The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-01-14
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Mrs. CHARLES PERRY has recently buried
her father.
DEA. CIRCUIT ABBOTT is having a painful
POSSIBLY neuralgic) trouble with one of his
limbs.
WE regret to hear that Asa s. Simonds is
not gaining in health. He does not go out
of doors.
Ex-TowNsMAN HENRY A. AINswoRTH of
Moline. Illinois, is in the Illinois senate at
this time.
MISS JULIA BASS is taking little rest from
study at St. Johnsbury Academy, but will
return in a few weeks.
DEA. EDWIN C. SMITH is slowly recovering
from the accident he received, few weeks
ago, while cutting down tree.
WE hear that the donations to Rev. Mr..
Grain, at the recent visit at the Free Baptist
house, amounted to about seventeen dollars.
THE open winter here seems to betoken
harm to next seasons grass crop-a misfor-
tune our farmers would like to be spared,
after last seasons poor crop.
GEORGE G. EARLE has engaged with
nursery firm in Beebe Plain, p. O., and
will go on the road in due time. Lewis
Flint is in the employ of the same firm.
WHEN the momentous question, Where
do the pins CO.? is decided, will some one
tell us where the apple-seeds go? We were
recently talking with q Vermonter, who
tells MS he has purchased thousand BUSH
els or more of apple-seeds in the last season.
THE April-like weather continues, and
the ragged edge " of winter, rather than
its heart, appears to sight. We saw panses
that were picked out of doors on Monday of
this week at Deacon Orcutt Abbott's. Tray
cling is done with Wheels the like of which
we do not remember ever before to have
seen at this season.
REV. r. ID. MILLER of West Hartford
made so pleasant an impression, during his
recent visit here, that the Congregationalists
are making an effort to secure his services
for the coming year. Should the needed
amount be raised, he will commence work
the LIST of February. Let every friend of
this church and society now come to the
rescue.
SOME of us have known the virtues of
rawhide," though it may seem to have
long been banished from "good society"
But 1t is estimated to possess great virtue
yet. gentleman told us, a few days ago, that
master mechanic in a well-known large
manufacturing establishment in New Eng
land told him that for packing in con-
nection with their engine, it far out-lasted
anything of metallic nature they had tried.
1t is used for bearings" in some other
machinery, because of its durability A
friend tells us of just having seen a sewing
machine that had been used hard for six
years, in which two or three small pieces of
rawhide, used for bearings, showed not a
particle of wear in this time, where steel in
one of these places would have shown a
good deal of wear
IT is pleasure to learn, as we do occa-
sionally, of the interest manifested by our
ownsfolks-scattered here and there,
throughout the country-in the present con-
dition and people of this place. Some of
them have been absent from here many
years. But it would seem that, as the years
go on, their thoughts and affections return
to the old home " in the way peculiar to
the later years of life. One of the pleas
ures of itemizing town events is the bring
ing, together, in this way, of absent ones
and those who yet remain here. To the
absent ones we may say that you are in
CURED after, as opportunity offers, and an
interest is felt in all that concerns your
veal or woe. A happy and prosperous New
Year to you all from us whom you have
left behind you