The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03
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DIR. CHARLES w. McCLEARN has two med
ical students, young residents of our place.
DIR. CORNELIUS V. LYNDE and wife Of
Stowe visited this, their old home, last week
CHILDREN's DAY will be observed at the
Methodist house one week from next
Sunday.
KINsMAN MARTIN has a pear tree that has
shown in years past that pears may be sue
cessfully grown here.
j. X LyNDE and Wesley NJ Seaver were
drawn as jurors from this town for the pres
ent term of county court.
FRIENDS of Dr. George l.. Lane, now of
Ludlow, will be glad to know of his pros
perity as physician in that place.
TowNsMAN DIR. CHARLES BRIGGs, now of
Rochester, n. Y, is taking trip to Califor-
mia. He will be away from home a few
weeks.
LETTERS mailed here in the morning that
have heretofore reached Montpelier about
noon now lie over in Barre till about six
o'clock p. NJ.
A WESTERN friend who, with so many of
us, greatly enjoys the music ofthe bobolinks
here, tells us she has never heard one in
Western Iowa.
WILL not some of our young folks accept
the offer of ID. Lothrop Il Co. of Boston to
send the ChoutdUqud Young Folks journal
three months for fifteen cents?
hOLL1N ALLEN lellS us ne ~ 1nuCn DledSeu
with his new Cooley creamer. He evil
IDENTIFY has not forgotten how to farm since
" crossing the line y into Barre.
JACK FROST as our thermometers showed,
was suspiciously near a few nights since. If
he will keep hands off, the indications are
that fruit will be abundant this year.
HORACE FLINT of Gibbon, Nebraska, tells
us that our old townsman, David Andrus,
lives only six miles from him, and that he
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THE " Widow Waldo place was bought
last Saturday by Frank Godfrey. The re-
mainder of the stuff to be disposed of will be
sold at the adjourned auction next Saturday.
A sHARP.ToNGUED woman of our acquaint-
ance said of certain Vermont physician, of
considerable local renown, that he made
his money by saying m, yes'm, to the
people,
NORMAN G.. DAVIS recently showed us a
curiosity in the way of two ears of corn that
grew on one stalk in his field last year, one
ear having eight rows and the other twelve
rows of corn.
A FARMER recently told us of the ravages
made by crows in potato field in a recent
year, his crop, for which he had made abun-
dant provision in the way of fertilizers, be-
ing much injured.
j. G.. DODGE of Goffstown, n. H., came
! here last Saturday as an agent for the " Vic
tor " road machine, which he exhibited, and
which did such good work that our select
men decided to buy it.
WE learn that the late j. NJ. Palmer gave
the Congregational society two pews in theii
church, the rent of which should be used fol
the support of the preaching. Mrs. Palmer
desires to sell horse-shed on the society's
ground.
Crocker of Brooktield tells us that the bulle
that killed his son in the battle of Cedar
| Creek, in the rebellion, killed at the same
time our young townsman, Henry Burnham
son of the late David Durham.
OUGHT not every session of a county cour
to suggest afresh the appalling consumption
of money, time and good feeling, in litga
ton, and lead to the better way of arbitra
ton? just now the citizens of Orang'
county may think on these things.
Miss FANNIE MARTIN took three day
from her school in Berlin, last week. t.
visit shoots here as town superintendent
In the kindly impression made by Mis-
Martin at her examination of teachers lies
the promise that she will prove hersel
serviceable in further work with them.
If only "woodchuck was suitable mea
for minister's" as the boy in the stor.
thought, what royal support we could Civ
our three parsons here, so overrun are W
with these animals. Some eXterminatO
of them ought to be found. Or shall there b
called an extra session of the Legislature ?
ID. LorHRoP & Co. of Boston, publisher
of the Chautduqud Young Folks Journal
and a good one it is-say in the June nun
Der that they will send to boys and girls
who desire them, circulars telling them hoy
to organize the Chautauqua Young Folks
Reading Clubs. Send for them. They Wi
cost you only postal card.
OUR ex-townsman, DIR. Dudley B. Smit
of Painfeld, was in town last week wit
his wife and beautiful little daughter, tn
only one of several children who is living
The doctor seems to retain a lively nteres
in his native town. He recalled to us tn
fact that in earlier days Lawyer Roger Bull
ley lived in the house afterward occupie
by Lawyer Dana Miller, recently mentione
in these items.
, A FRIEND who entered college late in hi
early life tells us that knowing what h
thinks he does now of the benefits of coll,
/ giate education, he would go to college il h
: did not enter till he was forty years ole
Young men who 4" wake up " at late HOT
to the desirableness of such an education
or, knowing it, find it impossible to obtai
it as early as they would like, should max
a note of our friends remark.
= NEAR Calvin Flint's house, and by Il
roadside, stands one of the largest mapl,
! we know of, and attached to it is the plea
ant "reminiscences that under il the late Re
, Samuel DelanO, more than three-score-an
{ ten years ago, resolved to go To college. II
was farmers son, was graduated at Oar
= mouth, and afterwards preached for a lit
= more than fifty years. He was Congreg
. tionaist, and was a man of marked abili
in some directions.
i III any of our scattered ex-towns-folk,
: they think over the old residents of II
n place, wonder if Mr.. Otis Durkee is yet Ii
s ing, we can tell them he is. He has a lit
: home in South Barre where we often s.
d him at work, though past four-score years
l. age. and wonder he is so active at his az
> In later years he has been a member of Il
Methodist church in Barre His son, Charlie
e seems to be prosperous mechanic, living
v Rutland, and in the employ of the Centr
Q Vermont Railroad Company, attending
r their bridges, etc.
r THERE was a good audience, the wealth
l. considered, at the Methodist house la
l. Sunday afternoon to listen to Rev. Harv,
y Webster's memorial sermon, repeated
d request. His theme" Good deeds wort
l. of memorials was suggested by Ma
e xiv: q. Mr. Webster, having served
s. chaplain in the army during the rebellio
"a could speak as he probably could not 9th,
N wise have done. He was listened to wi
much interest. There was quite numl
of old soldiers present. He closed with t
he fitting appeal that they be found hghti
is the good fight of faith.
~ ANYTHING that will prove a true friend
- our farmers cannot come too quickly or
a., too largely advertised. We saw G. L.
H. throp using horse corn-planter, the otl
ar day, that bears the name of The Farme
o. Friend" made in Dayton, Ohio and
- which he has the agency. lt seemed to