The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-16
NOrthneld.

Mr.. JOHN WILEY returned Monday from
Florida.
FRIDAY evening the two.act DRAMA Once
on Time," will be played at Good Templars'
hall.
THE annual business meeting of the Congre-
gational society will be held tomorrow (Thurs-
day. at two o'clock.
On the evening of Fast day the Universaiist
society held sugar festival at concert hall =,
and this was followed by dancing by about
thirty couples
THE recent thaws caused quite a washout in
the road near A. G. Chase's carriage shop, a
cut of about fifteen feet wide and the same
depth being made. It was temporarily bridged
over, and Is now being filled up with refuse
slate.
SATURDAY the republican town caucus will
be held at village hall, at three clock, for the
purpose of electing delegates to the district
and state conventions, to be held at Montpelier
on the Goth and Both instants, respectively.
This is the place where the real voting is done
in this state, and there should be a full attend
ance.
MONDAY young man giving the name Of
Frank Drown, who had been working a short
time for Lyman Putney ran away, taking with
him some clothes belonging to Mr.. Putney.
He was captured in the afternoon at Water
bury, where he proved to be Ed Drew, son OF
Jerry Drew of st. Johnsbury. Sheriff Ather-
ton brought him up on Halls train, the bill
and costs were paid and Drew was released.
EASTER was observed by the Episcopal and
Congregational churches At the former the
chancel was ornamented with bouquets of cut
flowers, and at four o clock children's service
was held. In the Congregational church there
was fine display of pot plants and cut flow
ers about the pulpit, aud in the evening the
children gave an Easter service By some slip
of the type, it was stated last week that the
latter would be by the ladies' society, but it
was conducted by the Sunday-school of which
MIR. f. L. Field is the popular and efficient SUI
| perintendent, and was very pleasant affair.
FaystOn. the item in relation
| to school matters, which appeared under this
| head last week, another correspondent writes:
" For the credit OF district No l. allow one Of
| the number to say that with a large portion of
eminent scholars and teachers, we consider a
| term of ten weeks of school more profitable to
the pupils than twelve. The large taxpayer
with six children of school age had a fair OPP
| portunity, at the school meeting, to set the
time for the first term to commence If he had
cared enough about 1t to make a motion for
| any time. Last year, those having scholars
chose to have the school in the fall, for obvious
reasons we'll understood and not set aside this
year. Two years ago, at our last summer
| school, the poor widow did not send her
children to school at all, and there was no
reason why she did not that would be sus-
tanned as sufficient for not doing so by our
| school laws II all the scholars in the district
| will only attend school the twenty weeks voted,
they will do well. The district system may
| have outlived its usefulness, but we agree with
| our town superintendent of last year, who
should know, when he said No. school was
the best in town for scholarship, and we think
will compare very favorably with schools man.
| aged under the town system. -. Mrs. Adella
Davis died last Sunday morning. She leaves a
husband and four children to mourn her loss
the Oldest about six years, and babe only
| about two months. Walter d. Porter, whose
death was briefly noticed last week, was the
youngest son of Captain Elliott Porter of this
| town. Captain Porter moved into this place
| over seventy years ago and settled with his
| wife, Sidna Ward, upon the farm where he
| lived about sixty years, and Walter, of whose
| death we now speak, was born, reared, and
| died there-a circumstance of which but few
can boast at the age to which he lived, being
| fifty-fve years. five months and twenty-nins
days old at his death. He leaves a wife and
two daughters to mourn his loss. He was
very unselfish man, always ready to assist
others in distress and never sparing himself tC
add to the comfort of Others or his family
And although he leaves but little property tc
them, he had given to both his daughters, Car
rie NJ. and Lillian A., good education, which
will, we trust, be a great benefit to them; auc
though called to mourn for one they dearly
| loved, the wife and daughters have this though
| to comfort them-that when alive he did all hi
could for their comfort and good here and here
after The funeral services were held in NORTH
Eayston on Tuesday, the Sth, where larg,
concourse of relatives and friends met to pay
the last token of respect to him. The family
have the sympathy OF all in the vicinity.