The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-06

Eastman lately shot six wild ducks in Mil
ler's pond.
Williamstown.
Meetings will be continued at the Meth
odst vestry during the week in the evening.
We are told that a granite firm in Barre is
going TO work up the boulders on Rodney
Seaver's farm here.
j. b, Brockway lost horse last week
He has engaged Elisha X. Durham for
work the coming winter.
Miss Bernice Sibey is at home from the
Montpelier High School and sick enough to
require ply sician's care.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Erskine awaited
themselves of excursion rates TO visit BOs-
ton and vicinity last week.
George Adams, son of the late John
Adams, goes to West Rutland this week to
take charge of "A drugstore.
Walter Flint and Don A. Earle recently
improved excursion rates to New York,
MIR. Flint visiting his brother Wyman in
Newark, n. j.
The Williamstown Granite Company is
busy building its new stone-shed. 1t will
be some one hundred ten feet in length and
is located close by the one built last year.
ID. ID. Royce has bought the Wilson place,
near South Barre, and will move to il this
week. He will prepare at once for the
building Of new house there, doubtless
for his own use, the present one being
rentabe.
Rev. /. Jones and father are expected to
return here this week The latter will
doubtless preach at the Congregational
church next Sunday morning. Both will be
at the Clark Shepard school-house, Mill
stone Hill, Barre, at the Sunday afternoon
service.
II is said there is a very fine quality of clay
for briCk-making to he found on the farm
of the late Porter Simonds, now owned by
his son-n-law, Frank Martin Many years
ago IT'S worth was known here and bricks
were made of it. 1t is to be hoped, in this
new era of our town, it will again come
into use. Will not some out-of-town manu-
facturer of bricks come and investigate its
merits?
The news from Elton Durham (son of
james Burnham), who was sick with typhoid
fever in Taunton, Mass, had continued
| more favorable till Sunday, when a tele-
gram was received announcing his death.
His body was brought here for burial on
Monday. He was twenty-five years of age,
and had been employed for some time past
in an insane asylum in Taunton as an at
tendant.
Mrs. I. c. Titles nephew Charles Cor
liss and wife, who had been hereabouts for
some weeks past and gone to Philadelphia,
/ are about to return and occupy the Tapln
/ boarding house, in Barre, with Mrs Sarah
/ f. Barron, daughter of Mrs. Little. Mrs,
! Barron will use a part of the house for her
store while Mr.. Corliss attends to the
| boarding department. Mrs Coriss has just
/ buried her father.
Mss Alma Benedict came home from
| MiddletOwn, Conn, and Alvin. son of
David NJ Smith, from Taunton, Mass, to
attend the funeral of Elton Burnham yes
terday afternoon. He was buried from
the house of his brOther-in-law, Walter
/ Granger, Rev. Walter Dole of Barre Off.
Pf nj Ar Rtrrn hon mil. > Ia.
second time only last April. His wife is an
attendant in the insane asylum at Taunton
Mass.
The Squire Benedict farm belonging tC
the estate of the late Aaron Wales Of South
Barre, is to be sold at auction on Saturday
of this week. We believe this farm wa,
| once sold for $500 1t recently came into
mortgage of little less than 1000 1t,
low price and nearness to our village, we
trust, will commend it to some good family
that will move on to it and grow up 3
with us.
The new street to the Lynde addition t.
our village has been laid by the selectmen
1t will start from the main street, opposit,
j. X. Lynde's store, and pass the Congrega
tionalist church on the north side, necessi
tating the removal of some of the horse
sheds back of tile building For the pres
ent the road will be opened only to the lin,
between Messrs. John Lynde and Asa G
Wilbur. But once safely past the "pin
feather " stage of the towns growth, it viii
likely be extended to both the Brookfel,
road on the south and the Mortified roat
on the west.
James Burnham, the youngest son of on
old towns-folk, the late John l.. and Saral
j, Bailey Martin, died of typhoid fever a
Mrs. Martins home, Watseka, H., on Mon
day, October 2l, in the twenty first year o
\ m a rs
warm tribute AS an ideal young man" III,
was buried from the Presbyterian church
The paper thus concludes its obituary
Rev. E. p Morse delivered touching AL
dress. The choir sang most teuderly. Tn,
church was filled to its utmost capacity
many being obliged to stand. 1t was ont
of the most solemn funerals we have eve
witnessed in this city, for there uni
versal sorrow over the death of Burnie
Martin, whom all esteemed as one of Wat
seka's most exemplary young men an,
brightest ornaments The remains wer
taken to old Martinton and placed in tn
family cemetery"
Does not all the Yankee world, at am,
rate share the itching of the small boy win
cut open the bellows to find where IN
wind came from? The secret of exception
ally great success has for it never-failin
interest, We lately improved "a chance t
learn something of one into whom at hi
birth the green hills of Vermont seem L
have put portion of their own CRANE
backbone and strength, but which wer,
lovingly wise enough to withholdIrom hin
any more worldly goods, we are told, thai
could be envelOped by red handkerchief
when, as lad midway the teens, he lief
the state in pursuit of fortune. Both tn
East and West have been the avenue il
which he has fought for the rich prize h
has won. Those who may have though
his success due to speculations may be SUI
prised to be told of his habit of working a
business from half-past five in the morning
till eleven and twelve o'clock at night. III
lays much stress on ones being master q
his own misunderstanding all the detail
, of it, and retaining the mastery of it. O
one who stepped into his business shoes il
} the West, but failed to travel the road I
the success he might have had, he says
" He trusted his affairs too much to his sui
) ordnates. He lost $4,000 one time b
being off hunting, when he should hav
been at home attending to his business"