The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-08
Waterbury.

nO1ney returning 10 MOCK fOlnU on mOnuAy.
r. II. ArHERToN entertained his friends
at new sugar party, at his home on the |
Duxbury side, on Friday.
JOHN DEAL is clerk for j. e. Sheple.
John is an efficient, wide-a-wake young
man, and should make a capable assistant.
EASTER services were held at the Metho-
dist church, and there were Easter floral
decorations at the Congregational chnrch.
Mrs. G. G. DAVIS and children have re-
turned to Northfeld, Mr.. Davis remaining
an inmate of Messrs. Barrett's refuge for the
hungry and weary.
A. T. STRAW g. Co., furniture dealers, in
tend to make an addition to the rear of their
building, this spring, to meet the require
ments for more space.
CHARLES KEENE's watch dog, " Buster"
while hitched in stall at his stable, acct
dentally hung himself last week. Mr.. Keene
priced the animal very highly.
AT the annual school meeting, last week,
L. H. Haines, E. F. Palmer and j. a. Bur
leigh were elected committee. The present
grading of the schools was sustained by a
practically unanimous vote. The number
of weeks of school for the ensuing year was
left in the discretion of the committee. A
tax of twenty-five cents was voted. At the
Mill village meeting, August Booker was
rate the school into two departments. A
room for the primary department will be
made in the lower portion of the school
building, as was the design when it was
erected. These signs of interest in the
schools, and of a purpose to have good
schools, are exceedingly gratifying. Eff
cient and hourishing schools are at the very
bottom of a community's prosperity.
HENRY Il. CoBURN believes that maple
sugar-making pays. Last year was consid-
cred bad year, but Mr.. Coburn made over
eleven hundred pounds from two hundred
and for thn NOT
S115. He wishes half his farm was in
naples. Unlike the mowings and grain
fields, the sugar orchard requires no expen-
diture for fertilizers, for blowing, cultivat-
ing seeding, ETC.; the work is done at a
time of the year when there is little else to
do the actual expense is slight; the cost
for fuel, of which correspondent in
The WATCHMAN's agricultural department
speaks, is slight and stuff is burned for
fuel which would not be used and could not
be sold for wood. and which it is desirable
and profitable to have removed from the
woodlands. Mr.. Coburns product was
made in less than two weeks, and he is sat
isfied that he got much more than new dol
lar for an old one, and larger proportional
income than from any other product of his
farm. The price of maple syrup should
bear no more relation to the price of cane
sugar than does the honey OF bees, gathered
from white clover. Both are Injuries,
and il care and intelligence are used in maxi
ing maple syrup or sugar, the article will
always command lucrative price. 1t is
| impossible to overstock the market; the
demand is as wide as the continent, as the
shipments from Waterbury, every spring,
show.
FROM the Lemars Sentinel we learn that
| Rev. Mr. Wheeler has had novel ex-
perience of the free-and-easy ways of the
western saloon element. With Professor
| Cooper, he had been appointed delegate to
| Monk
the Missouri river southwesterly from
! Lemars. The saloon element of Sioux City
had been stirred up by report that the
officials would be down from Lemars at this
| time to begin the work OF enjoinng the
| saloons; so the brewers and saloonists were
at the railway station in force to receive the
representatives of the law. DIR. Bedford, a
well-known temperance man of Sioux City
drove up to the station just before the ar
rival of the train his object being to receive
| Messrs. Wheeler and Cooper, the repre-
sentatives of the church, but the crowd
jumped to the conclusion that his erran(
was with the enemies of their traffic. Sc
when the train pulled in and the two dele
gates of the church left the car and entered
DR.. Bedford's carriage, it was Immediately
surrounded by an angry and noisy crowd
and the occupants assailed with violen
language, while the vehicle was pulled ant
kicked by the rum fanatics. The assailant
were chiefly Germans, the saloon-keeper
themselves, aided by their employees. Ihe'
pounded the carriage and made demonstra
tons to overturn the vehicle, meanwhile
assailing the occupants with the vilest o
threatening language and personal abuse
Woltsh threats were howled, loud an,
long, of hanging and killing. The brewer.
owners and their attorney were in tn
crowd, and were no doubt masters of thes
hospitable ceremonies.
WATERBURY, CENTER.
FAST day services were held at the Bar
fist church last Friday. Service was con
Quoted by Rev. j. w. Burgin, assisted b
Rev. +. w. Hamlin. - Mrs. Curtis Well
of Burlington was visiting in this place las
week. - David Lord of Winoosk is stay
ing few weeks with his daughter, Mrs
James Selleck. Miss Florence Edd
was taken sick while attending the cor
come home until last Saturday, when he
father, who went for her, got her as far q
Waterbury, and Sunday he took her home
- Mrs. Achsah Allen was taken sic
last Saturday night with heart trouble
. but is getting better - Mrs. Ben ami
Barrett of Waterbury hotel has been visi
ing her mother and other friends the pa,
, week. - Newell l.. Demeritt has g
, back from Danbury, Conn. His wife an
, child are visiting in Bethel and Randolph
- George w. Buzzell, I'd, has move
back from the village into his house at tn
, place. - Miss May Minott is spendir
the week with Mr.. and Mrs. Noble at ii
) village.