The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-24
WilliamstOwn.

10 ElRln Gale OF Barre.
Mrs. GEORGE w. HOUSE had slight |
shock of paralysis last week
Mrs. j. A. s. WHITE and daughter of |
Claremont, N. H., are in town.
QUINCY M. CARPENTER has been suffering
severely from lead poisoning of late.
THE latest addition to j. X. Lynde's fam
lily of horses is one of but few days old of
some famous stock.
Jason JEFFoRDs' misfortunes come not
siDgly. He has lately lost horse, which
died quite suddenly.
CAN we have Florida at our doors
Mrs. Ralph Ditty has a fg-tree, which is
not a {" barren " one, but actually produces
fruit.
WE have seen nothing finer here in the
way of stock than sixteen-months-old
Durham, sold by James Martin lately why
is it not more common here?
AT this writing there is much need of
rain; an outlook for light hay crop, with
no stock of old hay to fall back upon, as last
winter, and some complaint of the prospect
of myriads of grasshoppers.
FRIENDS of Mrs. Ellen Kathan Morse,
now of Manchester, N. H., will be glad to
know of her improved health, which has been
so poorly in months past. We hope to have
her for resident in these parts again some
time.
JUST where does the fault lie that our
East Hill cemetery presents such a neglected
look, which, to speak the unvarnished
truth, is disgrace? Will any place suffer
in what is of more Importance than pecun-
larry sense that keeps the burial-places of
its departed town's-folk in good condition?
THE Free Baptist society has been raising
money to repair its Westinghouse. We
hear it is to cast off its familiar red color
and take on a white one The contem-
plated work is worthy one and is much
1aH Il TO hall,
that friends outside feel like giving we are
sure will be welcomed.
If any of the fathers are inclined to think
that the men who did our town business in
an early day were superior to those of the
present, let them compare the " lists " of
some seventy years ago with those made
out in these degenerate(?) days. This item
is suggested by recent matter of business
that led to a reference to those old lists.
JAMES LATHAM has an heirloom in the
shape of a Perry's Royal Standard English
Dictionary, the first work of the kind
printed in America bearing date January
/, 1885, and reprinted in Worcester, Mass.
| 1t is a volume about five inches square and
one and one-half inches thick, and was once
the property of the late Simeon johnson of
| this place.
WE have just had a very pleasant call
! from an old friend and teacher, Judge Will
lam Leach, formerly of Barre and now of
| Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has finished his
n,',,o;o, no,rt H. .s 80; u,
week to his western home. He was a
teacher of our village school in the winter
of 1852 and 1853.
IN lax WIN our lrst selectmah' Marcus
! A Smltll, we learn uhaI our new rOau-lna-
chime mas saved very large per cent oil eX-
pense In the working OF our roads thus lar
this season, and the quality of its work has
| due praise. Here, elsewhere, there are
those VINO We're not IN favor OF the purchase,
bnt the lnachlhe VIII prove victor over
all opposition, we trust
THE other day we came across a senti-
ment of the famous lawyer, the late
Charles O'Connor of New York CITY, that
contains so much in a nutshell we must
quote it; " A great lawyer" said he, " is not
the one who knows the most law, but who
understands what the point involved is. >
" Put pin through that young man. II
doesn't apply alone to the law
THE name of Hatch has been a farnil
lar one in the history of Williamstown
Through the kindness of Mrs. Abram Lon
Uee of WASHINGTON we have heen nernittef
TO read a pamphlet of twentv-six mage,
CONTAINING the oenealogv If the Hatch fam
ilv in this conntrv. So far az II could n,
ascertained nv a Mr.. Leonard X. Hatch q
UarrisvilIe. 4. RI. If was published il
1870 This family descended from one q
the New England Puritans thronpb a lin,
of ancea+orS who ,vitbout excention ,yer,
virtnous men Althongh none Of then
could hoast Of immense wealth none wer,
very moor none we're aver mucb distin
rnisbad IN iife and oil yere haloved an,
resnected nv their neigbbors and the com
: munitv All lived to an advanced ACE al
have Leen uniformIv Pnritans in nrinc7nle
: savs tho biogranher "At Tho time 81 tb
frst settlement of New ENGLAND tbe Uatche
were verv numerous in Old ENGLAND tbongl
no Information earlier than the heoinni5
If the siyteenth century is obtainahle m
tirst of the name in tbis century was JosenI
Hatch a man Of sound sense and evemnlar
niotv Who corna from Engjond sbortIy Off "a
7 he Plvmonth colony Ue purchased fror
? the Indians the whole of the original town
. shin If Falmouth Mass Where he i've
= and diad From his Josanb Hath 60 E.
4 ~ ia known IN tho writer have snrrng nj
tbe Uatcbes in the IInited States-oan astor
. ;sb;ngIv nn,nerous tr;he d;Snersed over RI
ybnie co,ntrv and engaged In aImost ever
+ nrofassion ana occnnstion ;; TIE slretcba
| If tbe family between the above ,Iosen
a Hatch and his descendant Asa Hatch on
VI ,ie eiiies' se..leis VI 'nis piauI, e .;
Tt iaii ~ i.uie'u any i'i,S Ian,,aI
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