The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-02

small audiences on these occasions in this
our day any improvement upon the days of
our grandsires? And do they bode any good
for our state and nation2 - The Congre-
gational ladies' society saved about seven
teen dollars on the occasion of their Thanks
giving supper at the town hall on Tuesday
evening of last week A delightful feature
of their entertainment was the tableaux.
Unfortunately for ourself we CHANGED to see
but three of them, viz, Joan Of Arc listen
ing to the voices" personated by Miss Mary
Waterman; Joan of Arc at the stake"
personated by Miss Fannie Martin; and
/" Beatrice being led to prison" personated
by Miss Stella Martin and accompanied by
nuns. We do not recall ever having seen
anything in the way of tableaux surprising
these. - There was heavy fall of snow
here on Wednesday of last week. We are
told the depth near Rodney Seavers was
twenty-five inches. On Friday morning the
mercury went as low as thirteen below zero
in our village. - The latest cruel Joke
we have heard of, as given at the expense
of very laxative woman, is this, viz, =" She
can open her mouth, set 1t to running and go
off and leave it." But neither the Joker nor
the jolsed are Willamstownans in this case
- Not very long ago we read in some
Vermont paper of questions that would
likely come up in the next legislature. II the
privilege of any religious society to hold an
taxation, be, in its possible fruitage," the
dire evil that some think it is, can the peo-
pie of this state wake up any too quickly to
the fact and to the remedy? This omnous
cloud &" may yet be no bigger than a
mans hand, but will it not gather in black
ness and volume till it will bring great
harm to us? AS the winter Is specially
time for our people to think about and talk
over these " burning questions" should not
this subject engage due share of attention in
the coming months? - There is stran-
ger who has once or twice driven through
nj nf yarI ,.-,tl,
horse having one of the worst deformities of
a fore-foot we ever saw. OF course the
horse is very lame, and, whatever the facts,
it looks like an dWfW cruelty to animals to
use it. One of our town officials said to us,
on seeing it, that the man driving it ought
to be arrested for cruelty to animals. We
have suspicion, from what we hear, that
this man is staying at present in some town
north and east of Montpelier, and not very
far distant from there. But, wherever he
men in that place will they not show
mercy to that beast" and let the public
this way know they have done so? -
Conductor Frank w. Flint, whose recent
southern trip took him as far as Florida
does not, we hear, like that land of flow
ers as well as he does the West.
Miss Annie Martin is to teach this winter in
the Herbert p. Martin district. Bert "
Bailey will teach in the Gilbert o. Smith
district and Mr.. Brennan in the Kinsman
Martin district. - George w. House has
recently returned from Lynn, Mass, where
he has been working at the carpenter
trade. - Mr. and Mrs. A. o. Stoughton
of Gill, Mass, have recently been the guests
of Rev. and Mrs. r. ID. Miller. Mrs. Slough
ton is the only sister of Mrs. Miller. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel King of Mortified
were in town last week. We have been
hoping Mr.. King might find inducements to
buy farm here in town. as we hear he has
been looking at one. - In talking with
an out-of-town friend about one of his fell
low-citizens, whom we had known and
who had just died, leaving an estate that
surprised us by the size of it, we asked how
he had accumulated it, knowing that much
of his life had been spent on farm. The
| answer came, when he got cent into
one hand he put it into the other and held
on to it till he got another to put with it,
and then put both out at interest till they
| had earned another. This was the secret OF
it," And whatever the tendency to degen-
crate into a misery life by such saving,
who can deny that there is very valuable
lesson in it for mankind? - There was
a large attendance at the meeting OF the
| Young Folks Club on Friday evening last
The masquerade evidently furnished a good
deal of amusement. There is a prospect
that this club will have the management OF
the Christmas exercises here, and possibly
a cantata will be a feature of the occasion
- We are very glad to say that an edu.
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Superintendent Dartt will be held at the
town hall in this place December 14th and
18TH On Monday evening (the 14th) Super
intendent Dartt will deliver an address on
" Factors in Education" A notice of this
meeting ought to reach every family in the
place, and all who can should be present
We are told that some time during thi:
meeting Mr.. Dart will speak of the "towr
system" of schools. Our people ought es
pecially to be there at that time. - A
son Of l. Clement Little and Miss Flora
Hersey were married last week. - lie
roy S. Norris and bride are to reside il
Barre hereafter. - Mrs Joel Shepard
while on visit in Barre, Tuesday, fel
down stairs and broke her hip and hel
wrist. - The friends of Mr.. and Mrs
Henry Martin celebrated the tenth anniver
sary of their wedding Tuesday evening
- Fred Blanchard has just returned
from his IN usical studies in Boston. -
One of our worthy and capable young men
Burt Royce, has gone to Adams, Mass.
to learn the machinist's trade. - One o
our wide-awake farmers has, in this year o
abundant harvests, raised two Thousand
bushels of produce, made two Thousand
pounds of butter, turned off fifteen hundre,
pounds of dressed beef and three thou
sand pounds of veal, live weight, as par
of his farming We never hear hin
grumbling about farmers life. Mrs
Ellen Waldo Colby, now of Plaintield, wa
ID. Barnes of the Gulf Spring House in
vested in poultry, which he took to Boston
week before last.