The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-01

of pneumonia in West Lebanon, N. H., last
Friday. He would have been eighty years
old had he lived until Monday of this week.
- There was pleasant social gather
ing at Grand Army Hall Monday evening
that being an anniversary night for Whit
ney Post. -== Road breaking will have to
be continued for some time, many Of the
hill roads being impossible now. 60
Spelingschool in district No Is tomorrow
Thursday evening. 60 Mrs. T.. A. Ken
yon of Townsend is to give chalk talk"
under the auspices of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, at the Congrega-
tional church Friday evening. - Arthur
Adams is said to be i'll. 60 The festival
has been postponed to the evening of Feb
ruary 8. - Whitney Post meets Satur-
gaining. 80 G. o. Durham has bought
the Chelsea stage-line. - Mrs. Ellen
King is visiting in Randolph.
West Fairlee.
THE storm was very severe here as else
where. The eclipse did not come off accord
ing to the programme. We can not say how
large the " attendance" was, but we know
of one person who got up twice in the " wee
sma' hours to observe it and-got sold.
The next night, however, ii was all right.
- The Eagle Hotel in this village came
very near being burned last Monday morn
ing. 1t took fire in the third story from a
burning chimney and was saved mainly by
chemical extinguishers, there being several
of them in this place.
Williamstown.
THE worst storm of the season occurred
on Thursday of last week. The snow and
wind combined to make our roads almost
impossible on Friday and later. On Friday
no mail was taken from or brought here-a
very rare occurrence. - Our esteemed
and prosperous young physician, Elliot b.
Watson, and Miss Abbie S. Prentis Of
Waitsfeld were married in Montpelier by
Rev. j. II. Hincks on Wednesday last
They are housekeeping in the upper part of
the house formerly occupied by Dr. G. w.
McClearn. We anticipate for our place
valuable acquisition in the person of Mrs.
Watson - Arthur Simons, son of
Lucus S. Simons, comes back, after resi-
dence of two years in the West satisfied
with old Vermont az place to live in. He
has gone to Barre to work at his trade as
carpenter. - A recent issue of the Lead
vile Colorado Weekly Dispatch, under the
head of Leading Mining Men, speaks of
our young townsman, Clarence Jersey, son
of Joel Jersey, as having achieved very
honorable position there as an assayer.
His laboratory is the largest and most COM
plete in that part of the state. His Office is
equipped with the very finest balances in
the West, being so nicely adjusted as to be
able to weigh light pencil-mark. 1t is
used only where hundredths of an ounce of
gold and tenths of an ounce of silver are
weighed" Mr. Jersey is said to have
" made some excellent investments in min
ing" - DIR. j. c. Briggs left for New
jersey last week to look after his newly
purchased right to use the dental electric
vibrator there. He purposes selling office
rights to use it there. - Mrs. Lyman
Capron is very feeble and it is feared is yet
on the decline. She has had an attack of
erysipelas of late. - While Mrs. Charles
Peters and daughter, Miss Lille, We're re-
Gently driving near the house of Erwin II.
Martin their sleigh was overturned and the
horse thrown down. Miss Peters quickly
took in the situation and seated herself
upon the horses head till help came. Mrs.
Peters came out of the fray with broken
rib. - Charles NJ. Erskine, estimating
the value of heating the water for his stock
in winter, thinks it equal to feeding each
one OF his cows two quarts extra of meal
daily. Some one else has just told us of
knowing by experiment the great value of
warmed water for cows in cold weather
in the increased flow of milk.
A daughter of former townsman resid-
ing in Dakota writes concerning the recent
storm there. She says her husband started
to drive his stock a half mile to water with
the weather pleasant. Before he could re-
turn to the house the storm had come with
such fury he could hardly get back. -
One who believes that no life has been
worthily lived which has not been one of
much unselish helpfulness of others must
sometimes find it perplexing question hOc
to help UiSely. In an instance that came to
our knowledge lately this question seems to
have been solved by an acknowledged great
benefactor now gone to his reward. In con-
versaton with an accomplished lady "a YER
monter by birth, but in late years resident
elsewhere) who has had some rare educa-
tionat advantages, we inquired if she had
ever seen or known the gentleman who
founded and fostered the school with which
she had been connected. She replied that
it was his personal interest in her and
help that had enabled her to avail herself of
the advantages of the school. AS we have
thought of the high position she is filling
now, it seems as il the man who had thus
helped her to occupy it had made one of the
wisest possible investments of his money.
- DR.. G. w McClearn was in town not
many days ago. - Those who read the
charming papers, Zone Hundred Days in
Europe" contributed to the atlantic NOnthly
last year by Oliver Wendell Holmes, may
recall the column and a half in the first
paper, written in his characteristic vein and
devoted to present from some friend as he
was about to sail. He speaks of it as " a
reapng- machne " and "a lawn-mower "
for the beard. In reality it was " Star
razor" and he says " it is pure goodwill to
his race that leads him to speak its praises.
If any one here has curiosity to what
the thing is our town clerk, George Beckett
will cheerfully crafty it, 1t seems to us
decidedly curious and interesting. - A
handsome, large calendar for 1888 is one
issued by the Northwestern Mutual Fire
Insurance Company, Rock Island, H., of
which ex-Townsman Henry A. Ainsworth
Ga manufactures in Moline, ND is the presi-
dent. - Old Boreas is laboriously con-
tending with Ben Franklin Sibley for the
right of way through our village. In fact
but for the latter pedestrianism on our side
walks might have been at an end weeks
ago. Let us not be unmindful of his work
and our obligations. - Rev. h. ID. Mil
Ter closed his third year with the Congrega-
tional church last Sabbath 60 The an
nual meeting of the Congregational society,
for the election of officers, will be held at
the church vestry at one p. NJ. next Sunday.
a full attendance is desired. - The cit-
zens of our place will have the opportunity
to hear the Norfolk (Va.) Colored Jubilee
Singers at Town Hall on Thursday evening
next. Plantation hymns and camp-meet-
ing songs are a marked feature of their en-
tertainments. AT their third concert at
Steinway Hall, New York city, they had
an audience of over three thousand people.
At Music Hall, Boston, hundreds of people
were unable to gain admission" We think
our people will find more than the pleasure
of an evening simply in listening to this com
pany of singers. - The effects of the re-
/ cent storm uDOn orr roads seem 10 have hppn