Yer
mont strikes one Of them as rather billy"
REV. r. j. CLossoN, who has preached at
St. Johnsbury Center, occupied the Congre
gational pulpit last Sunday, and was liked.
He will preach next Sabbath at the same
place.
The Flint Brothers. on the east side of the
N.
| their mill, but the drouth has cut off the
| provender for their steam boiler, for the
present
GEORGE MARTIN has just found a :" job
in Washington, ID. c., and went there last
week to reside. His wife, Mrs. Julia Beck
| EFT Martin accompanied him as far as Leb-
anon, n. II.
SHADE of Horace Greeley 1t seems to be
| not enough, now, that our young men go
| West and grow. j. NJ Seaver has been
| buying young stock, for a Western party,
who takes it West, to /" grow up"
j. X. LYNDE took the first premium for
| his two-years-old black colt at the Mortified
fair last week. He has recently converted
the old counting-soom of his store into
| ready-made clothing room, after having en-
larged it.
On Saturday evening our physician was
| sent for in haste to see young child who,
| his parents supposed, had swallowed a
| brass thimbe. An emetic was administered,
but no thimble appeared. 1t was afterward
found in an adjoining ROOM
Mrs. JOSEPH Norris proposes to pass the
| winter with friends in northern New York.
and will sell off portion of her stock.
There are some six or eight head of fine
young stock for sale Also hay and other
stuff. She can be seen at her farm.
THERE may be some so blind to the lowell
ness of our state at all times as to feel that
| Dame Nature must have tried her prentice
| hands " in the making of it, But that she
herself does her daintiest work in the tint
ing of our forests at this season of the year,
who will doubt?
| WEregret that our highly esteemed towns
| man, Asa S. Simonds, has been in unusually
poor health of late, and perhaps with danger
of grave consequences. Mrs. Simonds has
had another hemorrhage of late and is
poorly. This family deserves as much sym
| patty on account of sickness as almost any
family we know of.
ONE of the peculiar characters common to
most towns lived and died here some years
ago. in the person of Old Cap'n Rice"
After being compelled by age and infirmity
to give up his bachelor-life by himself, he
finally died son the town" A very kind
act on the part of our townsman, Conductor
Frank w. Flint of the Central Vermont, is
the purchase of stone to mark his grave,
which no doubt would otherwise 60 unnOted.
Would it not be a pertinent charity on the
part of the towns in our state to see that the
last resting place of such unfortunates, who
leave no friends behind be supplied with
suitable headstones?
THE Wise Man tells us of a very valuable
lesson learned at " the window of his house, "
and this is lesson on farming that came up
through our window, the other day. Below
was one of the most successful farmers OF
our town, whose day of hard work is nearly
done. Talking to another old farmer he
said if he was an active farmer now, he
should give his attention especially to horse.
raising, as the best paying thing for the
farm. He said he never was a fast-horse
man, but he could train a horse for common
work. And as matter of fact he has had
excellent success with horses. They soon
show his good judgment in selecting, and
his skill and care in their keeping.
To his fine farm buildings George Lynde
has added two more, this year. One is d
,olr ,,,t,r co. /,
pit twelve feet deep, and walled on three
sides, and with capacity for two hundred
and fifty large loads. There is driveway
through the building just under the roof
where the muck will be taken and dumped
into the pit below From this pit il is takeI
into his palatial barn at the top and dropped
to place below, with capacity for forty
loads Another drop" takes it to hi,
stables, and final drop " into the base
ment of the barn. The other building il
thirty by thirty feet, with basement fo
farm tools, and three rooms above, averag
ing ten feet in width, for blacksmith shop
carriages, and fowls.
WE have seen a copy of the Newark IN
W Union, containing the account of thu
? funeral of the wife of our townsman, j. Elber
Briggs, on the 18th of September, whose dealt
| has been noticed in these items. 1t woult
, seem that Mrs. Briggs must have been Yer,
highly esteemed in Newark where she ha'
, lived nearly twenty years The pastors of TIN
town and three from abroad took part in tn,
services. Her pastor " in his address paid
Just tribute to her strength of character, he
patient persistent devotion in Christian an,
temperance work, and her intelligent activ
, ity in all labor of her church." The flora
tokens were many, and we should judge b,
the description, beautiful. Mrs. Marcia Hill
bard Briggs was born in Randolph Marcl
i 49, 1885, was educated at Newbury, and 70
I several years was a teacher She was
teacher under Mr. Briggs at Watertown, \
, Y, and was married August 30, 1858. Fo
quite long time previous to her death, sh
, had suffered from cancer, and her death hat
| been expected much sooner than it came
J. The tributes to her worth, by the Methods
+ Sunday-school and Woman's Christian Ten
: perance Union of Newark, must be YER
! comforting TO friends. She leaves HUSBAND
. and children.
4 WE hope the great pleasure affOrde
: our people at the musicale at the residenc
1 of Mrs. Chester Martin ON Tuesday even
e ing of last week may in some sort rewar
}, the family for the pains taken by theI
'. in the affair. They may have this though
: to cheer them, too, that they have don
something to elevate the town, as well a
please them. The exercises consisted of
f. quartette by Mrs. Joshua f. Bailey, Mrs
h Harvey Cheney, and Messrs. Joshua i
: Bailey and James Walbridge; songs by Mrs
G Dr. Braley and Principal butcher of Barr,
Ne Mrs. j. X. Lynde, Mrs. John Farnham, Mis-
Is Matte Abbott, Mrs. Arthur Ralph an
i. Willis Gale; piano solo by Miss Nettie Gal
# and cornet solos by Mr.. Fred Blanchar,
II Miss Lucy Abbott and Miss Nettie Gal
q were principal accompanies on the plan,
| Our man-choir which il WAS honpl coul