The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-24

lIs IN,
Massachusetts, visiting his children.
West Topsham.
WEBSTER SANBoRN died of consumption.
last Sunday. after an illness of several
months. By honest industry and economy
he had accumulated handsome property
He leaves wife and half-brother Ga Mr..
Andrus, residing in Montpeler), who are
his only heirs. - Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry
Bowen wish to express their heartfelt
thanks to their neighbors and friends i'm
this vicinity and Barre for expressions of
sympathy during a long winter of pain and
suffering. That the Giver of every good
and perfect gift may reward them in this
and the life to come will ever be their
prayer. - George Newton and family
are soon to return to their farm, he not find
ing employment in Philadelphia.
Beede * Tibbetts have moved on to the
Albert Newton farm, they having rented
the same for the coming year
Tunbridge.
In some sugar-places sap ran freely last
week - II. Hutchinson's large oxen
have been sold. They weighed 1900 pounds
s-,==, James Whitney is now working for
Arbuckle & Co. of Burlington. He was
here last week. - Mrs. f. A. Lyman is
very low and has but little hope of living
many days longer. - Albert NJ. Dean
has secured work in Barre. 60 Mrs. S. E.
Cilley has moved to Manchester, n. II.
III, n, Ill
made short visit here last week.
West Fairlee.
ANOTHER court was held here last week
in the Orr will case, and the will was sus-
tanned. The case was appealed. A
Mr.. Southworth of Middle Brook, not
Muddy Brook" as recently stated.
Farmers are preparing for sugaring. A
good season is anticipated. - Mrs,
! Whitney and daughter are at home from
Montpelier. G.. n. Simpson is also in town.
Williamstown.
The idea is abroad that the goose that
lays the golden egg is just now making
| Barre her nest The best-laid schemes Of
nest went " a-gley," and he will remain on
his farm the coming year Consequently
| Nelson Durham, who was to occupy this
farm, will stay in the village, and in the
rooms heretofore used by Harvey l.. Cheney.
- Miss Nellie Hathaway, who has been
spending the winter in the family of Mr..
John Lynde, recently returned to her home
in East Montpelier. - Rev. r. ID. Miller
has been under DIR. McClearn's care for
a few days past, with some rheumatic
| trouble. He was unable to preach last Sab
bath, and sermon was read by Barney ID.
Flint. - Rev. j. E. Wright of Mont
pelier occupied the desk at the Universalist
church last Sunday. - One of our farm
ers of recognized good judgment tells us
that turkeys, at ten cents per pound, will
pay as well for raising as anything else on
the farm in these days. - Our old
townsman, Orange II. Dickinson, who went
to Barre to live year or two ago. has pur-
chased place in the village of Washington
and will shortly move on to it. - The
hearts of Congregationalists here We're re-
| joiced, last week, by check of S25 from an
ex-resident of the place to aid in the sup
port OF preaching. Our pen doesn't at all
enjoy the ENJOYMENT not to mention the
name of the donor. But sure we are that
this gift, so thankfully received, will bring
rich blessings to the giver as well as the re-
ceivers. - We hear that Mr.. Ed
Bowman, who went from here last year,
has purchased home in Waterbury. His
son, Herbert, is reported as doing well in
| business in Montpelier. The making
of maple sugar was begun here last week
though only in small way - We hear
that Mr.. John Lynde, into whose posses
sion the tannery has come, may likely run
it this year. AS he has not been in the
habit of failing in his undertakings thus far
in life, we shall in this case look for his be-
ing the tanner and not the tanned.
| Not long ago we found an old friend else
where caught in the old snare from having
gone surety for another. Though not al
ways practicable, why as rule, should one
ask another's name as security for himself
| without first having secured him from dan
| ger? And why, too, should one lend his
name till he is thus secured? - The
other day we saw Mr.. Enoch Howe, now al
most ninety-four years old, working about
his wood-pile with an AK. - Messrs.
| lynde x Cheney have put new corn
shelter into their mill Does the public
| know what stock of meal they keep on
sale? - Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Farms
worth have recently buried their baby boy.
- 1t is pleasant to chronicle items sent
| back here from the various sections of our
| pOnntrV which towpS-fpllx bgl-a mi
grated This time they come from Aroos-
took county, Maine, that way down East -
land for which the WATCHMAN's agricultu-
raj editor has so many good words. Ex-
townsman Daniel H. Bean sends them. He
is living one hundred twenty-five miles
north of Bangor and only two miles
from the New Brunswick line For
farming purposes he thinks the early
frosts and very long and severe win
tiers something of a drawback. The soil
| is good, and large crops of hay, wheat, oats
and buckwheat are raised there. For pota-
toes it beats any other section of New En-
gland. One can pillow for days and not strike
stone OF any great size. There is an album
dance of nice cedar, and many millions of
| cedar shingles are made there yearly. 1t is
a poor place for gardening, as frosts are
liable TO come every month of the warm
season, and thus ii is a poor section for corn
also, He speaks of the present times as
being very hard in his locality, men getting
boarding themselves, while scores of men
there have not been able to get days work
to do this winter. In the summer good
carpenters get Shopper day and board them
selves. AS with all other sections, he thinks
the sunny side of Aroostook county is shown
up in the newspapers, while the shady side
is kept till one gets there TO see il for him
self, - Reports continue to come of the
good results following the work of Rev. III.
X. Grain (pastor of the Free Baptist church,
and his friends, especially in the neighbor-
hood of the Broughton school-house Meet
ing are held there weekly, or oftener, and
are well attended. - Mr.. Joseph Gregory
is moving from the West Hill to the house
in our village in which his son-in-l law, Frank
Godfrey, resides 80 The very sad sick
ness (paralysis) of our good friend, Dea
Frank H. Newell of East Brookheld came
to an end last Saturday night He was in
the early prime of life being only about
forty-three years of age. == Miss Ella
Martin is attending the present term of
Goddard Seminary, - II singing birds
are the sure harbingers of spring, II is at
hand here. === Il. ID. Barnes, being about
to vacate the Gulf Spring House, will sell at
auction there at ten O'Clock A. NJ, next
Saturday, horses, carriages, household
goods, etc. == Probably one of the
hardest things for human nature to take
kindly and probably is criticism in any