The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-22
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David Gale district next season.
Mrs. IDA AINswoRTH ROWE, now of Wis
consin, with her two little children is ex-
pected here for summer visit.
AN examination of those desiring to teach
here will be held at the village school
house, on Saturday next beginning at nine
o'clock A. NJ.
RETURN DAVIS finds as others have found
that misfortunes come not sngly." In adj
dition to the loss of a good COW, few good
sheep have just died.
Miss ETA MARTIN will probably teach
the summer school in the AFRO Nichols dis
trict, as her sister, Miss Ada E., seems un-
likely to be able to teach.
Ex-rowNsMAN DIR. j. G. BRIGGS of Barre
supplied the Methodist pulpit here part of
the day last Sunday, and acceptably, too
lie is to do the same next Sunday afternoon
ALVIN FLINT died on Sunday morning
last. His age was about seventy-eight. BY
the wish of the deceased Rev. G.. l.. Wells
of Marshfield ofiiciated at his funeral on
Tuesday.
RHEUMATISM has had its grip on Oliver S.
Walker for some weeks past, keeping him
close at home all the time. He is not the
only sufferer hereabouts from the same
cause these days.
Miss EDITH TARBELL seems to be gaining
in health, in Massachusetts. She will visit
Quincy before her return. A Springfield,
Mass, physician thinks she has no trouble
of the heart but that she may recover from.
A SERMON by Rev. II. ID. Miller on Sun
day last, with a text telling that the winter
is past" and " the time of the singing of
the birds is come" proved a rich treat to
his people. He seldom fails, by the way. to
interest them.
HARVEY CHENEY, by too close confne-
ment in the store, has been getting up some
bad blood, manifesting itself in sore hands
To get the better of it, he vacated the store
last week, and went to DIR. Mayo in North
field for brief change.
News came on Saturday that ex-towns-
man Loren Downing died at his home in st.
Adams on Friday last of pneumonia after a
very short sickness. He will be recalled as
one of the most stalwart men, physically, of
the place, when living here.
Miss FANNIE MARTIN is to teach at Berlin
Corners the coming summer. She has, how
ever, arranged that she shall be allowed to
attend to her duties here as town slperintend-
emit" lis true, tbs pity that our own town
should not have her services as teacher, too.
j. X. LYNDE has just purchased the fine
span of horses owned by Ophir S. Martin
lis certificate of character for horse to
be purchased by Mr.. Lynde. We shall ex-
pect this span to put on few hundred dol
lars additional of style and price under his
hand.
GEORGE MARsToN feels an honorable
pleasure in his son, Lester w, who went
from commercial school in Binghampton
n V, into drugstore in Chicago county
Minnesota. His daughter is preparing to
earn support by the needle, in Suncook
New Hampshire.
WILLIS GALES recent visit to Burlington
was to study Professor Thompson's method
of teaching music in the day schools there
He left for Boston on Saturday last. where
of
and go on to Kansas, Hiawatha being the
place to which he will 90 first
Nor many days ago we sat chatting with
thrifty farmer in his home in another
town, when he said to us in substance,
- there need be no trouble in making living
from FARM in these days. even. The real
trouble is in trying to keep up the style of
living that too many attempt to do, and
fail"
WE once heard man, of large experience
as lister, say in effect, that some men had
double code of morals, one of which they
used in giving in their lists and the other
very likely an honorable one) they used
everywhere else If this be so, is not the
highwater mark of their real honesty in
dictated when they return their lists?
THE friends of the family of the late Cal
vim Ainsworth are not likely to get any
pleasanter item of news than that the old
nome here is to be occupied by some MEM
bers of the family from the West the COM
ing season. Miss Emma l.. Ainsworth is
expected this week and her sister, Mrs. w.
III. Waterman and daughter, Mary, next
month.
CHARLES WEBSTER received a severe. and
very bloody, cut in his left hand, and near
the wrist, on Saturday. He was attempting
To remove small nail from a butter tub
cover with knife, when, the head of the
nall breaking, the knife slipped and cut the
hand holding the tub He tainted, finally,
from loss of blood, and was taken to DR..
McClearn's house for treatment.
MANY about here will remember well the
boy, Emory Haynes, son of a Methodist
minister who once preached here. Do they
all know that he is what is called brilliant
preacher? For some years past he has been
preaching in Brooklyn, n. Y.-first, as a
Methodist, and since as Baptist preacher.
lie has lately been called to the fremont
Temple (BaptisU church in Boston, with a
salary of $1,000 year.
Do not the thoughts of many ex-denizens
OF the place turn back to it in these DAYS
OF maple sugar-making The good old
times are now being repeated the hospita-
BILE sugar-makers inviting their less favored
nelghDOrs, and friends, to come in, and take
their I'LL OF the delectable article Just as
they used to do when you all were with us.
And have you since ever tasted any sweeter
sweets? We dare say not.
FROM recent pleasant letter from south
ern California, ON our table, we cut a slice
for the reader, concerning the orange tree
and its fruit; the tree begins to put forth
its blossoms in February, while much of the
fruit remains on the tree. All through last
month the trees were a mass of bloom fill
ing the air with a delicious perfume The
fruit is of very slow growth. 1t begins to
ripen about Christmas, but at that time it is
very sour 1t is at its best from abont the
last of February until May. Some of the
fruit hangs on To the tree through the whole
summer, but, though not losing its color. il
becomes insipid. This year oranges are
very plentiful and cheap, and as common
as are apples in Vermont in the fall"
a LAw-PoINT of interest to parties here,
land may be to others elsewhere) has lust
grown out of an auction sale of attached
property. The place where the sale oc-
CURED is mortgaged and by consent of the
wife of the mortgageor, for a sum that NAV
encroach upon the homestead, possibly. A
small point of land belonging to the place,
when the mortgage was given, has since been
sold, agreeably to all concerned. On this
land had stood a building which, upon the
sale OF the site, was taken down by the
original owner and held as his, A portion
of the timbers of this old building was piled
up on a section of the original place, but
outside, of course, the land that had been
sold off. To satisfy "A claim, this timber was
attached, and offered for sale at auction.
During the sale of il, the proper officer was
notified that the sale of it would endanger
the homestead of the wife of the occupant
of the place, and that it must be held, as a
part OF the homestead, and not be sold And
that is the hard point to be settled. Can il
thus he held under the circumstances?
From time tn time these itanS ba tol "a N