The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-30
Williamstown.


as teachers at the examination on Saturday last.
CHARLES PERRY has exchanged houses with
Jerome Brockway, taking the one form erly
occupied by Mrs. Joel Bass
JOSEPH NORRIS died on Sunday afternoon
last, after an illness Of a number Of weeks from
Ut Is supposedly heart disease. He was buried
Tuesday afternoon. His very hospitabe home
now likely to be broken up, will be much
missed in his neighborhood.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Herald,
In recent letter from Ceylon, writes In strong
terms OF the regard felt there for our towns
man, the late Rev. John G. Smith, for years
missionary In Ceylon, and his son, Thomas,
who succeeds his father in the same work.
THE Free Baptists Of this conference will
hold quarterly meeting with the church Of
that denomination in this place ere long. This
event occurs once In two years here, and is the
occasion OF q large attendance of ministers
and laymen usually. The meeting continues
through two or three days.
GALL right, sir; had two good sermons"
This was the answer, given with Martin
emphasis, to our enquiry of Methodist
brother how things went at his church last
Sunday. 1t was Rev. Harvey Webster's first
Sunday in this his new parish. We hope
"all right, sir" may be the answer that
both pastor and people can always give
during Mr.. Webster's stay here, when ques-
toned as to how it goes with them.
GEORGE MARTIN has safely reached High
more, Dakota, and is not disappointed in the
appearance of the country. A cough that he
has carried with him for time has not ap-
peared since reaching that section. A few
years ago we visited Dakota. While there we
met the wife Of minister, who had been
great invalid in the East. She said to us:
Tell all the invalid ladies East to come to
Dakota, II they want to regain their health"
THE item in circulation that Chelsea has fur
nished seven representatives for the ministry,
ETC., set US to gathering some statistics here at
home The population of Chelsea, at the last
census. was almost fifty per cent larger than
that OF Williamstown. What the difference
has been in all the past we are unable just
now to say. In 1880 we had something less
than ten hundred and fifty inhabitants. In
our best estate, IL we remember Alright, our
population has been but about sixteen hun
dred, and that fifty years ago or more In our
hunt, we find that some fifteen natives of this
place have entered the ministry, and one of
our informants thinks this number may be in.
creased to seventeen. Two OF these ministers
have been missionaries to foreign fields. A
daughter of a former citizen Of this place is
serving as a missionary's wife in a foreign
field, part of whose childhood was lived
here, II she was not born here. Another lady,
a member Of one of our churches, but where
born we are unable now to say, Is missionary,
too, In foreign field. We find the names of
seventeen physicians natives of this place)
include the whole of either class. The office Of
both governor and lieutenant-governor of the
state has been filled by natives of our town
One or more of our towns-folk have held pro-
fessorships in colleges, and we easily recall
three ladies who have been teachers in ladies'
seminaries
WE recently came across some old magazines
published in 1917. An article in two OF them
was an Address on the Use of Ardent
| Spirits" The origin of it was meeting of
| several members of the Vermont legislature,
| and others, at the State House, in Montpelier,
| October Is, 1917, "to enquire into the expe-
| pedency of adopting some measures for dis
| countenancing the too free use of ardent
| spirits" etc. A committee was appointed con.
| sisting OF Governor Jonas Galusha, Lieutenant
governor Paul Brigham, the speaker Of the
house, W. A. Griswold, and eighteen other
persons of note, who put forth stirring ad-
| dress. What surprises us in this address is
that it is so precisely like those Of the present
day, in the kind Of its statistics, that 1t would
| pass for modern production. "Two-thirds
of the paupers in the Boston alms-house are
brought thither by intemperance." "One-third
| of the patients in the Pennsylvania insane
| hospital are brought there by the use of ardent
| spirits" IntemperaDce has been ascertained
| to be principal cause of the taxes for the
support Of the poor" These are specimens Of
| the arguments used, and all this in " the days
Of pure liquors." that we frequently have
body drank"-and yet we had come to thini
with much less harm to individuals and to So
| ciety than the "poison" of the present day in
fcts. Where, in the history of strong drink
will one show us any good from its use as {
beverage?
NEWS has just come to US of the death o
another of Williamstown's "boys." Warren
Martin, son of the late Porter Martin. HI
died in Martinton Iroquois county,, Illinois, o
pneumonia, on the 10th instant in the forty
first year of his age. He leaves a wife anc
seven children. From the IroquoiS Count!
Times Of the 10Th instant we clip the following
concerning him: " He was remarkable for hi
push and enterprise, ever ready to aid in an.
project that promised to advance the interest
of his town or county. Such man NATURAL,
becomes a leader, and hence he has at variou
times filled local offices and for one tern
represented his township upon the count.
board OF supervisors In politics he was
stanch adherent of the republican party, wa
always a delegate from this town to the con
ventions, and was elected delegate by the re
cent county convention to the district CONVEX
ton where resolutions of respect to his memor
were adopted. Probably no man In Martinto
township will be so much missed as Warre
Martin He was charitable to a fault an
would feed a stranger before he himself woul
eat. No kinder father ever presided over
household, and wife and children will bear |
tender memory the virtues of the beloved hus
|
they have the sincerest sympathy Of a host {
friends. The funeral took place on Sunda,
April 18th, and was the largest ever witnesse
in that town. Services were held at the hous
BY Rev. r. Crewes, pastor OF the Method:
+ Episcopal church of Watseka.'
REV. Mr.. WELLS will move to Marshfel'
his new field of labor, this week.. Frank
Martin is able TO ride out and to go about wi,
crutches. He will doubtless be ready for VOL
! at teaching or something of the kind, /
next fall. /. Rodney Seaver Is sadly Athlete
!, in the death of his daughter. an only chill
u He buried his wife some years ago. Georl
w. Farnham continues poorly. 1t is vel
u painful sickness. :. Eta Martin will teach
: the Orlando Flint district the coming seaso
!, and Flora Benedict in the Hawley Gale dl
: trct :. Leslie w. Marston, son OF Geor
y Marston, is taking course In a business CT
y lege in Bnghamton, N. Y. We were shown
u very creditabe letter, written by him. she
time since. E. Nee Miss Fannie Jackson pl
poses to fight the battles of life henceforth wi
:. Mr.. Gilman Battles of West Randolph. Tn
y were married on Sunday of last week. M
" prosperity attend them. -. Mrs AFRO Mich,
y was recently called to Massachusetts, by I
10 death of her mother, who has long been feeb
IS Newbury.-Rev. j. II. Winslow has be
~ returned for another year by the Method
t. conference. Miss Lois Tenney, a sister
in Mrs. DIR. E. V. Watkins, died last Thursd
in of pneumonia, and was buried Saturd