The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-03


measles are still lowering over this commu-
nifty, claiming an occasional victim.
Mrs. Samuel Flanders died June 26. -
o. A. Eaton and wife returned to Newport
last week. 81 ID. G. Bliss of Hanover,
N. H., spent last Sabbath with friends in
town. He returned to New Hampshire
Monday. 80 l.. Porter cuts the hay on
the Il. p George farm. - Wool buyers
are paying from twenty to twenty-five cents
per pound for wool
ORANGE.-The heavy rain, last week
Wednesday night, raised the streams so az
to wash the roads, carry away bridges and
damage crops to some extent - Very
few farmers have commenced haying, and
fear there will not be as good hay crop as
usual. Potatoes are growing fast, with the
prospect of good yield. 60 Mrs /. G.
Noyce is suffering with inflammatory rheu-
matism. Harry Brock is also afflicted with
the same disease. - Miss Nellie Water
man has been at Barre for short vacation.
80 Mrs. Lucy Curtiss from California is
visiting at Edison Boards.
WATTS RIVER Rev. L. II. Elliot, secre-
tary and state agent Of the Bible Society,
will preach in the Methodist church next
Sunday afternoon at one o'clock. - A
very quiet school-meeting was held in dis.
trict No. 10 last week Tuesday evening
- Rev. S. c. Vail and family are visit
ing his brother, Rev. Royal G. Vail. He ex-
poets to return in season to occupy his pull
works are in full blast. - Carrie Saw
yer is at home from the Methodist Semn-
airy at Montpelier. 60 John Dodge closed
term of school in district No. 10 last Fri
day. - A sister of David Folsom has
been visiting him.
WILLIAMsTowN.-The smallpox spectre
is fast vanishing in the distance. 1t left
behind Scared hearts, If not SCARED faces,
and new mound in our cemetery. OF the
quite large number whom it was feared
might prove victims of this spectre, every
one escaped. We know not how many
physicians were appealed to by our terri
fled people, or what answers came in every
case. We have seen two letters, however,
well worth quoting from for future use.
One OF the first physicians in one of the
cities of neighboring state began letter
to townsman with the injunction: Keep
cool" The other few simple, and mostly
well-known, measures advised by this ply
stefan could perhaps be more easily carried
out than the first one. A statement by our
late townsman, James +. Jillson, for many
years resident of Chicago, has been
brought out again of late. AS an under
taker, he had the care and burial of the
bodies of nearly four hundred smallpox
patients. and wholly escaped contagion.
a single vaccination in his earlier years
was the only operative one, though others
were made sometimes by advice of his medi-
cal acquaintance. The statements of some
of our towns-folk of two other nonresident
physicians, whose opinions could hardly
fail to carry weight, would seem to render
groundless some, if not many, Of the com
mon fears as to the giving or taking of this
disease. But always and everywhere, first
in order would seem to be to keep cool. >"
- MIR. and Mrs. l.. II. Robinson have
remained here until this week, but are
about to return home to Springfield. They
can never know in this life how much of
synpathy-though it could not be ex-
pressed-has gone out to them in their very
sad experiences here of late - Mrs.
Oliver S. Walker has been able to ride out
OF late. - Conductor Frank w. Flint
found his recent trip to the West a delight
full one. He went as far as Pixies Peak
visiting, on the way, his nephew, Frank
Townshend, in Omaha, his brother, Horace
Flint, in Gibbon Nebraska, and his brother
in-law, James Hopkins, at Kearney juno
ton, Nebraska. He also met Luman Her.
sey in Denver and Clarence Hersey in
Leadville-both of whom are seemingly
in prosperous circumstances. He thinks
Denver has wonderful future before her
- Say what one may of Vermont and
the West, in general we think hardly any
one here would venture the opinion that
the just mentioned farmers boys-Messrs.
Flint Hopkins and Herseys-would have
attained any such degree of material pros
perity on the old farms here as they have
reached in the West With Vermont in
golden opportunities that come to their
hands, or lie at their feet, in the far West.
- Fred NJ. Blanchard, son of the late
George w. Blanchard, graduated last week
from Goddard Seminary. He goes to Nor
ristown, n. Y. NEAR Ogdensburgh), as a
teacher of the cello, cornet ETC., in sum-
mer school of music, which opens July -
and closes August "A. == Miss Emma
Durham has returned from a long visit in
the West. She contemplates going to
Providence, X. l., for treatment of her eyes.
- Mrs Haden JefTords has been visit
ing friends in Western Massachusetts for
short time past - Intelligence has been
received announcing the sudden death,
from paralysis, of Curtis Martin, son of
the late Rev. Nelson Martin, which occurred
on the 18th of June. He was living in
Livermore, Iowa, where he went in 1881
Mr.. Martin was soldier in the war of the
rebellion, being member of the Fourteenth
Massachusetts Battery. His age was fifty
three years. - Rev. William Schotied
is to locate as a Congregationalst minister
in Marlboro, this state. - DIR. j. G.
Briggs family, more recently of Barre. is
getting settled in their new home on Heath
street, Somerville, Mass. Somerville is TO
be congratulated on getting this worthy
family The writer desires to give its citi-
zens the result of the personal experience of
one who has spent much substance "
in the way of dentistry, East and West:
For good, honest work we should go to DR..
Briggs every time that it was in our power
to dos so. We say this after years of acquaint-
ance with him and his work - Last
week we lCrOte that Saturday is the day
shipments of calves are made from here"
The WATCHMAN type made us to say di-
rectly the opposite. We still stand by our
lCrttten statement. - The widow of the
late Mr.. Norman Davis has been very
poorly of late. - We know not finer.
looking garden hereabouts than that tended
this season by our venerable townsman,
Mr. Lucius Edison, now in his ninety-second
year. But it would be totally depraved
piece OF earth that would not respond to
the labor of this good man, whose life has
been given to the work of lifting as best he
could, the sin-curse " from mother earth
and her sons. Messrs j. G. Griggs
and Bert r. Demeritt of Waterbury were in
town last week, accompanied by their wives.
Last year they embarked in the granite
quarrying business in Barre, and the pres
ent outlook is that they made an extraor-
dinarily good venture.
Caledonia County.
EAST HARDwICK Our village is getting
quite enthusiastic over the prospect of hav-
ing newspaper in town, under the editor
9hin M i Harriq fornarlU of tho