The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02
Waterbury.

THE maple sugar festival given by the ladies
OF the Congregational society was well attended
and was successful socially and financially.
The net receipts were about S22.
A. II. SMITH, formerly clerk for G. o Graves,
and recently for ]. e. Sheple, expects to enter
a hard ware store In Burlington soon. Z. q.
Wright is for the present assisting Mr. Sheple.
Su,As BUKER OF the Center was brought be-
fore Justice Lease last week, charged with
giving away liquor In violation OF law. IL was
shown that he had given Moses Deselle drink
from bottle Of spirits he had with him on his
return from trip to Johnson and that Tim
Godfrey, with whom Bukers relations were
peculiar" had become intoxicated by drink
ing from that same bottle. He was fined $40
and costs and in default OF payment sentenced
to one hundred and ninety-three DAYS at Rut-
land. Buker's intimacy with the Godfrey fam.
lily was Of a scandalous character and this Is
said to have afforded the real animus OF the
prosecution for violation Of the prohbitory law
MRS. c. f. RICHARDSON entertained Miss
Converse's class In elocution Friday evening
....C W. Davis Of Burlington has class in
piano music in this village. :. The Owls :"
entertained their young lady friends Saturday
evening. Some itinerant merchants are
selling merchandise in Burleigh's store very
cheap, and, as it usually appears in such
cases, neither the fools, the wise, nor the
| otherwise are all dead YETI. Elmer Coffrin
and Jerry Lyman started for Stowe, Monday,
turning their team around near the station
| Elmer was thrown out and broke his leg. DR..
| James attended him. II Is reported that Mr..
Burleigh has rented his store to a man from
Moretown who will put in stock OF dry goods.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. made their appearance
| here on Tuesday, the 25th, "A. L. Clement
| is soon to move his furniture. stock and bust
ness to rooms over i. p. Titus store. A. 1.
Way purposes moving from his present store
into his own building vacated by Clement.
| Lorenzo Warren has moved from Clements
house at the south end of Main street, to c. G.
| Collins house near the depot, which he has
rented T.. f. and A. B. Batchelder have
purchased of Samuel s. Foster the farm or
Alder Brook for some years past occupied by
iona. Stanford. Mr. Stanford has taken A. K
| Judevine's farm at the saw-mill, little further
north in the same valley. Who IL to succeed
| Thurber in our hotel Is not yet determined
| Ira Batchelder, the owner, is expected here to
day Monday to make some definite arrange
ments as to leasing the house. Only two appli
cations for renting it have yet been received
80. This village school district at its ami ia
meeting voted to continue the present system
of schools for auC thee year-three terms o
eleven weeks each, divided into two depart
ments or grades. Five hundred dollars wa
voted by district taxation for support of school
for the ensuing year. An effort is being mad
to provide improved school accommodation
for the resident scholars of this district. Tn
unpleasant, and perhaps unhealthy, location o
the primary school house, and also its made
quate capacity, has contributed much to tn
present agitation of the subject. 1t is evident tn
district will soon find 1t necessary to do somt
thing for the permanent provision Of suitabl
school-room accommodations for all of its scho
ars, as the present system cannot always b
maintained. The academy rooms are in urger
need of new furniture, and the district ha
been already appealed to, to provide it, Br
as the district does not, aud cannot, exercis
any control over the academy property,
seems to us the best and easiest course for tn
district to pursue to sell its present schot
buildings and erect new building Of sufflcier
capacity for both schools, provided some suiti
BILE site can be obtained at reasonable pric
} committee was appointed at the annu'
meeting to consider and investigate as to tt
, possibility and expense of moving the presel
primary house to some more pleasant an
, healthy locality, the committee to report at
district meeting called for the purpose Of tai
} ing some action upon the subject. Levi
Goodrich has purchased the residence
, Greensboro village formerly occupied for mar
years by DR.. Sumner Putnam, now of Mon
. pelier. Price reported 81 800 Mr.. GoodriC
has always resided in this town, aud deserved
1 ranked among our most worthy and substan.i
citizens,