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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-28
Caledonia County.
DanVille.

REV. Z. \. GRANGER occupied the pulpit
at the Methodist church last Sunday.
Easter services were held at the Congrega-
tional church in the forenoon and evening.
school at the Academy. - Communion
will be observed at the Congregational
church next Sunday. - Miss Nellie
Stocker goes to North Haverhil this week,
where she is to teach school.
Groton.
THERE was an Easter sermon at the
Methodist house last Sunday morning and
well-attended and very interesting con-
cert in the afternoon. - Miss Georgiana
McKindley returned to Laconia, n. H., last
week. - III. L. Gilman is slowly recov-
ering from his late severe illness. - Miss
Edna Bliss is very low with consumption.
Hardwick.
l.. c. Foss has moved to the Joseph
Thornton farm, mile or more north of his
home place, which he leaves in charge of
his son. We understand this change to be
temporary arrangement. - Lewis He
bert expects to go to ST. Johnsbury to re-
side and work at his trade (blacksmith). He
advertses most of his household personal
property for sale at auction May LIST. -
NJ. X. McCrillis was arrested on Monday
last for being intoxicated on the Saturday
previous. He pleaded guilty aud was fined
80 and costs, the usual penalty. - Ar
by the late George f. Wheeler. His wife,
being daughter of said Wheeler, inherits
third interest in the estate. George b.
Wheeler sold his third interest in his
fathers estate for $500. - George Hoyt
of Mackville has moved TO this village, rent
ing rooms of Mrs. S. j. Shipman for place
of residence. - b. f. Smith has rented
Judge Perey's barns near the Methodist
church for his livery business. - Adams
Philbrck has returned home from his
IL. II,
gate manufacturing firm. - We under
stand that Mrs. Boutelle of Morrisvile has
rented the storeroom in Judevines block,
next to the Bick's hardware store, for the
millinery business. 60 The sugar season
closed unusually abrupt The crop is much
below the average in quantity averaging
not far from one and one-half pounds per
tree.
East Hardwick.
CAPTAIN DAVIS was stricken with par
alysis while walking in the street last week
and has been in an unconscious state since.
His physician considers his recovery very
doubtful. Justin Paige, who moved
to Boston year ago. has returned with his
family. - The village school commenced
Monday in charge of Warner Drenan of
Hardwick. - Rev. Mr.. Hazen of Boston
supplied the desk at the Congregational
church last Sabbath. Mr.. Hazen was pas
tor of the church twenty-seven years ago
- Mrs b. b. Prentiss has closed her
house and gone to Canada, where her hus-
band is in business. - Arbor day was
not publicly observed in this place. -
Edison Stickney has moved into S. Owens
house. Mrs Owen is boarding at l.. Good
rich's Albert Jamison is clerking for
Hewitt 4 Babbitt. III. IL. Graham of
Walden has bought the S. Russell place,
and Russell moves ON TO the Maynard place.
49, Walter H. Bayley moves his family
to Peacham this week
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-28
JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, 2s 1885,

last Thursday evening, some thieves entered
their residence and stole their slver-ware
and jewelry and pair of pants belonging to
Mr.. Darling. After helping themselves to
what they wanted to eat and splitting to-
bacco juice over the floor they departed
with their booty. - Ralph Putnam is
suffering from lame hip and has taken
to crutches.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-28
Chittenden County.
Richmond.

Richmond.
EASTER SUNDAY was observed in all three
of the churches with appropriate exercises.
CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE.l
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-04-28

NOrthfeld.
c. ID. EDGERToN, at f. Plumley's office
over A. L. Denny's store, will receive sub
scriptions and advertisements for the
WATCHMAN, and accounts can be paid tc
him. - Some of the young ladies of the
Methodist society gathered large colec
ton of antique and fancy articles in the
vestry of the church, last week, and had
them on exhibition Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday. The hall was tastefully deco
rated and the result was most successful
all the visitors being much pleased. 49,
f. S. Mead has moved from Mr., Flanders
house on Union street to the Denny house
on Central street. - Mrs. Melissa HEATH
has m owed into the north tenement of w
w. Frost's house on the corner of Central
and South streets. 60 The members Of
the Congregational society will meet at the
church Saturday and renovate the churcl
yard. - The annual meeting of the vii
lage will be held next Tuesday evening al
seven o'clock. 1t has been rumored that {
project Is on foot 10 purchase a steam fire en-
CINE. - At the annual meeting of st
Mary's parish Monday the following were
chosen vestrymen; DIR. p. ID. Bradford, DIR
George Nichols, j, G. b. Thayer, ia. Wiley
j. X. Egerton, Il. w. Howe, Robert An
drews, The vestry subsequently, elected tn,
following officers: s. W., DIR. Il. ID. Brad
ford; j. W., Il. A. Wiley; clerk, j. X. Eyer
ton; treasurer, Dr. Geo. Nichols; chorister, j
w. Jones. 49, Communion services vii
be held at the Congregational church mex
Sunday. 80 George ID. Smaley died sud
denly of heart disease Sunday night. Tn,
funeral was held Tuesday afternoon, Rev
w. S. HaZen officiating. - Mrs. Emm;
(Crane) wife of Rev. f. l.. Small died a
the residence of her father George ii. Crane
Monday forenoon. She had been i'll with con
sumption for some months and was brough
here last week from her homein Northwood
n III. Her husband and three small children
survive her. Funeral services will be hel,
at the house this "wednesday Afternoon
at two o'clock, Mrs. Small had man,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Churning.
Prairie Farmer.

The old-fashioned ''up and down" dash
churns of our mothers are fast being con-
signed to the oblivion they deserve. What
ever kind of churn you may use, don't
use one that has any dash, paddle or any
inside arrangement. The common bar
rel or box churns are built on the right
principle, though | am somewhat partial
to the rectangular" The usual direc-
ton In regard to proper temperature for
churning is to churn at 60. Bnt some
allowance should be made for the season
of the year, and the temperature of the
room in which the churning is done. In
summer, if the room and the day are
warm, it may be commenced at co.; while
In winter, in a cool room, 65 is not too
warm.
Prepare your churn by first scalding
with hot water, then rinsing with cold.
Before putting in the churn, or immedi-
ately after, the colOring is to be added, as
but few herds of common COWS, except in
the early summer, make butter yellow
enough for the city market. Each dairy
man must find out for himself how much
is needed in his cream. Put in enough so
the butter will be of bright straw color.
The churn should be turned at about 20
revolutions per minute; and if proper di-
rections have been followed, and there is
a good proportion of fresh COWS in the
herd, the butter will come in thirty min
utes. When the first "swish'' of the but
termilk is heard stop churning. The but
ter will then be found floating in the but
termilk in small pellets about as large as
as mustard seed or larger. The butter
milk should now be drawn off into a but
termllk strainer. Some butter will come
with the milk, but this can be returned to
the churn. Is troubled by too much of it
coming out, add a quantity of brine,
better.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

spring they make great start, feeling
the impulse of the powerful stimulant.
There is hasty and unhealthful growth,
but long before maturity the days grow
long and hot, drought comes, and the gar
den dries mp. Therefore every effort
should be made to supply cool manures
with, staying qualities, such as are fur
nished by decayed vegetable matter COM
posted with the cleaning of the cow sta
BILE.
We thus learn the value of fallen leaves,
muck from the swamp, etc.. and they also
bring with them but few seeds of noxious
vegetation.
On the other hand, stolid, phlegmatic
clay requirs the stimulus of manure from
the horse stable. 1t can be ploughed
under at once, and left to ferment and de-
cay in the soil. The process of decomp-
osition will tend to Danish its cold, inert
qualities, and make the ground loose,
open, and amenable to the influences of
frost, sun, and rain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

must be past youth, but not past the
power of attracting. She must by her
graceful winning manner and ever ready
tact, keep conversation from tagging in
ana way. She must be ever mindful of
her guests; always securing, if possible,
some attention for her less attractive
ones, and endeavor to throw the congenial
spirits together, for therein lies the great
secret. Half the battle is fought when
the congenial spirits are drawn together.
She must have care that no CONVEX
sation becomes too excited, which she
can always do if she carefully watches
her guests, and if the necessity presents
itself, gracefully glide up to the persons,
and in a quiet way either turn the con-
versation in another direction or endeav-
or to interest herself in the original sub
ject just enough to allow her views in
question: prerogative hostess always
has. She should be more caieful in the
selection of her elect who are to have the
privileges of her special evenings, never
making advances to strangers, and never
admitting to her salon any one whom she
did not know would be agreeable to her
chosen few.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Fancy Lamps The Craze.
New York Mail and Express.

The gas companies have damaging com
petition in the craze for fancy vase lamps
1t has doomed petroleum, but has had q
depressing effect on the gas meter-usu-
ally a jovial SIMMER.
II am using lamps all over my house
except in the dining-room," said house
keeper to a reporter recently. THE
lamps are fashionable and oil is cheaper
than gas. Before I used the lamps 1 paid
monthley gas bill varying from So to
$40 each month. Last month l paid the
company $108. This saving is due to the
use of the lamps. Oil costs me only sc
cents per week, and always have light
ed lamp in the parler, hall, and library.
So you see, disregarding the comfort of
the fine light the lamps give, there is
quite neat sum to be saved each month
by using them"
''The sale of oil has never been as great
as now" replied a retail lamp and oil mer-
chant to the reporters query, based on
the foregoing conversation. II dispose
of at least three barrels more each week
now than I did last year. Last week
sold ten cases of petroleum to dozen diff
ferent residents of the block around the
corner. The majority of that assortment
of lamps which you see over there was re-
ceived this morning. The sale was SO
brisk last week as to leave me short OF
stock. 1 understand the lamp manufact-
urers are working night and to supply the
the trade"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Strawberries-3OO Bushels.

W. A. Huntsman tells the readers of The
Rural World how they may produce 300
bushels of Strawberries to the acre. Pillow,
subsol and manure until the ground is well
pulveaized to a depth of one foot. Then
mark off each way rows three feet apart
making 1850 hills. Set two plants to the
hill, $3.50 plants to the acre. Cultivate
both ways with cultivator. Keep all weeds
and grass out and keep all runners cut off
until Aug. 20. Cover in winter one inch
deep with rye straw. In the spring uncover
the hills.
Now If the season is all right, in juno l
will gather One-half gallon fruit to, the hill
2,420 gallons, or 1929 bushels, of fine fruit
to the acre much larger and better flavor
ed fruit than can be grown by the matted
row system. By the matted row, weed and
grass system, we make about seventy-five
bushels to the acre in hills than you do on
two acres the other way, and to tell the plain
truth, L don't believe it takes any more. And
[ will produce from two to four times as
much fruit, and then when it goes on the
market, and get my returns, I'll double
discount the matted row man. Ely pockets
will be we'll filled after paying expenses,
while yours will be very light, as was the
case last season. Why not plant your corn
in matted rows? Because you would have
nothing but nubbins. Same way with straw
berries-you have nothing but little sour
nubbins.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
A Fertilizer for Potatoes.

DR.. Hoskins, whose experience gives
special value to his statements, says: We
have never grown so large, fair and good
a crop of potatoes, and so cheapely, with
any other fertilizer as with a dressing of
Underground bone and unleached hard
wood ashes, prepared by wetting them up
together. Our preferred proportions are
one bushel of bone mixed on a floor with
two bushels of ashes, then pack firmly in
to barrel, holes made nearly to the bot
tom with hoe-handle, and from two or
three pals of water added. Let the mix
ture stand two or three weeks, then
turn out on the floor again and mix in
enough more ashes or land-plaster to
make it dry enough to apply to the land,
which should be done after blowing and
before narrowing. Apply about the same
value as you would of stable manure to
get the crop you want, more to poor land
of course. There is no less in applying
this fertilizer freely, as it does not waste
even as much as manure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Beeeher on Some Pulpit Orators.
Nam Va r. Co.

Henry Ward Beecher in q recent inter
view remarked that the boy preacher"
Harrison was wonder to him. II have
heard him preach" he continued, "and 1
never heard anything like it. You could
not call his sermon thin and slushy.
There wasn't enough In it TO be thin. If
you had taken the whole thing and
squeezed it together there wouldn't have
been anything. 1t was simply nothing,
and yet when his exhortation came the
people were moved wonderfully. He
seemed to be of the mind that his andi-
ence knew enough, that they needed no
more enlightenment. He talked directly
at their level"
In that he was something like Jones"
l suggested.
NO; Jones has sharp wit and says
bright things, but there Isl no brightness
or wit in Harrison, and yet his success as
preachhr passes all bounds"
Have you ever heard Joseph Cook
preach?"
"Cook has great facility for 'stuffing ,
He can take book and while he is on a
train as we are he can stuff himself full of
1t and give a lecture on the subject.
Whatever opinions he gets from it on the
start he sticks to, however erroneous they
may be proved. When he attacked Tyn-
dali, and Huxley, and Darwin as the great
Christian scientist he probably knew no
more of science than fresh college grad
uate. He is very conceited man, and
very ambitious. Like all conceited men,
when they feel popularity and their hold
on the public slipping away, he has be-
come embittered and damns the public
instead of looking to himself to find the
cause. 'Seest though man wise in his
own conceit? there is more hope of a
fool than of him. said Solomon"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
FARM NOTES.

Ground properly prepared for planting,
is half cultivated.
The corn row will not be straight if
you look behind you.
Michigan celery growers propose to or
ganize a celery exchange. Last year they
shipped 900 WORTH
Make a record of the time when you set
your hen, in order that you may be look
ing out for the Matching.
If the hay ran short and the cattle are
thin and poor remember to use caution in
letting them into rich pasturage.
Be very careful about the temperature
of the hot-bed, keeping it as even and
moist as possible, and not too high
never over So
Grape cuttings should be placed in the
ground at once. The same is true of all
hardy cuttings. The earlier in the spring
the better.
A healthy hen requires no stimulants
except good food. If any substance be
used, let it be ground ginger, using a
teaspoonful for twenty fowls, in soft
food.
Don't disfigure your grounds with laths
vi SlctUllS WHICH, H1IS uSUGlIIP Is 81 cheap,
says the Homestead A netting enclosure
is durable and will not be blown down in
any wind.
The hens are paying the rent on many
WORKOUT farm. They are calling people
back from the factories to the deserted
farmhouses. The American eagle will yet
be hen if solid worth is ever counted.
Never try to stimulate man or bird or
beast. A hen filed with g egg producer y
or COW given more food than she can
digest, will go like man kept on whisky.
There will be brilliant, feyerish work for
time, and then grand collapse.
The wheat record for last year is a
follows: minnesota, 34,925,O00 bushels s
Michigan, 31,261 900 bushels; Iowa. 80,
1920 bushels; then Dakota, 27,913,OOO
bushels of wheat. Last year Dakota, In
creased her wheat area by over 100000
acres beyond that of the year previous.
A Fat Puffy" bull is a nuisance.
Don't let a bull overfeed. Give him
plenty of exercise. He never will be fit
for service if you pamper him. If you
can fit up harness for him, and make
him, haul out the manure anc do other
light jobs, you would pc doing business
like manner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Scab and FOOt-Rot in Sheep.
Wool Journal.

Somebody has said, Nothing succeeds
like success" So long as there are good re-
suits, men work with energy and judg-
ment; but when trials come, and there are
no profits to encourage effort, they be-
come careless, Indifferent and neglect
full.
In sheep-raising this is as true as in
anything else. When sheep are profitable
it is easy to take good care of them.
They seem to eat less, die less, and make
nicer money and in less time than any
other stock on the farm. At such times
there is a real Joy and enthusiasm in
sheep; sheepmen seem never tired of at
tending to and talking about their sheep;
they carry wool in their pockets to show
to each other, and it pleasantly limited
that they have wool in their teeth
But when the depression comes, sheep
men are mum on sheep and wool topics.
And if you will GO to their sheep-barns
you will find they have gotten careless and
the sheep are doing badly. The owner
will declare to you that he can not see
why his sheep are looking so badly; he
will declare he feeds them the same as he
used to, but all to no purpose; he can't
understand what ails them. The sheep
can not tell, and only an old sheepman
knows that they have not been paying,
and consequently have been neglected.
Scab and foot-rOt always follow de-
pressions in prices of wool. As soon as
prices begin to acme up some
body begins to ask how to cure these ills
While these two ailments are serious
enough, they are by no means the worst
known ia sheep, provided the flock has
been well fed and kept in good health.
They can be cured by any one who will
take the time and give the attention
and go to the trifing expense. No one
ought to buy a scabby or foot-rot flock at
prices of sound sheep. Such fiocks are
not held at such good prices, either. They
are often sacrificed on account of their
diseaed condition. Had 1 such a flock,
they should be cureb, and not discounted
one cent. We're I buying, though, it
would be another thing altogether; then
experience and skill should be worth
something to me; these we're bought and
paid for years ago, when young in the
business. A careless man who would al
low his flock to become thus diseased, dis
eased, deserves to be the loser. And the
man who proposes to give time and pains
to fitting up diseased flock ought to
make some money by it.
Just here, be it remarked, we need sew
ere laws on the subject in every state.
Australia has law on scab that is mod
81! Southern ATTITUDES need such law
more than northern, but there is needed
statute on this everywhere. Foot-rot
depends upon soils good deal. Rocky
soils will cure foot rot. Yet in Vermont
many hocks have foot-rot. It is due to
carelessness there and everywhere else.-
r. NJ. Bell.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Random Readings.

A common password-"Th butter, if
you please"
What class of women are the most apt
to give tone to society?-The bellies.
~
Why is drawn tooth like a thing no
longer remembered?-B Because it is out of
the head.
~
Washington Critic: Slimkins and his
young wife had just completed their first
quarrel.
Il wish l was dead" she sobbed.
Il wish was, too" he blubbered.
'Then don't wish 1 was" she replied,
and the war continued.
***
New York Graphic: They were looking
over her family album, Birdie and her
Harold, when they came to a portrait of
an aged gentleman.
"Who is that old babboon?" asked Har-
old.
Why" replied Birdie, shutting up the
book angrily, you don't think grandpa
looks like a babboon do you Harold:''
~
''There are both good and bad points
about this coffee" said the boarder, in
Judicial tone. "The good point is that
there is no chicory in it; the bad, that
there is no coffee in it."
*:*
New York Tribune: Treasurer Well,
madam, what do you want? Don't keep
the people waiting!
Woman (who has bought her ticket be-
fore and returned with it)-Look here,
young Teller. This ticket you sold me
puts me next to niger. Do you hear
next to a niger.
Treasurer-Well, tell the niger if he
doesn't like it he can have his seat chang
ed. Next!