The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-12-19

is in poor health - The Methodist
church has been repainted on the outside
Repairs are being made on the inside and a
new platform built In front. - MIR. j.
McLam's little daughter Agnes has been
very i'll. Drs. Fox and Darling have been
attending her. Hopes are now entertained
oil her speedy recovery. - Miss Emma
Rogers returned from New Hampshire on
Saturday Of last week. 80 Christmas ex-
ercses are to be held in the Methodist
church on Christmas evening.
MARsHrIELD.-Herbert Eddy has finished
working on the Lanesboro section and has
gone to Montpelier to work on the new rail
road to Barre. 60 Christmas will he OBJ
served at the Methodist church next Tues
day evening with the customary festivities.
- James III. Carpenter has moved into
the village and, with his family, will occupy
the J. W. Haskins house. - Eta Nc
Crillis was home over Sunday from Mont
pelier. 80 There was an alarm of fire In
our village last Friday during the noon
hour. A. I. Durants saw-mill was dis
covered to be ON fire. The flames were
quickly eXtinguished but few minutes
delay would have resulted in quite blaze,
as NJ. ID. Bemis' cooper-shop is connected
with the mill - The school in the
higher department came to close last
Wednesday at the beginning of the after
noon session, Mr.. Clark thinking his health
would not admit of his continuance as
teacher. He went at it again, however, the
next morning and says he shall keep the
school out or die in the school-room."
- Rev. j. ID. Bailey went to East Cabot
last Sunday to attend the funeral of the
eldest daughter of Mark Hall. She died Fri
day. - The temperance sermon by Rev
o. ID. Clapp Sunday evening was greatly
enjoyed by the large congregation. Con-
vincing arguments came thickly and with
force. Advocates of the Pitkin bill got no
aid or comfort at the speakers hands.
lns al al No t1....
good thing. 80 A choir meeting will be
held at Rev. o. d. Clapp's next Friday
evening. All singers connected with the
Methodist choir are expected to be present.
Z HARDwICK.-The loss by fire at b. Ship
mans, on the evening of December7. was
adjusted December 10 by Special Adjuster
Fullerton of the Vermont Mutual. -
Frank Eastman, jeweer at East Hardwick,
has been treated for cancer on the face by
DIR. Wells, the cancer specialist, at the Cen
tennial House. - E. Brush, Il. ID. Dut-
ton, 9. M. Ide and l. A. Shattuck have WIS.,
tied Boston the past week. - Professor
w. H. Taylor, wife and sister went to
Wheelock on Wednesday last to attend the
twenty-eighth anniversary of their parents
marriage. 80 "A town meeting has been
called for December 26 for the purpose of
raising money to defray town expenses for
the current year, to pay state taxes and re-
deem town bonds already voted. Mr..
Parody, master builder in charge of the
erection of |. p. Titus new residence. cut
his left hand severely last week and has
been unable to work since Rev. A. p.
Drown has rented his farm in Woodbury.
and moved to the Benjamin Chandler place
on Alder brook in this town. - The con
tinued absence of snow j. making many
lumbermen anxious who have large CON
tracts for moving the logs to the mills or
river bank. The lumber business is boom
ing, as greater demand is anticipated from
builders next season than ever before No
doubt the result of the election inspires in
creased confidence among capitalists and
business men, which must lead to an in
crease in building operations. - The
Ryegate Granite Company drew a twenty
feet spire for a monument from the
Crandall quarry to the railroad on Monday
1t was estimated to weigh about eight tons.
- The Grand Army post held a social
at their rooms in post-ofice block on Sat-
urday last. There was large attendance
and pleasant time is reported.
WATERBURY.-The growing interest man
Tested in our schools was evidenced by the
large number in attendance on the final
examinations last week Friday. The two
lower grades united and Joined in the usual
chidren's exercises. In the grammar
school the exercises were more of literary
character. The school had previously
visited the capital and "a number of ESSAYS
on that trip We're read by two scholars. A
pornon OF tne AFTERNOON was given 70 Spain |
and some time also to Virginia. The
knowledge of the pupils was not limited to
the geography of those places, but included |
history, and, in the case of Spain in particu- |
lar, the manners and customs of the people |
BY means of the dialogue system and letters
to be written from different
points in the country, it was shown that the |
students must have in their minds very |
bright picture, not only of the way Spain |
looks on the map, but as well of its quaint |
and interesting people and customs and |
skeleton of its literary and political history. |
The method of instruction and the results |
of it were both highly praised hy the visit /
ors. == Rev. G. NJ. sheldon ended his |
pastorate of the Congregational church here |
last Sunday and went to his home in |
Salem, Mass, early Monday morning As |
has been already announced he has ac- |
repted "A call TO a church in Topeka, Kan,
and Will soon enter upon his new field of |
labor. While the people here have felt
from the tirst that it WAS only "a question of |
time when Mr.. Sheldon would leave them,
the announcement of the proposed severng |
OF the pastoral and social and friendly rela-
lions found the people here all unrecon-
ciled To the inevitable. His brief two years
stay will be notable epoch in the village as
well as in the religious society with which
he was more directly connected for his
iabors and his sympathieS knew no bounds
Of creed or denomination, of sphere or class
UT lHulNlltdl lprNOltil 10 MS SDpclHl WORK |
with a fervor and intensity that can spring
only from the most unseliiSh of motiVeS
the deepest sense of responsibility and the
most exalted conception of the duties of
his sacred office, he extended his labors
and his solicitude far outside the immediate
boundaries of a clergyman's activities. A
public library of IA thousand volumes re-
Gently opened To this community is an in
stance of the courage and resolution he dis
played in undertaking public enterprises,
and the tact, wisdom and persistence with
which he pressed them to "A successful issue
Reading clubs, instituted and personally
conducted, We're among the many means de-
vised and employed for creating and sus-
tanning a wholesome moral tone among the
Younger members of the community His
presence among them and participation in
these secular means of grace was an inspi-
ration and constant stimulus to improving
and orderly lives In his departure this
class naturally feels bereft of guide,
and friend" Inside his church
society he had won the affection, confidence
and reverence of its members. His Sunday
isconrses had been marked by originality,
by holiness and aifectionate plainness and
Without a tinge of the sensa-
ional he gained and held attention by the
lewness and freshness and power of his
presentations of religious truth. Naturally
his departure is regarded with deep feelings