The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-13
WiIliamstown.

1HE DOubU I'LL lyCbuu Will ulbCubS tnb oWu
system OF schools next Monday evening. A
large attendance Is solicited
IT looks as II about twenty-six dollars a
month Is the price our best farm hands expect
to get for work the coming season.
"THE relative power Of moral and civil law
In restraining men was the theme OF discus
sion in our lyceum last Monday evening.
THERE will be a Universalist sociable at the
town hall on Thursday evening Of this week.
lce-cream, cake and coffee will be served.
IT Is said that Messrs. Lamson and Prize
will, the coming season. double the force they
have heretofore employed on their granite
quarry
WE are told that certain five-thousand-dol.
lar-a-year normal school principal places small
value on the usual examination OF teachers,
as test OF qualification for teaching.
THE Congregational Sunday-school will have
its concert next Sunday afternoon, at the usual
hour OF service, instead of in the evening.
Temperance will be the theme of the exer-
cises.
WE are glad indeed that parties interested
in an intricate business matter in town are
ready to arbitrate 1t, instead OF taking it into
the courts. Is 1t not a much wiser course TO
take, in nine cases out OF ten?
"HoNoR to whom honor Is DUE" writes our
ex-townswoman, Mrs. Sarah (Flint) Clark Of
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to whom all the credit had
been given for improvements recently made In
her fathers cemetery lot in this town, and
which should have been shared with her
brother, Calvin Flint.
GEORGE LYNDE is making due preparations
for carrying on his Lyman Martin farm after
this winter. Two farm-hands have been hired,
and we hear third is wanted. Mr. Lynde
has the means to feed farm well. The farm
is an excellent one, and his work will be
watched with interest.
WE recently heard Barreite prophesy that
l. q ID II -nsI. II
point, South Barre might become "the central
point" Of Barre within five years. 1t ia pro-
posed out here, though, in case OF said extern
sion, that Williamstown shall be "the central
point of Barre" But the hub" will agree to
treat the rim" very generously In that event.
WE are told that one man has purchased
| some eight thousand pounds of wool in our
| town of the last clip, and that there may be
nearly as much more unsold. 1t will be pity
| II any of our farmers have held on to their
wool-crop too long. They will not be likely to
fancy the Morrison tariff bill, just introduced
though, that, II passed, 1t may likely help
elect republican president next fall.
WE regret the failure to secure the services
Of DR.. Walter Jones of Waitsfeld in enlight-
! ening us on the subject of the town system of
| schools He believes In the system, is aiding
in its success in Waitsfied, and we know Of
| no one whom we would more gladly hear on
the subject. 1t seems to us that some OF the
principal objections to the system here, as, no
| doubt elsewhere, are based upon misunder-
standing of the practical workings of it, and
| that the facts the doctor could give us would
help do away with many or most of them.
For some time it has seemed as il there was
but one door into Williamstown, and that by
birth, though there are enough out of the
town. II second door is to be opened into the
place, and that invalidism,' we shall accept
the result very resgnedy. And so we are
glad to have DR.. Charles Ellis and wife back
here again. They came last week. and for q
time will reside in the family of Mrs. Ellis
father, j. M. Palmer, hoping thereby that the
doctors much-impaired health may improve
sufficiently to resume fine practice jus
abandoned.
SHALL our young men go West is a question
that will come up for some time yet. We Sc,
that Henry Ward Beecher, who, not long ago
made an extended tour through that region
said in Boston, last week, that il he were 6
young man he should go West farmer in
neighboring town, who has sons about to star
out in life for themselves, has lately visited tn
West, to spy out the land with reference to hi
boys. He returns saying, il they will live her
as they do there, they can do as well East
J remark often heard, though with ten or dozel
years experience in the West, we do not sc
J the force of it. But in this rs in all othe
questions, there are pros and cons plentifull
sprinkled in.
, ON SATURDAY 0V6uluS ldSu luoT6 WAS u BOOt
, gathering of friends at the house of Mr.. AM
, Mrs. Oliver Martin, to celebrate the tenth an
niversary OF their marriage. Pastor Wells off
ciated in prayer and Erwin II. Martin mad
the presentation speech. Frank ]. Martin re
sponded to it from sick bed, in beha
3 of his brother. Mrs John Farnham had Al
Z original poem. Music was furnished by Mr.:
r Farnham, Miss Nettis Gale, Miss Hattie Ma
, tin, Willis Gale, Fred Blanchard and Wilbu
I; Adams Among the larger gifts were an ez
1 presented by Mr.. Martins felow-workmen
j one of the granite shops at Barre. Other gift
4 testified to the esteem of their friends
. REV G. L. WELLS is preparing for tn
a Methodist preachers meeting at Cabot o
Tuesday. The theme assigned him is " I'll
= useful way of preaching. The good new
!. comes of marked success attending the labor
u of Rev. Charles Nichols since going from herr
= -. Frank Martin, who is laid up with a broke
knee-pan, seems likely to have to keep his be
> for quite good many weeks. He bears h
: confinement with true Martin grit. j.
:. Lynde has just received carload of cottol
3 seed meal, and one OF flour and grain, from tt
y West. .. We hear that o. III. Dickinson wi
:, move to Barre and go into business wit
. Charles Townsend in the sale of the Oshkos
l. wisconsin, buggies and carriages. He is OF
u of the kind of men that succeed in their u
u dertakngs .. On account of i'll health, j.
u Palmer says his farm must be sold at one
g Terms easy. -. We know of no one here wi
>. speaks or writes of minister's declaiming
II sermons, as the incorrigible type of TT
week, to say.