The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-15
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MISS JULIA BASS has just returned from
st. Johnsbury Academy, and Miss Cynthia
Merrill from term Of teaching in Braintree.
THERE is to be an auction sale at George
9. Earle's place, next Saturday, of nice
buggy, an organ, and other things of less
value.
RETURN DAVIS was so unfortunate as to
lose good COW last week. Mr.. Davis il the
newly-elected school committee in the Or
vile III. Briggs district.
WE think that all will agree that the new
curtain in our town hall is very handsome
one and adds much to the appearance of the
hall. 1t cost about fifty dollars.
WILLIS GALE is in Burlington, we hear,
preparing to go West to engage in the music
business. He will return here and go to
Boston before going westward.
Miss LoRA BASS, one of our worthiest
young ladies', was married in Chicago, ILL.,
March 81, to Rev. Henry Wilson, pastor of
the Congregational church in Lockport, Ill.
REV. AND Mrs. HARVEY WEBSTER leave
this week to visit friends in Massachusetts,
and elsewhere before the session of the con-
ference at Bellows Falls. His pulpit will be
supplied in his absence.
ONE of our sagacious farmers, who is also
an efficient town officer, tells us the new
management of our roads may and ought to
prove an Improvement on the old system in
the way of expense OF working them.
FRED MARTIN, unexpectedly to us ALL has
left the Hubbard House and moved on to the
farm formerly owned by Septa Simons and
OF late occupied by Mrs. Martins father,
Otis Walker Mr.. Walker, with his son,
Ed, has gone into the hotel.
JASON JEFFoRDs is to have the care of the
roads in the Daniel Townsend, Charles
Scott and his own road districts, George
Savory of the roads in his district and
Presby Hopkins of those in the Denison
Brown, Wilbur Adams and his own dis
tricts.
AARON SARGENT has returned to his farm,
in the southeast corner OF our town, after
having had for some time the care OF the
Washington town farm We hear he is in
Baptist clergyman recently preached at the
Free Baptist church here.
PRETTY much all hope for the recovery OF
Alvin Flint has been abandoned. His death
may occur any day. He has been hard
and constant worker for many years. but of
late has suffered from hemorrhages, and his
vigorous constitution must 90 under. He is
considerably past three-scOre and ten wears
of age.
IFt the Williamstown dairyman who wrote
j. II. EMERSON of Peacham about butter
prints, and who forgot to sign his name to
his letter, will call on Postmaster j. X
Lynde and append his name to the returned
letter, he will not think, possibly that
&C. the change of administration had caused
the delay of an answer.
MRS. ROBERT SEAvER has been spending
the winter with the family of her nephew
Amasa Farnham, now of Montpelier. Geo
Farnham has occupied Mrs. Seaver's house
in the meantime. Mr. Farnham has been
in very poor health for long time. His
case is pitiable one and calls for the heart
felt sympathy of his friends everywhere.
Mrs. CHESTER MARTIN has rented her
farm for the coming year to her son-in-law
B. F. Sibley, reserving, however, the right
to sell it at any time she chooses. She il
DESTROYS of selling it. 1t is one of the pref
test places about here. 1t lies at the south
end of our village, the grass land is al
meadow land, and, altogether, it is valus.
BILE farm.
IF one is to deal with strangers, it is all
important to know in some way that they
are reliable. One of our worthy townsmen
for some weeks canvassed for a useful ar.
ticle offered by a Cincinnati firm, and sent
In an order and some money. What has
occurred since leads him to suspect the
company as fraud. If it proves so, it will
be offered some gratuitous advertising
WITH the anticipated activity in the gran
lite quarries at Barre, the coming season
there ought to be further development O
our own town quarries. Mr.. Collins ha.
wanted, for reasons independent of hi.
quarry, to sell the one he has partially de
veloped on the William u. Pratt farm w,
hear no other granite more highly Spoken
OF than our own, and hope capitalists will
and develop others.
THE following teachers are engaged fo
our summer schools Miss Julia Blanch
ard of Barre for the village school, Mis-
Lucy Earle for the II. ID. Abbott district
Miss Flora Erskine for the Herbert Martin
district, Miss Emma Adams for the Orland,
Flint district, Miss Mary Adams for the Cal
vim Flint district, Miss Thusa Dutton o
Brooktield for the Orville II. Briggs dis
trict, Miss Ada K. Martin Gf her health will
| permit) for the Alvin Flint district, ant
Miss Flora Hersey for the Rodney Seave
district. Miss Ruhama Erskine will teacl
the village school in Washington.
AN educator in distant section writes
congratulating our town upon its school su
perintendent, Miss Fannie Martin. 1t is t.
be hoped Miss Martin will have the courag,
to carry out her convictions about the need
OF our schools and that she will have tn
support of all good citizens in doing SO
The town superintendency was designed T.
accomplish great good for our schools, al
though denominated by some as only
farce, because of its failure so often to rem
edy evils. If we must for a time be de
| prlved OF better system of schools than w
now have, let all take hold to uphold thos
| VINO may try to make the present one eli
fective, for to do this will require son,
things to be done that will not be pleasin
to everybody concerned.
EX-TowNsMAN MARCUS BURNHAM of Wan
paca, Wis. (and who, we suspect is one o
The WATcHMAN's patrons) sends us copie
of the Wdupdcd County Republican of recen
date. What better than newspaper help
one to Judge of the surroundings of another
who is fortunate enough to have good on
in his town? Waupaca boasts of over 500
0OOexpended in buildings and improvement
last year. In addition to list OF manufat
turing establishments, it has mineral spring
that are giving fame to the place as sum
mer resort. Waupaca county seems to be
great potato-growing section--ive dealer
IN W wa 1oa having shipped and contracte
for $4,000 bushels since October last. w
congratulate Townsman Burnham on hi
financial success as farmer there.
THR second maple sugar festival of las
week was held by the Universalsts at tn
town hall on Friday evening. Doughnut
and maple sugar are appetizing enough t.
the average Yankee stomach, though W,
suspect it must make the "dyspepsi
fends chuckle at the sight of a late heart
meal of them. Apropos of doughnuts
years ago we were travelling in a section q
Indiana, not the most inviting, and TO on
surprise met New England Yankee VIII,
had located on farm there. On learnin
that he was Yankee, we made haste t,
proclaim our own Yankee origin. Ar
you Yankee?" he asked. "Then vol
like doughnuts, don't you? Come over Z
my house and get some" Thereupo
Yankee brotherhood was established.
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