The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-29
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Mrs. Barney ID. Flint Is in Randolph Just
now, caring for sister who is very i'll.
Clayton Dirty, Frank Bailey and Mary
Jeffords are pupils at the Methodist Sem
mary in Montpelier.
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Edison will soon
begin housekeeping, having engaged rooms
in John Perry's house.
Robert Gamble. Scotch granite. worker,
and Miss Loe Hall were married last week.
A long and happy life to them.
Mrs. Ella Perrin Wheeler Of Des Moines,
Iowa, will come ere long for her mother,
Mrs. s. I. Perrin, who will go West to re-
side.
Mrs. John Duffus received a telegram.
Monday morning, announcing the death of
her step-father, Luther Davis Of Water bury,
from pneumonia.
w. w. Lapoint of Barre, division Coun-
Gil of Vermont Sons of Veterans, will be
here soon to muster in camp of that order,
charter having been granted for the same.
The Masonic lodge just instituted here,
and to be known as " Summit Lodge" oc-
cupied its fine new hall in the Beckett
block for the first time last Saturday even
ing.
Our old townsman, j. NJ Bass, has been
for some time the victim Of rheumatism in
his new home, East Somerville, Mass. We
wish he might return to this, his native
place, to live.
The Congregational Sunday-school is
about to make an addition to its library.
The Sunday school missionary concert last
Sunday evening-having for its subject,
The Indians of Our Country was
largely attended, and proved an interesting
occasion.
The Congregational ladies have been in
terested of late in getting up benefit "
for our new band, which is to be given at
the town hall on Wednesday evening of
this week. 1t should be matter of gen.
eral interest. An antiquarian supper will
be served
1t is well-known fact hereabouts that
granite-cutter gets hardly half the pay for
MS work in Scotland that he does here
One of the boys" recently returned from
Scotland, reports that an increase of wages
having been asked there lately, the reply
came from the employers that with the
removal by the Cleveland administration of
the present high tariff on finished work
Scotch employers could pay better wages"
But what if-aS many on this side the water
think-it works the other way and succeeds
only in cutting the price of wages here?
A town meeting has been called for next
Monday, April 3, beginning at ten o'clock
A vote is to be taken on the subject OF a
new school-house in our village and other
school matters. There is also to be an cleo
ton of a constable This meeting would
seem TO be OF Importance enough to call out
every voter in the place. There ought to be
no occasion now for some Of the most level
| headed men in the place who absented
themselves from a certain important, but
thinly-attended extra town meeting in the
last year, to try to excuse another absence
by saying " we never once thought that any
such action could be taken on the subject
in hand!"
Though the attempt has so often proved
fruitless, mankind will likely never cease to
try to express in words its great griefs, and
a grief. stricken world will never cease to
welcome worthy efforts of this kind, rang
ing from the In Memoriam," ETC., to some
| much less successful ones. But who is GO
ing to despise even the very homely effort
OF this kind of late good woman of our ac-
quaintance, who, buried in grief at the
death of much-loved mother, could only
| say, a" 1t is tough cheese!" And this Incl
dent has just come to our knowledge: Two
small boys-born companions-were speak
| ing in our village of an atfiiction that had
| overtaken an uncle of one of them, in the
death OF his wife. Asked by his playmate
| how his uncle was feeling about it, the an
swer came, in all seriousness, "you better
believe he don't feel very nobby about it! +"
| Miss Hattie Chandler of Barre has been
| visiting in town late. - Miss Cornelia
Lougee, now OF Franklin, N H., is visiting
| the family of her brother Chauncey here.
- Mrs. Alice G. Cooley of Waterbury
| was summoned home by telegraph last
week by the illness (pneumonia) of her step
father, Mr.. Luther Davis. We earnestly
| hope for Mr.. Davis recovery. - Word
| comes from Washington, ID. c., that Merrill
Martin, who has been ill Of pneumonia, is
| conva escent