The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-03
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
Woodbury..

Woodbury.,
| G. W. Foster 81 Son have taken the agency
for the New Wonder Pump and Spraying
Machine, made by the Lewis Manufacturing
Company, Catskill, N. Y.
South Ryegate.
A good monument has been erected over
the grave Of Robert Hunter in the new GEM
etery; 1t was the work of Somerville Broth.
ers, Barton.
Randolph Center.
The books to be used in the town schools
are as follows: Readers - Cyr, Normal.
New Normal, Vermont Historical. HISTORY
- Montgomery's United States, Conant's
Vermont Language-Tarbells Language
Lessons, Book l. Grammar-Southw orfh
and Goddard Elements Of Grammar and
Composition. Geography-Frye's Primary
and Advanced. Arithmetic - Greenleafs
Physiology Blaisdell's Chld's Book of
Health, Duglison's Elementary. Spoilers
Buckwaters Primary and Comprehensive.
Writing-Normal Review System.
Williamstown.
While George w. Savery and bro Their
we're in the Union army, in the War Of the
Rebellion, two brothers who had previo usly
gone to Virginia to live were serving the
southern cause-oue az a soldier and the
other as mechanic. O1e Of the latter is
now living in Virginia, and may visit the
place this year
Ida Flint, whose efficient services a g
housekeeper have so long been recogni zed
and monopoized by the large hotel me n, is
in the employ of Ira Calef OF Washn gton
this season. And just here it may be
added that in the large circle that de eply
sympathizes with Lucy A. Calef OF w ash
ington, in her i'll health, there are man v of
/ our own citizens.
/ Dea. Jacob Flint now nearly eighty V ears
OF age, has suffered so much in late ears
from diseased eyes that he has not been able
to keep pace with the improvements in our
village; but, with much improved eyesi ght,
1t was good to see him riding about own
last week. He and his brother Orl ando
are the only survivors of the worthy ia mily
of the late Thomas Flint.
There is steady progress in the gro with
and Improvement of our village. ONE
there are who have feared the bottom was
to drop out" Of the granite business gsn-
orally ere very long. But it may he lp to
quiet their fears to know that some l, % 90 to
LOO carloads of Barre granite are officia
said to have been taken out over the two
railroads in one IN 1nth this season. Never,
perhaps, has there been 80 much of the ma
terial worked as at this time.
Mrs. Mary Slavery Killgore, a sister of
George W. Savery, has lately come on here
from Independence. Kansas, to spend her
days. Her early life was lived in Barre
\
her husband, Isaiah Killgore, formerly a
shoemaker in Barre, and during the time
had never been back here. Born after her
departure west Mr.. Savery had never seen
| her till he lately met her in Mont
pelier She is a widow, childless, and
seventy-seven years Of age, her husband
having died in May last She will make
her home here with her brother as long as
she may choose to do so.
A fresh anecdote comes to us of Ii tile
! fellow, the few-years- son of one of our
Williamstown girls" now living in an adj
jscent county. His mother had taken him
to church on an occasion when several per-
sons were baptized, and, on his return
home, he was eager to know the object of
the ceremony. Among the reasons ri yen
one was "to help people to be good" A
while afterwards, some misconduct of his
called out remonstrance from his mot her.
ending with the despairing exclamation,
What shall do with you to make You
one to the boy he quickly replied, 81
guess l shall have to be dduertiSedp'
Among the patrons of the wealthy New
/ Workers. farm, at Cornwall -on-the-H Hudson,
of which our townsman Return s. Davis
has the charge, is the noted authoress, Mrs.
Amelia K. Barr, who lives near by it. Last
year, Mr.. Davis only son Harold, yet in his
teens, made a great hit in an article he
wrote for the Country Gentleman, that was
copied by the New York Tribune and other
/ papers. Inc artCle lell unuer Une eye OF
Mrs. Barr, and attracted her attention
She has since bestowed very kindly honor
upon the " boy" inviting him to her home
and giving him access to her fine large IL
brary, etc.,-all of which could hardly be
otherwise than hattering, as well as ost
helpful, to him.
Our townsman, j. d. White, for years
past resident of Sonoma, Ala, reached
his eightieth birthday on June oath. In
a letter of invitation to one of our citizens to
be present and join in the celebration of the
event. he loosely alludes to a well-known
character" here in the years 1900 to 1926
Mother Kimball," female prac-
titioner of the obstetric art, whose "toll' for
entrance into this poor old world of sin and
sorrow was only zone dollar a head" Mr.
/ White contrasts, in the matter of win and
stamina" the products of that early day
with item dollar products of to day las he
styles them), here in Vermont, in the ratio
OF six 10 one in favor of the former. He
has hundreds of acres of land there, and
hires help after this fashion, viz. one man
who has a wife and six children, boards
himself, and works for IS a month, and
garden-truck furnished him. Another
farm.hand has five dollars a month and
board Mr.. White has, we believe, fallen
under the spell of populism, politically.
He says every thing is dull in the way of
business. The plutocratic papers, that re-
health and happiness, Mr.. White. at the
end of your four score years! Come up
! here now, and you may get new lease of
life. The July breezes that sway the
sward on the graves of your ancestors are
as full of health as when you began to
breathe them eighty years ago. and Yer
mont hearts still bea warm and true to
their kindred, scattered everywhere.