The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02
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enough.
OUR villagers have Just shown again their
appreciation of George G. Earle's services In
keeping them supplied with good paths In
winter.
AT the village school meeting last week Ed
win Smith was chosen committee. 1t was
voted to have summer and fall term OF ten
weeks each, and winter term OF twelve weeks.
THE sad news Of the death Of Mr.. Lyman
Wheeler Of Randolph, whose wife was Harriet
Robinson OF this town, was received here Sat.
urday. He died of pneumonia, and was sick
but few days.
REV. GEORGE L WELLS will preach his fare
we'll sermon. d. ", on the morning OF a week
from next Sunday. 1t Is hoped that union
service with the Congregationalists may be
held, once at least, during that day.
IT seems quite q striking coincidence that
both the late Professor Moses Marston and N.
p. Simons. who were boys together In the same
neighborhood and warm friends, should have
died so nearly together and both from the re-
suit OF accident.
MRS. J. FOSTER WILDER died on Saturday
morning last OF pneumonia She was a daugh-
ter of the late Thomas Flint, and an excellent
woman She was member of the Free Bap-
fist church, and the second member of this
little church that has recently died.
THE Congregational ladies society will hold
a maple sugar festival at the town hall on
Friday evening next Sweetness will be
poured into the ear as well as the mouth.
Whatever your dimensions, a dime will
take one through. Everybody cordially invited.
ONE Of our citizens last week at school
meeting took occasion to make a vigorous
ant-tobacco speech. Whatever the articles of
the warning OF that school meeting, he no
doubt felt that he was licensed by higher
warning to utter his protest. But who dare
say the day may not come when las now, with
minister's In some casey teacher may be re-
anI go ol o
as strange things have happened rs that.
NEWS was recently received of the death of
Rev. John c. Smith, a native Of this place, but
of late a resident of Manchester, N. H. He
was son OF the late Asa Smith, was gradu-
ated at Mddlebury college, and for years was
a missionary of the American Board, and sta
| toned In Ceylon. He leaves a (third) wife and
four children. A son (Thomas) is now mis-
sonary in Ceylon. Another son (William) is
| preaching In Lamoille, Illinois. His son Henry
| lives in Gardner, Mass. His only daughter
now living was with him in Manchester
Do the believers in the horrible doctrine of
the transmigration of souls consider that the
| facts are all in? II not, we hereby offer them
| one that may afford aid and comfort to them.
1t Is the continued whacking we get from the
| long.drawn-out caudal appendage OF COW
with which we have little business, morning
and evening. 1t would be expicable, by theft
theory, on the ground that the soul of one Of
the old.tim stage-drivers-of the days of the
coach and six-who used to flourish their won
derful whips in the wonderful way never to b
forgotten-was tarrying, in its transmigration
at present, with that cow
WELL, well, In our innocence, we supposed
last week that proper considerateness and {
proper consideration might keep Miss Ellel
Waldo at home, rs teacher the coming season
But while the printers ink was cooling, Paste
Wells was doing work for Mr. Colby o
Planield, at the Methodist Episcopal parson
age, which put the question of her teaching
here beyond any probability. Many goo,
wishes will follow Mrs. Ellen Waldo Colby t
her new home in Plainfield, and we congratu
late that town on its new acquisition, thong
! at our own towns expense. But can't on
young men put stop to any further foragin
of this kind, here?
WILL our townsman, Daniel d Royce, SUI
coed in turning the tide of emigration from tn
West to old New England? Would that
might He made brave effort to do this i
a letter to The Farming World, Of Cincinnati
Ohio, printed in the edition of March l, 1888
: 1t has real Yankee ring in it Mr. RoyC
might well feel pleased at the attention it r,
ceves from other papers Springfield Republ
!: can, Troy Times, etc as well as the paper I
u which it was sent. We notice the staid oil
: Neao York Observer last week printed an e,
!, tract from it. Well, il New England has an
Il wealth in her strong hillsides to give farme
u MIR. Royce is the kind of one that she will giy
:. to. He courts her in just that attentive wa
q that she likes, and thus wins the best she has
4 THERE will always be fascination in Il
- noteworthy deeds of what are styled sef-mat
men-the term being applied to those who ha'
lacked advantageous surroundings, and e
a pecially the opportunity OF the highest educ
N ton. But perhaps no other class of men b
- means more the lack of such an educate
- than does this same class. We are led to tn
- this reflection by remark Of a Rutland lay
a yer, in speaking of the late N. p. Simons, VIII
Il though having good common education, can
A to feel 80 much his lack of a much better on
- II this item shalcome to the eye of any you
a man, who may be earnestly balancing the que
- ton of whether or not he will stop short of t.
n best our colleges can do for him, let us pre-
t. home to him the regrets OF such men as
:, Slmons; and this, because the prize Of such
% education is within the power of almost al
"a healthy, determined, good-principed, you
10 man to grasp in these days. With an u
a. yielding toM, he will find everything cleari
"a itself out of his way. Would it not be a gla
n some sight II many young Vermonters whe
AZ there is now but one, would will to get the b'
10 our higher institutions of learning can ri
~ them!
i'd REV. WALTER DAVENPORT is about to mari
Is -. Doctor Bailey and wife were called aw
o. several days last week by the sickness @
c. death Of his mother. Mrs. J. NJ. Bass, al
I'd Miss Lille Wheatley, have been suffering wi
ut been having a very painful sickness. 1t beg
C. with something like pleurisy.. -. Miss Lut
III Hartman is hired to teach in the village
re South Barre the coming season. That dstr
ng may expect to have earnest and uniaggi
f. work done by this teacher.
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