The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21

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the poor farm last spring, hung himself
last Friday morning. He had been In poor
health and great sufferer for number OF
years. - DIR. Watson went to Littleton,
N. H., last Wednesday to attend medical
convention.
Tunbridge.
THERE is a large amount OF sickness in
town. - The majority of our farmers
have their haying nearly done. - There
were seven young people baptized at the
North village last Sunday. - Some very
nice books were received at the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union library last
week. - The wool market has been
very active for few days. From twenty
four to thirty cents per pound has been
paid - Fat hogs and calves have adj
vanced in price. - Little Alvin Mann
has the typhoid fever, and is very i'll. -
Laura Hubbard is better She has had
! slight attack of pneumonia. - Mr.. +.
j.. Clark has returned from his western
trip. He left his eldest son with friends
family of Newark Ohio, are visiting at A.
e. Adams. - Mrs. s. d. Jones is very
sick.
Washington.
THE Mite Society met with Mrs. Emma
Huntington last Thursday. - J. Harry
Holden preached at the Universalist church
| last Sunday in the absence of Mr.. Rhoades.
- Florence Henry has been visiting
friends in Chelsea the past week. - Mrs.
Wetmore of Chicago and Mrs. Day and
Mrs, Smith of Barre visited Mrs. L. Brown
last Tuesday. - Miss Nettie Watson is
spending few weeks with her mother,
Mrs. Carrie Watson. - An infant son of
John Page died last Friday Of lung fever.
- Mrs. b. Thurber, who is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Melvin Scribner of Mont
pelier, is expected home this week. -
Mrs. Lucy Roberts, who has been teaching
in Massachusetts for several years, is at
Perley Roberts. - Ira and Lucy Calef,
with friends from Providence, r. l., and
Chicago have taken a trip to the White
Mountains.
West Fairlee.
A GOOD rain has made glad the earth,
and the farmers, too. We had our first
thunder shower of the season last Sunday.
- William Eustice, who died here last
week, was born in Cornwall, England, and
came here when about fourteen years of age
He was a skillful blacksmith, and worked
at Ely for some years, doing such work on
iron as is required in mining. He had held
the office of selectman in the town Of Ver-
shire, was past master in Jackson lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons, and was also a
member of the Royal Arch Chapter. He
leaves a wife and five children.
Williamstown.
WELL worth repeating seems the testi-
mony of an acquaintance, who has had
nearly forty years of active, varied, extern
SlNe anu very SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS lie. his
testimony is the more valuable, II possible,
since no suspicion of " sham " or " can't
attaches to him, that ever we heard
of. To those who know him, it would seem
needless to add that "good name " caps
. the high position he has reached. He tells
!. us, in substance, that experience has taught
him that the speaking Of the erdct truth, when
one speaks at all, in all business matters is
the highest practical wisdom, calculated as
it is to lead to the most successful results.
, g." l think So he adds, "a good deal more
than did forty years ago" Given as it
, was from business standpoint, it appeals
especially to beginners in life who, like
!; himself, may be thinking that truth
speaking may be incompatible with success.
- Charles Woolcutt has bought the
William Camp place. He had previously
bought the saw-mil close by it, formerly
,, owned by Mr.. Isaac Staples. - Charles
. c. Barnes and son Frank came home last
: week, after an absence of several months
They have been working of late in Canada
- Mrs. DIR. Charles Briggs and daugh.
ter of Rochester, n. Y, are visiting the doc.
! tors brothers here and in Barre. 1t is hoped
!, he himself may come on little later
= - Mr.. j. Ebert Briggs continues to
: prosecute successfully the publication OF
; first venture, in purchasing the plates of the
United States Court Reports and giving to
the public these reports, in a form much
/, cheaper than the original one, he began the
publication of the Digests of the Supreme
~ Court Decisions in the various states of the
Union, putting them in a cheaper than the
=. usual form, thus bringing them within the
u reach of larger number of persons. The
: work is not mere copying of other people:
work, but involves much original research
and the employment by Mr.. Briggs of
i corps of experts. Associated with him i,
5 his grown-up son. Two brothers find con
d slant employment in the sale of these pub
}. locations. The younger of these two, Edwin
lro1. Il
e Indiana his next field of labor. - A
8 Western Boy" colt that o. S. Wake
p brought from the West year before last ant
sold to John Trow of Barre has been sole
by the latter for $500. We hear that
prominent railroad official in the stat
/, could be bought for that. - Our worth.
IS young townsman, Elliot B. Watson, who's
e IND" is expected to break its shell
l. year hence, and who is himself "'prentce
: hand " of DR.. G. W. McClearn, was out las
J. week in a neighboring county seeking
1t Prentiss-hand " for himself. He is on
J. who puts "heart " into his work. -
d Mrs. Matte III. Sibley, now of Austin,
n suburb of Chicago, ILL.,, and daughter O
4. Mrs. Harriet Robinson Wheeler, was il
II town last week with her two young daugh
d ters - The West is rightly supposed t
1t be characterized by an unceremoni0us way
: which in some respects is very pleasant
-e We have just been told by friend of MI
lie FRANK L. Bartlett, formerly OF Plalnnel
d but now resident of Dakota, that while OF
st visit hereabouts, last winter "a visit il
e. which his friends in this place shared), som
re person, or persons, unceremoniously" too
}. possession Of his house in Dakota, living il
N it, and feeding upon his canned fruits, etc
L. ad Hbitum. If Dakotans have no nickname
n as do the residents of some other of on
" states, why not call them cuckoos," If the
s. are thus given to making free with tn
N "nests" of others? - DR.. and Mrs.
As A. Bailey, who left warm friends benin,
5. when they returned to Montpelier to live
is We're in town last week. - OF cours
l. nothing is more natural than for one il
lie middle life, or past, to inquire after tn
acquaintance of his school-days, fror
As whom he has long been almost wholly seq
TX arated. We had the opportunity, not Ion
lie since, to learn of one whom we knew year
lie ago, and who is filling place of more tina
e. ordinary responsibility, as men look a
2 things. He was the son Of more than a
N ordinary man in ability, and his own naturs
lie gifts and requirements would, other thing
$. being equal, enable him to be of great usefu
A, ness to his fellow-men. Assuming this to b
O.. one of the important ends for which on
it should live, it seems very pitiful that the full
est usefulness should be impeded largely an
chiefly by his defective manner, as is true
we are told, of this old acquaintance.
n doesn't matter for our purpose, now, JUS