The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-27
CONTINUED PROM FIFTH PAsp.


by an explosion of kerosene oil that was
forgotten and left on the stove after the
lighting of the fire.
There was a full attendance at the union
memorial service at the Methodist church
last Sunday.
Erwin II. Martin has contracted his but
ter in Barre for twenty. three cents per
pound for the year
George Holden, George Downing and
Mike Coughlin are about to build houses
in the w. u. Pratt district.
One who has been travelling in central
New York tells us the farmers there are
talking the same as our own do about de.
probation of land and pro6tless farming.
We hear that the owners of granite
quarry just over our town line are offered
$4,000 for an undivided half of it. They
paid $4,000 last fall, but have improved it,
Asa p. Harrington, now of Barre is talk
ing Of buying the DR.. McClearn house,
owned 10y George Colby and used az a
boarding-house. Mr.. Harrington is able to
make fine place of it,
One OF our pleasant acquaintance. now
in the sixties, man of large heart and the
wealth that maketh many friends" la
ments to us the work of Death in narrowing
so painfully the circle Of his friends. IT
make no new friends now" he saws, cor if
do, they are good for nothing" SO many
others have expressed feeling akin to this,
in the matter OF new wine" in the odd
bottles " of their friendships, that it might
! seem an almost inevitable experience of
! life. But, after all, may not this "record 4"
! be " broken"' Indeed, has it not been
broken, and more than once? And may
| there not be delightful, valuable and endur-
! ing friendships between young and much
older hearts? If one doubts the capacity for
such friendship on the part of the younger
for the older, let him read, in proof, the ar
! In ha H.
of the Century. If the friendship between
her father and hfs far-famed friend Mr..
Emerson, was an almost ideal one, who shall
say the daughter was not the peer of her
father in the requisites for just as royal a
friendship for her fathers friend?
We have just come into possession of the
account OF stock, April /, 1927, of the late
Messrs. Rodolphus Ainsworth and Cliauncey
Smith of this place, who were then mer-
chants in the neighboring town of Wash.
ington. What a faithful photograph of a
country store of three score years ago! In
| evidence that one could get trusted at that
store we note some two hundred seventy.
five entries of book accounts" and some
one hundred twenty-five of "notes" An
old Washingtonian might "revel in run.
ming through the names of these debtors
though 1t might start tear in his eye. OF
the " stock " we find one hundred ten gal
Ions of cider brandy, costing thirty three
and one-third cents per gallon. Another in
voice is rye gin, also costing thirty-three
and one-third cents per gallon. just above
the list of liquors we find dyestuffs, log.
wood, etc, such as this later day is accused
of putting not ADORE" but into the liquors
Tobacco is entered as costing twelve and
fourteen cents per pound. Testaments
cost thirty-three and one-third cents apiece
and it would seem Washington did not de
mand very large stock Of them, for there
were only three on the list. A notable
= a nt mol - hot
the prices varying somewhat, but largely
twenty cents or upwards. OF the property
on hand" we find 1854 bushels OF ashe.
and over 800 bushels ofgrain. How quickly
Mr.. Ainsworth's handwriting in this docu
ment would be recognized by some widely
scattered WilliamstOnians yet living
Albert, son of Charles w. Adams tn,
bearer of " good name" and now resi-
dent of Barre, is the foreman OF one o.
Batchelder * Stafford's polishing shop
there. 60 Joseph Fifeld, son.in.law o
the late Daniel Hibbard, has gone to a man
ufacturing establishment in Connecticut OF
a salary of $4,000 year, we are told. III,
is fine man and a fine mechanic. -
Cal " Townsend, son of Charles Townsend
has gone to Omaha, Neb. - JOIN
Walker is at work now in Washington ID
c., in connection with the census. 60
Horace Farnham is to teach a summer tern
OF school in Granitevile. - B. f. Dun
ham is working as a tool-sharpener in Barre
Worcester.
Rev. p. III. Carpenter delivered a patri
otto and inspiring sermon to the old soldier
last Sunday.
The Grand Army men of this town are Il
join their comrades of Brooks post upoi
Memorial day, after decorating the grave
of our soldier dead.
Daniel Smith has been sick for some tim
with the grip. 60 James Corbin, frou
New Hampshire, has been paying us a fly
ing visit. - John and Eugene Temple
ton, from the West, are visiting friends i
town.