The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-15
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Noou ""iuhi IN " JuuEt III tOioihoos
DEACON EDWIN G. SMITH and family are
taking vacation with friends at Worcester.
Mrs. CHARLES PERRY was recently called
to Orange by the illness Of her father, who
has just had stroke Of paralysis.
AN old Mr. Danforth of Chicago has re-
Gently been visiting Orcutt Abbott's family.
Mrs. Abbott IL a niece of Mr.. Danforth.
Mrs. EMILY POOLE DUNCAN of Lebanon,
N. H., returned from that place with her
niece, Miss Mary Beckett, last Saturday.
THE Congregationalists have voted for n
halliday preaching service, in case Rev. Mr.
Closson should be engaged to serve them
the coming year.
FRANK GODFREY who IL an apprentice ut
the householder trade has hired pop
ton Of DIR. McClearn's house and the doctor
is to board with him.
Mr.. AND MRS. HARVEY l.. CHENEY will re-
turn from their summer residence ut George
Snyder's farm to their former home in our
village, for the winter
AND now John s. Dewey wants to dispose
OF his farm in the northeast quarter OF the
town near the quarries. But we are not
anxious to be rid of Mr.. Dewey.
WE wish every member of our legislature
might !" fall into line " with Governor Pin
gree on the school question, and the clown
system be adopted for the state.
GEORGE sAvoRY has been very sick of late
with Inflammation of the bowels The case
was saddened by the fact that it was almost
impossible to find the help needed for the
house.
ALBERT BRUCE is quite sick from sore
on the back of his neck. Dr. McCearn at
tends him. The doctor Is winning golden
opinions here in his practice, and seems
to find quite good deal to do.
p. ID. EDGERLY and wife, formerly Miss
Carrie Seaver of Middlesex, were in town
not Mr. 10 hos Iona han IN,
the employ OF he Central Vermont railroad
company, but at present is afflicted with sci
atica.
GEORGE DAVENPORT has recently visited
Northern New York making it in part
pedestrian tour. He reports one days walk
of forty miles. He found the same big
wages being paid there for work as are
asked hereabouts.
ONE who has watched the steady industry
in the year past of our young townsman,
Albert Adams, need not be surprised at
seeing his new house going up in Barre, be-
tween the south and lower villages. He il
at work in the granite polishing shop, not
far from where he is building.
GATHER" GRAIN went to West Berlin
Monday last from his Free Baptist charge
here. with a borrowed express wagon,
" loaded to the muzzle" with well-tilled
sacks" How he came by them, this item
izer deponeth not; but we know not where
pitality is to be found in these parts than
| among his flock here.
"NEED body cry" if an itemizer,s
sanctum " is a sort OF al-the- year-round
Worlds Fair" where his constituency
| may enter their wares" at pleasure
| These goods are taken at the owners esti-
| mate often. We hereby give Norman Da-
! venport ." a premium on pair of three
years-old steers that he regards "a little
| better than the average"
WE recently heard two of our leading farm.
ers, men in the sixties, talking of the great
amount Of stock that used to be raised on
| the easternmost side of this town, begin
ming with Stillman M. Seaver's farm, and
extending through on line to Barre.
Compared with it, they made out the pres
ent business OF that land in the same section
to be very small When asked reason for
the change, the reply was that our farmers
| thought it did not pay them, now. And we
| could not learn that anything else was
making up this deficiency of farm produc
| ton either. What il to be the end of this
state of affairs?
THERE ought to be here, and in every
| other town in our state number of young
| folks to join the great international read
| ing club, known as the Chautauqua Young
Folks Reading Union. To know abou
this club, get from ID. Lothrop & Co., Boston
a specimen copy of the Young Folks Jour
other day, the father of a fine family o
| children, who feels that he cannot educat,
his children as he would like. But wha
cannot be had in the way of common schools
may be supplemented measurably by til,
| work done by the Chautauqua clubs ant
that can be done in the home. 1t is wei
worth the attention of parents in behalf o
| their children.
WE wish to part with " a work Of art /
it is not going to cost us too much effort. /
was done in youthful days by our owl
hands, " the finishing touches having beer
laid on by our professor 1t is monochro
matte; and, though we failed to label it, w
had not dreamed that it would be suspecte,
as being anything else than a copy of " TIL
Annunciation, and after one of the oil
masters" Twenty years of married lif
have passed and now the lady of the hous
tells us, in all seriousness, that she has al
ways supposed this work of art " was dc
signed to depict The Burning of Jerusa
!, lem" When we read in The Century, las
summer of Frank r.. Stockton's purchase G
} the " Reversible Landscape" we suppose
it was all make-believe. We can accord
reality now. Sealed" bids are in orde
for our " Reversible"
!, FROM a Humboldt county, Iowa, paper {
the 26th ult. we learn more particulars {
our estimable ex-townsman, Rev. Nelso
Martin, whose sudden death we mentione
last week. Mr. Martin was born in thi
| IONH Ill lcNi, ana was u DTOIner OF tne lHt
! Chester and l.. Moseley Martin. He r,
moved to Iowa in 1865, and has since tina
! time been engaged in farming. In his ne,
home, we are told, He was man believe
3 and respected by all. Kind, considerat,
, gentle and sympathetic, he was the cont
: dant of many troubled mind, and tn
! soother of many an aching heart. Was tn
pulpit on the Sabbath day vacant, throug
sickness or absence of the minister, il wa
! Father Martin who, Bible in hand, saved a
audience from disappointment. Was theI
T a funeral sermon to be preached and wei
: consoling words to be uttered to broker
7 | hearted parents over the body of love
one, Father Martin was the person to whol
every nind instinctively turned. Strict
4 | upright in character. he was one among
$ thousand He will be missed at every Sal
$ bath-school and other religious gathering
r To know him was to revere him, and IL
. appellation OF Father dropped froi
9 ones lips as instinctively and natural
| as though he was akin to us in flesh"
. such words as these is he spoken of whe
, he died, and who that knew him here wi
1 doubt them? His birthplace may feel a
: honorable pride in having given such ma
e TO the world. MIR. Martin left a wife, tw
4 sons, and a daughter, to whom in his chdrd
ter he left an inheritance more precions this
any amount of silver or gold.
. Stowe.-Lucius Faunce and Nathani
. Slayton, who went West a few months ag
have returned. We understand the form
=. has returned for the purpose of assisting
=. father and the latter on account OF po
| 1x-in xuhA heA.