The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20
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that are the mothers of thirty-three lambs
this season, and all living.
OUR ladies' reading club finished Macbeth
at their last weeks reading. The club has
adjourned its readings till September.
WE have one specimen of white bronze in
our new cemetery, placed there by Marcus
A. Smith-and pretty affair it Is, too.
GILBERT ANDREWS, who is nephew of
the late Asa S. Simonds and whose early
life was lived with him, is the administrator
of Mr.. Simonds' estate.
HORACE FLINT, now of Gibbon, Nebraska,
is in town visiting his father, Calvin Flint,
and other friends. We hear he has been
remarkably prosperous in Nebraska.
WE hear that Willis II. Gale has located
in Fremont, Nebraska, q town of quite a
good many thousand inhabitants, and will
there bring out his musical skill as teacher
and singer. Success to him
DEA. ORcUTT ABBOTT, while doing his
minister service last week, fell from a
load of wood and his wagon passed over one |
leg. Mr. Abbott has suffered much in the |
last few months from ameness in one place |
or another.
WE heard an old man account, the other |
day. for the thriftlessness of class of |
neer do-wels" Said he, =" When they |
have dollar in anticipation, they spend |
nine shillings" There is genuine Yankee
wit in that remark for you.
JOEL HERsEY is again preparing to fill his
/ SllO Ill uue Jllne. lie mas 1dlIn IN enSlldge, !
after one seasons experiments, though for
some reason known to him, and for which
there is a remedy, it did not all keep per-
fectly. Mr.. Hersey has large dairy.
| DANA MILLER, who was a lawyer here
fifty years ago and finally sold out to James
! Lynde, was an uncle of our Rev. X. ID.
! Miller. He lived in the old Milton Martin
house in the I" hollow north of the village,
and is remembered as a fun-loving man;
DENIsoN BRowN's family has known
much of ill-health in late years. Mr.. Brown
has recently had an attack of pneumonia.
His second daughter has long been in feeble
health, and now his fourth daughter, uneX-
pectedly, has been having hemorrhage of
the lungs.
j. NJ. SEAvER has the closng-out of the
tannery's affairs here. After finishing up
a lot of leather in process of tanning, the
property, we suppose, will be for sale. Will
some good man and tanner please take
note and come and investigate the chances
for business here?
CAPTAIN G. Il. Triton of Mortified has
been doing some good work in cleaning mar
BILE in the new cemetery. He uses a soap
prepared by a Mr. Perkins of Northfield, in
stead of sulphuric acid, thereby saving the
marble from harm. We think his work will
be liked anywhere.
WE have before alluded to honest Uncle
Aaron " Parsons. How many old Williams
townians can recall his capital Yankee apple
sauce and the extra straw-hats braided in
his family? Not many days ago we saw his
daughter Mrs. Charlotte Parsons Ellis now
nearly eighty years of age, still at the work
of braiding hats.
MAINE is little nearer to sunrise than
our own state, and it will do Vermonters no
harm to know what Superintendent n. A.
Luce of that state thinks he sees with his
inner eye. He says the district school
, system must eventually be abolished" 1t
, is surely coming, Vermonters. VIII you
: speed or impede it, reader?
5 SOME of our younger citizens may not
I know that the front part of DIR. Charles w.
, McClearns pleasant house was many years
: ago cabinet shop, belonging to the late
Elias Work and standing just south of Mrs.
y Martin Simon's house. 1t was purchased
: by Rev. Mr.. Davis and moved to its present
{ site. Last week the doctor was laying tile
o for waste-water diagonally across his gar
r den, and came directly upon the wall of an
i old well that was in good condition and
i reached nearly to the surface, but which
e had not been suspected. No one here has
r any recollection of the wells ever being
S used, either
e FROM late JVotSeko Gll) Republican We
l. learn that our ex-townswoman, Mrs. abb,
II Martin Stearns, died on the 2nd instant al
l. the home of her sister, Mrs. Martin Burn
l. ham, near Martinton. ILL.,, aged tifty-tiv'
1t years. She went to Illinois to reside il
10 1868 She is spoken of as well-knowI
Is among large circle of acquaintance as
e lady of the highest Christian character re
is spected and loved by the whole community.
g The paper adds: "The experience of thi
Is family has been a sad one. Henry c., VIII,
ID was the only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Stearns
a and who was Young man of the highes
al promise, died, as will be remembered, las
August, and his mother now follows him
of leaving Mr.. Stearns desOlate and alone il
lie his old age
+ WE halted Wallace w Dutton of Eas
tt..l1 lat -.
Vi home four of the boxes made by Fowle
Ford of Peacham for carrying butter t
market. Each box will hold twenty-fou
40 pounds of butter. The butter is made int
Of bricks that weigh "A half pound each, an
Vs. are each stamped twice, that they can b
cut in the middle, and make square lump
~ weighing quarter of pound each, bot
IT. being stamped. These boxes cost one do
H. lar and ffty-hve cents apiece at Peaclan
ly Each has Mr.. buttons address painted o
r. it. AS often as sent to market they are r.
II, turned to him. They are convenient fC
carrying, and said to be very durable
er in spite of the " smashing" propensities
nv some railroad employees
D., ANOTHER finger board A lawyer in
he neighboring town 1--WE have none here latel
re knocked at the door of young mans plaC
N, here. The latter had purchased an articl
er of an agent from out of town, yet in his IN
nority, who was selling with his father
,rs consent at least. About twenty-seve
air dollars were Vet uut, WHICH iHt ldlut
10 wrote our townsman a postal carr
of asking him to please pay those twent
ar seven dollars TO himself but withol
nj a word of explanation why. Soon the SC
he came and collected the twenty-seven dc
on lars, giving some reason why the post
should be ignored. The father, holding
-. lien on the goods, now calls, through
~ lawyer. for the above amount. At the leas
', it has already cost our townsman annoyan
'h' and some loss. The case is worth KNOWN
a of if it leads others to proper caution
~ dealing with strangers. 1t is not hal
IN, matter, in these days to learn whether dea
~ ers near at hand are reliable or not.
ct HIRAM DAVENPORT is sadly afflicted wi
ill heart disease, being unable to lie down
ny night - Mrs. j. X. Lynde has been
St attendant of the rehearsals and will tai
he part in the musical convention at Nor
,ge peler this week. SO far as we know 81
by will be the only representative of the plaC
yer - Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ralph buri
nd an infant boy last week Wednesday. 80
The Enoch Howe's ninety-third birthday W
SIS Tuesday of this week, we believe. He is
EEK be seen daily at work about his place--a
eli, markably well-preserved man for his yeal
are - Miss Jennie Fuller is teaching
ION Attleboro, Mass, where Principal a.
Edison, late of the Normal School at RIA
dolph, is also teaching. Mr.. Edison has
cl, high opinion of her ability as "a teach'
oa. - Miss Alice Brown daughter of Del
md son Brown, is teaching in the Charles W.
The colt district. == Stafford Luce, form