The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-18
Waterbury,.

THE Waterbury dramatic club is learning
a new play and its temperance may be ex-
pected this spring.
Tom SMITH finished his fifth year on his
milk route in this village last week, during
which time he says he has not lost trip.
JUDGE CRossETT, who runs a sort of private
weather bureau, has arranged with the ma
pie sugar probabilities to have his sugar
place warmed up for tapping the oath in
slant
The G.. A. r. boys will kindle an old fash
toned campfire Wednesday evening, March
%. The affair will be social. The boys will
sing their songs, tell their stories and review
the scenes and incidents of the camp-ires
that were made from rail fences on the
sacred soil " in war time. Let there be
good turn out and thus contribute to replen-
ish the treasury of the Post.
WE are informed that none of the keepers
of billiard rooms have a license for that pur-
pose. We trust the village fathers will con-
slider and act upon this matter with due
of society are not served when boys that
should be, and are supposed to be. in
school are in billiard rooms playing pool
Some ironclad restrictions should be placed
upon the business and rigidly enforced
REV. s. II. WHEELER and wife were the
recipients of surprise, complete in its sue
cess Tuesday evening of last week. Their
parishoners and friends, calling in goodly
numbers, left with them about SIG, Deacon
Haines, significantly remarking as he
placed the money in his pastors hand, that
some people who go West get homesick and
would be glad to return If they had the
means. His friends did not wish to have
him stay West for such reason. Mr..
Wheeler left for Iowa Monday night. On
Sunday Miss Nellie Wells and Mrs. w. A.
Bruce were admitted to the church.
Mrs. A. e. SMITH has purchased a
Mcdowell garment drafting machine and is
prepared to draft and cut dresses, basques,
sacques, etc. This method is accurate in
every respect and can accomplish work
equal to the best performance of the most
skillful dressmakers. lit Is simply inn
mense," say w. A. Spencer and Co. of Bos-
ton and it is highly commended by hun
dreds of others who have tried it. Mrs
Smith has already taken large number Of
measures which have given complete salts
faction. She invites the ladies OF Water
bury and vicinity to examine this method
and solicits their CUSTOM
THE far-famed Hungarian Gypsy Band
PLAYS at the Golden Fleece" Montpelier
next Saturday evening, the DIST instant.
This band has been the musical sensation
of the season and has created furore in
country and town. Arrangements have
been made for running special car back to
| Waterbury, after the close of the concert, to
accommodate people in this vicinity who
|
way; tickets to concert fifty cents each.
! Such an opportunity does not often come to
Waterbury and the people should improve
| it. Other rare entertainments are coming to
Montpelier and if there is sufficient encour-
agement this time this arrangement with the
railway may be repeated.
AGRICULTURAL meetings were held at
this place Thursday and Friday of last week
according to previous announcements. The
weather was nearly as severe as any eX-
perienced during this winter, and this in.
terfered somewhat with the attendance
| Still fair number of farmers and interested
spectators were present at the various SEES
Sions and manifested an active interest ir
what the speakers had to say. The larges
attendance was Friday evening, to hear Mr.
Douglass tell what he knows about butter
making. His address was heard with un
tagging interest and at its close many ques
tons were asked which the speaker an
swered inteligently and with much goot
nature. A full report of the proceeding
with brief abstracts of the addresses is pub
lished in another column. The good thes
meetings do will depend upon the use thu
farmers make of the information, sugges
tons, etc, which the speakers have i'm
parted, and the facts which have been de
veloped in the discussions, in the answer
to inquiries and in the interchange of idea
and experiences. If one thinks the who'll
thing is a humbug, that he knows as well a
Cutting, Lane and Douglass about farming
the probability is that that farmer will no
derive any benefit from the meetings. Yer
likely these men have told very little tina
, is positively new, that any intelligen
, farmer did not knew before; but, as one re
marked, eve don't all do as well as w
, know how" If the meetings shall incit
farmers always to " do as well as they knoN
) how very useful purpose will be served
even though nothing may be added to tn
! store of information. We trust the boar
oh fpr1 Loot aud \,
town again at a more favorable season {
the year, to sustain and increase the interes
excited at this time. A very valuable az
. cessory to these efforts to improve the cor
I dition of the farmers of Vermont would b
, a well sustained farmers club in every tow
in the state, There should be material fo
, a strong organization of this kind in Waite
q bury and it should be gotten together int
such an association. 1t may be late to fori
a club this season but the suggestion shoul
be remembered and acted upon next fall.
:. WE are informed that G. o. Graves {
Washington, Kansas. has sold out his intel
= | est in the hardware business to his brOthe
! Fred. his partner and has himself engage
o in loan enterprise. The following lettt
from Mr.. Graves will be read with intere'
!, in this community: "The writer saw anon
q the Waterbury items in late number
. your paper that the weather in Kansas ha
h been very cold the past winter, much OF I'll
:. time from twenty to thirty degrees belo
= zero. Although this has been the most S
r we're winter Kansas has experienced fC
. many years, yet but few days was
twenty degrees below and never to II
knowledge thirty below. To-day the the
IS mometer indicates seventy degrees aboN
II zero in the shade and nearly all the stor'
:. are doing business with their doors vic
y open. The farmers are busy preparing fl
: blowing, and the prospect is good for anoth
II good crop. OF course there are some disa'
h vantages in living in new country an
t. that class of people who go West with ii
B. expectation of finding silver dollars groN
g ing around on the bushes will be disa
d pointed; but the chances for investments a
;. much more numerous than in the easte
r, states and man with good judgment al
Is fair amount of money can do well. VIII
te this country wants is more capital, and d
security that can be given on farm proper
is as good as can be found anywhere. GoC
e. unimproved land can be obtained in go'
ii locality at from $40 to $15 an acre. o.
n man will plant and take care of from tif
" to seventy-tive acres of corn. The yield Ia
k year was at from forty to fifty bushels p
to acre, and in many instances over seveni
lie five bushels While Iowa and most of h
1T sister states have suffered from several pa
m tial or total failures of crops during the pa
he ten years, Kansas has always had go
ir crop and is to-day the banner corn state
CO the Union. Anyone intending to COZ
er here must make up his mind TO stick and I
pack up and go home on the first attack
inconsistencies. The climate is delight