The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-23
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REV G. L. WELLS recently received birth
| day gift OF q life membership in the American
Missionary Association.
THE household effects Of the late Mrs. Chloe
| Bacon Lougee are to be sold at her old house
on Thursday OF this week, Warren Drury auc-
| tioneer.
OUR former Congregational PASTOR Rev. ].
L. Demeritt OF Bath, N. H., and family, are
gladdened by the recent coming Of second
| boy into the family.
OUR citizens have been improving the time
Of late for hauling ice from the Cutter pond,
| and 1t looks as II It might give a January flavor
| to the hot months to come.
PROFESSOR w. +. RocHELEAU's astronomi-
cal lecture on Friday evening last was quite
well attended, and we have yet TO hear from
the person who did not enjoyit. Such lectures
| are well worth good patronage.
THE "practical reflection" OF one of our
| farmers boys recently, was, that che wished
! he could get up pile Of wood as quickly as his
schoo-teacber got up q pile Of boys on the
school-house floor" OF which he was a partl
| THE first meeting OF the reading club was
with Miss Mary Beckett on Friday afternoon
| last Sixteen persons we're present This club
has facilities for excellent work and its ex-
istence, we hope, will be "long drawn out"
PERHAPS no other home in town has the
number and variety of musical instruments as
has Hawley Gales. Not only are his son,
Willis Gales, musical services In good demand,
but his daughter, Miss Nettie, presides with
favor at the piano and organ in our frequent
entertainments.
SPIRITED discussion was had at the lyceum
in the south part Of the town last Friday even
ing, over the resolution that the manufacture OF
spirtuous liquors ought to be entirely prohib-
| tied. On Monday evening this week, the
subject Of the benefit Of cooperation among
! farmers was handled by this club. The time
| for the holding OF debates has been changed to
Monday evening of each week.
SAID one of our most venerable ladies, of
| upwards of four-score years, to us recently,
LAS | look back over my life, wish had
known how lonesome old people are, that
might have done more to make their lives
| peasanter. Surely there is hint in this sug-
| gestion well worth taking by those to whom
the evil days" have not yet come in which
| they may say, 81 have no pleasure In them"
WE have been thinking of the amount of
| pleasure that the genial author, Washington
| Irving, has given our town in years past, by
| his works, and we shall all enjoy this fresh
anecdote just given to the public in the auto
biography of the late DR.. Orville Dewey. To a
mother anxious about the education of her
| daughters, Irving said, "dont teach them so
many things, teach them one thing, teach
| them to be easily pleased" What a simple
secret of vast deal OF happiness!
| To some here, as elsewhere, who have been
compelled by sense of duty many times to
say and do "unpalatable things and at the
cost of many hard things being said to and
about them, paragraph before us may come
with real comfort. 1t is the criticism by a
thoughtful and able man of one who had been
prominently before the public viz: "He
| could not have been permanent benefactor;
he never told his countrymen one unpalatable
| truth" Isn't there deal of sound philoso-
ply in this d?
| Arpupr pIpnru 10 70
| Messy Rock, Lewis county, Washington terri
tory. His land is timbered, though he has
| none of the largest trees that are to be found
| In the territory aplings" measuring five
and six feet In diameter, being the largest he
| can boast OF. He writes that he has seen
| seven yokes of oxen needed to haul out one
| log and two yokes to draw the quarter of a
butt log-it being necessary to split them into
| "quarters," to move them. Mr.. Pierce is
| " bach-ing" it.
THERE was good gathering at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs Orville Briggs, on Wednesday
| church sociable, and the twentieth anniversary
of their marriage. There were select readings
by Mrs John Farnham and Miss M. Hunt, and
an original poem by Mrs. L. ]. H. Merrill
Gifts of a hanging lamp majolica ware, etc.,
were made by friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Briggs
are reaping the reward of an industrious farm
life, and know how to give cordial welcome
the best of gifts, to their friends. Long life
| to them.
IT may encourage many to know that sue
cess sometimes comes late in life, after early
years of struggle and disappointment. Some
one has just been telling us the history of a
very successful manufacturer in the West
whose name is we'll known in many of the
| Western States, and who went from this sec
ton. For years his ventures were failures
and his wife (also from this section) taught
school, and did other outside work " to keeI
the wolf from the door," turn in the tide
came however, and to-day, "plenty crowns
| the board" and the once unfortunate man, has
a name that, honorably earned, one may wei
be thankful for.
FRED MARTIN has taken possession of the
hotel, and is getting things in readiness to be.
gin housekeeping again. Fernando Daven
port deserves good house, and has one
growing. 1t will be finished the cominl
season, with good luck Brney Seaver has
sold his farm to son OF Judson Seaver and
purchased the farm of Mrs. Lyman Emery O.
Washington. Miss Anna Benedict likes he
work in the insane asylum at Middletown
very much. Miss Effie House. employed il
the same asylum, has had the opportunity t.
accompany patient to Florida for the winter
but did not accept 1t - Fred Martin and Mrs
| Celia Walker Woodbury. we're married on Sun
day evening last Rev. G. L. Wells performing
the ceremony. -. Mrs Lyman Emery Of Wash
ington is stopping with her sister, Mrs. Liberty
Jeffords.