The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-16

ing great favorite) have found a home
there. A variety new to us, and a luscious
fall apple, is the Peach Mr.. Erskine finds
purchaser for these at 81 per bushel at his
mouse, we also saw Lombard plum-tree
there that speaks for itself Mr. Erskine
has not wholly lost faith in tree-agents. He
mas also been purchaser from n nursery in
Geneva, n. Y, in which he confdes-that
OF u H. Gerrish. The owner of such an or
chard as Mr.. Erskines confers a favor not
only upon himself, but also upon the com
munlty in which he lives. =- Mrs Averill
and Mr.. and Mrs George L. Williams report
having lately seen a wild animal in the
northwest corner of the town that would
seem to be a lynx. This particular animal
is said to be large one, of dark grayish
! color, and has "A "howl " of its own that it
knows how to use. 1t ought to engage some
OF our hunters or trappers. 80 Last Sat-
urday an old gentleman (about eighty wears
OF age, now a resident of Connecticut, came
here to see his birthplace. He is a son of
one Jared Kimball an almost forgotten
name here. This man was born in a house
that used to stand on General Bass farm,
farther north than his present dwelling
the same house, after a second removal,
now standing on Mrs. Chester Martins
place, south of the bridge Mr.. Kimball
lett here when eleven years of age and has
been here but once before since then. He
remembers the two members Of the Warren
| Poole, Sr., family, now living here, and
| with whom he used to attend school in " the
old red school-house," then at the north end
OF the village. What younger resident
| would not like to look at these familiar
sights through his eyes? 80 The average
attendance at the Congregational services
for the past ten Sabbaths has been eighty
four and one-half persons. The place num-
bers about one thousand persons and there
are four religious societies, three of which
hold services each Sabbath. The
thank-otfering for the Bible contributed by
the Congregational Sunday-school, in re-
Spouse to the appeal of Rev. l.. II. Elliot,
secretary of the Vermont Bible Society
amounted to nearly 81. Mrs Dea.
Edwin &. Smith, who has a large class of
small scholars in the Congregational Sun
day-school, opened a way to greater useful
ness by inviting them to her home, last Sat
urday afternoon, her husband taking the
trouble to convey them to and from their
home. - Newell Farnham reports sew
enty Beauty of Hebron potatoes that meas
ured bushel and yield of seven hundred
reports a crop of one hundred fifty bushels
OF oats from sowing of three and one-half
bushels on about two acres of land -
Potatoes are rotting badly here. - A
hunter tells us of an abundance of cartridges
hereabouts. Some of them are likely to
" fall when the leaves shall have fallen
from the trees - George w. Lynde will
exhibit his three-years-od " Eastern
Boy at the Waterbury fair, where it is to
trot. - L. G. Little lost valuable horse
stall and managed to get his head into some
e, opening, from which he could not extricate
himself, and was found dead in the morn
ing. - Asa Wilbur has been adding to
his barn-room. He will put up sio, to be
filled this season. - j. X. Lynde has
recently purchased a colt of Martin Err
, skine-which establishes the probable char
! acter of the colt. - Sanford H. Dutton,
, the leading raiser of thoroughbred Devon
stock in this town, and who has been so sue
! attaining l1,,nG or tba Tim
bridge fairs, will take to the coming Dog
, River Valley fair two cows of that breed
y one two-years old, one yearling and two
= calves-all registered stock. - Miss AL
ice Walker is in st. Johnsbury taking care
of her grandmother, Mrs. Rice Davenport
who it is surmised may have had something
a like paralytic stroke. - Harry Aims.
t worth of Moline, ILL.,. only son of Henry Aims
a worth, formerly of Williamstown, reached
Il here last Saturday. graduate of Oberlin
|. College of the class of 49, he is about to en-
It ter the Harvard Law School. - The
l. husband and two daughters of our es
Il teemed ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, Mrs. Emily Ware
G Brown of Chicago, were in town last week
e the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. John Lynde and
e Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Cheney. The daugh
e tiers have been for several weeks the guest!
l. of DIR. and Mrs. Cornelius Lynde of Stowe
a Have any of the old friends of Mrs Brown
!. who have enjoyed the hearty hospitality o
: her Chicago home found anywhere else
5 heartier welcome? - DIR. Charles Gall
e at home from Rutland last week on
n vacation. He reports Mrs. DIR. +. c. Levi
;. as gaining. - Rev. Walter Davenpor
h was able, few Sabbaths since to RESUME
e preaching at Weston. - Mrs. DR.. Dan
IS Dickinson returned to her home in or nea
st Boston last week, after having spent thu
le summer here. - Mrs. Charles Flint i
: again very poorly. Her case is a critca
il one. 60 Mrs. Ruhamah NJ. Erskne's ser
1t vices as a teacher seem to be valued il
v Washington She is teaching the villag
1t school there again this fall 60 Mrs
$, Ellen Whitney Colby returned to her HON
is in Iowa last week. Her health is much i'm
a proved by stay of some months in NeI
id mont - Mrs. Matte Abbott Bailey @
st Oneida, n. Y, is making her first visit a
her old home here since her marriage
- The many friends of our beloved eS
= towns-woman, Mrs. Ellen Waldo Colby c
- Plainfeld will be glad to hear of an in
- provement in her health. She has bee
i is very low of late. - Mrs. William Ban
-, 10 ron of Lacrosse, Wis, nee Miss Ednah Wal
~, w. son granddaughter of the late David Wal
II son of this place., is visiting among oil
-, friends hereabouts. She is one of tn
n is WATCHMAN family, and thus keeps herse
Is, posted on " the old home " news.