The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-14

Hazen Stewart is in Boston. - Euclid
Fish and : Hayward returned to North
field Monday. - +. Cleveland was
kicked by a colt Sunday and badly hurt
- Mrs. Mary A. Lee died of an asth-
matte affection of the heart Friday noon.
Williamstown.
AFTER a long term of service in the in
sane asylum at Middetown, Conn, Miss
Annie M. Benedict will come home to teach
the summer term of our village school. Her
record as teacher in the past here makes
this welcome news to old and young. -
Miss Ella Martin is engaged to teach again
in the William G.. Putnam district, where
she has achieved success as a teacher
Joel Bass came home from st. Johnsbury
Academy last week for a few days vacation.
We suspect it was the bonnie assies " else
where and the maple at home that prevented
our seeing much of him. He is much pleased
with the st. Johnsbury school. - The
fftieth anniversary of the marriage of our
well-remembered ex-townsfolk Dea. and
Mrs. Jonathan Farr, was observed by neigh
bors and friends on the Sd instant at their
home in Thetford. Their only son, e. p,
Farr, resides in Dakota and their only div
ing) daughter, Julia, is the wife of Rev.
Parmlee, missionary in Turkey.
Our worthy ex-townswoman, Mrs. Adeline
Brown Griffith, daughter of the late Mr.
William Brown, who went South as
teacher before the war and married there,
we are told is now living in that wide-awake
Guy, Alld0ld, btOTRld. - hdSlbT w llllc
Briggs, not yet eleven years old, has just
returned from his third trip with his father,
Orville II. Briggs, to Rochester, n. Y. On
his way home he made his first visit to New
York city, and while there was taken to the
top of the Equitable Life Insurance building
for the fine view to be had there. After look
ing about sufficiently, he said: 81 wouldn't
give our farm for all there is here!' Now il
the lads loyalty to the old Vermont farm
can only be kept up through long lifetime,
h..I.N La,
a man these farms and towns will need
more than ever in the future And is there
not many an old man, who grew tired of
the farm in his youth and went to the city
to fail, or to succeed, as the world calls sue
cess, that, standing on the same building,
would adopt the language of this boy, and
add that there is vastly more in it than
even a bog could suspect? - Apropos of
firing of the farm, it is an occasion of appre-
hensve regret that not only the boys and
the old men here, as elsewhere in Vermont,
are tired of farm-life, but complaint comes
from the middle-aged who have made a sue
cess if but moderate one, thus far of farm
| ing, and who are casting about for a way
out of it, and into well, who knows
| what? We were talking only the other
evening with just such an one, whose sue
cess, in his way, stamps him as truly he
roic man, as do far greater financial results
many another one in other calings. Men
are busy trying to find the remedy for this
wouldn't it be an eye-opener to farmers and
| their families If they could only once see the
real and whole inside of the lives of men in
! other waks-the men whom they perhaps
envy? And then one may well recall the
remark of a shrewd business man at the
time of General Grants financial disaster
which was, in substance, that he had rarely
or never known man to take up new
business, after fifty years Of age, and sue
coed in it. - Mrs. James Cheney,
do orI tnr of Daniel Toxvnaapl Een Iia6 IN
| Tuesday of last week and was buried on
Thursday, Rev. l. p. Booth of Northfeld
officiating. A post norton examination by
Drs McClearn, and Mayo of Northfeld,
showed the disease to be cancer of the
stomach, from which she had been suffering
more especially in the last seven months.
One who knew her most intimately tells us
she was woman of great kind-heartedness;
and as a wife, mother and neighbor she
must be sadly missed. - Townsmen
George W. Lynde and Ed. j. Poor seem
not to have lost heart in the dairy
business, since each keeps a very large
herd of cows this season. - Friends
of our eX-townswoman, Miss Mary E.
Glysson of Waterbury, will be sorry to
learn how afflicted she is with rheumatism.
This place was long familiar with her en-
thusiastic work as teacher, work that
she has kept up in her own house in Water
bury for the past twenty-one years. When
all the results of such life-work shall be
made manifest, then, and then only, will
the calling of the true teacher be rightly es-
timated - Henry Poole some days ago
stepped upon nail, which entered his foot
and caused him great suffering for time,
and that was suggestive at least of lock jaw.
- James Martins family makes Erwin
II. Martins house its abode, pending the re-
pairs of his own newly-purchased one.
- Mrs. Major Flint recently spent sew
eral weeks with her son and friends in
Northern New York. c. c. Barnes
family is with friends in Erie, Penn, where
his son, Frank, has been attending school of
late. - Mrs. Asa s. Simonds decides to
remain for the present in the old home.
Just now her health seems quite a little i'm
proved, and she is looking better. - In
a well and favorably-known Philadelphia
paper that circulates in Vermont city firm
advertises low-priced little volume that
seems to have marked value in the main.
But in giving the Statutes of Limitations -
of the states and territories, it says in YER
mont fourteen years is g the limit of time
on which action may be brought against
a note. This, as many know, is misleading,
since a note that is not witnessed land
of course not renewed by endorsements)
is outlawed " after six years. With wit
ness its " life - is fourteen years, as above
stated; fact that some may be glad to
know. - We hear that on account of the
death of his daughter, Mrs. James Cheney,
Mr. Daniel Townsend will likely make his
home with another daughter, Mrs. Ather-
ton of Waterbury. - DR.. G. w. McClearn
attends the little son of Birney Seaver, neal
Washington village. In the southern part
of Washington (and not Chelsea, as before
! stated he has been attending diphtheretic
patients - Jonathan Dix has bought
the house opposite the grist-mill belonging
to the Asa S. Simonds estate. - Charles
, Davenport, formerly of Northfield is to
,, move to Barre and work on granite ledge.
- Ryland Seaver has just been reviving
his old experience in maple sugar making
at his brother Rodney's. His wife is on the
way home from Virginia. - Miss Alma
f. Adams is to teach her third term in the
Rollin Allen district, Barre, the coming
summer This speaks well for her. -
Very unexpectedly, it was found necessary
) on Friday last to postpone Fast day service
? till Sunday afternoon, when the Methodists
and Congregationaists united in worship al
r the Methodist church, Rev. Harvey Web.
ster preaching the sermon. He expressed
sorrow because of so little regard shown al
present for Fast days, and spoke of the con.
a trast with earlier times, when, as some aged
! person had recently said to him, " two SER
} mons We're preached on Fast days, the peo-
, Pile generally attending the services" He
r thinks our governors may yet have to
change the day from the accustomed Fri
? day to Sunday to save the " institution.
He has no sympathy with the sentiment
that men may drop the form, but preserve