The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24
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this season, hereabouts.
Mrs CHARLES Hayward convalesces slowly,
II at all, after an illness Of many weeks.
RUSSELL MARTIN has been quite sick for sew
eral days with Brights disease and paralysis.
Miss FANNIE MARTIN is teaching fall term
oil school In Berlin, where her worth seemingly
Is appreciated.
MRS FRED MARTIN has been very sick with
dysentery OF late DIR. McClearn has attended
to the case very faithfully.
HERBERT MARTIN has recently taken horse
to Rutland, where he has sold before He
perhaps, raises more horses than any other
man In town.
OWING to the sickness of Miss Alice Walker,
both she and her brother Frank were disap-
pointed in their plan to attend school at sax
toms River this fall
MRS. LUTHER ], II. MERRILL has been sick
for some weeks with infammatory rheumatism.
The dread of sickness Is increased here by he
great lack ofhelp for such seasons
Nor six hundred" as THE WArcHMAN
type made 1t last week, but six thousand is the
number Of sheep kept by the three sons of our
old townsman, A. J. Dufur, in Oregon.
For some mysterious reason we are never
consulted on horse questions. But IL our
| young townsman, Fred jackson, doesn't drive
pretty span Of four-year-old black horses
then our taste Is at fault.
The CoDgregationalists are hoping thew NAV
| be favored with good pastor before very long
| II they can raise the needed salary Thew do
not like to ask aid of the Domestic Missionary
Society, and hope way will be provided with
out doing so at present.
MR.. AND MRS. RICE DAVENPORT are TO live
In St. Johnsbury, where they have a son in
the employ OF the Fairbanks. They have
been living for some time past. with. or near
another son. Rev. Walter Davenport, in the
southern part of the state.
SOME of our wool clips have been bought at
twenty-five cents pound recently Ophir S
Martin had over ton of wool made IN of
last years and this years crops We rather
tnlnk our wool growers will want protection
plank in their psrty's platform.
| WE should be 10th to acknowledpe onr
occupation funereal one, despite gansayers.
| But IL any one OF our acquaintance wants a lob
| OF granite work-monumental or curbipp-he
may find it will pay him to learn of a chance
that we happen to be able to give him.
| AT the present time no water runs out of
either the Rood pond or the Cutter pond, SO
| severe Is the drouth here. The grinding has
| ceased at the mill and much inconvenience il
experienced by our farmers and other citizens
by reason OF dried-up springs and streams.
REV. FRED L. SMALL preached some good
sermons to the Congregationalists last Sunday,
the subjects being " The Reason of the Chris
tian's Hope, and =" All Things Working To-
| gether for Good for the Christian" Mr.
Small likes his work in Guildhall and seems to
be prospered in it.
| WE hear that Elder Dickey OF Washington,
| VINO supplies the Free Baptist pulpit here half
| of the time, has asked for a release that he
may preach in Washington Should his re-
| quest be granted, Rev Mr.. Grain OF Berlin will
probably preach every Sunday. He now
breaches every alternate Sunday.
THE widow of the late Joel Martin, who died
| in Berlin, IL visiting this her native town She
hnds comparatively few whom she knew in
| early days here, and it must be sad experience
| in any ones life thus to return to ones old
| home with few or none of the old acouaint-
ances to welcome one. Let such be welcomed
for the sake Of the departed ones
| A PITTSBURGH, Penn, item of news in the
last WATCHMAN, in speaking Of closed factories,
ends, :" and there is great distress among the
poor How different are affairs hereabouts
II there is =" distress " here, it is among the
farmers and Others in getting money to pay the
big wages that labor, indoors and out, COM
mands. All who will may work and live above
| want.
WE last week gave an ex-townsman's ex-
perience in Oregon. Since then we have read
a letter to the Philadelphia Press, by the
| Oregonian poet, Joaquin Miller, who writes
under recent date from Massachusetts town,
He thinks there is more happiness to the
| square mile" here among the Yankees than
anywhere else in the country. But the poet
does deal in very prosaic language with some
| Va Aho ludI lo WOUS OF VINO nave
gone West in the past.
| Miss NJ f.. BARKER, a wel-known teacher in
the Normal School at Randolph in years past,
Is now teaching in the Pullman, Illinois,
schools, OF which our townsman, Daniel r.
Martin is the principal. Her friends will be
glad to know that she is much liked in her
new field of labor. Under the Illinois system,
Miss Barker had to pass an examination by
the Cook county superintendent, who not only
pronounced it a fine one, but said one of her
papers on the matter of teaching was the
finest he had had for some years.
J THE weather of Saturday last was somewhat
unfavorabe for the reunion of Harrington
family and old friends. Nevertheless there
were about seventy-fve people present at the
old farm. A nice place had been prepared in
lot south of the house for the occasion. A
Lighthouse ten feet square was erected and
contained what of family relics were to be
had. Mrs. Nathan Harrington read a family
historical paper, which we may yet get to
furnish our readers with some of the al ways-
interesting facts about towns early settlers.
Mrs. James Goodrich Dickinson read an orig.
inal poem. A letter from George Harrington
of Princeton Illinois, was read and remarks
were made by Rev. Harvey Webster Other
exercises-a basket dinner, and neighbory chit.
chat-made it very enjoyable time. On Sun.
day Rev Harvey Webster was invited to preach
on the same spot at four o'clock in the after.
noon. One who heard him tells us he had an
excellent DISCOURSE