The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-24

IN the care of cows. Papers like the fore.
gong, with the cross-questioning Of the
WITNESSES and discussions evoked, can
not Iail OF good. The more the better. g
II our citizens can't or don't want to 90
Wes, they can do the next best thing,
whlch is to go to Barre. The last one aboiIt
10 take that step is our worthy townsman
o ~ hougee. He has rented his farm
70 Melvin Burnham for five wears. - In
the warning for our March meeting. among
0unefs are articles to see il the town wifi
Duild tomb, appoint road commissioners
10 nave charge of the repairs of the highways
anu prii9ges, ana authorize the trustees of
the public money to loan it to the town. ac-
c,,ording to section GA of the Revised Statutes.
me town system of schools is to he voted
upon, of course. The friends of tbe svstem
VIII hope for an increased vote in its favor,
we we u9 not near predictions of anything
specially exciting at this meeting S-e
sons have this month been born to Mr. and
MIS- William u. Pratt and Mr.. and Mrs.
James *. Lynde. 80 Don. Earle goes
20 st. Adams to-day, to work again as
I W. , on the Central Vermont.
we near mat Herbert =. Martin has sold
M, ms iarm at the south end of the town to a
MT WI. reynolds of Barre for the sum of $500.
Inc same farm is said to have been once
sold for $1,000. - Our former towns
woman Mrs &. A. White (nee Miss Lucinda
WILSON,, now of Waterbury Center. is said
10 De very sick with stomach trouble and
Tears are entertained that she NAV not live
long - Russell NJ Jeffords reports
Misses Edith Templeton, Hattie Blanchard,
Nyra oeaVer and Maggie Hibbard as having
no marks in school this winter. In spelling,
MISS Maggie Hibbard missed not a word,
MISS Josie Staples missed but one word and
Master Luther Bailey but two. Masters
Dedle Staples and Forest Walker were
absent but one halliday each - Charles
Seaver Will take Harvey l.. Cheney's place
in the store here when the latter shall leave.
George Edison has also been engaged bv j.
H. Lynde to work for him. we hear
that e. ID. Barnes is to vacate the Gulf
Spring House, which he has occunied fine
last year, and that blacksmith from North
Randolph will have charge of it the coming
year: we are sorry to lose Mr.. Barnes
family - Some one tells us we ought to
see the improvements which the Clogston
Drothers are making on the old Judge
Palne place by dint of hard work, etc. They
nave built new barn and one or more silos,
being believers in ensilage We hear they
are thinking of dairy of some thirty cows
the coming season. One of the brothers
married daughter of our eX-townsman
Charles Graves. 60 Amasa Farnbam has
taken possession of the Quincy NJ. Carpen-
ter place, which he has lately purchased.
- Friends of Mr.. and Mrs Leavitt Hay-
ward celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary
OF their marriage on Tuesday of last week
- Harvey l.. Cheney is to leave j. X
Lynde's store April LIST, to take charge of
the grist-nill of Lynde & Cheney, recently
purchased. He has been a hard worker and
always at his post in the years he has been
in the store, and will 90 out with the good
name OF an honest man and the goodwill of
our people-at-large. Success to him! -
| Our ex-townsman, Rev. Asa b. Smith, died
of pneumonia, on the 10th instant, at his
| southern home in Sherwood, Tenn, where
he had been laboring as minister for few
| years past. He was about seventy-seven
years old He was one of the pioneer home
| missionaries to the Pacific Coast, and was
| afterwards a missionary to the Sandwich
Islands He leaves (second) wife, but no
children. OF the family of his father, the
! late MIR. Asa Smith, one daughter Mrs.
| Laura Smith Parkhurst alone survives
- If any of our citizens shall desire to
| see the working of "a branch of the Saliva
ton Army, they can soon have the oppor-
tunity, as the old Barre Academy hall has
been hired for this army" we hear
The Congregational ladies' society gave a
pink tea at the town hall on Tuesday
! evening. The broom drill ~ was feature
of the occasion. il. Munroe Seaver is
expected home from the West this week.
! - George Wilbur has returned from his
winter school in Sharon and is open to an en-
gagement. - Dr. c. G. Ellis has Just come
up from Nashua, n. H., and is to locate in
Montpelier, for homeopathic practice. He
finds his health always improved in coming
! to Vermont. - Mrs. James Cheney, a
longtime sufferer from dyspepsia, is having
acute inflammation of the stomach DIR.
Mayo of Northfield was called to see her
last week. - Thanks to Mr.. A. E. Kim
ney OF C~rinth: who writes us that on page
sixty-six of Thompson's Vermont " we
may find what saw-whet" is. A saw
whet is there described as a little owl, COM
mon in Vermont, and deriving its name
from the peculiar sound of its note, which so
closely resembles the sound produced in
| filing a large saw as to prove a frequent de-
| ception to persons travelling through the
woods. Audubon himself confesses to hav-
ing been made at one time the victim of such
deception. The bird is sometimes called
the " little owl" or the Little Acadian
| owl"