The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-07

Robert j. Kimball has sold his " Montague"
herd OF ten Jerseys to Cyrus w. Sprague.
= s. Holman has bought the lot and
partially finished house of j. w Hale
on weston street. 60 Otis Standish now
of birmingham, Mass. has invented de-
tachable horseshoe. 1t clasps on TO the
hoof and no nails are used 1t can be pat
on or taken off by driving a steel wedge.
1t is valuable invention and Mr. Standish
has already refused an offer of $1,000 for it.
- Fred Steele has gone to Lebanon, N.
H., to work.
Tunbridge.
W. w. HOLDEN of Mortified has been
canvassing here for " Vermont in the Civil
War" $50 Benjamin Tucker is committee
in school district No /, Spencer Hackett in
King in No. IS, James X. Goodwin in No.
49, In No. II they voted to have thirty-two
weeks of school. 60 DIR. Charles Dewey
and wife are visiting at S. A. Deans. -
Mrs. o. IL. King is slowly recovering from
her late illness. - Rev. Thomas Hub
bard is to move here the first of next month.
80 Rev. G. 4. Hurd and wife returned
from Chichester, n. II. last Friday. -
The STAFFORD telegraph line is doing good
business now. Messages are transmitted
quicker and more satisfactorily by telegraph
than they can be by telephone. - DIR.
Il. j. Fish was called to East Randolph last
Saturday. - Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union prayer-meeting at Mrs. j. S.
Gays Tuesday evening. - Mrs. Mary
Lee is worse. - Mrs. Eunice A. Lyman,
who has consumption, has failed very fast
lately. == Frank j. Clark has pneumonia
and has been very sick. - Mrs. j. E.
Gay spent Sunday with her friends here
- Charley Corliss went to Providence
has been very i'll. - Charles Lowell
with his two daughters, went to Roscoe,
Dakota last week. - Many are troubled
with rheumatism this spring. - The
river overlooked many meadows and ran
into the road south of here last Wednesday.
Williamstown.
E. ID. BARNES has returned to Chelsea
from the Gulf Spring House, and E. f. Dun
ham of North Randolph is the new landlord.
- Miss Cynthia I. Merrill is at home
for few weeks vacation between her win
ter and summer terms of teaching in Brain
tree. She has taught five terms in the dis
trict to which she is about to return which
speaks well for both her own work and the
good sense of her employers. - The pur-
chaser of the horse Western Boy" is Will
bur Shepard of Barre, instead of Clark
Shepard, as reported last week - Har-
vey l.. Cheney has moved to the Mill Viii
lage, and will doubtless soon be frosted "
as completely as a miller to the manner
born. - The elements are at work with
our highways totally regardless of the COM
fort or convenience of man or beast, as well
as of the bills for repairs to be met in due
time. Of course they are d" the worst roads
that ever any one saw" - Harry Fogg,
who has so long been i'll, is yet very sick,
being unable to sit up at all. The case looks
like hopeless one. - Otis Walker and
one or both sons are to occupy the Spring
House in East Barre the coming year
- Up among the largest grand lists of
our town is one to the name of man who
several years ago passed the three-score and
tenth milestone on lifes road. AS we saw
him, the other day, putting the finishing
touches to pile of four-feet wood that he
had been saving up by hand, we thought
large part of the secret of his success in life
was apparent then and there. - In con-
versation last week with a large poultry
raiser, he told us that one season when he
first began the business he lost in two weeks
all but thirty of one hundred seventy-five
turkey " chicks " from cause unknown at
the time, but which he has since prevented
by sprinkling a great spoonful of sulphur
into the nests of the "hens" while they
were sitting. - Sherman Winchester
who has had a good deal of sickness thus
far in life is getting out from his last attack,
and proposes to go on to the road to retail
the medical preparations of some New
Hampshire physician that he is sure are
valuable ones With the many who will
wish him well we hope he may meet with a
! generous patronage wherever he may go.
- Through our ex-townsman, James S.
| Abbott, some interesting facts have just
come to our g sanctum y regarding the city
! and state of his recent adoption, st. Angus
tine, Florida. This city, " the Newport of
the South and the oldest city in America,
was founded in 1865, or fifty-fve years be-
| fore the Maytiower reached the Massachu-
sets coast OF course it would have some
! very quaint features, as its narrow streets,
etc. just now field forest, orchard and
garden are aboom Whereabouts. In the city
the dry leaves of the -pam-many of
which are fifteen feet in length, with stalks
several inches in thickness-are being gen.
orally removed by the use of hand-saws.
! Yachting seems to be a favorite pastime
there, as cover a hundred sailing yachts are
grouped around the piers before and after
sailing hours" OF religious denominations
there are Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist,
Episcopal, Roman Catholic-white and col
ored. In the Weekly and Chronicle of the
city this northern firm, of which our friend
| Abbott is a member, shows its enterprise
| and faith in printers ink by appropriating
an entire double column to its advertise
ment. And as to Florida itself, has it oc-
CURED to the average reader that in size it is
as large as New York, Connecticut and Mas
sachusetts combined, and that it has sea-
coast of over twelve hundred miles in length?
| - At the recent school-meetings EnoS
! f. Walker was elected committee in the vii
| lage, George Nichols in the S. T. Perrin dis
trict Henry Martin in the John Farnham
district Darwin Goodrich in the II. ID.
Abbott district, Gilman Smith in the Rod
ney Seaver district, Barnet Goodrich in the
Aaron G. Martin district and C.. U. Lathrop
in the Calvin Flint district. - In the
John Adams and Denison Martin districts
there is to be no school, for lack of scholars.
- Charles Seaver last week began work
| in j. X. Lynde's store. - As a possible
inducement for other of our scattered eX-
towns-folk who still have warm place in
their hearts for this their old home to plan
! for a visit here the coming season, we may
mention the fact that number of such are
planning for it, some of whom have not been
back here for quite long time. Such re-
union of old friends cannot fail to be pleas
ant indeed - Mrs. James Cheney who
has been a great and longtime sufferer with
a stomach trouble, is very low, and fears
are entertained that she can live but a short
time. 80 Mrs. Harte Dickinson Hubbard
was last week the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lester Martyr of Northfeld. - Miss
Fannie Waldo is staying with her sister, Mrs.
Ellen Waldo Colby of Plainteld. - If
reports are true, Tom Sanders of Haver-
! hill, Mass, the owner of our Gulf House, is
a millionaire to-day through Bell telephone
stock. What he shall pan out " tomorrow
may depend upon " Pan Electric " develop
ments He has just formed the Vermont
Live Stock Company" under our state law,
and turned over his stock of horses to it.
His horse Sam Oliver" by Hugenot, is to
be kept at the Gulf House this year. So
Orvlle II. Briggs extends his visit from
Rochester, n. Y, to Brooklyn, Jersey City
and Connecticut. He will return this week
80 DR.. G.. G. Ellis did not get into his
] Nomination hpma till last