The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-17
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THE present outlook for a heavy grass
crop here is not very 1attering.
THE ladies of the Methodist society have
just purchased new carpet for their church.
REV. r. ID. MILLER attended the Congre-
gational convention at Bellows Falls last
week.
FRED HANAFoRD of Chicopee, Mass, SON
in-law of Mrs. Helen Stickney, was in town
last week.
Mr.. AND Mrs. b. f. SIBLEY were called to
Winoosh to the burial of his mother on
Monday last.
Mrs. l.. ID. SMITH, the mother of the
Perry boys here, has been very i'll of late
with some trouble with the heart.
THE daughter of the old Sea-captain Hall
of Croydon, N. H., and known to some of
our people here, is visiting her uncle, Ma
than Hall.
Mrs. IDA AINswoRTH ROWE, now of Wis
consin, is at her old home, ii. ID. Abbott's,
having reached here with her little family
last Friday.
LESLIE ID. GALE went to the Fabyan House,
White Mountains, last week, TO work
through the summer. IL is his second sea-
son at the mountains.
REV. WILLIAM SCHoFIELD and wife of
Irasburgh were in town, last week. on their
way home from the late Congregational con-
vention at Bellows Falls.
GEORGE WHEELER of the East Hill, Barre,
had the misfortune to break an axle of his
buggy in coming here last week Result, a
runaway and much bruised horse.
Mrs. G.. A. ArNswoRTH and Mrs. III. A.
White of Washington have planned an
outing of some weeks at Truro, on Cape
Cod, Mass. They propose to go next week.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES r. AINswoRTH of
Moline ILL.,, and Mrs. j. f. Ainsworth of
Iowa, of the family of the late Calvin Aims
worth, are looked for at the old home here
this season.
II was the opening of beautiful night
blooming cereus at Sumner Wheatley's on
Friday evening that called together large
number of his neighbors. The flower meas
ured ten and one-half inches across
CHLDREN's day was beautiful one.
Both the Congregational and Methodist
churches were beautifully decorated with
flowers for the occasion, for which no pains
were spared to make them profitable.
MIR. AND Mrs. ENos f. WALKER took a
carriage ride to st. Johnsbury, last week,
where her father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rice Davenport, reside. Her younger
brother is in the employ of the Fairbankses
there.
WILL Memorial day yet come to be day
for placing flowers on the graves of oil the
dead? Mrs. DIR. &. G. Ellis of Nashua, n. III e.,
sent up beautiful floral tribute to be placed
upon the grave of her father, the late j. NJ.
Palmer, in our new cemetery that day.
AFTER hope long deferred Jason John
son has drawn a pension of 81 per month
and back pay to the amount of nearly 81, 900.
To hardly another of the old soldiers here
can it be more welcome than to Mr.. John
son. He is to be heartily congratulated.
Mrs. HARTE DICKINSON HUBBARD's pretty
new house is taking on its last touches
| The only feature that we recall as particu-
larly new to these parts is an old-fashioned
fireplace in the front hall-a feature that
will strike one more pleasantly as he thinks
of it, perhaps.
ONE of our townsmen has recently been
to Canada to purchase horses. He returned
after going some distance into that country
saying: There is no money in it. One car
do better to purchase right about here.
This confirms what we saw written lately
by another, who lives on the Canada line
on the same subject.
| REV. HARVEY WEBSTER was presented on
Children's day with a silver historical
medal, representing the first century Of
Methodism, by the Sunday-school of the
! Methodist church here On the medal are
portraits of Bishops Asbury and Simpson
John Farnham made the presentation. A
morocco case accompanied it.
THAT Wiliamstown should feel a special
| interest in Lawyer j. X. Darling of Chelses
need not be wondered at. In addition t.
good work recently done in our county
court, as a lawyer, we heard the higher com
plment paid him in the impression he made
in certain suit, as being a man of rea
moral principle-an impression we hearC
spoken of in strong terms.
If this item should reach the eye of on
old townsman, Henry Hatch, in his Cal
ifornia home, it is commissioned to thanl
him for the grateful shade in these Jun,
dow nf ha nf m "a
by the roadside of his farm here, forty o
more years ago, perhaps These naples ar,
very pleasant reminder of him and ough
to keep his memory green"
DIR. G. w. McCLEARN purchased a blacl
horse in Tunbridge last week, to match on
lately bought of Horace White here. HI
has a Hambletonian mare that he purchase,
in Boston, last year, that has record o
.: 81, and had been previously sold for owe
81 200, but, on account of injuries received
was finally bought for much less. The doc
tor keeps her now as brood mare.
WE always enjoy chat with Ira Calef o
Washington, who has seen as much OF Uncl
Sans domain, and with as keen bushes
eve, as any man we know of. He recent
said to us that if he We're young man an,
wanted to farm it, he should 90 West, by al
means, and where land is cheap, and groN
up with the country. But with him -
man " means brains, and energy and gri
that mourning can udunl'
WE recently had the pleasure of maxim
the acquaintance of a veteran of the Firs
Vermont Battery in the late war. He say
when this battery was on the point of ba
tie their brave commanders eXhortatio
was, " Remember old Vermont and Etha
Allen" And did these boys ever fail to d
honor to their state or to the memory {
any of its heroes? He spoke in high term
of the good soldierly qualities of our newly
adopted citizen, Dan " Clark, son-in-la'
of Mr.. l.. G. Norris, who served long in tn
battery.
Much interest was felt here in j. N
Seavers horse suit in the county court
Chelsea last week. Quite number of wi
nesses in the case were from this place, an
several disinterested citizens We're in a
tendance to listen to testimony and plea
The suit was first beg un by Mr.. Seaver in
Justice court here, where he claimed dan
ages to the amount of sixty dollars, we b.
lieye, and won the suit. An appeal wf
taken by the defendant, a Cabot man, an
hence these tears" OF the merits of ii
case we know nothing, but the " dangers
of going to law are patent to all. Ought
not to be averted. like plague, only
principle makes ii absolutely imperative !?
News has just been received of the deaf
: of Mrs. Aurelia Burnham Van Ornum
Racine, Wisconsin, on the 4th instant aft
an illness of eight weeks. She was d
, daughter of our worthy townsman, the la
= Dea. Enoch Durham, Jr., four of who
, family have died since going West fro
:. = here. His son, Joseph, was killed befo
: Petersburgh, Virginia, in the late war,
1864. He was in command of company
I Wisconsin soldiers, which he bravely IL