The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-25
Waterbury,.

AT the auction sale of the Spicer farm the
mortgages took the property.
G. e. WyMAN il the owner, by foreclosure,
of the Streeter house on Railroad street.
PATRICK GoRMAN has leased his farm on
Crossett's hill to Edgar A. Morse. Patrick
is going to East Montpelier to work for G..
II. Clark
THE Catholics had an oyster supper at
Hotel hall last week Tuesday evening and
fair Wednesday evening. There was music,
tableaux, etc, and a very pleasant time was
enjoyed. The receipts at the fair were
S122W.
THE butter market was little lower on
Monday than last week. Receipts were well
up. The best spring butter in tubs sold at
20 to 81 cents and in boxes at % to % cents
per pound; the best maple sugar sold at 7 to
9 cents per pound.
LICENSES have been granted the billiard
room keepers on condition that school chill
dren shall not be allowed to frequent them,
and minors under eighteen years OF age
shall not be allowed to play without the
written permission of their parents or guar
dians.
THE weather clerk was again at fault in
billing Judge Crossett's sugar place, as the
thermometer showed, Tuesday, the oath
Who ever heard of tapping naples with the
mercury twenty degrees below zero? The
clerk meant, of course, July oath. March
oath was plainly meteorological error.
LEONARD X GRAVES, son of Mr.. Cecil
Graves, graduated from the National Med
ical College, Washington, ID. c., March IS.
We acknowledge with thanks the receipt
Of very handsome lithogragraphed card OF
invitation to the exercises. If people will
be sick, we wish the doctor business and
success in curing them.
ABOUT sixty people from this village and
vicinity attended the concert OF the Hun
garian Gypsy Band at Montpelier last Sat-
urday night. 1t was an unexpectedly large
turnout, considering the severity of the
weather. All, it is believed, were greatly
pleased with the entertainment, and thought
they were well paid for the expense and the
little discomforts of cold and late hours
THE city papers are saying that meteor
fell near this village, Saturday evening,
about nine o'clock. % 1t was a large ball of
| fire one hundred feet high when first seen,
and it lighted the whole village" the dis
patch says. All the meteors of that size and
brilliancy likely to fall were, it was sup
posed at Montpelier Saturday evening
at nine o'clock, and if any Of them " fell J"
| in this village, it must have been quite early
Sunday morning. Either the Associated
| Press agent has been corruscating again or
one of the street lamps must have exploded.
Mr.. A. A. ATHERToN will sell his house
| hold effects at auction, next Saturday, and
go to spend the remainder of his days with
his son Charles, farmer living at Essex
Junction. Mr.. Atherton has been life
long resident of Waterbury, and his name
is intimately associated in anecdote and
"reminiscences with the history of the village
for the past fifty years. His removal will be
sincerely regretted. That his last days may
be happy and serene, is the sincere wish OF
all who have deeply sympathized with him
in the msfortunes which have crowded
thickly upon him in the later years of his life.
THE annual school meeting takes place
hoo
| is now separated into the least number OF
departments consistent with efficiency. This
arrangement is satisfactory to those having
the best interests of the school at heart. and
they believe it should be maintained. There
are about three hundrded school children in
the district, and they should be in attendance
1t is idle to think of furnishing them efficient
instruction with less than four teachers
This school question is the most important
one that comes before our people, and they
should be out to see that it is properly con
sdered and decided.
MRS. A. e. SMITH has purchased {
Mcdowell garment drafting machine and is
prepared to draft and cut dresses, basques
sacques, etc. This method is accurate il
every respect and can accomplish worl
equal to the best performance of the mos
skillful dressmakers. 1t is simply i'm
ton, and it is highly commended by hun
dreds of others who have tried it. Mrs
Smith has already taken large number o
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 roads outside the village are almos
impossible. Complaint is made thar the,
: have not been properly broken out during
the winter. The Judevne law may hav
made an end to some gross abuses, but
has opened the door to a new class iron
which the travelling community are nov
! suffering. The old-time push and energy il
, breaking out the roads and keeping then
! open has disappeared with the relief froI
direct responsibility for safe and passabl
3 highways The sudden coming of sprin
, warmth, now so long delayed, would lay a
embargo on travel by teams Mr.. Faunct
) with all his push has been barely able to &c
through from Morrisville in time to conneC
with the mail train for week past. TIL
passage in Monday morning, was made ami
difficulty and danger, and the stage reache
4 the railway station just as the train was due
FRED NORRIS and Charles Keene hav
: been made policemen, to fill vacancies o
Y the force. Mr.. Keene begins WELL He
, | enforcing the law relating to compulsory a
! tendance at school, and a number of truanI
and skulks have been introduced to TIL
, school-house and compelled to cultivate a
\ acquaintance with its officials, their rule
y and requirements. Youthful loafers hay
. also acquired sudden lOnuneSS LOT Uf
3 paternal roof after eight o'clock. A littl
! rebellious at first, the urchins have az
r quired wholesome respect for Charley
badge of authority. Mr.. Keene has the al
a probation of all good citizens. They el
q courage him to persist in wel-doing. M
Town has also made some wholesome SUI
gestions affecting the neatness of the villal
q and the comfort of the people. New broom
% sweep clean, and we hope and believe thes
/, brooms will not wear out.
II REV. MR.. MILLER returned Saturday
l. last week from his trip to New Orlean
h He reports pleasant time. He saw M
D. Cleveland kiss the Bible, heard him pr
" nounce his inaugural and attended his fir
n reception at the White House. He spent
is Sunday in that beautiful and tlourishing cit
rs Atlanta, Georgia, looking in upon some
If the colored schools supported by the benev
B. lence of the North. He spent week at Il
H. great exposition and in the city of Ne
or Orleans, seeing the wonders OF each. III
10 city is great, but the exposition is create
IN Vermont's exhibit is creditable for II
money spent on it, and is above criticism
though not of course, extensive and ri,
l., like that of some of the great states who
y mineral wealth is measureless and who
-, productions are as rare and varied as all
y vial soils and tropical clmes can NAL
!; them. All the great exhibition lacks is pa
a. ronage.
k. LETTERS recently received from the pc
of pie at Lebanon, N. H., with whom Jol
ne Mccartney has lately had his home, conta
&. some pathetic reminders of the terrih
at tragedy of three years ago. John, 1t will
: remembered, was a helpless witness of 3