The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20
Williamstown.

AUSTIN JACKSON died last Monday morning,
after q long illness.
GEORGE WILBUR has returned to the Ran
| dolph normal school TO complete the second
course.
MRS. CHARLES BENEDICT and Teacher Kim.
ball received severe injuries by falls on the ice
| last week.
EDISON MARTIN is laid aside by an ugly
scorfulous sore on his neck. 1t is hoped that
| 1t may be only temporary halt.
| ORRA BLANCHARD has rented Messrs. Lynde
& Sewers farm, just south of the village, for
five years, II not sold In the time.
THREE hundred and thirty dollars is the
price to be paid by one Of our farmers for the
| work of a farm hand twelve months
| H. d. ABBOTT Is again agent for the Quinni-
| piac phosphate in town. He thinks our farms
| were fed upon two carloads last year.
| Our highly-esteemed ex-townswoman, Mrs.
| Sylvia (Clarke) Newcomb of Waukegan, ILL.,,
has had a winter Of suffering from sciatica.
| II. d. ABBOTT proposes trip this week to
| Springfield Mass, whittier his wife went, some
days ago, to visit her sister. Mrs. DR.. Dutton.
OUR former townsman, Ralph Martin Of
| Wocott, has recently buried his wife. His
brother, Jacob Martin Of our place, has been
| living with him this winter
1--WE wonder now that we lived so long with
| out THE WATCHMAN," says a prominent farmer
Of three-score years, or thereabouts who be-
| gan taxing the paper last year.
JOHN WORK has just purchased land in the
his three sons. He has been living in Potta-
wottamie county, Iowa, for some years
THE Hibbard house, under the new regime,
| has been nicely furnished, and the travelling
public may be assured that Mr.. and Mrs Mar
| tin will make this wayside inn pleasant halt
ing place.
ASH. X. Lynde was driving his best horse
| oot tba 9th do a IN oafd IN fhaf
I" II no i'll befell the animal, he could take a
thousand dollars for him, next season, as easily
as one dollar"
| IT is guessed there are ten thousand bushels
of potatoes stored up In the cellars of our
| farmers here that would be forthcoming for
| sale, II, say forty cents per bushel, could be
gotten for them.
| WHAT about town centennial, in August
| say? Will the Williamstownians, scattered far
| and wide, all come home to 1t? It would re-
| joice the mother-heart Of the old grandam to
| see them all here once more. Who will come?
GEORGE W. HOUSE is about to go to an eye
| infirmary in Boston for treatment. The tear
ducts from both eyes are closed up. Some
| years ago Asa Wilbur had what seems to us a
| very remarkable operation performed upon one
| Of his eyes at the same place, thus saving the
| sight of it.
THERE is to be public speaking at the town
hall, on Saturday evening next, in which only
pupils of our district schools are to take part.
| Admission ten cents for all not connected with
the schools. Let us give these contestants a
full house, for such efforts deserve patronage
by all our people.
WHAT better service could be held OCCASION
| ally in church than such Sunday school con-
cert as was given last Sunday afternoon at the
Congregational house? The hour was given
to Rotations OF Scripture bearing on intern
perance, a reading by Mrs. Edwin Smith, a
recitation by Miss Anna Schofeld, music, etc.
AND now an "authority" tells us that " it
seems to be demonstrated that civilization,
while giving increased intellectual power,
brings into action whole system OF nerves
| peculiarly liable to arrangement, that may end
in mental collapse and physical DEATH Per-
haps 1t is not too late for these parts to put on
the brakes.
WE have frequently heard it said, in half
joking way, that there was as much in faith in
a DOCTOR or his medicine, for curing disease,
as in all else beside But on our table is the
statement of a noted London physician, " in
good and regular standing" that the amount
| Of medical benefit often received is in direct
proportion to the amount OF faith in the means
used-a fact worth our knowing.
WE enjoyed the meeting of our district
school teachers on Tuesday evening of last
week, in which the needs of our schools we're
discussed by Messrs. Superintendent Z. II.
Mr.. Sykes and others. The practical points,
that were we'll taken in the meeting, ought to
be dinned in the ears Of people till they will so
much as visit schools and see whether these
things be so.
| ALTHOUGH in its swaddling band, we are
ready to praise our reading club, and we say
this mindful OF the remarks of the man who
said II he had not laughed during his early &C
quaintance with the mule, he should not have
laughed at all. To be sure it is feminine
affair, and to be maintained such in Simon
purity, and 80 what occasions of wrath or
at m int luHi aDy,ny,n m
nicative and men have itching ears" and
we hear enough to know that this club is doing
good work. not only in better acquainting itself
with Shakespeare lat presently, but in its COL
lateral work OF the study Of English history,
etc 1t is a cause of rejoicing that not
only our young ladies, but the older ones, bur-
dened with many household cares, assemble on
Saturday afternoons in this club to enjoy it 80
much. May the tribe increase.
A LESSON that all ought to learn is, that it
is very foolish for one person, one class of
persons, to envy the condition OF any other one,
and feel that II they could change places no
skeleton would remain in the closet. Facts in
life disprove it emphatically. We like anything
that reconciles one to their inevitable lot. The
venerable editor OF the New York Observer, in
a letter of last month, says: "City people
suppose it must be dreadfully dull and dreary
in the country, In winter time. Far from it. II
the sleighing is good, there s constant inter-
change of social visits round of parties that
tainments of the city, on which hundreds and
thousands of dollars are lavished" And the
comparison in favor OF the country might be
carried much farther-in fact, with all the rare
advantages to be found in the city land would
that we all might get more of them), we
, doubt II many, comparatively in the country,
would exchange their own for city life, II they
knew all the outs " Of such life. Let us be
content with the great number of our country
blessings
A LONG time having passed since last cir
cular conference was held here, it was particu-
larry pleasant to have it here again last week
Tuesday. The day was warm and favorable
for good attendance. The Congregatonalists
J of Brookfield rejoiced US by their goodly num-
} bers. II we ourselves had not so richly de-
: served 1t in the past (as we doubtless shall in
the future), we should cato -nine-tails " the
Congregationalists in Chelsea, the Randolphs
and Braintree, for their absence. Rev. Peter
J Mcmillan of Barre gave us good sermon in
in the morning, making a strong point of the
J Bibles appeal to mans reason in support Of
the reasonableness Of its teachings and claims.
, The opening service of song, in the afternoon,
seems to have been greatly enjoyed. The re-
mainder of the afternoon service was given to
the telling by laymen of some of the duties of
pastors, as seen by the former, and the tell
ing by the pastors Of some of the duties of lay
men, as seen by themselves. In the first in
, stance the laymen at large seemed much more
bashful in giving their ideas in public than
they do in private. But the ministers did their
duty courageously when they came to speak.
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