The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-19
Williamstown.

J. X. LYNDE is laid aside from work for O
few days by illness.
MISS AMELIA TOWNSEND is very feeble,
her disease being consumption.
GEORGE LYON, who has been threatened,
we believe, with consumption, will, we hear,
winter in Florida.
REV. g. j. RICHARDSON of Newbury
preached again at the Congregationalist
house last Sabbath.
Our townsman, Lawyer George Bass OF
Chicago, was one of the recently elected re-
publican presidential electors Of Illinois.
OUR town superintendent, Wilbur r.
Adams, will meet all wanting certificates
as teachers at the town hall on Saturday
morning Of this week.
ALFRED CARNEs has arranged to return
for five years to Samuel Fosters farm, which
he seems to have carried on to their mutual
benefit for some years.
Mrs. ELISHA KIDDER BURNHAM, for quite
long time an invalid, but having been
somewhat better, is again completely pros
trated and under the physicians care.
THE young friends OF Miss May Pratt
thoroughly surprised her last week Tues
day evening, it being her seventeenth birth
day. Testimonials OF esteem were left.
WARNER CoLBy is sick with congestion of
the lungs at Barre. His brother Herbert
was taken quite violently sick here at home,
Friday last.
VERMONT "young folks" want to write
D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, and learn what
they offer as inducements to work for the
Chdutdugud Young Folks Journal, the sec
ond number of which is before us.
AT an expense of nearly three hundred
dollars, the school-house in the Calvin Flint
district has been renovated and re-seated,
making it one of the pleasantest school
rooms about us, and credit to the district.
Mrs. PHYLENDA SMITH ELLIS is very
feeble. She is with her daughter, Mrs.
Elisha Gale. Her brother, Horace Smith,
who is with a daughter in St. Adams, is
also feeble, having had a second stroke of
paralysis.
THE schools of the Misses Blanchard and
Martin were greeted by large and appre-
ciative audience, at the town hall on Friday
evening last. Music, tableaux, Mother
Columbia's Reunion Party, colloquy or
two, ETC., filed up the time very pleasantly
WE hardly recall sweeter and more touch
ing music, on such an occasion, than was
given at Miss Blanche Bailey's funeral, last
Thursday, by Mrs. j. X. Lynde, Mrs. Ellen
Waldo Colby, and MesSrs. James Walbridge
and John Lynde, with Mrs. Herbert Platt
as organist.
ONE of the most familiar sights to we
know not how many generations of our
people, in going to Barre, viz, the " Ira
Day brick house " in South Barre, is being
taken down. We have been told it is one
of the oldest brick houses in the state, and
we are sorry to see it removed
OUR townsfolk will all be glad to hear OF
| the apparently successful removal of an in
ternal tumor for which Mrs. Barnet Good.
rich went to Boston last week. The surgeon
| pronounces the case "a hopeful one, and VI
to Monday morning only favorable reports
have been heard concerning the case.
OUR citizens were surprised to hear of the
death of Harrison Jeffords on Friday morn
ing last. He returned some months age
from the West, after an absence Of many
| years, and in very poor health. But it wa:
supposed he was gaining slowly He haC
recently begun keeping house with his
widowed mother in the village. He wa
buried from the Methodist house on Satur
| day afternoon.
ONE object of the visit of our townsman
Principal Daniel r. Martin (of the Pullman
ILL.,, schoos) last season, was to learn thu
results of the introduction of manual train
ing into the schools of Boston. A Workshop
has recently been fitted up for the Pullman
schools, and about forty of the oldest boy
| will receive two and a half to three hour
weekly instruction under a skillful in
structor in the use of tools and in mechan
ical drawing.
For the first time death entered the famil,
of our townsman, Joshua f. Bailey, las
week Tuesday, taking an only and much
loved daughter Miss Blanche, in her six
teenth year. She had long been in i'll health
but kept about in society and at school, till
few days before her death. 1t is now feare
she had long been ailing with Brights dis
ease, with never suspicion of the real ma
ture of her trouble, fact that others ma
now profit by. She was member of tn
Methodist chuch and is very kindly spoke
Of. The great loss her friends feel the
have sustained is felt to be her gain He
funeral at the Methodist house on Thursda
afternoon was largely attended, Rev
Messrs. Webster and Bartlett Of Middlese
officiating. Rev. Mr.. Bartlett preached tn
sermon from John XII: % and 26. The blo'
that comes with such crushing force upo
this family awakens for them the genera
sympathy that seems to us one of the besse
characteristics of the country life we live.
WE recently had the pleasure OF hearin
from our townswoman, Miss Mary Jackson
who has been great invalid for three year
past, something of what is known as tn
"Shut-in society,"" of which she has been
member. The very name suggests the cor
dition of the members of this society, shu
into their homes by reason of sickness
There are about two thousand such invalid
scattered over this country and Canada tina
make up this society. Miss Jackson an
Miss Mary Dillingham; are the only men
bers here in town, so far as we know. An
invalid may become member by sending
if they are able to do so, fifty cents to Mr..
Kate Sumner Burr, Walworth, New Yorl
This entities them to monthly periodical
called the Shut-in Visitor" devoted to til
welfare of the members of the society. On
then finds himself the member of a mob
family, il must be. Letters are interchange,
and books and other good reading sen
Miss Jackson tells of getting delightfl
letters from Ohio, Virginia and Mas
achusetts, from those who are now or hay
hoo of ha m M