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

Normal School.
ED" PooR wants to add ten more to his |
herd Of cows, and thus make thirty-seven
mixers for the coming season.
WILLIAM g. PUTNAM, skilled in the art of
making money on horses, and DIR. G. w.
McClearn, recently sold horses to Jesse
Smith of Pawtucket, Il. 1.
WE lately heard good business man say
that 1t was not safe, in these days, to give
time on auction sales about here; that more
would be lost than made by 1t.
SEVERAL children of the late brothers
James and John Martin and tho late An
drew Beckett are located in Watseka, a
thriving town in Eastern Illinois
THERE is to be grand promenade con-
cert by the Barre cornet band at our
town hall on Friday evening next. Admis-
twenty-five cents; ladies,
free.
Miss JEANETTE WILEY would sell her
Deacon Ware place, or building lots from
portion of it, If wanted. Hardly anything
better can be found here for sale at the
present time.
"THIs place for sale" is the sign that
Ruel S. Covel has placed on his house. 1t
is pleasant little place, half or three
quarters of a mile from the village, on the
Brookfield road
If ever another March brought such cold
weather, and so much of it, it seems to have
been forgotten here. AT this time favorite
location for the mercury in the morning is
ten, twelve, or more degrees below zero.
Ex-TowNsMAN THOMAS X. WORK, who is
interested in manufacturing establishment
at Middletown, Conn, where his family re-
sides, is also interested in a cattle ranch in
Nebraska, where he has been Of late, and
has received an injury by being thrown
from horse.
WE have had another instance of the
Il e doll,
has a wish that property, after ones death,
should 60 in another direction than the law
would compel it. But that proverbial thief,
procrastination, finds no trouble in getting
harbored by most men.
THE auction at the residence OF the late
j. NJ. Palmer, on Friday last, was largely
attended, Notwithstanding it was so disa-
greeable day to be out. The farm was not
sold. The prices obtained were about as
usual at auctions. The highest price real
lied on sheep was 1926 per head for GER
tain lot.
Mr.. AND Mrs. e. ID. BARNES of Chelsea,
who are to occupy the Gulf Springs House
next season, are highly spoken of. Not only
may there be expected good table, but a
temperance and an otherwise well-ordered
house, The Congregationalists will be
helped by Mrs. Barnes, who belongs to that
denomination" said our informant.
How do the Congregationalsts like their
new minister" (Rev. K. ID. Miller is asked.
They like him we'll He gives them excel
lent sermons, seems to have the qualities of
a good pastor, and shows good common
sense, as well as piety, everywhere. The
ladies' society has been renovating the par
sonage to some extent, and will yet do more
to it.
/ CAN make pound of turkey more
cheaply than can make a pound of pork,
said one of our farmers to us, the other day
Ia n11 hat hn dad In ra,ui ..i
turkeys the most profitable business of the
! farm. Last year he started in with eleven
| turkeys and sold about S270 worth during
the year-keeping few more than the
original flock for this years work.
SOME time ago an item was made of a
Baptist Westinghouse that in an early day
stood near the A. Smith Martin house, on
the east side of the town, and which gave
the name of " Baptist street" to the road
passing the house-a name it bears to this
day We learn from Elisha Kidder Burn
ham that this church building was trans
formed into the horse-barn on his place.
Mrs. ASA S. SIMoNDs had hem
orrhage of the lungs Gf it be from the
lungs the morning after her husband wa,
| buried, last week Though supposed to b.
left with means wholly sufficient for hel
wants, Mrs. Simonds' case is very sac
one she being the only member left of he
own (Simonds) family, and her liability tt
HeIuOrTndSt REQUIRING tue ullilOSt ullet ant
caution, and much care from others
Down near the Massachusetts line, il
Southern New Hampshire, is farmer VIII,
began, ten or fifteen years ago, " as poor a:
| a church mousse" said our informant. III,
has made small fortune from small thing
on small farm. He thinks our Williams
town farmers would find that it would pa,
them to raise quantities of vegetables-lik
winter squashes, cabbages, etc.-and shil
them at the right time to the city market
by the carload.
MANY manufacturing establishment tina
has brought wealth and fame to its owner
has grown out of just such a one-man nail
making shop as we have just learned ono
existed on the old Septa Simons place. On
of our oldest inhabitants tells us of going t.
this shop, when lad, to get ten-penn
board nails, and they 70" were trst-rate ones
too The proprietor was a Mr.. Churchill
an unfamiliar name here in later genera
tions. He was the father-in-law of Ell
Boutwell,, a more familiar name.
THE only son of Rev. r.. d. Miller ha
just been obliged, by i'll health, to Civ
up teaching in Fair Haven. He is eA
pected home this week. Pastor Miller
graduate of Amherst College, Massachu
sets, instead of Middlebury, as recent
, stated in these items - Mrs. Fanni
Hopkins Webster came from Massachusetts
last week, to attend the funeral OF her uncle
Asa S. Simonds. - Jason johnson an
his wifes brother have rented Joel Jersey
farm, a former renter having just "settle
: off " with Mr. Hersey. - Mrs. j. II
, Lynde has returned from Northern Me-
York, and will resume her work of music
, teaching the first of next month. - Mr.
Emma Webster Darling seems to be failing
, She is with her parents here, and unable
return to her home in Chelsea. - Alvi
Flint, long in poor health, is more feebl
. than usual just now - Miss Fannie
Waldo will attend the Methodist Seminar
, at Montpelier next term. - Mrs. Dani
Royce has returded from an extended Wis
in Massachusetts. - Last week Edwar
Bowman's family moved to a point in Be
: lin near Montpelier We are glad to hear
the prosperity of Mr.. Bowman's son, wi
2 keeps restaurant in Montpelier. - o,
ex-townswoman, Mrs. Ellen Whitney Cobb
D is expected East from Iowa. She has bee
U in very poor health. - Mrs. PhylenC
Ellis is again Frustrated by sickness at IL
: home of her daughter, Mrs. Elisha Gal
u - EX-townsman Charles Glysson, "
are told, is serving as foreman in son
part of a wooden mandatory in Springfield
. Illinois. He has been there several year
u 60 Will Martin, son of Ophir s. Marti
y has made a temporary engagement Wi
I Perley Chandler Jewellery of Barre. Shou
u he decide to stay permanently with him, v
s shall expect him TO be found an honest, C
9 pable, accommodating fellow. With ge
!, ius for watch, he ought, in due time,
u stand at the head as a workman in that lin
: WashingtOn.-C. W. Thurber and wi
of Danville We're in town last week. -
!, Mrs. G. w. McAllister of Montpelier spe
a few days with her sister Mrs. Waylar
Hall rat.as