The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-21

English Ballad Concert Company. Season
tickets will be sold at only S150. 1t is ex-
pected the first lecture will be November
9Th. - The Bradford Opinion has the
following to say Of the Mechanics band:
The Mechanics band covered themselves
with new glory during fair week by the
quality and quantity of their music. 1t is a
splendid organization and gave perfect sat
isfaction both to the society and patrons of
the fair. They rendered some of their
choicest selections in their serenade given
DR.. Jones at his residence and at the Trot-
ter House previous to their departure
home: - George j. Prince wants to
sell his large tub-factory, in consequence of
poor health. =- Rector Roberts of Bel
lows Falls will exchange with Rev. Ho-
mer White next Sunday =- The vii
lage meeting, last Monday, adjourned with
out action, though the proceedings were
spirited. - Two young ladies were bap-
TIED by immersion at the Christian church
Sunday. - Benjamin Il. Chase pur-
chased a lamb of G. II. Hebard, five months
old, that weighed ninety-nne pounds.
- Robert j. Kimball has brought water
to his farmhouse on Kimball hill. -
Sanford Il Little have rented and opened
the Chandler cider mill - j. w. At
wood and wife have returned from their
western trip. - The Mechanics band
dedicated its new hall last Thursday even
ing. The gross receipts were 500
Tunbridge.
A SPECIAL meeting of Whitney Relief
Corps is to be held at the town hall next
Saturday evening. 80 The town hall is
| to be repaired at once 60 Some needed
repairs are to be made upon the highway to
Royalton. - The children belonging to
| the band of hope will meet at Mrs. o. H.
Kings Thursday evening, and every two
weeks thereafter during the winter -
| The Womans Christian Temperance Union
met at Mrs. b. f. Butterfelds, last Friday
| evening" and were finely entertained by
Mr.. and Mrs. Butterfield. 80 There were
! pleasant parties at Fred Noyes and at Will
bur Salter's last week. - Mrs. Araline
| U1utchinson) Baker of Sharon was brought
here and buried in the cemetery below the
village last Sunday. - Mrs. II. G..
Kelley, who has been visiting her niece,
Miss Minnie Allen of this place, has gone
to meet her husband in Boston. - Hon.
| W. G. French of Woodstock was in town
Saturday. - Frank Flanders died in
North Tunbridge last Thursday, after a long
and severe illness. He leaves young wife
to whom he was married "a few months
since. - G. 5. Smith and wife of Wash
| ington were at DIR. Fish's the first of the
week. IS. A. Dean has been in Bethel
the past week. - Mrs. Eunce Lyman is
at her daughters Mrs e. l.. Fish. -
Mr.. ID. w. Ramsdell and wife are visiting
at DR.. Fish's
Williamstown.
SAID Randolph man to u.s. the other day:
" noticed in your items that you wished at
one time you could get DR.. Jones of Waits
field over to talk to your people on the sub
ject of the town system OF schools. Now, if
you want good man for that purpose: lust
get II. G. Gilbert of this place to go over, if
he will, and speak to your folks on this sub
ject. He is a member of our school board
and farmer, and knows how to talk this
matter to the farmers" And how gladly
we would hear from such man. We think
he would command good house here.
What better work can such a man do for
education than to let his light shine in our
Vermont towns for the next four months?
- The Congregational circular confer
ence on Tuesday of last week was rather
thinly attended-in part, perhaps, owing to
the meeting of the American Board in Bos-
ton. The only out-of-town clergyman pres
ent was Rev. Peter Mcmillan of Barre and
he was not a member of this conference. BY
invitation of Pastor Miller he preached an
excellent sermon on the text: " Perfect love
casteth out fear His presence added
much to the meetinfi otherwise.
Among the attendants from abroad at the
conference here, last week Tuesday, was
Principal Conant of the Randolph Normal
School. In opening the afternoon discus
sion of the subject of 1.-The Work of the
Local Church" he put his thoughts into an
interrogative form, asking if there ought not
to be fewer religious societies in our towns
about-the two or three, more, uniting
upon some satisfactory basis into one So
ciety, even though more than one minister
be employed in some cases. In this event
he would have more aggressive work done
by the churches by sending out into the
outlying districts, each Sunday, workers that
would go to those who will not now come
to the church buildings. - Last spring
Charles Hayward walked up B." "A little plot
; of ground on the south side of one of the
Gulf hills that has been mapping - for tive
years or more, and fed it at the rate of about
two hundred fifty pounds of Bowker's phos
phate to the acre; this, and nothing more
He now exhibits seven fat ears of corn, taker
from one hill, which weighed five pounds
; when first plucked. a hundred basket,
was the yield of an acre or a little less. One
stalk with three ears is another of the eX
: hibts of this yield. -" Tom " Sanders
in these parts the wel-known owner of the
Gulf Spring House but resident of Massa
chusetts, recently stopped here on rount
trip he is making through Vermont, New
Hampshire and Maine He has change,
! the color of the coat of the hotel, and il
about to make some slight additions to thu
premises. Mr.. f. ID. Barnes will remain il
the hotel through the winter, if the - mer
. curry" will allow. - Asa G. Wilbur tell
: us that his new silo is pit twelve feet il
a length and the same in width and depth
n The walls are of concrete Small stones ant
q cemenD, in width sixteen inches at tn
n bottom and eight or ten at the top. TIL
v whole cost about 800. The capacity i
' thirty to forty tons. 1t was filled this season
i, with corn-stalks as taken from the field, Mr.
4 Wilbur preferring this method rather thai
. cutting them up into small pieces. The re
a suits shall be reported in due time. - j
/ X. Lynde is reported to us as saying h
i would not take 500 for this seasons col
!, of the stock of the horse " Abraham,
+ owned in Montpelier. - We heard
r friend in a neighboring town say lately tina
!, farm help at this season never before SCENE
>. so scarce. Men are getting there, as well a
here dollar per day for labor. And We
Il men will half starve in some sections of til
10 country rather than come here and do tn
u work needed - The Eastern Boys
Is may have to look out for the laurels of thei
80 tribe, such fine impression is being mad
by the young Western Boys growing IL
here-stock of the horse brought East by {
n s. Walker, year or two ago. - We ha
- every token of appreciation of the real wort
If of " country girls" A worthy, shrewd, sci
y sible friend, and man of means, living els,
r. where, and whose business brings him /
p constant contact with people of both tow
d and country, says he would have only
!, country girl =" for wife. - Fred Ma
IS tin offers the Septa Simons farm" wit
stock and tools, at auction next Frida,
This place was sold years ago by Mr.. S
!, mons for $1,000, including stock and farm
~ ing implements, to Otis II. Walker. NJ
u Martin finds farming specially undesirab
= for himself on account of the loss of a han,
70 60 Scion Wood, an eX-Vermonter an
:, now of Elgin, Illinois, is, with his wife, vi
II ting his sister, Mrs. Chester Martin. III