The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-17

week. - Harry Sault of the Herald force
went to Montpelier, Saturday in search of
work 80 Mrs. e. A. Shattuck is in
Moretown, where her father died Monday.
Ed. A.. Shattuck is in Boston. =- Insur-
anGe Agent Bruce is out of town this week.
hoDert j. kimball, Esq, and b. w. Dick
erman of New York were In town last week,
the guests of Hon. w. II. Dubois. go
Hon y. w. Porter, secretary of state, was
at the state treasurer's office last week on
insurance business.
West Topsham.
FRIENDS and neighbors, to the number of
ABOUT one hundred gave Mr.. and Mrs. Il.
NJ Collins a parting visit last Thursday
evening Every family in the village, with
one or two exceptions, was represented and
the whole household were present in most
cases. Oysters, etc, were served and very
enjoyable visit was the result. Mr. and
Mrs. Collins will be greatly missed by their
many friends. - We have in this village
two musical wonders in Katie and Dell Car
penter. Katie, aged nine years, has never
taken music lesson, and yet she plays al
most all the pieces of music in Gospel
Hymns-and, in fact, can play correctly
church music of any kind, keeping excel
lent time and playing with the best taste and
expression possible. She has played for
four or five years nearly as well as now.
Del, only two years and eight months old,
Will sing sweetly and correctly many famil-
lar tunes, while Katie plays the organ. The
two sisters also play on the organ a Duet in
good time, Dell performing her part gravely
ana correctly, though she is hardly large
enough to sit upon the music-stool alone.
- George Newton has returned to
! Philadelphia Ward Carpenter has gone
with him, it is said, to sell the right of pa
tent wagon-jack which he has invented.
Tunbridge.
A POMONA GRANGE was held here last
| Thursday There were many members of
the order present. - The next business
meeting of the Womans Christian Temper
ance Union is to be held with Mrs. j. S.
Gay the first Friday in April, at two o'clock
r. NJ. 60 S. A. Deans residence caught
fire from his stovepipe Sunday. He dis
| covered the fire in season to prevent much
damage. The Grand Army and Woman's
Relief Corps meetings occur next Saturday.
- - Fred Chapman came home for a
short visit last Friday - William Lee
made short visit to his relatives in town
last week. - Mrs. Kate Cushman of
Meriden, n. H., with her youngest son, is
visiting at A. G. Adams - Mary Smith
Is at home for a few days. - Lorenzo
Monkey is better.
WilliamstOwn.
AT our late town meeting Messrs Will
lard Sprague, o. A. Blanchard and Charles
Webster were elected street commissioners
to care for the highways of the town the
coming year. Are they expecting to en-
counter good deal of town " bile " in these
highways? They ought, however, to know
how to make sluice-ways 3" for that. -
One of our young farmers, who depends
materially on poultry to make ends meet y
each year, tells us that he lost some twenty
nice young turkeys at one time last year
from eating salt, he supposes, that had been
thrown on to the ground for horses. -
The Reynolds have been moving stuff OF
late from the Woodbury. farm Cust beyond
Tt Iittlp' ~ in Rurra tn thpir y
chased farm here in town. AT an auction
on Thursday last this Woodbury. farm was
sold for some $1,000. 1t is said to have
been sold at one time in the past for $500
and when there were fewer acres in it thar
now. - 1t matters not what has sug
gested an anecdote we heard years ago OF
a man who is said to have welded, for 6
long time, powerful influence over his
fellow-men. CWas he not a Vermonter?
When asked the secret of it all, he replied
in substance. that " it was because he hat
used it so sparingly." - We believe tn,
following incident will seem to many {
WATCHMAN reader well worth "passinl
around" An out-of-town farmer, but VIII,
lives on our beat" has come, of late, tt
see many things in new, and, as h,
believes, much truer light. In thu
warmth of this light he has grown warn
and even worthily enthusiastic. AT a recen
church meeting, an opportunity having beef
granted any one to speak, he is reported a
having uulthly II. III Ills re
marks he asked the congregation if the,
wanted to know what he had thought o
them in times past. Then he said: "Whel
in days gone by he had been coming to TIN
church the Evil One, very generous fellow
had been in the habit of furnishing him will
pair of black spectacles to wear to church
and through these he had looked upon, an,
judged. the members of the church Blu
now he had given up these 'spectaces
and they all looked very differently to him.
This in substance, and more of it. If W
: mistake not, there is "A world of wisdom il
the philosophy indulging that remark as t.
the color and origin of the glasses " w
choose to put on in Judging of men AM
things - We have just been reminde
: of the lad who was forbidden to go in swim
l ming, and came home one night with hi
shirt wrong side ont. When called to aC
count for this condition of things, he reple
that cit was done, he guessed, in get
ting over fence" When the words, "
pianist - las we lCrote them last week in a
: item concerning Harry Hatch, now in Bel
7 lin, Germany, in going to the WATCHMA
: office. got " turned so they are taken to be
1 and are printed, " AT present." we are sur
g they must have climbed hjgh fence on til
t route, or possibly before they started -
+ Hay is in demand here, and the best, in on
a instance at least, is held as high as 81
: per ton at the barn here in our village jus
e now. - We hear but little said here 4
5 farm wages for this year, and that little
0 is that they are a little lower than las
t year. -= George w. Blanchard was as
: sisted in his concert, last Wednesday ever
ing, by Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Edison and
# Miss lngraham of Randolph Center: Mis-
n Nettie Gale as organist and Fred Blanchar
h as cornetist. His class here numbered som
h forty scholars, we are told. We hear tn
=. singing of Mr.. Edison as a bass soloist, we
:, spoken of. The instrumental duets, by Mis-
= Gale and Fred Blanchard, could hardly ia
II to please an audience here. III. Il
,. Lynde "comes to the surface again wit
+ "A span of horses which he is fitting up fo
+. market. What they will be under his trail
It ing may be calculated with about q
e much certainty as an eclipse. - On
r young townsman, Ed" A. Field, and Mis-
r Addie l.. Page of Brookfeld were marie
g on Wednesday of last week by Rev. Ha
= vey Webster. They are to reside on a far
IS in Bethel the coming year. - Messr
l. George Beckett and Prentiss Waldo hay
1t recently attained to the rank of "grant
S father. - Mrs. Durham Martin
l. Vergennes has lately been visiting friend
It in these parts. - 1t is said that Mr.
d Elisha b. Gale is about TO move to the vi
/, lage and into the old Universalist parsoi
10 age. We believe that she purposes to n
5. sumo her millinery trade in which she
v skilled, as our citizens know. - A Barr
l. grocer recently told us that our eX-town
r. man, Fred l.. Webster of Danvers, Mass
). is decidedly successful in the art of cannin
a goods, and that he has especially succeede
n where others have failed in the matter
d canning the dandelion. - Albert II. Ma
% tin, whose work as a blacksmith our Peep
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