The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-02

on Saturdays for the purpose OF doing
grinding and job work in his saw-mill.
Jerome Stones three NV eks-old baby died
on Monday Of last week.
Mrs. H. M Blanchard lie not Quit of dan.
ger, but is gaining slowly.
Cabot.
The Eastern Star will give banquet in
the Masonic hall on Friday ev sning. Mem
bers OF Danville chapter are invited.
There will he harvest concert In the
Con gregational church, October 10, in place
of the morning service, with exercises by
the children.
The Vermont Farm Machine Company OF
Bellows Falls made CONT act with Francis
Batchelder & Co, OF Boston, to put into
their cream separating station, at Plainfeld,
a cream separator called the "U. s. A.
guaranteeing 1t to do as good work as any
other separator, and to skim to one tenth OF
one per cent Of butter. The separator fail.
ing to do the work guaranteed, Batchelder
& Co. put into their station another cream
separator, called the alpha, No l." which
did so much better work than the ~. s. A."
that Batchelder & Co. requested the Yer
mont Farm Machine Company to take out
their separator. This they refused to do,
and upon their refusal Batchelder & Co.
took it out and returned 1t to Bellows Falls.
Then the Vermont Farm Machine Company
brought suit against Batchelder & Co. to
recover pay for the ~. S A." separator.
Batchelder & Co. defended the suit upon
the ground that the alpha was the su.
perior separator. The case has been tried
at the present term of Windham county
court by jury, occupying over two weeks
time, when the jury fully determined and
decided that the "Alpha" was the beti er
separator and gave their verdict for Batch
elder & Co. to recover their cost. Judge
Read of Bellows Falls and Colonel Haskins
of Brattleboro were counsel for the plain
tiffs, j. p. Lamson of Cabot for defendants.
Hiland and Jennie Harvey were called
home from Saratoga last week on account
of the serious illness of their mother, Mrs.
Thomas Harvey. g. DR.. s. l.. Wiswell
and Mrs. Flora Hyde of California returned
last week from their trip to Europe, looking
hale and hearty.
East Calais
Ola Leonard is assistant teacher in the
village school, working two hours day.
Rev. MIR. lockwood will supply for Rev.
M B. Davenport next Sunday afternoon.
Kate Hammond leaves on Thursday for
Portsmouth, Va. TO spend the winter with
her sister, Mrs. Letter.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. r. Dwinell attend the
legislative reunion on Wednesday, and go
from there to Boston for week
Husking bees were the order of the past
WeeK-One az ". ". EaSIlnanS on tuesday
evening, al Marshal Bullock's on Wednes.
day, and at Byron Wilbur's on Saturday
evening.
Potatoes are rottin badly in many sec.
tons. George Wheelock recently got four.
teen bushels from ground which ordinarily
yields forty bushels. The corn crop is I'M
usually good. Walter Eastman harvested
1927 bushels from two acres of land. Much
more corn is being planted in this vicinity
than in years past more silos being built,
and ensilage feeding is gaining favor with
the farmers.
The Boston Journal of September 10 de-
votes column to Harry Villiers, known all
over the country as the King of Tramps, u
who died September 10th at the almshouse
in Augusta, Me. Among his effects was a
book in which he had written the story OF
his life and his last will and testament, be.
queathing his body after death to DR.. M. X
Dwinell OF Watervile, Me. DIR. Dwinell,
with an undertaken, went to Augusta to
claim the body, but the authorities refused
to let it go on the ground that villiers died
state pauper, and the body was shipped to
Brunswick to the medical college. But DR.
"Maurice " wasn't to be beaten that way
A petition. duly signed by the mayor and
prominent citizens, b. ought the body back
again to Augusta for burial, and the end is
not yet. The doctor may yet get his legacy
Chelsea.
A street lamp on the Buck bridge is the
latest village Improvement.
The drug store is now a station of the
| Rapid Telephone Company, connecting with
North Tunbridge, Tunbridge, Stafford
South STAFFORD, South Royalton, Roy alton
and East Bethel, and the line will soon be
extended to Bethel.
Owing to failing health, g. o. Burnham
has given up the line of work which he has
followed for many years, and has sold his
stage line 10 M. FL. Hazen of South Royal
ton. The headquarters of the line will
hereafter be at the latter place, and Harry
+. Bryant will )ntinue to drive.
The smaller vestry of the Congregational
church is to be sheathed overhead and
new carpet is to be laid. The expense ID
borne by the ladies of the congregation
who have for some time been raising money
for that purpose. These repairs, with 9th
ers that have been and are to be made, will
cost about $500.
Mrs. Harriet s. CaswelI, superintendent
OF woman's work for the Congregations
Home Missionary Society, will speak in the
Congregational church on Monday evening
October 7. Mrs Caswell is a bright and en-
PERTAINING speaker, and through extended
travel has become familiar with all forms o.
| home missionary work in our country
The address is intended for young and old
and all who attend will be are to enjoy it.
In view of the legislative reunion a
Montpelier this week, your correspondent
finds that but five men who have repre-