The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-31
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dinner on Thursday. DIR. Mayo was unable
to be here, on account OF his work
Mr.. ARD MRs FRED WEBSTER, now of
Danvers, Mass, and Mrs. DIR. Mayo and son,
of Northfeld, were in town last week.
FRANK WALKER and his sister, Miss Alice,
are TO attend the coming term of school at
Saxton's River, beginning week after next.
MERCURY dropped to thirty degrees below
zero here Saturday morning last but made
the honorable amend" by getting up |
towards the thirties above, on Sunday.
THE Free Baptists will give their pastor,
Rev. Mr. Grain, q donation party at their
church on Thursday Of this week. Rev. !
Mr. Grain will hold services there on We'd
nesday and Friday evenings of this week.
WE rarely hear more felicitous inn
promptu little addresses than our towns |
man, Jacob Flint, shows himself capable of. |
An address that we know to be of this kind,
at Christmas festival, last Thursday even
ing. was an excellent one.
Mrs. GEORGE W. HOUSE has gone with |
her daughter, Mrs. Ed Graham, to Lynn,
Mass. where the latter is to begin house
keeping. Mrs. House has recently buried |
her mother and her aged father may return !
to Massachusetts with her.
Mrs. NANCY LATHAM died on Monday
forenoon last, aged eighty-seven years.
Until week ago she continued about
the work of her house, as usual. Her sick
ness and death may have been caused by
the work of last week Monday.
THE occupant of the old Glysson house is
a Mr.. York from Windsor county He is
a hearty man, in the prime of life, and
ready for work, as our citizens may furnish
it. Such working-men are needed here,
and are not likely to go unemployed.
A FELLow-TowNsMAN has just been telling
us of a horse that he thinks knows more
than some men. He says when he goes
home from the village, late at night, he can
give the horse the rpinS and. without
fear, cover himself up and sleep all the way
home.
IT seems to us that remarkably good OPP
portunity offers itself to any here, or here
abouts for the study of German, if Mrs.
Sherman Winchester, a German lady, born
and educated in Germany, would take
classes, as we believe she would if they
could be found.
IT is by the aid of George G. Earles snow
pillow that we villagers are enabled to keep
up any kind of nearness to mother earth
in the winter season. Mindful OF this, his
benefcaries presented him, on Christmas,
with several dollars, which he wishes hereby
to acknowledge with hearty thanks.
WE have just received cut of the
"Yankee sap-spout that was invented by
the late j. M. Palmer of this place, though
perfected by hook attached to it on which
to hang the sap-pail. DIR. G. G. Ellis is the
patentee With this, bit and stock, and a
mallet are all the tools that are needed to
tap the sugar orchard. The doctor will
doubtless duly advertise it in The WATCH
MAN.
WHILE Dea. Edwin C. Smith was engaged
in cutting down tree, on Wednesday morn
ing last, he was struck on the head by
falling limb, and fell senseless. Providen-
TALLY, boy was with him and his team
near, and he was at once taken to his
house and DIR. McClearn sent for Very Sc
rious consequences were feared but, to the
Joy of his friends he is gaining, and it is
hoped will again be among u.s.
Miss FLORA II. AvERILL of Mortified
will give a public reading at our town hall
on Friday evening of this week, january.
Admission, fifteen cents All attendants at
our amateur reading of last spring may
have the free benefit of this reading. Miss
Averil comes highly commended by Bos-
ton and other papers. She is graduate OF
Monroe Conservatory of Boston. Teach
ers and pupils of our schools, especially
ought to be present at this reading.
DIR. CHARLES w. McCLEARN is usually at
his post here, ready for any emergency. Last
Wednesday. however, he went to his home
in Northtield to pull out the plums from a
Christmas pie. He had been there but
about half an hour when the telephone
summoned him home to attend to Deacon
Edwin G. Smith. In forty-seven minutes
only he reached his home here, and in less
than an hour from leaving Mortified was at
Mr.. Smiths house. Such promptness, other
things being equal is what insures patients.
HAS streak of the millenal dawn reached
Orange county that our jurymen were re-
turned home on the first day OF the county
court, for want of any cases to be tried? AS
to the superiority of arbitration, over sueing-
at-law, some one here thinks one can't go
beyond the wisdom of the good Book, in
the principle enunciated eighteen hundred
years ago, to certain ones, where, instead OF
daring to go to law, matters against another
should be left out to some wise man among
N hptwppn them.
words, arbitration every time.
If any old mans heart might swell with
honest pride, it is that of our aged ex-
townsman, J. Wright Briggs, at the sight OF
a Photographic group of his six sons with
himselD taken at the recent family reunion
at Newark, New York. The picture is
twelve by fifteen inches in size. His eldest
son, j. Ebert Briggs, is the president OF 8
very successful publishing company that il
now issuing the United States Court Reports
as also the New York State Court Reports
work that employs one hundred fifty hands
Mr. Briggs has three-fifths interest in this
enterprise. His son, William III. Briggs, il
treasurer of the company.
On the evening of December % friends t.
the number of sixty or more gathered at thu
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Abbott t.
help that worthy couple celebrate thei
tenth wedding anniversary. Many valu
able presents were left by the guests
Among them We're a beautiful china tea
Stl, Il Seb Oh SlOue Cllud, d ulcc glass; Stt,
silver butter-dish, a silver pickle-jar, TIVE
glass fruit-dishes, a glass water-pitcher,
glass syrup pitcher, a wall lamp, set of salt
shakes, a canary bird and cage, a pair o
ladies' boots and several other articles
They were presented by Mr.. Scott who wa
responded to by Mr.. Abbott in a few well
chosen words. Refreshments were served
and the evening was happily spent in mu
sic, games, etc
IT seems to be pretty well established tina
Vermont farmers land how many othersi
need not expect to roll in wealth, as the re
suit of farming, and So when a man ofgrea
wealth unloads, as a Washington CORE
spondent of the New York Tribune recent
said United States senator, with an incom
of two hundred thousand dollars a yea
did unload, it is desirable that we all Sc
the load. His opinion is that " there al
only three realities in life-a full stomach,
good suit of clothes, and bed to sleep il
and the man that has these, at the require
intervals, is as well off as the richest. A
else than these are illusions" How man
Vermonter, to whom this will seem, an
Justly too, very low ideal Of life, is gettin
infinitely more out of his life than the aboy
speech betokens!
WHO doesn't enjoy the bright sayings
children? Here are a couple by one
Wiliamstown's grandsons of few sun
mers, and born in another state: After
very mschievous trick, one day, his gent
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