The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14
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THE Free Baptist quarterly meeting will |
begin on the third Friday Of June, and continue
through the following Sunday.
MISS JEANETTE WILEY has purchased the
late Mrs Edison Martin interest In the deacon
Ware place" She owned the other half of 1t
before.
SOME of our musicians desire that the old
musical club be wakened to life again. Should
this be done, as 1t ought to be, Willis Gale will
doubtless lead 1t.
PERSONS wanting hay will find 1t convenient
to purchase OF General Il. Bass, who has II for
sale. He also has meadow hay, which he sells
for bedding at 50 per ton. Call and see him.
THE neighbors of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Staples remembered" the twentieth annver-
sary of their marriage on Friday evening last
Substantial tokens Of interest in them were
brought by their acquaintances.
MRS. HARTE DICKINSON HUBBARD has pur-
chashed building lot of George c. Earle, Just
south Of his dwellng-house. Mr.. Earle is
taking down the old tannery, which has occu-
pied portion OF the land sold to Mrs. Hubbard
OUR ox-townsman, Doctor f. c. Lewis of
Rutland, we notice is now vice-president of a
bank in that town. He has achieved marked
success there, in the years he has been in BUSH
ness, having an honorable name among men,
as well as a competency.
REV. WILLIAM ScHoFIELD preached in Iras-
burgh last Sunday. His pulpit was filled by
Rev. Mr. Tenney of Barre, who was much
liked. Mr. Tenney has bought place in
Waterbury, and will go there to reside, we are
told. That town may be heartily congratu-
lated on this acquisition.
The winchester brothers experimental last
year with guano and phosphates on ground
planted with potatoes. With one brand Of
phosphates the yield was twice that of the
ground where none was used The other two
fertilizers increased the yield about one-half
over that where none was used
To show something of the excellent work
| being done by our ladies' reading club we may
cite the fact that at its last meeting some half
dozen historical papers, concerning some Of
| Shakespeare's characters, and contemporary
| persons and events, were read that had
been prepared by members OF the club. These
| papers are a feature OF each meeting, we be-
| lieve.
REV O. D. CLArr is staying at present with
! j. G. Brockway's family. His case is one de-
serving Of great sympathy, and the more, be-
| cause no one who has not suffered as he has,
| from such nervous prostration, will feel 1.-THE
Of the sympathy the case deserves. Such suf.
ferers will tell one that mere physical pain ID
| pleasure, compared with their own. Be very
| pitifu towards such cases.
OUR board of civil authority was called to-
| gether last week. to decide whether, under the
laws of the state, the farm given by the late
Edison Martin to the Methodist church SHOULD
be exempt from taxation The decision wal
that it should be. 1t is a matter of discussion
| here, whether this was the design of the egs
lature in passing the law as also the justice o
the law, II such was the design. The matter o
taxation of church property Is one on which
there is a division OF sentiment, and the rea
sons for both views ought to be duly brough
before our people for consideration. Will no
some of our .wisest heads give the public tn,
benefit OF their views on the subject?
On Wednesday, the last day of April, a larg
, | ~ ff frin do md hhnra hla
at the residence of Rodney Seaver to pa
, their last tribute of love and respect to tn
memory Of his only child, lovely daughter O
, about seventeen years of age, who was sud
, denly taken from our midst on the morning O
April 28th. Although she had been ailing 70
| some time, and quite i'll for several weeks, he
= friends and physician had NOT considered he
disease fatal. Her death, therefore, came al
most without warning, thus making the bio,
, doubly hard to bear, and the bereaved famil
have the heartfelt sympathy Of the entir
8 community in their great affection. She los
her mother at the early age of eight years, bu
very carefully and tenderly has she been care
for by him who has been both father an
c mother to his only child. Lovely in form. l
! feature, and Of sweet disposition, she had 81
t deared herself to all who knew her. All al
, ready to say. !" pure and lovely spirit hat
D gone home, blessing and blessed" G. ED.
: Some friends recently told us Of the phenon
Y
I to California few years ago. He started oil
~ in life, without the help of money, going
the age Of seventeen to learn the druggist
o trade. Three or four years later he decide
. to go to California. On his arrival, he sougl
y a situation with firm which held him o
: at distance, till they had taken his latitu6
y and longitude. Que day member of tn
| firm went about the town with him, ant
i while doing the place, he asked the young ma
to drink with him, but was met with a refusa
lsAI to-. N..1,
y cards with him. But of cards the young ms
n was happily ignorant And finally he WI
= asked to have game of billiards, but here Il
q fellow was as firm as before. 1t was enoug
= | The young man was invited to come around
y the place of business of the firm and wi
i given the desired situation. Promotion fc
!. lowed duly. Then came business of his ow
% Great success attended the operations of til
% Vermonter and-yet in his twenties-w
q were told that he is to-day worth $40,0 00 Al
=. all this our informants attribute to the fiji
character of the young man.
d cit is life of misery to me- farming is
:; said gray-haired, gray-bearded farmer to
D. the other day, with whom we stopped to oh
7; by the roadside. 4" never ought to have be-
o. farmer. can make most anything of woc
b, | or iron, and ought to have been a mechanic
wanted to learn a mechanical trade when
was boy, but my father said to me, 'Pll lea
is you a trade; I've learned two boys befc
t. Then the boy wanted to go to school and 9
8, an education, but the father said to him, 81
Ss educate you; I've educated two boys befC
IS you" And so the man kept up the process
ii trying to make farmer OF what Dame Natu
was endeavoring to make mechanic.
g. cumstances and the father succeeded in thwa
We ing nature of her mechanic in good measu
of but never in making happy farmer Of the BIZ
ly 1t was pitiful, really, to hear our friends
Q, ment over his disappointed life, "a rou
mt man in square hole" that he isl Natur
hints as to what she wants of your boys, far
ers, and other folks, are we'll worth yC
40 study and following. You may thwart h
W In measure, but she has way of avengi
y; her insults, that often cause intense mise
"a Better make her your friend than an enemy
k, WE had the pleasure, a few days ago, of '
iting the woodworking establishment of
to Messrs. George ii. and Fred A. Flint on
es east side OF our town. 1t is very mod
ID little establishment, but 1t does seem as II
in ought to grow to good-sized one Tn
u young men have small steam engine VIII
ne they have harnessed to variety of machin
Inventions some of them, that necessity
been the mother Of" speciality Is made
To- ladders clothes-dryers, and wagon-ja jacks.
70. were glad to learn that they have dems
he for their work. We were especially pleai
he with substantial lawn-settee, that will s
w. three or four persons, and that, vermili
r. painted, can be furnished for only one do
are and a quarter. We should suppose there wo
Ier be good demand for these as also for W
of dryer they make, having ten sticks for hold