The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-18
WilliamstOwn.

home for short time.
b. r. SHELLEY has engaged to drive the
hearse the coming year.
Mrs. GEORGE CRANE is quite ill with in
Illumination of the bowels.
DIR. c. G. ELLIS and wife OF Nashua, N.
H., are to be here this week.
OPH1R s. MARTIN has rented his Joel
Shepherd farm for the coming year to John
Bacon of Orange.
CHARLES HAYWARD is to occupy the Met
calf farm Gust through the gulf in Brook
field the coming year.
THE snowfall here this winter, has been
eight and half feet, according to the record
kept by Lucius S. Simons.
FARM wages here seem to be about the
same as last year, the best help getting $25,
or n little more, per month.
THE amateur club will present d" Neighbor
lakewood " at the town hall on Thursday
and Friday evenings of this week.
EMERY JONES has recently buried his son
Will, who has been in the employ of some
railroad company in Massachusetts.
Mrs. G. HOLLOWAY MERRILL goes this
week to remain for a season with her
adopted son, DIR. l.. Merrill, in Rhode Island.
HENRY MARTIN has just lost COW, owing
probably to being in the stanchions at
time when she should have been loose in a
stable.
HORACE WHITE, we hear, is to build a
barn on his farm in town this season. Ed
son Martin has the foundation laid for q
big barn to be built this year.
AN agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life
Insurance Company tells us he has written
policies here to the amount of nearly
twenty thousand dollars, and that compare
Gle.
WE do not recall more, and more effective
no., 10 10.
than in Jason Jefford's His son Russell
M. will remain on the home-farm this sea-
son while the younger boys, Haden and
Frank, work for East Hill farmers.
THE latest and most peculiar food for
hens that we have learned Of is news
papers torn up into small pieces. a home
experiment has shown that they will be
quickly eaten, Some of the papers must
naturally furnish whoppers of eggs!
WRITES Williamstownian living in Min
nesota: g advise you never to come here to
| live, unless you are sure you can endure
| Arctic cold, and don't you ever believe there
is a kind of cold here that people don't feel
because it is dry. That is all humbug"
DOES it pay to go West? is still mooted
question in THE WATCHMAN. Williamstown
has sent good many'of her citizens West
| in past years Some of them have achieved
| great financial success. More have done re-
markedly well. AS whole, we should say
they have been well paid for the change, II
reference be had to monetary matters.
Is any one disposed to feel that district
| school education is just as good as more, and
better, because some men like our distin-
guished Senator Edmunds had only that?
| An intelligent lady told us, a few days since
of hearing Mr.. Edmunds deplore the fact
that he had no better educational advan.
tages in early life. We think such men
| would be the last to advise satisfaction with
what they had, if better might be obtained
ANY one who honestly thinks the put.
ting of the management of our district
schools into the hands of three or six schoo
commissioners dangerous to our liberties
ought to send to John Eaton, Esq, commits
sioner of education, Washington ID. c., fol
his last report, in which will be found the
90 school system " of all the states in the
union. He will find" sweetness and light
in it. The work can doubtless be had fo
the asking.
"WITB some exceptions" the superintend
ent says, " the work of the ungraded distric
schools of the state is not satisfactory.
And this is the message that the nationa
commissioners of education, in his last re
port is giving to the states of this republic
This fact is a stain on the fair name of on
state. 1t behooves us all as good citizens t.
find where this waste of school money, an,
far more deplorable waste of time and OPP
portunity lie, and remedy them.
OUR valued townsman, Asa S. Simonds
died on Monday last and will be burie
from the Congregationalist house on Thurs
day afternoon next. By his death both tn
} Congregational church, of which he ha
} been for years an esteemed member, an
the town suffer real loss, though the Ion
continued sickness of his wife, and his ow
impaired health for many years, have prt
t vented his doing all that he would hay
-, been glad to do in the way of more activ
: work in the church and society.
: DR.. CHARLES w. MCCLEARN has just bee
l presented by the wife of the late homo
opathic physician Chamberlain of Barre wit
) his case of remedies, number of surgics
instruments and an outfit of splints fC
broken limbs-a valuable present indeed
I DIR. McClearn administers homeopathic rem
t edies when wanted. But whatever his rem
: edies, we think it will be hard to find TIL
( same number of patients more successful
< treated, in the last six months, than h
9 have been. We recall but one death-thi
$ of very aged lady-of his patients, whel
. he has had the treatment of them from I'll
t beginning of their sickness, and he hf
e been busy practitioner in the six month
: of his stay here.
y FROM a late Oshkosh, Wisconsin, pap,
. we learn some interesting facts of the la
. j. l.. Clark, whose wife Miss Sara
II Flint, daughter of the late James Flint. II
:. was born in Alton, N. H., in 1924. With
a common school education and the carpel
:, ter's trade he went to Oshkosh in 1855
Il follow his trade. In 1863 he began makir
match splints. In 1868 he began the man
facture of matches in a small way, makiI
o $500 to $500 worth in year. In less tha
d twenty years the annual product of h
s. goods was over million of dollars. In ID
cember, 1880, he sold the business for $3.50
d 600, and went extensively into the man
g facture of carriages. He is spoken of as g
a man of sterling honesty and untiring /
IL dustry. By his death the city loses one
its most prominent business men, a ms
II who has always been identified with Il
n city's interests and who has helped in
a. great degree to make the name of Oshko
we'll known throughout the country" M
- Clark leaves wife and one son. He di
. two weeks ago last Friday, of consumptio
Our young townswoman, Miss Minnie Die
l. enson a niece of Mrs. Clark, has been wi
IS the family for some months past.
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