The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-31

- The Alpha Sigma ri fraternity of
Norwich University present the drama,
"wednesday evening. - Quite a num-
Der OF our young people will attend the
Mikado at Montpelier next week. Half
fare on the Central railroad l.. O.
Sherburn of the Center preached at the Bap-
fist church last Sunday. III. l.. Bass
recently sent COW to market that dressed
eight hundred pounds. - The inside of
the Christian church is being extensively
repaired, both the audience-room and the
vestry. Rev. w. f. Peters, the new pastor,
will commence his abors April 4th. 60 f.
A. Thomas has returned from Boston. =-
On account of other engagements, Mrs. Ellen
j. Foster of Rhode Island did not speak
here Monday night. 80 Mrs. A. p. Joiner
has been visiting relatives in Royalton
- Ezra Walker of Chelsea has pur-
chased the DIR. Hanks place in Pains
vile. - East Randolph is to have an
other hotel making three in that village
- Rev. S. A. Parker will preach in
Mechanics band hall next Sunday at three
| Sop
Tunbridge.
Mr., f. PIxLEY is quite i'll. - DIR. Fish
lost his best mare Saturday evening. She
got one of her hind legs into a hole in a
| bridge and broke it. - Rev. G. Il. Hurd
of North Tunbridge will deliver the address
for Whitney Post on Memorial day -
Mrs @. b. Cushman, who lately visited here,
is at her home in Meriden, n H., very i'll.
- Mr.. H. ID. Lee of Newark, Ohio,
visited his mother and sister at A. C.
| Adams last week. His mother is very ILL.,
- Mr.. j. s. Noyes has been very sick
for a few days. - Some of the pews in
the Congregational church are claimed by diff
ferent parties and an effort to settle the dis
! putes is being made. = Richard Smith of
! Vershre, a former resident, visited his son,
| Charles w. Smith, last week. 60 The
Band of Hope meets again Thursday evening
of next week. - Euclid Fish spent Sun
day with his parents. He likes the Northfield
school and returns to it this week. - Mrs.
H. b. Osman is weaving carpets for all who
bring her the material - The sugar
makers are very busy. - Grand Army
meeting next Saturday evening.
WilIiamstown.
ORvILLE III. BRIGGS, accompanied by his
only boy, Willie, is visiting his father and
brothers in Rochester, n. Y. - Frank
j. Martin, son of the late Kimball p Mar
tin, who left us in the fall of 1884 for st.
Louis, Missouri and has for some months
past been in Worcester, Mass, came home
pan which crippled him for months, two
years ago, has recovered so far as he can
ever hope for, perhaps. Though by no
means having the use of the knee as before
the INJURY, 1t Is a very serviceable one yet.
Mrs. Almira jackson Prescott and her son,
Edwin, are to move from her own little farm
on to the Damon d. Martin farm" now
owned by Herbert p. Martin. - Lucius
Wright, son-in-law of Luther j. II. Merrill
has taken farm in or near the village OF
East Brookfeld for the coming year. -
Our Ladies' Reading Club takes its next
modern poets day with Tennyson. - II
is an occasion for congratulation that ouI
farmers are again to have home market fol-
hides and bark at our to-be-revived tan
merry. Long may it whstlel" -
50 BERT ~ Bailey auain n StuIent at the
Methodist Seminary in Montpelier. His
first term of teaching, lately finished
brought him praise from our town superin-
tendent, as well as from members of the
district in which he taught. - We had
the pleasure, last week, of taking Conductor
Frank w. Flint on to our own private
train " for an hours ride. His extensive
travelling through Uncle Sans domain
makes him fine subject for interview
ing" and this occasion will never be reck.
oned as one of our lost opportunities in that
direction. His recent visit to Washington
ID. c., was made most delightful by ex
townsmen Frank o. Beckett and John
, Walker. He regards it beautiful city
and thinks he would rather live in il
than any other city in this country. He
enjoyed Florida greatly, but nevertheless
his eye for business would lead him sooner
) to the great West for money-making pur
. poses. - Has not the experience Of
many another one proved like that Of an es
Unable lady friend, who has had unusua
{, chances for observation and who recently
said to us she had found that people o
, means who were most lavish of eXpendi
2 lures upon themselves were often the leas
, liberal in giving to the needs of others? Ant
. isn'tit simply question of time when tn,
} real poverty of such persons of means shall
+ be shown to be irretrievable, and lament
4 able beyond the power of words to eX
5 press. - Arthur Ralph failing to fin,
a desirable tenement for housekeeping, hi
: family will board for the present at the Hill
bard House. - James Perry of Barr
has just been having (and giving the pleas
ure of visit with his warm friend and on
: eX-townsman, James S. Abbott, now of ST
. Augustine, Florida. Speaking of one da
. last week, on which he wrote he said he sui
fered as much from the heat as in Angus
! here at home. =C c. u. Lathrop has bee
: appointed administrator of the estate of tn
late Mrs. Jacob Jetfords. - Oliver
Walker has sold the horse, /" Western Boy
: to Clark Shepherd of Barre. - DIR. am
= Mrs. w. b. Mayo of Mortified were in tow
= last week, at Mrs. Mayo's old home. Tn
! doctor is probably one of the busiest of tn
- medical fraternity in these parts. - My
ron Burnham has engaged with his neigl
Dor, j. b. Brockway, to work in his saw
, mill for the present. - This incident OF
. cured the other day in one of the humbles
= homes with which we are acquainted, an
of which ii can be said though poor, ii ma
, vet make many rich " through the dali
! two children in this family is bright an
| pleasant little girl of few summers, on
of whose marked traits is generosity.
,, woman from whose family this child ha
Just received some small favor was calling
:, at this home, and the child wished her t
y accept some little gift from herself Every
- thing conspirng To lead this caller to fee
. and say that she ought not to take it, tn
4 mother interposed and begged that she aC
= cept it, saying she desired to encourag
: in her child the habit of giving, al the St
quel to this act may demand a very Ion
time to discover, but already she has begu
IS to prove the truth of the words, Give, an
:. it shall be given to you; good measur,
d pressed down, shaken together, runnin
/. over, shall they give into your bosom.
= 60 Messrs. George and Fred Flint, son
y of Lucius Flint, have this season cut an
y sold 400 spruce and hemlock logs. Price
IS IS per thousand feet, the purchaser to tax
= them at their home farm. They have ais
Is cut 49, cords of siXteen-inCh wood. The
If are thinking now of going elsewhere to ell
II gage in the manufacture of lumber. =-
d Human J. Hersey is to have the care of tn
e town hall in the year to come. -
II course it is IA libel on the male "perswi
If shun " to say that men are reached throug
II their stomachs rather than through the
n power by no means to be despised and 5
Ne the new Household Department of til
10 WATCHMAN, we Judge, is to be congratl
2, lated. Some of our lady friends are testin
al recipes found there, and with pleasing SUI