The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-16

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THE republican caucus was held Monday
evening. There is but little stir in regard
| to political matters here. - Ben. Tuck
er's little son, Howard, is very i'll with
pneumonia. -. King & Son have built
an addition to their store. - The grand
jury did not find bill against the Rowell
brothers and o. II. Goodall for shearing j.
II. Goodwin's horse last fall. They claim
that the prosecution was unwarranted.
- Some parties out late nights have
been calling up people who, having to work
hard through the day, dislike to have their
slumbers disturbed by stray idiots. -
George Diamond is recovering from his Sc
we're Illness
West FairIee.
CHILDREN's SUNDAY was duly observed
here. - Many in this vicinity are sick
with influenza. - Mrs Sloan, who has
suddenly obtained such notoriety by kill
ing her child was born in Vershire, her
maiden name being Sarah Avery. Her
father, an honest and peaceabe man, lives
in this place and has the sympathy of all
who know him. Other relatives are highly
respectable
Williamstown.
A VETERAN in political service here told
us last Saturday evening, at the republican
caucus, that he had never before seen so
many out at the meeting for electing dele
gates to state convention IL may be taken
as good omen. Now let the number be in
creased that shall attend the caucus at Town
to elect delegates to the republican county
convention to be held at Chelsea next week
Wednesday. - Messrs. j. NJ. Bass,
Frank Martin and Erwin III. Martin were
chosen delegates to the republican state con-
vention this week. Alternates Messrs. Or
vile II. Briggs, Olney Seaver and Edwin G.
Smith. - Miss Abbie Carleton, who
since last fall has been teaching French to
class of private pupils in Barre, closed her
labors on Friday evening last with s0iree
at the residence of Perley Chandler, at
which French was solely used in conversa-
ton and singing. Miss Carleton will teach
the coming school year: - Mrs. James
NJ Bass is visiting Mrs. Mary Bass Clark in
Somerville, Mass. - The next "day
with modern authors" will be devoted by
our Ladies' Reading Club to Mrs. Helen
Hunt Jackson. - Notwithstanding dull
and somewhat rainy weather, the Chldren's
day exercises at the Methodist Episcopal
church were well attended. They were ex-
ceedingly interesting and we may hope
equally profitable They cannot be ade-
I quately described by repeating expressions
before so good" or Was there ever any
thing of the kind in town surprising it?" or
Wasn't it the best thing of the sort ever
held here?" Neither would description Of
floral decorations and singing birds, or the
names of the many, young and older, who
did such good work in singing and speak,
ing, convey full idea of the occasion. One
/ needs to be there to and hear to know it
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will be more, if possible, who will want to
be there Rev. Alvaro Webster was pres
ent " to tell the children " land who doesn't
know that the speaker who can get child's
ear is quite as likely to get older ears at the
same timeD about children and things in
Florida. - There has come to us this
anecdote of little son of one of the best
women and mothers of our acquaintance,
the wife of a well-known citizen elsewhere.
One who knows what this mother is in her
hOmp yyoull
, of children would be carefully trained in
the use of good language always and every
! where One day she was explaining to
/ little daughter that " amt" is not good
a word to use, saying it was an improper
! | contraction" Whether or not the little
four-years-old brother merely overheard
this lesson we do not know, but it seems
y not to have been lost on him. Going out
a one morning afterwards on an errand, he
was accosted by a man, who said to him.
!, "Ain't you out early?'' The boy paused a
= moment, and, looking up to him, replied:
Y Ain't is an improper contraction" That
q was too good for the man to keep, and he
. passes it along. Fred Staples, now of
!, Bradford, is reported to be in the last stages
y of consumption. - William 2. Pratt OBJ
q tanned 5000 for the four acres of granite land
% quarry thus far opened on his farm. -
Il Encouraging reports come to us concerning
. the railroad surveys to the quarries, and
J., the Central Vermont surveyors are now
Il looking out the route for the proposed
- road. - Mrs. Asa Simonds, so long
n an invalid, rode out last week for the
4 first time in some three years She is "prac-
Il tising," with reference to her contemplated
II removal to Roxbury. -" Don " Earle
- has found situation with Messrs. Lane &
4 Moore in Barre running astationary engine.
>. - Mrs. VIM. Camp has been very poorly
h in health for months past, so much so as to
- cause mental disturbance, to some extent,
., in the time. Her only child, a son, is ex-
cd frnn Nah asl hxy nf
~ the pitiable condition of the parents. -
q Asa G.. Wilbur is no novice in the work of
4 farming. He is not the man to run after
every new thing, nor does he seem inclined
l. to spend his money on nags " with cropped
4 caudals. But he did venture to build silo
~ last year, and these items in due time took
o. some note of the result of his last winters
- experience with ensilage. The other day
=. we questioned him further on the subject.
% Since coming to Williamstown from Brook.
a field Mr.. Wilbur has lived in our village
"a but has owned a comparatively few acres on
"a the western outskirt of the village that con
a. stitute his farm Last year he moved eight
"a acres of grass, yielding, he thinks, a tor
W. and quarter per acre. He had an acre Of
= field corn and one acre of Sanford corn
q The latter was raised especially for silo use
10 He calculates the entire cost of putting this
- acre of Sanford corn-fodder into his silo tC
o. be not over one-third the cost of making tn,
%, hay of eight acres. The fodder was put il
70 whole. The stalks of the field corn were
also used for ensilage. With the ten tons o.
p hay, and ensilage, he wintered eight cows
Il and horse, and kept another COW and horst
~, ~, several weeks of the last part of the winter
>; He is sure he kept twice the amount o
D stock he could have done without the helI
of the silo. OF course he will fill it agar
y" this year. - We are told that George
10 w. Lynde last year used for a weight upoI
20 his ensiage several inches in thickness o
W W muck spread over the board or plank GOV
10 ering, and that it proved very successful
III - Perhaps our citizens are not al
W aware how poorly in health George w
~ Farnham really is. His very long sickness
ha seems to call for practical sympathy from
he some or all of us. Won't you show it
10 a reader, straightway? - If one wants t.
"a see a boom" in real estate, let him go VI
al al about the quarres in Southeast Barre. L
~ is amusing, to say the least, especially Il
~, the farmers who have land to sell for thu
L' coming town " there. - Ill-health com
TO- pels Mrs Libbie Tarbell to take an outing
ba at this time. She goes to Lebanon and En-
n' v field, n. H., at first. - Miss Alic
ny Brown. who had proposed a rest from teach
Is ing this season, consents 10 finish out thu
,es' term in the S. T. Perrin district. The schoo
90 90 was begun by lady from an adjoining
oo town, of whose qualifications as teacher, w
GO hear, our town superintendent speaks well
y, - An old resident of an adjoining
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