The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-02

tin farm for $500.
/. ID. Robinson is TO start tin-shop in
X. l.. Watson's shop.
DIR. &. E. Lewis and wife of Rutland are
visiting friends in town.
Edwin J. Poor was chosen school com
mittee for the village district.
Frank York's little boy has been very i'll
with lung fever the past week.
Rev. l. Jones expects to preach his final
sermon here next Sunday morning.
James Hopkins and wife, now Of Kear-
ney, Neb., are expected home on a visit this
month,
william H. Pratt is the new superin-
tendent of the Williamstown Granite
Company.
Not only is there a prospect of light
grass crop, but rust has struck the oats
hereabouts.
Mrs. A. Jackson Dufur Q,ee Lois Burn
ham died at her home i'm Oregon on June
s, after brief Illness
Mrs Dr. E. b. Watson was called to
Nurthheld, last week, by the illness of her
mother from bilious fever.
Bert Bailey, Of the last class of the Meth
odist Seminary, goes to Boston this week.
to canvass for cyclopHdia.
Rev. Il. l.. Nanton's subject for next Sun
day is " Giants overcome and to overcome,
or thoughts on Fourth of July"
The quadrennia appraisal of real estate
having been completed, property owners
have Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Of
this week to ask for any desired changes.
Judge Austin Young and wife (uee Lenora
MARTINI of Minneapolis, Mimi, arrived
here on Friday last, via Philadelphia and
New York, for few days stop. They re-
| turn home this week
The people of the South hill propose to
celebrate the Fourth on the farm of l.. II
j. Merrill with basket picnic, etc. and
cordially invite all others who will to join
them on the occasion.
A successful young farmer tells us he
! finds hens among the most profitable things
| he keeps. A flock of fifty to sixty Brown
! Leghorns has yielded him some $50 worth
OF eggs in the last two years.
A republican caucus for the election of
delegates to the Orange county convention
will be held at Town Hall on Saturday
evening next 1t is desirable that repub-
! leans take pains to notify members of the
party throughout the town of this caucus
An appeal comes from New York city to
our citizens to take another lot of fresh-air
children. 1t is to be hoped that all the
churches of the place will be interested in
this worthy charity. Any who desire to
hand in their names to the Congregational
society can do so to Mrs j. X. Lynde and
| Barney ID. Flint, committee for this pur-
| pose.
lNCN' ilOlllS oOlddls W nv Is tlupIOytu ny
the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society
as a state evangelist, preached at the Con-
gregatiOnal church last Sunday morning
and at Graniteville in the afternoon. 1t is
hoped an arrangement can be made whereby
! he can divide his labors for the summer
between this place and the quarry districts
His family will board in this village mean
time.
1t is pleasant to learn of the success that
has crowned the autumnal years of an old
townsman. Many years ago he went to
Illinois and located in fine section of that
state. At the age of about fifty he went to
Nebraska with $500 and entered again
upon farming. Such has been the advance
OF his land that he has sold off a part for
from $4,000 to 1900, retaining what he
values at from $4,000 to $1,000.
We can hardly have too many such occa-
sions as the celebration of the seventy
| sixth birthday of our esteemed townsman,
| Follansbee Goodrich, on Wednesday of last
week A company of between sixty and
seventy persons met on the farm in East
| Brooktield where Mr.. Goodrich was born,
| and under the shade of a large chestnut
tree which came up the same year in which
he was born. a basket dinner, music, prayer
and remarks by Rev. Almon Shepherd, fam
! lily "reminiscences, made delightful occa-
sion. Mrs. Luther II. j. Merrll's facie pen
| was in requisition. Very appropriately she
strung together interesting bits of the Good
rich family history, beginning with Abial
Goodrich, the grandfather of the central
figure of this occasion, who served his
| country eight years as revolutionary sol
der. Mrs. Merrill closed her paper with
the following lines, associating the man and
the chestnut tree, whose ages are equal:
That's why are gathered from and from far
| It's no commission of peace OF council of war;
But we've left our home cares and come here as you
see,
To show respect for the and the tree.
Their age is the same How will they compare?
| His form is STOPPING ana shows marks of age,
And in labors of strength he can not engage.
But the tree stands erect-is just in its prime
Shows in size, strength and beauty the passing OF
Time,
Mid its leafcovered branches the birds nests have
While both and beast lind repose in its shade.
But should lightning fall from the storm clouds of
The end then has come. The tree surely must die,
And where tree falleth, there it must lie
But not so the Though Deaths darts be
And reaching the mark take him out of this world,
| Instead of life's ending, life has just begun
Let's hope man and tree may yet long be spared
To Se8Ss the 9essnE they each S haze
| May he hear from heaven a " Welcome home"l
Woodbury..
G. A. Mcknight and family have gone
to Dummerston to spend few weeks with
Mrs. Meningitis brother. 20. w.
Jackson is very low, and fears that he will
not recover are entertained. - Mertie
Lawson of Holyoke, Mass, is visiting at
James Walton.s.
South Woodbury..
The farmers are commencing haying.
j. Robert Brown of Boston, Mass. is
stopping with his grandparents, Mr.. and
| Mrs j. W. Town.
Worcester.
Harvey Wiley, lately from Vermont City,
| S. d.. is in town.
| l.. II. Keith has taken down his hotel
| sign and proposes not to keep tavern " any
longer
The grangers of this town met at Bliss
pond for fishery last Friday. There was