The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-15
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idly - Mrs M. a. Riddall Is very |
breaches in the Spring district next tO Sun. !
day evening. - Ernest Corwin OF |
Chelsea spent Sunday evening here. 60
Womans Christian Temperance Union
prayer-meeting at Sarah Kibby's Monday
evening. 80 Mrs. Rebecca King and Mrs.
Baxter Sargent are i'll. - Jessie Griffith |
is at Chelsea, where she is attending school. |
- Several members Of the Womans
Christian Temperance Union are to attend |
the meeting of the state union at Mortified |
this week. - Fred Hayward returned |
to Northfeld Thursday. 60 The many
friends of Rev. Il. l.. D. Preston and family, |
now OF Taunton, Mass, were gladdened by
a visit from them last week. - Herbert |
Smith is sick with typhoid fever. - Ella
Wells is teaching in district No L.
Williamstown.
BERT" BAILEY is attending the fall
term of the Methodist Seminary in Mont
pelier. He is engaged to teach in Barre the
coming winter. - Miss Eta Martin is
teaching in the Gilbert o. Smith district.
60 Last week Monday Miss A, A. Glenn
ent of Chelsea began her second term in the
Calvin Flint district, with nineteen schol-
ars. We have heard her last seasons work
in that district very highly spoken of. -
DIR. and Mrs. G. w. McClearn are happy at
the birth of their frst-born, a daughter.
- We hear that George Kinsman is to
go West this week. - The painful sick
ness of Mr.. Abram Lougee came to a close
last week Friday. He had long been bed
ridden invalid, and death would seem to
be welcome relief to him. He leaves a
(second) wife and several children. He
was fine man and was universally re-
spected He lived on the farm where he
died over sixty years, and was for forty years
a member of the Free Baptist church in
this place. - Henry j. Martin has been
confined to the bed for some weeks during
hp of
DIR. G. w. McClearn. - We are glad to
say that Harry Fogg, a longtime invalid,
seems to be improving quite good deal.
- To see a large willow, or poplar tree,
that was once used as a riding-stick by
some ancient man or woman, as they came
here on horseback from some other state,
has ceased to be a seven-days' wonder with
some of us But not great many miles
from here is a poplar whose early history is
thus given us. One of the settlers of an adj
joining town used it in riding horseback
from New Hampshire to this section. 1t
was then put into the ground and began to
grow. A son of this early settler, boy-lilke,
pulled it up, for which deed his father
whipped him with the same stick and then
planted it again. 1t went on growing and
to-day is IA large tree. - Mrs. Julia
Beckett Martin and son returned to Wash
ington, ID. c., last week. - Mrs. Sylvia
Clarke Newcomb of Waukegan, ILL.,, starts
homeward this week ria Nashua, n. H.,
Brattleboro and Rutland, in which places
she will visit friends. - Mrs. Asa S.
Simonds, a lifelong resident of the place,
went to RoXbury last week to reside with
her nephew, Gilbert Andrews. Her health
is surprisingly better of late. - Leslie
ID. Gale, who is in the employ of a White
Mountain landlord, reports an unusually
large number of visitors at the mountains
this season. - That it is always dark
est just before day had fresh illustration
in our freeman's meeting last week. 1t had
come to be felt that might not get
representative in long time if at all, though
the republican and democratic votes for
governor that day showed one hundred fifty
of the former to sixty-two of the latter. But
somehow the centrifugal forces had been
for years getting the upper hand of the
centripetal in the republican party and the
outlook was bad. For short time before
the election, however, some of the workers
put forth earnest effort to change the cur
rent of things and, to the surprise of all,
republican representative elected on
the first ballot Erwin III. Martin, the only
| son of our old tOwnsman, James Martin, was
the winning man. Mr.. Martin is only about
midway of the thirties. He has served the
| town variously-as school superintendent
lister, auditor, and perhaps otherwise. He
is now a steward in the Methodist Episco-
pal church. Though an earnest believer
in the town system of schools, like any
man of good sense, he will not be found
voting as a representative for it after the
expression of feeling here, and so generally
in the state, against the system. His con-
stituents will look for his being an honest,
| incorruptibe, faithful man in the house of
representatives. - We hope our towns
men will consider Representative-elect Mar
| tin their g servant" as he was chosen to be,
in legislative work, and take pains to fully
acquaint him with their views and wishes
! on matters that seem to them vital to the
body poliic-for how can he otherwise
faithfully represent their interests? -
| Will not some representative-elect, if he has
not already done so, begin now to make
very careful study of the subject of the
taxation of church property, other than
houses of worship and parsonages, in
our state? The general principles in
volved, the dangers attending the pres
ent state of things, the laws of any
other states touching taxation of the same
will all prove an interesting and valuable
| study. And we predict that the legislator
who shall take up and carry through this
matter to what seems to many the only wise
and safe end will do a work for which COM
ing generations, as they shall know of it,
! shall not cease to honor him. Would not
! the friends of this cause rejoice to see the
| Hon. Luke p Poland champion it this fall?
| And is tnot well worthy his steel?'' -
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Martin and son are
visiting Mrs. Martins brother DR.. f. c.
! Lewis of Rutland. - Jason Jetiords now
| has the epidemic mildly prevailing here for
! Improving the eXteriors of houses. We are
| glad TO see it all. - Mrs. Lucy Flint
! Hopkins is about to return to her home in
| Gibbon, Neb., the physical condition of her
mother, Mrs. Calvin Flint, being somewhat
! improved. == The drouth now prevail
| ing here is great, and some are much dis
conmoded by lack of water in wells and
! springs - The health of the only daugh-
ter of Rev. X. ID. Miller is critical indeed,
! thus giving her parents much apprehension.
= 1t is well to mark the changes going
on so slowly but constantly all about us.
An eX-townsman visiting here, and who re-
moved from here only about twenty-five or
! three years ago, says he saw but few ia
milar faces at freeman's meeting last week.
And one of our old townsmen remarked at
the same time that he himself hardly knew
| half the persons he saw on the same occa-
sion. 60 The dreaded blow fell last week
| upon the family of Mr. David Gale in the
death of his grandson, " Burnie " Odds, the
only son of his daughter, Mrs. Ellen Gale
! Odds of Barre. We hear this young man,
whose age was twenty-five years, very
! kindly spoken of by some in Barre who
! knew him we'll. His parents and friends may
| be assured of the great sympathy of friends
| in this hour of deepest sorrow. - Mr..
| Warren Poole continues to gain strength
and may yet be quite well. - DIR.
Charles A. Gale and wife of Rutland and
! Leslie ID. Gale were at home last week on
! the occasion of the burial of their nephew,
" Burnie " Odds. - David NJ. Smith, adj
ministrator of the estate of the late George
A. Simons, offered at public sale last Satur