The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11

elsewhere as a clerk, Mr.. Blair having
recently taken a partner. 80 On the
evening of Tuesday of next week, Au-
gust II, there will be musicale at our
town hall, under the direction of Messrs
John Lynde, Jr., and James Walbridge,
and to which everybody here and elsewhere
is cordially invited The entertainment
will be given without any charge. There
will be the usual variety of music on like
occasions. In addition to home talent, Mrs.
Durgin OF Boston quartette church choir
and Messrs. James s. Abbott and Daniel r.
Martin, who are vacationizing here, have
kindly consented to assist in singing One
may safely expect to be well paid for attend
ing. - Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Win
chester were visiting friends in Cornth last
week. Mr.. Winchester receives most fiat
tering testimonials to the value of the
remedies he has been selling hereabouts
for some months past. 60 Messrs. Lynde
Il Cheney have been making repairs of their
mill-dam and painting one of their houses in
Mill village. They are wide-awake business
men. - A newspaper itemizer here has
just bought ahorse that calls forth, perhaps,
as much comment as one of j. X. Lyndes
fine horses usually does. Said horse is not
only provocative of the whip, but brings
out the wit of observers occasionally. In
witness whereof, we present the following
brace of jokes: His driver the other day
having gone through fire of mouth
musketry at his animals expense, meeting
a friend told him that certain one had Just
been poking fun at his horse. HE can do
his own poking," was the quiet rejoinder
Not long after, said driver was returning
from market with buggy loaded. Meet
ing one going to the same market, he said to
him: 81 have left something behind for
| you" A sharp-shooter by the roadside
overhearing the remark just then, sent this
mimic whizzing past the ear of the driver:
You won't leave much behind with that
horse!" - Edwin Prescott, who has been
laid aside from work by illness, is again
| able to be out. - Charles E. Peters has
sold his stage route from Chelsea to Barre
to John Corliss of Barre, whom he is sure
will please the public every way as owner
| of the route. - There is to be on Satur-
day next, at Leavitt Hayward's place. a
| gathering of the descendants of the late
| Mr.. Asa Hatch for picnic. 1t is expected
| Principal A. w. Edison, now of Jersey City,
| n. j., and wife will be among those in at
! tendance. -" Bert " Royce's vacation
came to an end last week He has returned
| to his work in Adams, Mass. - One of
the inconvenient consequences of the drouth
here of late is the drying up of some of the
wells and springs. 1t is feared also that
the potato crop will be cut short thereby.
- Some of our carpenters are at work
on the store building going up in the quarry
| district, in the southeastern corner of Barre.
That growing place deserves some signif-
cant name. Why not call it New London
or New WillamstOwn? - Fred Martin
hopes to take possession of his new store in
| South Barre next week. - Miss May
Webster's seventeenth birthday was cele
brated last Saturday by some of her young
friends, with ride to Berlin pond and
| Montpelier.