The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-13
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A SON of Hiram Smith, the successful tur-
key raiser, recently caught two hen-hawks |
lat one time, If we remember aright) in a
steel trap.
Mrs. CAROLINE AINswoRrH WATERMAN,
and her daughter, Mary, are expected here
this week from Oberlin, Ohio They will re-
main here through the summer.
WE are told that Mr. Collins of Barre has
sold his quarry on the William u. Pratt place
here. There is another quarry on the same
place that ought to be developed.
WE met our ex-townsman Rollin Allen of
Barre, the other day just after he had given
an order for a Cooley creamer a trial hav-
! ing satisfied him it was what he wanted
GEORGE BACON of Chelsea was here a few
days ago in search of teachers for his own
and Joshua CIRCUITS district. Persons de-
string schools can write them at Chelsea.
REV. II. d. MILLER breaches the sermon
at the circular conference at Snowsville on
| Tuesday of this week. Mr.. Miller grows in
esteem with his people here His sermons
are much liked
News has just been received of the death,
by pneumonia, of our ex-townsman, Orvis
Marston, of North Troy After leaving here
some years since he resided in Canada, till
about three years ago, when he moved to
North Troy.
FRED HILLERY is making mark for him
self at the Methodist University in Middle
town, Conn, where he is working his pas
sage, as most any young man of grit, who is
bound to have college education, can do
| in these days.
CARLOS ADAMS of the Methodist Theolog-
cal school in Boston was at home, here over
last Sunday, and preached in the afternoon
at the Methodist house. One who heard
him tells us of the improvement lie has made
in the last year in preaching.
IT may be safely inferred that Frank
Lougee has been " diligent in his business -
since his connection with the reform school
at Vergennes, as an employe, as he has
been promoted three times The third pro-
motion was accompanied by lessenng of
labor and an increase of pay.
WE have just learned that our old towns
man, Seth p. Briggs, now of Bremen county
Iowa, is member of THE WATCHMAN family.
He has the happiness of one whose culver is
full of children-his family containing eight
living sons and daughters Like all loyal
Vermonters in the West, he seems to keep
a warm place in his heart for his native state.
WE Judge that the return of Rev. Harvey
Webster, to this place, is welcomed by his
people, first and best of all. If one were to
speak for them which are without the So
ciety, we know not how he could fail to give
him good report. He seems to be man
; who has wearing qualities. May he see all
, the success of his labors that he desires to in
, the coming year.
THE early rising to which Charles r..
Benedict, or his son Carl, have been COM
PEELED for years past in carrying the mail to
= Brookfield, will be discontinued, with the
mail route itself after July l, 1885. This
| arrangement cuts the town off from the de-
7 livery of any of its mail to points south of
| us till the next day after it is sent from here
S "a " reform "(?) we don't fancy.
, The body of our ex-townswoman, Mrs
l Abbe Martin Stearns, daughter of the late
; Porter Martin, was brought last week, from
the West, to Walpole, \. H. for burial AT
V,a1-
Z ness have been received. Both her own and
!, her fathers family have been sadly afflicted
u by deaths in the West-her own being the
:, seventh death in the latter family since
leaving here.
GEORGE LYNDE's fine " Eastern Boy -
:, colt is now at j. X. Lynde's barn. Not
quite three years old he weighs ten hun
+ dred fifty pounds and stands sixteen hands
4 high. His coat looks as if made of black
' satin, and his tail as if planted by rivers o.
o Ayers Hair Vigor. Whether a telescope
" will be needed to see the high figures thai
r he may bring, if he develops the speed
hoped for, remaineth to be seen.
s. PRINCIPAL DANIEL +. MARTIN, now o
r Pullman, Illinois, proposes TO attend tn,
is meeting of the National Educational Asso
e citation, at Saratoga Springs, July H-1S
% This meeting will be within the reach o
Is some of the teachers of our town, and it vii
n well pay them to make great effort to at
x tend it, The railroads will doubtless carry
D, passengers at reduced rates. To secure
e rooms and board write to Mr.. George Church
sc superintendent of schools in Saratoga
n IT seems to be the sad lot of most peopl
&c to be obliged to look back over their lives
n at the last and mourn that their mistake
;. have been many. They are worth tallin
about, perhaps only as thereby another cal
be helped to avoid them. Not long ago W
lie heard the wife of a very successful man
a financially, lamenting that what had bee
d gained by them had come at such cost a
"a she now. late in life, feels. 1t has been
o. life of over-work, and of too great self-denia
IN of many things that make life pleasant, AM
"a now it is feebeness, and accumulation fo
ne others to enjoy How foolish l hav
r. been" she says. Why not keep the golde
k. mean in all these things.
to A WAsHINGToNIAN recently told us of les
of son in farming learned when boy (and ha
be never been fOrgotten) of the late Joel Bass
y Esq, a well-known citizen of this place
" who died some fourteen years ago. at tn
IL great age of over ninety-seven years. Sal
IN the Squire in speaking of planting potatoes
as 81 don't like to see man kicking aroun
rt to make hole in the ground to drop potatot
tn into. | want my ground fixed so that whe
G. a potato is dropped it goes into the dirt
tn itself; and | always have good crop of Pr
at tatoes." His active farm-life was lived whe
&C. less was said of scientific farming" an
'e- before our soils We're so much exhausted
= but he was a successful farmer.
N GAN ounce of prevention is better than
Is pound of cure, in law, as well as in physi
ol- A man came here from an adjoining tow
.re last fall and hired a house and barn, an
was to pay a cash rent. He has occupie
the premises since that time. The propert
ist was recently sold by the former owne
= The man who purchased it being about
Is, take possession, the man who has bee
EN- renting it must now leave it, He was i
he formed, however, by the new purchas
go that he would not be allowed to take ava
on the manure from the place He has bee
ny keeping two horses, another animal of son
ne kind, and has purchased all the hay al
ok grain he has fed, and this, with the exec
a ton of half ton of hay, we are told, h
I a been bought, away from the place. III
al manure has been kept under the roof of u
on barn and beneath the floor. The law-poi
is, which party is the legal owner of Il
manure? The renter on one side, and DO
for the old and new owners of the place, on d
= other side, have claimed the law for the
is respective sides, as we learn. But whs
MT ever the cure, in this case, people better p
BILE in the "ounce of prevention when tn
of make bargains, and stipulate for all tn
ler are to have at the beginning, when the
= are any doubtful points likely to arise.
ms WILLIS III. GALE, when last heard frol
Jay was in Nebraska, and on the trail of ii stu
us ton as teacher Of music in some pub
ay' school. - Miss Nioletta Hibbard, a pl
fessional nurse, has been in poor health I
months. She has passed the winter in Ea
are ern Massachusetts. - Lyman Drury h
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