The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-01

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- Henry Wood has gone to Northfeld,
Mass, to visit his brother. - Mrs Aus
tin of Weston is visiting friends in town.
- The hay crop will be less than last
year by considerable. - Unwashed
wool is selling at twenty-three and twenty
five cents per pound. - Most farmers in
this town have from two hundred to five
hundred maple trees, and make syrup and
sugar. But very few, If any, have applied
for license to get bounty. They think it
will not pay.
West Berlin.
Rev. w. B.. Wurthen will preach at the
Methodist church on next Sunday. A large
attendance Is expected. - G. G. Dudley
of Montpelier has contracted to do the paint
ing on the Hascall cottage. - Charles
Currier, living on the Dog River road, dis
covered one morning last week wild deer
feeding in field of oats in front of his
house. On being observed, the deer swan
the river, but was afterwards seen by sew
eral railroad men and appeared quite tame.
- Mrs. Hunt of Boston, mother of Mrs
Hascall, came home Monday and is stop.
ping with her sister, Mrs. G. S. Emerson.
Braintree.
Snowsville grange is to hold a basket
picnic with Ira Mann on Saturday, July L.
Everybody invited.
A. X. McIntre, who is gaining slowly, is
visiting his daughter in Bakersfield, Mrs.
Henry Fullam. - f. F. Clatiin, who is
rather poorly, expects to visit his daughter
in Tennessee the coming winter if his health
permits. - George f. Boynton starts
Monday morning for visit to his home in
Maine. - Corn is looking well, and If
there are no early frosts there will be
splendid crop. Apples are set well and give
promise of full crop. - Grass looks
very much better than it did two or three
weeks ago. The prospect then was for not
much more than half crop, but it looks as
thran fnttrt ho pf nffYl,f ha I'D
now, - G. B. Mann intends to finish
haying this week, - Butter and eggs are
almost the only produce the farmers have to
sell this time of the year. - 1t seems as
though there was almost too much margin
between the prices received by farmers and
the prices that are paid by our city cousins
for the articles farmers sell. A recent WIS.,
itor tells the writer that at the place she Wis.,
tied thirty cents per dozen were paid for
eggs. At that time farmers were getting
fifteen to sixteen cents per dozen for the
eggs of the dealers-in store pay, at that.
1t costs two cents per dozen to send eggs to
Boston by express. Now who gets the diff
ference? Dealers here say they only about
get their money back. There ought to be
more equitable division of the profits.
Brookfield.
The school in district No. Z, taught by
Mary G. Upham, closed Friday, June 26.
The register shows that the pupils were re-
mdrkaDly prompt anu regular IN Unelr al
tendance, many having neither tardy nor
absent marks. - Notwithstanding the
chilliness of the atmosphere, the school
picnic held on the camp-ground at East
Brookfield, last Saturday, was a decided
success. 1t is regretted that the schools
were not all represented. Those taught by
Misses Buxton, Conland Baker, Camp
and Upham were present with their teach
ers and took part in the exercises. The
school taught by Mrs. Richardson appeared
upon the stage in charge of Miss Lulu Con-
| land. The exercises were varied and inter-
esting, and calculated to arouse an in
creased interest in the schools. Remarks
were made by Rev. G. III. Morse and others
| interested in education Mrs. Price, town
uperintendent, who had written Superin-
tendent Palmer, asking him what he con-
| sidered the principal defects or needs of our
schools, read his reply, in which he sug-
gested more attention to English literature
| and composition, and also recommended
supplementary reading She also read a
| letter from A. w. Edison, AM, agent of
| Massachusetts, board of education, in which
he said that, If it was desired, he would hold
a local institute in town at the time of his
visit here in August. Much credit is due
Mrs. Price in taking the initiative in the
matter of a town-school picnic. - Mrs.
Marcus Peck and Mrs. Stella Lyman, also
Misses Leila and Edie Peck, return from
Boston this week. - Mrs Stowe, with
her granddaughter, Viva Stowe, went to
Middlebury last week, being called there by
the illness of Mrs. Stoves mother. -
Miss Anna Church is visiting in town.
- Mrs Ella Fullam is at her old home
in the village again. 60 Miss Anna Clark
goes this week to the beach on Long Island
for few weeks.
Cabot.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hildreth of Flushing,
l.. l., are stopping at the Winooski house
for the summer Walter Smith and
| Warren Rnrbanlx q hOna for tba a
vacation from Dartmouth; Misses Mabel
and Myrtle Walbridge, Selden Smith, Dean
Fisher and Arthur Lamson, from st. Johns
bury Academy; Miss Alice Webster and
Fred Boyles from Montpelier Seminary, and
Misses Gertrude Haines and Lucia Wiswell
from johnson. g. Mr.. and Mrs A. f
Wakefield and two children from Hard
wick were in town over Sunday, stopping
at Il. Ct. Rogers. - A good proportion
of The farmers throughout the town have
made their applications for the sugar
bounty, and the last few days were busy
ones at the town clerks office.
Chelsea.
Miss Myrtle E. Sprague won the mathe
NAUTICAL prize at the Vermont Methodist
Seminary at Montpelier last week, -
Adelbert B. Carpenter, wife and child OF
| Somerville, Mass, are in town. - Miss
Martha S. Marsh, who now lives at Fox
boro, Mass, is here for the summer. -
marry u OOulull SlduudItu lTon NOT
witch University last week. - In the
absence of Rev. Mr.. Howard, there was NO
preaching at the Methodist church in the
village on Sunday, but the time was occu-
pied by the Sunday-school as review
Rev Almon Shepherd of East Randolph
preached on the West Hill
East Montpelier.
The subject at the Universalist church
next Sunday, at East Montpelier, at 49, Il
A. NJ, and at the church at North Montpe
lier at 1 10 P. NJ, will be What Must Dc
TO be Saved?"
East Gilmore.
S. X. Cameron has sold his farm and stock
to Charles Davis of Waterbury, and moved
to Calais, near ,Kent's Corner. 80 Mr.
and Mrs. f. b. Morse wish TO thank theil
friends for the pleasant surprise they gave
them on their twenty-ffth anniversary, ant
for the valuable presents. - AS Mr., ant
Mrs, e. w. Potter were returning from
Wolcott, the wagon-wheel struck log be
side the road, throwing Mrs. Potter out o
the wagon and breaking the thills ant
wheels. - The spring term in distric
No. closed on Friday, June 26. The whole
number of pupils was eighteen. Maud Boyc'