The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11
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WILLIAM g. PuTNAM's sale Of butter from
two cows last year, was five hundred thirty
pounds.
MRs. j. M. PALMER will offer at auction
on Friday OF next week, the farm, utensils
and other property of her late husband.
WHO is better qualified for the work Of
town superintendent than Miss Fannie Mar
tin, who was elected to that office last week?
FROM Harvey Cheney we learn that the
governmental weather predictions, as sent
here for nearly four weeks, have, with but
one exception, been verified.
THE town voted the payment Of taxes to
the town treasurer, and sixty cents on the
dollar to cover all taxes, except the district
school tax. The selectmen are to have all
the care of highways.
SELDOM do we have an instance where
every member of a family is sick at one time,
as is the case in Melvin Burnham's family
of parents and three children. Scarlet fever
is in the family, as it has been in one or two
other families here.
THE Hibbard House was in good demand
when it was rumored that Fred Martin
would not want it another year. Mr.. Mar
tim however, decides to remain in it. We
hear no other than good reports of the house
under his management
NEWS has been received of the death of
our ex-townsman, Jason Hatch of lola, Wis
consin, and also of the death of Mr.. Clark
of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, son-in-law of the
late James Flint Of this town. Mr.. Clark
amassed fortune in Oshkosh in the manu-
facture of matches.
" | HAD thought it was mild winter till /
heard the cost of breaking roads, at town
meeting" said one of our citizens to us.
This cost has been five to six hundred dol
lars. We are told that bills for similar
work in Barre amounted to but trife over
one hundred dollars.
OUR worthy land comparatively new,
townsman, w. III. Witherell, compelled by
shattered health, left a manufacturing es-
adjustment in Massachusetts and purchased
a small farm here few years ago. Last
year, from five cows Zone of them only two
years old), he sold thirteen hundred sixty.
nine pounds of butter, and this after the
abundant use of cream in the family and
butter as wanted.
On Wednesday of last week, at the resi-
dence Of Deacon Orcutt Abbott, DR.. E. P
Bailey of Oneida, New York, and Miss
Matte Abbott were married, Rev. II. ID
Miller officiating. Quite large number OF
family friends were guests. An abundance
of beautiful and useful gifts bore testimony
to the love of friends. Oneida gains one Of
our most intelligent and worthy ladies', who
takes with her the hearty good wishes of
large circle of friends.
MEssRs. LAMsoN & PRIZE will take from
their quarry in this town granite for
monument to the memory Of eighteen per
sons killed in n certain fiouring-mill eX
posion in Minneapolis, MINI. This monu
ment will be eight feet and two inche,
square at the base and forty-three feet high
The shaft will be twenty-one and one-hal
feet high. On the leap" will be sculpturet
a sheaf of wheat and broken gearing ant
rollers. They also will get out granite for
soldiers monument, to be erected neal
Chicago, that will be fourteen feet square a
the base and forty-fve feet high. Visitors
to their quarry will find Mr. Prize gentle
manly Scotchman, ready to receive then
and answer questions, as we have Learned
by experience.
So far as we have been able to discern, tn,
sentiment in favor of the town system o
schools has increased rather than dimin
ished in the last year. The vote on las
week Tuesday was ninety-fve against ant
| forty-eight for the system. The nature anC
locality of the opposition, If they could b,
accurately known, would be of much inter
est perhaps. The village district contains
a greater number of the larger taxpayers o
the town than any other, and of thes
larger taxpayers we do not recall on
who has, or is likely to have, any farthe
use Of common schools =" for their chill
dren. In this district the grand list is thu
largest and the per cent school tax TIN
lightest OF any in town. And yet in thi
district we know of only "here and there
traveller" 1.-TWO or three at the most VIII
favors the town system. "The district sys
tenn is good enough; or 1T is centraliz
ing" or monarchical to put the manage
ment of the schools into the hands of tire
or six men," etc. The centralizing an,
monarchical cry (why doesn't it apply a
well to other boards of official management
in townO is not, however, heard in the vii
lage alone. There is marked opposition
also to the town system in the outer rim O
districts, lest their schools should be take
from them and they be compelled to carr
their children impracticable distances t
schools. That 'an equalization of taxes TO
school purposes would be good thing" W
hear from sources that are not committed t
the new system, and that is good enterin
wedge. We may trust time and facts l.
prove " beetle " enough to drive it to salts
factory results.
MARTIN WALKER is revisiting the oil
home, after an absence Of thirty years. Hi
present home is Reynolds Illinois, to whic
place he will go from here. Though i
good health and spirits, time has wrougf
so much of change in his looks that prof.
ably few of his old acquaintance her
would have recognized him anywhere elst
- Enoch Howe has rented his farm I
young man from Northfield for the comm
year. -" Donnie " Earle has obtaine
situation as fireman on the Central Vel
mont Railroad. He went to ST. Adams las
week to begin work. - Our youn
townsman, George Martin, has recent
been promoted in his work in Washington
ID. G. - Mrs. Norman Davis has bee
quite i'll of late Paralysis was feared
her physician last Sunday, but there is no.
a change for the better, - George
Earle, a traveller" from Burlington, wa
at home over Sunday. He likes his job an
is called good salesman. - Asa S. S
monds continues to fail gradually III
sickness is distressing one, and may term
nate fatally ere long, we are panied to sa.
Orange.-Last week Tuesday evening ii
dramatic club, with few friends, met at I'll
spacious residence of Mr. and Mrs. II.
Camp for a social entertainment Oyster
with all the other delicacies of the seasol
were served. All seemed TO have a goo
time. - w. III. Houghton of Kansas Cit,
Oldest son of Mr.. and Mrs. D. X. Houghto
of this town, was married to Miss Matte ,
James of Canton, Missouri, March 4tl
- w. s. Waterman has rented his far
to Stephen George of Corinth, who tax,
immediate possession, Mr.. Waterman mo-