The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-28

The funer al will be Thursday His wishes
will be carried out as far as possible. He
had selected his pall-bearers and made other
arrangements nearly two years ago.
Harper Cushman lost valuable COW last
week. - George Durkee has ordered a
monument of the grants cutters in this
town. %. II. King is expected home
the last of the week. - Mrs. Mary Berry
is in Bethel, helping to care for &. Whitney,
who is suffering from shock. - Frank
Clark is sick with heart trouble. - Mr..
and Mrs. Denis Giles have a little son.
- Mrs. A. Reyes died last week Mon
day, after a long and painful Illness The
body was carried to Chelsea for interment.
- E. Larkin of Chelsea is at work for
j. M. Kibby on his house.
Waitsfield.
Pastor Fiske exchanges next Sunday with
Rev. Carey II. Watson, of Greenfield, Mass.
Union services will be held at the Con.
gregational church during the absence OF
Rev. w. E. Douglass,
Charles n. Thomas of Boston, lecturer at
the famous cyclorama of the battle of Gettys-
burg, will give his illustrated lecture " He
roes and Battleiields Of the Civil War" at
the Congregational church, October 10.
Warren.
Erwin Williams has moved into part of
G.. w. Cardell's tenement house.
There was sociable at the town hall last
Friday evening - e. II. VanDeusen
has gone to Lebanon, n H., to work in the
sash and blind factory. - Rev. II. l..
Buzzell, who has supplied the Unitarian
pulpit the past summer, preached his fare
well address last Sunday. The fresh
air child from New York who has been at
George Banister's the past summer has re-
turned. - Parties from this place went
to Montpelier last week to put in petition
to the probate judge to put f. A. Allen
through insolvency. n, n. Robinson,
who went to st. Adams last week to attend
to his lawsuit, came home looking sad, as he
was beaten. - Frank Williamson owns
the fastest trotting two-year-old colt in
spent Sunday at home. - Miss Clara
Shepherd, who is teaching school in Fays-
ton, was at home over Sunday. - Miss
Adell Bragg, who is teaching school in
Waitsheld, was at home over Sunday.
- f. A. Allen sold nice pair of oxen
to n. n. Robinson last week.
Williamstown.
Mrs. Arthur Rolph and family will prob
ably remain in or near Boston, instead of
going to Atlanta, Ga, to live
At Albert Roberts recent auction, hay
sold Tor SlO.5O per ton, at the barn, and oats
brought forty-two and forty-three cents per
bushel.
Mrs. John Roberts mother has come here
to spend the winter, Mr.. Roberts has re-
turned to work here, with his hand much
improved.
John A. King and Eugene Call, new-com-
ers to our town, have lately begun appren-
ticeships with the Grearson, Moore < Co.
granite firm.
The harvest concert given by the Sunday
school of the Universalst church will be at
II: 80 P. NJ, October .. The regular SER
vices as usual at 10: 45 A. NJ
Very tempfinp offara-siy dollars n Gu,
day, we hear-nave been made Miss Katie
Brush TO sing in Montpelier; but the Com
gregational church in Barre seems to have
" the inside track"
Said one who has passed the limit of four
score years, few days ago, Had been
taught the laws of health at fifteen years of
age, might now be enjoying a green old
age" Let parents and teachers, and all who
have at heart the welfare of the young, take
this 3D." lament " to heart.
Mrs. Walter Newcomb has come from De-.
troit, Mich, to reside with her dauohtar
Mrs Norman g. Davis. A hearty welcome
to her return here, where she has ALWAYS
been mighty esteemed Her son Dean ac-
companied her. He has been absent from
the place for more than thirty years.
Mrs. Hannah Clark Kimball died RECENTLY
OF heart trouble while on a visit to her
brother, Hon. Francis Clark of Waukegan,
~. She was seventy-four years of ACE
Her body was brought to Nashua, n. H., for
burial. she was worthy woman Two
daughters survive her, who are residents of
Boston or vicinity.
AT last the end has come to the granite
labor troubles, and it is like lifting a TOMS
weight from each one Of us. Now let every
body forget the disagreeabe things of the
past, ana set to work to encourage and carry
out the true spirit of the agreement between
employers and employees, and we will see an
era OF goodwill and prosperity beyond what
we have yet known. 1t is in the power of
all to help on this good work.
James Burnham has an interesting curi-
osity in the way of Egyptian corn, grown
from seed from California, where it is largely
raised. The stalk and leaf are much like
our own, but the grain is about the size of
our small popcorn. and grows on what
looks like bunch grass When matured,
these punches are said to be about the size
of peck measure, and are cut from the
stalk and threshed. The stalk grows to
great height
Is 1t not an occasion for rejoicing that our
representative-elect refuses TO take the hint.
probably thrown out to him. to "come
down " with public reception, in view of
his election, although financially able to
stand it? Whatever the royal heartedness"
that prompts those receptions on the part of
our public officers on the whole will thew
not carry more of evil than good to our own
and sister states We think there are few
who will deny it.
Our woods are beginning to assume their
gorgeous autumnal hues, and for him of
open eye and heart Nature will now spread
one OF the richest of her many feasts of
beauty, which she reserves for Vermonters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ersl1ne set an ex-
ample worthy of imitation, where practical
BILE, in this way. On the roadside, near
their farm house, is an enclosed space de-
voted TO flowers, which present beautiful
appearance, so carefully are they selected
and tended. Outside the farm limit, and
close TO the road, it may be taken as a gift
to the public travelling that way.
A Vermont friend who, with his wife and
daughter, passed last winter in southern
California tells us of earthquake expert
ences there. sojourner at hotel in the
place was sleeping in the third story of the
building when chimney was toppled over
above his head Betaking himself instantly
to the street in his fright, he besought the
hotel clerk to go back into the house and
get his pants, gripsack and bill, and he
would settle up and depart. Our friends
wife, thinking of the stability of old Yer
mont's foundations, declared that she pre-
ferred the state with the mercury at 405 be-
low zero to such a rock-a-bye condition of
things.