The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-15
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day, and his body was brought here Tuesday |
for burial
j. X. LYNDE's fine span of horses was sold |
last week. They go to New Hampshire. |
{" AL Downing was the purchaser.
MIR. AND Mrs. HERBERT P. MARTIN were
summoned to Rutland on Saturday by the
illness of Mrs. DR.. r.. G. Lewis, which is |
feared to be fatal.
THE only daughter of our late ex-towns-
man, N. p. Simons, and her husband, a
lawyer of New York city, were in town
visiting friends last week.
REV. AND Mrs. HARVEY WEBSTER were
called to Brattleboro on Saturday by the
death of Mrs. Webster's sister. DR.. j. G.
Briggs of Barre OBLIGATED in Mr.. Webster's
place on Sunday.
SOME one in the Folensby Goodrich school
district has just reckoned up that there
were hundred tons of old hay carried over
in that district last year, while hardly any
seems likely to be there this year.
HOWARD WINCHESTER continues very
poorly, having been great sufferer in the
last ten or twelve days from what is sup
posed to be rheumatism. His case is one
deserving much sympathy, and he has it.
Mrs. j. A. S. WHITE of Claremont, N. H.,
in her recent visit here, gladdened the
hearts of the members of the Congrega-
tional church by generous gift of money
to their treasury, for which she is sincerely
thanked
JOHN PERRY has made beginning on the
renovation of the exterior of his house. He
proposes to make marked change in the
appearance of it this year. AS he is his
own architect and carpenter, it will doubt
less be done to his own satisfaction.
DIR. CHARLES w. MCCLEARN is regarded
here as good for beast as well as man"
In these days, when good horse is about
the most valuable thing on the farm, our
farmers have called in the doctor to help
save their horses in some extreme cases.
GEORGE NICHOLS and Wilbur Adams
have both recently lost colts that lived only
a day or two after birth, p0st-m0rtem ex-
animation showing the remarkable fact that
in each there was no sign of bladder.
Another curious fact is that both had the
| same sire.
THE memorial granite work on the GEM
etery lot of the late j. NJ Palmer spoken
of last week, and which seems to find
warm admirers here, was done by j. j..
Smith, this side of South Barre. Mrs.
Palmer thinks his terms were exceedingly
reasonable.
A FRIEND inheiriting an abundance of
scrofula, and at one time apparently I" a
total wreck " physically, but who now in
middle life finds himself comparatively
rugged man, tells us that he drinks great
quantity of milk, which, he thinks, has
done him more good than medicines.
AN acquaintance tells how friend of his
in Iowa makes stock-raising pay. He keeps
a herd of about one hundred sixty cows
A buyer farther West takes his calves
(Which must be at least half-blood Here
fords or other fine stock, at four months of
age, at $25 per head. They are taken to the
Rocky Mountain region.
THE many friends of Mrs. III. A. White OF
Washington will be glad to learn that she
seems to be improving rapidly in health
down on Cape Cod. Both she and hel
friend, Mrs. G. A. Ainsworth, have beer
gladdened by recent visits there of Messrs
Ira Calef of Washington and George Gale
of Providence, r.. L., brothers of Mrs White
and also by visits from other Providence
people.
WnLIAMsTowN has thus far in its history
furnished to Orange county at least five as
sistant judges, viz, Messrs. Alvin Smitl
(democrat), John Lynde (republican), Gen
eral Ebenezer Bass (democrat and Cyrus
U. Lathrop (repubican). All but the last
named were, we believe, born in the place
Two of the foregoing-Messrs. Bass ant
| Lynde-have represented the county in thu
state senate.
: LINE FENCES, like church chors, seem tt
be favOrite lurking-places for the demon o
: quarrel. A serious trouble, growing out o
the former, occurred here last week be
, tween George Peeke and Ed. Martin, il
, the southwest corner of the town, in whicl
: Martin received severe physical injury
lie CASE w Ill ~ W bllc COuHty w Htl
, England and Russia can peaceably settle
trouble concerning a /" line fence, it seem
:, as if we common folks ought to find wa
9 always to do so.
. Mrs. KMBALL p. MARTIN has just re
3 turned from st. Louis, Missouri, where sh
! has been with her son, Egbert, since last fal
r She left him in such poor health that he ha
been obliged to give up work for a time
q Frank j., another son, returned at the sam
. time to Worcester, Mass, where he is " eS
j. perimenting" as clerk in dry good
!. store. His knee-pan which he fracture
n year and a half ago, continues to improv
q somewhat, but it is a question whether
n can yet use it constantly in walking.
|, THAT there should be difference of opr
Y ions among wise men !" about the custom
e airy itemizing of local events in thes
:, days need not be wondered at. One of on
d popular lady writers at the present TIM
l. Sarah Orne Jewett, has written forcibl,
g suggesting " that every young person b
$ come town clerk by making and preser'
g ing a record OF all important and interestin
events which take place in town." TIL
noted publishers, ID. LothrOp and Co.
II Boston, have been saying in their Chdutdi
a q,td Young Folks Journal that they beley
8 the above writer's suggestions twill pr
1t duce good habits of written expression,
s observation also, and induce young poop
h to take an intelligent and thoughtful int
IS est in social and public affairs" And
: people who should furnish the four be
d records, or neighborhood DIARIES" whic
1t We're in the same line exactly as the wor
s. now done by the itemizers, say of Tt
s WATCHMAN, in the various towns abou
lie We suspect that in the coming centenpia
a. of each of our towns-one, two, three al
er more hundreds of years hence-there wi
ar be CLEANED from the files of the newspape
r. of this day much that will then be of gre
V, local interest to those to whom are sha
st seem like a sort of antediluvians, - +
the way, imagine a centennial celebrate
of this town in the year A. d. 1884, when Il
X country will be so full of people that Il
r place may number thousands. If by tn
h. time every man cannot sit in his own hon
s. and see and hear everything done in Il
st place, the people will come together in ee
st trical, or other wonderful cOnyeyances,
s. which they can navigate earth, air and Sc
III The orator of the day will of course ha
TT ransacked every record of these days to
so found, and these may be largely the o
d. newspaper files. And how will we for
V, fathers look to that audience? We rath
k. guess that five hundred years hence we mi
in all look " a little better than now. T.
IS. /" faults " will have been largely forgott
k and the virtues " a good deal frightened Il
Tx OF course the orator will, among many 9th
sit things, contrast methods of travelling mu
ch to the slow-coach illness of the present da
n III he shall have consulted THE WATcHMl
files, he may make the point that " the IL
known recorder of town events, five hu
W. dred years ago, for that paper show
n prettV Mainly that II xyould bava ba