The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-05
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WORD has come here of the sickness
feared to be fatal-of George Field of
Wyanet, ILL.,, husband of our townswoman,
Laura A. Bass, and most excellent Chris
tan man.
Miss ELLA MARTIN is engaged to teach in
the Charles Woolcott districts Miss Emma
Adams in the Hawley Gale district; and
Miss ErslSine in the Edison Martin DISTRICT
the coming winter.
GEORGE G. EARLE has purchased mill
for grinding corn oats, barley, etc, which
he will put into his tannery. He will have
1t in operation this week probably and
ought to succeed as % miller.
THE village school, of which Miss Annie
Martin is the teacher, and Miss Blanchard's
select school will join forces in some exer-
eises at the close of the schools, which will
doubtless be attractive. Miss Blanchard
will teach the coming winter in the Calvin
Flint district. Miss Ada Il. Martin is en-
gagged to teach winter term in her home
district.
ANY school-teacher who aims specially
land all ought toy to help his pupils to that
high but too rare accomplishment, good
reading must surely find help in attending
Professor j. w. Churchill's reading" at
Chelsea on Thursday evening of this week.
Many district school the coming season in
the towns about ought to be the richer for
that reading.
PHYSICIANS decide that the life of Mrs
Barnet Goodrich can be saved only by
surgery, and that it will be best that she go
to Boston for treatment. In view of this,
many of our citizens have recently made up
a purse of between fifty and sixty dollars
and presented 1t to her, for which she is
very grateful. We love to record such
thoughtful, helpful deeds of kindness, which
are the glory of town.
OUR townsfolk are liable to be deceived
SIGHT rpnOVlfa6 "a
and think the main room quite q little
smaller than before, whereas it is only two
feet shorter. In addition to this is a plat
form, semi-partitioned off, that is consid-
erably wider than the old one, which can
also be reached at the rear of the hall.
Another improvement is the porch at the
entrance of the building.
! The last owner of the old " Dr. Glysson
place, was the late Elphalet Coleman, who
gave life lease of it to Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Martin. After their decease it goes to a
son of Faber Benedict, a grand nephew of
Mr.. Coleman. Mr.. Benedict has barganed
with Mr.. Martin for the use of the place
during the remainder of the latter's life,
paying him yearly rent for it, and is now
renovating the house, which is to be oc-
cupied
| II may seem to some in these days that time
| given to learning trade, with but little
| compensation, is dead loss. The cousin OF
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the public as an advertiser (he is said to
have used half million in this way in re-
cent year, has lately told us of his appren-
ticeship A bright boy of sixteen, he began
serving, the first year for only his board
the second year it was his board and
twenty-five dollars, if we remember Alright
but to-day, only in the "thirties,' "the
| bread cast on the waters" has been found
with an immense increase.
SINCE but few men can taste the fruit OF
worldly fame that looks so provokiugly
tempting to mankind generally, it is well to
| know how it tastes to this select few. In
the recent two volumes of the " Life and
Letters of Bayard Taylor" he tells the
world how he felt in the midst of his great
popularity as a writer and lecturer. He
says " am tired to death of being intro.
duced to people, answering questions (many
of them silly enough, and being stared at
with mixture of curiosity and awe, as
the man that went to Africa. Fame Gi
this is it) is not worth the trouble we take
to get it,"
Mrs. GEORGE BECKETT is visiting her
son in New York city. - After an alb.
sence of two years from his farm because
of i'll health, Deacon Edwin G.. Smith re-
turns to it this week. - Melvin Burn.
ham comes from Deacon Edwin C. Smiths
farm, this week, to the village, and will oc.
cupy the old Universalist parsonage, now
owned by Frank o. Beckett. - Miss
Julia Bass returned to st. Johnsbury Acad.
envy last week for the winter. - Mrs
Jane Goodrich Dickinson and children re-
| turned to their home in Grinnell, Iowa, last
week. - Liberty Jeffords is at home
after some weeks of canvassing, in various
| towns of the state, with an agent for the
Brattleboro Retorner