The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-01
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HOWARD WINCHESTER il under medical
care, some serious trouble of the kidneys
having been feared.
=, NEWS of Eden Tilden of Boston con-
tnues painful. He seems to be failing all
the while, with no hope of cure.
PROPRIETOR BARNES of the Gulf Sprino
House has arranged for celebration of the
Fourth next Saturday. at the Gulf
MISS INA AINswoRTH, who has been teach
ing Tor some time near Chicago, revisits her
old home and friends, Brookfield being her
headquarters.
HARRY AINswoRTH, son of our ex-towns-
man, Henry A. Ainsworth of Moline, ILL.,. is
about to enter the law department of Har-
ward University.
MISS EMMA ADAMS closed her school in
the Gilbert Smith district last Friday, II
finished up with picnic, in which others
outside took part
Miss LUCIA HARTMAN was in town last
week. Her work as teacher is appreciated
in Barre, where she is now teaching and
where she is to teach next fall
Mrs. DIR. BAILEY and little daughter of
montpelier are in town visiting old ac-
quaintances. Mrs. Bailey made many friends
during her stay of few years here.
A TowNsMAN tells us of having lately seen
our ex-townswoman, nee Marcelline Hop
kins, who is now the wife of Richard Flint
OF st. Johnsbury, the keeper of the Cottage
Hotel there.
WHO is the man that borrowed Henry
Martins jack-screws and never returned
them? Mr.. Martin wants to see him and
them He is the Henry Martin of the north
end of the town.
THE Free Baptist Westinghouse, which
is being renovated, is TO take on n belfry
this week. Isn't there some rich ex-Wili-
iamstownian somewhere who would like to
place bell in it?
QUINCY M. CARPENTER died on Friday
and was buried on Sunday afternoon last.
He was son-in-aw of Daniel Townsend.
ST., and has lived here many years as a
painter. He was man of much kindness
of heart.
MORE than quarter of century ago our
eX-towns1nan, j, Martin Walker, and wife de-
cided to live apart and Mrs. Walker married
again. They have recently been remarked
and are living in Reynolds, Illinois, a fact
we are glad to mention.
DONNIE " EARLE has a position now as
fireman on freight train from st. Adams
to Ottawa, Canada, making two trips a
week; we predict the young mans success
in railroading, for which he has born ap-
petite. He enjoys his work much.
A LITTLE five-years-old boy of one of our
prosperous townsmen in Central New York
wanted to ask blessing at the table, in his
fathers recent absence from home. This
was it: "God give us bread and keep us
from starving while papa is away"
HERBERT MARTIN, who, as farmer, makes
horses more of a speciality than some others,
had horse severely injured by wire fence,
IN pasture where she, with her colt, was
feeding, on Friday last. DIR. G. w. McCiearn
was sent for to attend to the wound
A FRIEND elsewhere, who has had plenty
of experience in official life, tells us he re-
CARDS II as detriment to a mans best inter-
ests. But he believes man does not, will
not, get much of office, unless he seeks it in a
way that, TO an extent, must be an injury to
character
JOSIAH STEARNs, now of Martinton, Ill.
and well-known here as a son-in-law of the
late Porter Martin, was in town several
days last week. He will return to Illinois
for time, hoping to come back to his old
home in Walpole, n. II. Death has robbed
him of his entire family.
j. Ebert BRIGGS, busy publisher of
law works in Newark, New York, made a
short visit in this his native place last week
He came by way of Washington, D. c., TAX
ing, in this trip, little vacation. Three of
his children were with him, one of them a
son, having been at school in Massachusetts,.
THE i'll health Of her mother leads Mrs.
John Adams to decide to visit her in her
California home as soon as a favorable OPP
portunity in the way of travelling company
shall offer itself. Mrs Adams brother,
Alpha Weber, an old Barre Academy stu
dent, resides in Oakland, California. He
has been greatly prospered in that state
THE fine piece of granite in the tablet in
the East Hill cemetery, just placed at the
grave of one recently mentioned in these
items, Is from the quarry of the Cutler
Brothers in Barre, and was fashioned at the
shop of G. III. Kenerson in South Barre. Mr..
Kenerson would be glad to have our people
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pleasant man to meet.
A TowNsMAN tells us of having recently
seen former citizen, Loami Flint now Of
st. Johnsbury. He went more than fifty
years ago, to work for the Fairbanks firm,
when but four or five men were employed in
making scales. He says he remembers when
ten sets of hay scales there were good out
put for week Mr.. FL int is now past
three-score-and-ten years of age.
IT goes without saying that it is a rare
man who never complains of the weather.
One such we know. He tells us that he has
never forgotten a lesson learned, when a
boy at school, from a reading book 1t told
of man who called all weather good, be-
cause it was just what the Lord wanted to
have it. The impression made on our friends
young mind by this story has been lasting
one, it seems. Can't that reader be revived?
On Friday forenoon last a villager acct
dentally lost from his conveyance shawl
and buster as he was riding through the
south end of the village. Before the loss
was discovered man having some of the
marks of age, accompanied by lady, and
driving solid-looking gray horse, rode
along northward, and seeing the lost arti-
cles got out, picked them up and drove on.
Some one close by saw him and, knowing
he was not resident here, watched him to
see if he would not stop at the postofce
and leave them for some one to prove claim
n "a hn mar hxftb no pA,,pl
impresses people here as either a dishonest
man, or of not the good sense that one
should be expected to show in such mat
ter. He is supposed to have come over the
county road from Chelsea, or Whereabouts.
He will redeem himself, whoever he may
be, by taking the course any man ought to
and try to find the owner. ANY help to
finding out the man will be welcomed.