The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-08
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MRS. w. H. WATERMAN and daughter go
to johnson, this week for a fortnght's visit.
MEssRs. JOHN PERRY and Henry Poole
find demand for their services as house.
builders in Barre at present.
WILL ScHoFIELD and Charley Edison are
making a bicycle trip to Irasburgh, where
young Schofield's parents reside.
Don " EARLE is at home from st. AL
bans and railroad work for a few days, on
account of temporary physical ailment.
NORMAN DAVENPORT took from his land
on Monday last, a cornstalk that measured
ffty-two inches in length, and Just about to
blossom.
A cHILDREN's missionary society that is
doing practical work has been formed in the
Congregational society this summer, and a
good work 1t is they are doing.
REV. II. ID. MnLER's son was candidate
for degree from his Alma Mater, Middle
bury College, this season. OF late young
Mr.. Miller has been in Boston.
SHORTER days, and old Sol turned south
ward, making for his winter quarters; and
only fourteen months till this town must
"endure freeman's meeting UGH
NATURE is reversing the motto, " make
hay while the sun shines" and has been, in
the last few days, making bountiful addi-
ton to the hay crop.by clouds and rain.
If any one of our villagers should ms Ike,
without country" it will be done in the
early hours of some Fourth of July. But it
is fun for the boys"
SOME one tells us that he thinks the hurt
received by Jason Jeffords, at the late barn
frame fall here, will prove more serious
one than that of young Blanchard, with his
broken leg and dislocated hip.
E. ID. BARNES, proprietor OF the Gulf
Spring House, has arranged for the Brook
HnlI Gtn ts.n TO de l..N
tel for the night for a couple of months or
more. He wishes mail for himself to be
sent to East Brookfeld for the present
PRINCIPAL DANIEL Il. MARTIN will pull
out from Pullman, ILL.,. soon take time at
Saratoga, n. Y, for the national educa-
tional meeting, and come on here for few
weeks vacation. The last will be great
pleasure to his friends as well as to himself.
THE Congregationalists have just begun
the use of Rev. DIR. G. S. Robinsons small
volume of Spiritual Songs in their vestry
services, and like the change we'll The
children of the Sunday-school are being in
atructed by Mrs. j. X. Lynde in the use OF
the same book.
OUR young townsman, Tracy l.. Jeffords
Junior in the University of Vermont had
for the subject of his speech at the recent
Junior exhibition, The Battle of Tours.
He was also tOast-maSter at the recent COM
mencement banquet of the Vermont Alpha
of the Phi Delta Theta.
Miss JULIA BLANCHARD teacher of our
village school this season, has engaged the
school-house for second term of select
school the coming fall. We heard one OF
her present pupils speak in terms of higl
praise of her. She has taught in three al
least, of our school districts.
WHO of our teachers will attend the ma.
| tional educational meetings at Saratoga
| month"; or hp wi 4
the reach of some. And it will not only
| give them a very desirable experience il
more ways than one, but help to uplift the
educational interests of the place. Dom
fail to go, teachers.
MANY old students of Barre Academy
well remember Billy" Parsons, protegt
of Principal Jacob Spaulding, and teacher
in the academy. We have lately learned
of his death in Chicago some months ago
He was man of brilliant natural parts, il
will lrecalled-whch, possibly, proved il
his case more harmful than otherwise.
DIR. j. C. BRIGGS tells us he is experiment
ing with the new anRsthetic, cocaine, il
extracting teeth, but as yet realizes little
| help from it. BY the way, why is it mo-
being tried for the help it is said to affort
in subduing the appetite for spirituous
liquors, in which it is said, as in the case o.
the morphine habit, to prove very effica
cious often?
THE first fire in quite long time here oc
Cured on Thursday evening, about tel
o'clock. 1t was the burning of an unoccupie,
house of j. b. Brockway's, and just oppo
site of where he himself lives. The house
had been vacant only few days. 1t wa
insured for about $500. The cause of tn
fire is wholly mystery at present, an,
likely to remain so.
SOME of our people may remember Coz
don Durkee, whose early life was spent oil
his fathers farm. now in possession of Wal
rem III. Covell. He went to Massachusetts
soon after reaching his majority, where, w
hear, he has been greatly prospered finan
cially. He and his only child, all that re
main of his family, are in Barre for a visit
He has been making investments there, toe
The memorial stones just placed on tn
lot of the late J. NJ. Palmerin our new CEN
etery are unlike anything before see
here, though found in some larger GENE
teries There are two of them and the
are of granite, six inches thick and not yer
large, handsomely polished and placed oil
handsome bases, spanned by an arch c
granite, mounted with an urn. 1t is yer
nice piece of work.
DEACON AND Mrs. CIRCUIT ABBOTT spen
several days last week with their children
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin s. Adams of Sout
Royalton. We know of no parents who, i
their last years. are seemingly getting NOR
happiness in the love and aifectionate devC
ton of their children than Mr.. and Mrs
Abbott. And it is in part, we must bell, We
a harvest OF their own sowing in the free
frank, hearty, happy intercourse with thei
children in all their family life.
WE are grieved to say that in addition t
the manifestation of the spirit of '76 " o
the 4th in our town there was it is said
a manifestation of spirit " of much late
date. Pity, pity, that on the day that con
memorates the throwing off of " the yol1
of British tyranny any should be takin
on yoke of vastly greater tyranny, on
that robs man of eyerything-body mine
soul, honor, friends and estate. There
something much better for you than such
slavery, young man. Don't sell yourse
into it!
A FRIEND, wholly Frustrated by sickness.
tells us of "A good Observation-Disclosures
who, he says, feels that he has no gift at al
for speaking in meeting" but he did go, til
other day, to the sick room of our friend
and say to him, "now don't you worry q
all about your.crops. / have help and al
ready TO help you as you may need" an
how the poor fellows voice choked as he r,
peated his "friend-in-need's " words. Ho,
speaking in meeting often would be en-
powered by more of such spealSing-n-sic
rooms and other places of sorrow, an
needed assistance
IF it shall seem little foxy to slip owe
into Brookfield for an item, it may be pa
doned since it is about big fox that, 1t
suspected, may have often slipped owe
into Willamstown for numerous " items,
in the way of turkeys in the past This sh,
! fox has been known just down through til
Gulf for some years, as defiant of hound
| nd hnxr.