The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-28
WilliamstOwn.

j. X. LyNDE is to be town agent for the
Quinnipiac phosphate this year.
Mrs. CHARLES PERRY, who recently buried
her father, last week buried brother in
Topsham.
Mrs. JOSEPH NORRIS has rented her farm
for the coming year to party in northern
New York.
Mrs. GEORGE w. HOUSE has returned
from Massachusetts, accompanied by her
father, who is over eighty years of age.
WE heard recognized leading physician
of our state prescribe nothing more nor
less, than apples for a case of liver COM
plant.
JAMES Walbridge's local class uses The
Singers Welcome" by l.. o. Emerson. We
hear his work well spoken OF, as his school
goes on.
REV. II. ID. MILLER begins work with the
Congregationalists next Sunday. We be-
lieve he is expected to preach but once
Sunday during the year.
IT is never too late TOGO West. Our ex-
townsman, Wesley Martin, an old man, pulls
up the stakes he stuck In Michigan many
years ago to drive them again in Kansas.
MAJOR ISAAC LYNDE and wife, who are
nearly or quite octogenarians, are spending
their last days in Picolata, Florida. For
some time past Mrs, Lynde has not had
the power of speech.
DONNIE EARLE seems to have good pros
pect for work on the Central Vermont rail-
road. He seems to have an Unsuitable de-
sire for such work, natures hint, probably,
of what she wants of him.
THE annual meeting for the election of Of
fcers for the Congregationalist Society, will
be held at their vestry, at two o'clock P.
M, Saturday next, January 81. 1t ought to
be well attended by the society.
Town CLERK GEoRGE BECKETT uses in
his office stove that his father purchased
some sixty years ago, and which had been
In use score of years before. 1t was made
by r. & j. Wainwright of Middlebury. Mr..
Beckett anticipates that 1t may yet last him
his lifetime.
"Who can find a capable woman" au-
thorities tell us we must read Proverbs xxi:
| 10. The way in which the wife of our late
townsman, Joseph Burnham, has just en-
gineered the building of pretty and COM
modious house, in Barre, (which she will
use for boarding., suggests one answer to
the question.
THERE recently fell from the lips of Rev.
DR.. w. M. Taylor, remark that ought to
| be repeated in every home. Leisure is
one of the most infallible tests of character.
| Tell me how a man spends his leisure hours
| and l will tell you what he is. youth
makes man of himself both for this life
and the next, during those hours"
MEssRs. PRENTIss WALDO, Joshua F.
| Bailey, James Walbridge, and Wilbur +.
| Adams, representative men in the musical
fraternity, went to Plainfeld last Wednes-
day evening to see and hear Professor Fos-
ter in his singing class. AS result we hear
the professors singing and teaching well
spoken of, and the wish expressed that he
might have class here. Why cannot he
| have one?
WE lately had by the buttonhole, an ex-
Williamstownian who is prosperous bust
ness man elsewhere. Behind q smiling
l.. .Nf.. r,N t1At. l.
pretty sure to win Zone thing / have
learned" said he, and that is, never to be
cast down because a competitor cuts your
corners. Keep straight on, all the same.
If you are where anybody is getting any
money, you will, in this way, get some of it.
The latest railroad rumor is of near-at-
hand survey for a route from Barre to Roy
alton, via. of the granite quarries and along
the eastern site OF our town, past the Free
Baptist church to Chelsea, and on to Royal
ton. This rumor ought to be amended so as
to read: - A straight line to Williamstown
village with spur to the quarries), thence
to Chelsea ETC." If there is any basis fol-
this rumor, our people want to be waking
up here.
THE Methodist society will give their an
nual oyster supper at the town hall on Fri
day evening of this week. The wants OF
the inner man will also be consdered-inu
sic, Rotations, or the like, being on the pro
on occasions of this kind, a change has been
instituted, bringing the supper into the
early part of the evening and the other parts
of the programme into the latter part, {
change that would seem to have much t,
commend it and make it universally liked
Everybody may be sure of welcome Fri
day evening next.
FROM a copy of that worthy monthly thu
Chautauqua Young Folks Journal, just re
ceived, we learn that any of our young folk
can become member of the Chautauqu
Young Folks Reading Union by sending hi
or her name, and ten cents in postag
stamps, to the secretary, Miss Kate f. Kim
ball, Plainfield, New Jersey, who will Civ
all needed information. The benefits o
such membership will be inestimable +
any one who will join this union, and worl
, under its guidance Itpays one to take tn
? aforementioned journal, published by ID
; Lothrop & Co. of Boston, at seventy-tiv
cents year.
PROBABLY the local history of any tow
, would be called incomplete, that did nc
take in some of the " odd characters" CON
mon to every town. One of our old citizens
: with a keen sense of the ludicrous, recentl
recalled one of these characters, Luthe
Stockwell, an old-time citizen of this town
a He was a soldier in the war OF 1872, tn
Seminole war, and the Mexican war.
+ would seem that Mr. Stockwell elaine
quite familiar intimacy with General Win
field Scott. He used to tell that after SEQ
4 entered the city of Mexico, he met Stool
q well one day, and said to him, Luthe
can you tell me where l can find some GOO
J. brandy?"
y IT seems to be given to some correspond
/. ents to report "fashions." We have ju
read of " fashion" in Boston that is
sensible, and so suited to, and PRACTICAL
T. for, us all, that one may be allowed to re
IS ommend it. A New York correspondel
: asserts that in that city " fine clothes " al
"a "great expenditures are the basis of fas
Is ionable society, underneath which the
n is great deal OF vulgarity." But Boston
re celebrated society is made up of the sir
e plest looking people, ladies indiifere
Is about their gowns, the men seldom or new
wearing dress coats and white bows in pl
vate families, bat the ,ohole charm Of the s
10 ciety is in the lore Of mind and good principle
d Qtalics ours). Let this fashion rage here
l. Vermont.
"a Middlesex.-About four weeks since b,
~ X. BuzZell, who works for o. III. Richar
~ son, thought he would try keeping bachelor
10 hall and boarding himself. Last Mond
- evening large party of his numerous frien
~ tbax no n Wis nd eyi