The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-27
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market, whittier they will likely be taken
ere long.
Miss NANCY FLAGG of Southboro Mass,
came on Saturday last to summer with
her sister, Mrs. AFRO Nichols.
CHLDREN's DAY, the second Sunday in
June, will be appropriately observed at the
Congregational church on the afternoon of
that day.
WE are told that Ed. Adams. a son of
Charles Adams, and the daughter of Post
master Warner of South Barre, were mar
ried on Sunday last.
Mrs. ALDEN MARTIN buried her father in
Bradford last week. Mrs. Barney Flint
buried sister, Mrs. Lorenzo Scales, in
Washington few days ago.
THE will " of the late Alvin Flint was dis
allowed by the probate court here on Friday
last no one Directing on the ground of Mr..
Flint's mental unsoundness at the time of
making it.
Miss ANNIE BENEDICT is taking a two
months vacation from her work in the in
sane asylum at Middletown, Conn. She
likes her situation there. Her sister, Miss
Alma, is engaged in the same institution.
RALPH WHITNEY has hired Hiram Dex-
ter's farm for five years, and purposes to
move on to the place. Any person wanting
to hire small place not very far from the
village can perhaps secure Mr.. Whitney's
home farm, as he has wanted to rent it,
REV. HARVEY WEBSTER WILL by request,
repeat at the Methodist house, next Sun
day, the memorial sermon preached at Barre
last Sunday All will be welcomed who
shall attend The old soldiers among us
will certainly want to hear that sermon, and
they are especially invited to be present
MRS DIR. DANA ID. DICKINSON of Boston
is expected here this week, to spend the
summer with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Harte
Dickinson Hubbard. Mrs. Hubbard's new
house is being completed for occupancy
soon. She herself has been completely laid
aside some of the time of late by sciatica.
FROM Calvin Flint we learn that our new
cemetery was incorporated in the fall of
1851. Since that time about two hundred
sixty-five bodies have been buried there in
addition to the removal of one hundred
thirty-three bodies from other cemeteries to
this one. The East Hill cemetery was laid
out in 1888.
Mrs. ELLEN WHITNEY Colby, a native of
this place and now resident of Humboldt
county, Iowa, is visiting her sister, Mrs
Gilman Jackson of Barre She has been in
poor health for some time. She reports see
ing occasionally our eX-townsman, Oramel
Abel, who resides at Iowa Falls, Iowa, and
of whom she brings good report
Miss NJ. ELLEN BARKER, formerly teacher
in the Randolph Normal School, and who has
since last fall been associated with Principal
Daniel Il. Martin in the Pullman Illinos)
schools, has lately secured better position
as teacher in Oak Park, suburb of Chi
cago. Mr.. Martin found her valuable
teacher and was very sorry to lose her.
How many pleasant memories some of
our old residents, past and present, have of
the old home of the late Mrs. Elizabeth
Waldo, here in our village. The place oc-
cupied since her death by her sister, the late
Mrs Nancy Latham, is to be sold at auction
next Saturday afternoon. Sorry though one
| .,srl,t h.. fh. 90 ILL.
mark, we hope it may be purchased by
some one able and willing to make it, as it
can be made, very attractive place.
WnLIAMsTowN like many another New
England town, has given many good women
to the West who are making their little
world happier and better by their lives.
Some one has just told us of way one of
these women has of having her husband oc-
casionally invite to their Christian home on
Sunday commercial travellers who may be
stopping over Sunday at their hotels. One
who has been such traveller in the West
can alone appreciate all that there is in such
| a deed of Christian kindness.
IT is said that council of physicians, last
Saturday week, decided the case of Eldon
Tilden of Boston hopeless one by reason
of Bright's disease. Formerly of Barre, Mr.
| Tilden is pleasantly known here as a son-in-
law OF John Lynde, Sr. In years past an
excellent salesman in the house of Brown
Durell & Co. of Boston, he has of late
been a partner in newly-established dry
| goods house in the same city. His many
| friends will be panied indeed to learn his
case is so critical as it is said to be. He is
said to be hopeful that he may yet be better
Mrs. ZENAs WALBRIDGE learns of the
probable fatal illness of her only brother,
the Rev. Reyes Coburn of Sonnet (Cayuga
county, New York-a minister in the Chris
| tian denomination and upwards of eighty
years of age. From an Interesting sketch
Of his life we learn that his early years were
spent with Farmer Nathaniel Hutchinson
of Brantree, VT. He had only the adj.
vantage of our common schools three months
in the winters when a boy. After the ex
! piration of the time for which he was
bound out " to Mr.. Hutchinson, he haC
two summer terms of school at the Ran
dolph Academy. He went to Sonnet il
1928. In 1890 he was ordained as preacher
in the Christian church. He has resided il
New York since that time.
THE fact that Memorial Day is seldom OF
never observed here is not owing, we be
lieve, to any lack of tender memory of the
sacrifices of our soldiers in the rebellion, o.
of devout thankfulness for them. The debt
we owe them will, we know, never be dis
charged But it would be WELL after all, t.
give expression to these feelings occasion
ally in the formal observance Of the day
dependent, as feeling is upon expires
sion" at suitable times for its depth an,
permanency. We were recently told tina
one of our widowed mothers has been in thu
habit, in the past, of going on Memorial Da.
with flowers to the grave of her soldier son
and not alone to his, but to the graves o.
the other soldiers in the same cemetery il
our place. There may possibly be mucf
more of the real spirit of the day shown in
such quiet, unheralded observance, thai
in some of the more demonstrative ones
after all.
Newbury.-Mrs. William Carleton of tn
west part of the town is at the SawYe