The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22

fire. AS the loss was neaVy one Tor poor
man, his friends have given quite sum
toward the purchase OF a new outfit.
ONE MINUTE CoUoH CURE is popular
remedy for Group. Safe for children and
adults. W. e. Terril q Co., Montpelier, VT
Stowe.
P.D. Pixies mill dam, recently washed
away, is being repaired.
Dr. Church is taking a postgraduate
course of study in New York.
He. Mcmahon and family of MinneApo
lis, Mimi, are in town visiting relatives.
Ed. Durham lost colt recently. 1t ran
away, broke its leg and had to be killed.
Mr.. Goodell and granddaughter, Inez
Cole, have taken rooms in the O. N.
Thomas house on Maple street.
williamstown.
Miss Ina Guile is going to work in the
Avenue House, Barre.
John Farnham is about to move to his
new house in the village.
Miss Alathea Coleman isIin town and at
work for Mrs. William Quits.
Lyman A. Work, who has been so pain
fully i'll OF late, is again better.
Mason White, now Of Keokuk, Iowa, has
returned to his home from sanitarium in
Michigan, improved in health.
Fred Brown is wanted by George Perrin
of Berlin to go to Berlin and carry on a
farm there. 1t is said he may go.
Walter Granger has had the misfortune to
have the " running water " at his new
house cut off for the winter by freezing.
Frank Larkin OF Barre, an apprentice
with Grearson & Beckett, has gone to house
keeping. His sister has charge of the house.
Albert Norris is greatly pleased with his
new saving apparatus-of the st. Adams
make-which he is using in saving wood
for our farmers.
Will f. Croudis, now OF Cambridge,
Mass, has buried his mother-a devout
Scotch woman, whose home was at Cape
Breton Isle. She had been sufferer from
cancer
On account of illness in Henry l.. Cheney q
family, last Christmas, the Lynde family
Christmas dinner, as usually given, was
postponed till last Thursday, when Mr..
and Mrs. Cheney were host and hostess.
There was quite large delegation Of
Masons from our place, last week Tuesday ,
to the district meeting in BrOokfield. A
very enjoyable time was reported-as was
TO be expected, from the proverbial hospi.
tality of Brookfelders.
One evening, some weeks ago, a good
horse blanket belonging to James FL. Wal
bridge was stolen, as his horses were
hitched in one of the Methodist church
sheds. He feels that the thief has had the
use Of it long enough and hopes for its re.
turn.
Town Superintendent Horace NJ. Farm.
ham, whose marriage to Miss Lenora K.
Stevens of East Montpelier occurs to. day,
is to live on his fathers farm. Mrs. Farm
ham will be accorded hearty welcome to
our place as the wife Of one OF our worthy,
wide-awake young farmers.
Bernice Skinner, grand daughter of the
late Mr.. Lyman Capron, buried her hus.
no Nhnr IF hal loGf Fri.
day. They had been married only some
fifteen months Mr.. Stevens died of in
fl ammation of the bowels, after a short ILL
ness. He left an infant child.
A CARD.-We, the undersigned do hereby
agree to refund the money on a fifty-cent
bottle of Greene's Syrup Of Tar if it fails to
cure your cough or cold. We also warrant
twenty Ave cent bottle to prove satisfac-
tory or no pay. We also refund the money
(twenty five cents) on box of Neu Rol Pills
If they fail to cure your headache. f. O..
Huntington, Washington; f. A. Aims
worth, williamsburg; j. l.. Dix, East
Barre.
A noteworthy illustration Of "a change
of fashion in the pronunciation of words
has just come to hand, incidentally here, in
connection with our Ladies' Reading Club.
An earlier edition of Webster's Unabridg I'D
Dictionary says the pronunciation of " hui
NOR" as "u-mor," is odiously vulgar
And now arises the interesting query:
When. where and how did it first acquire
such "odious vulgarity" as thus easily to
lose it?
recent pleasant sidewalk chat with
Will Quits, a sonin-law of l. G. Little and
a stone-cutter in one of our granite sheds,
brought out some facts of interest. After
some ten years in Minnesota seven of which
were on a farm, he returned to Vermont
with his family. He came to our village as
carpenter, few years ago, and afterwards
took up the trade of stone cutting, at which
he is said to be making a success But he
tells US he prefers farming to granite work
though, we judge, the poor health of his
wife might forbid her doing what seems
almost indispensable to success in that
branch Of industry.
1t is coming to be understood here that
Rev. j. o. Sherburne, pastor of the Meth.
odist church, cannot, as matter OF con-
science, marry couple il one or both are
divorced persons. In answer to our queries,
he tells US this has been his course for the
twenty years OF his ministerial life. The
Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal
Church forbids its ministers to marry di-
vorced people, except in the case OF the in
nocent person, where divorce has been
granted on the ground of adultery; and
also in the case of the remarriage Of per.
sons previously divorced from each other.
Rev. Sherburne was led to his own views
of his duty somewhat by the study of a
series of exhaustive articles by Gladstone
on the subject, in which the latter main
tanned that the Bible forbids any remar-
riage of divorced persons But Mr. Sher-
burne also believes that adultery is resorted
to at times to make divorce easy-and so,
altogether, he refuses to marry, in any case,
divorced person. When asked what
course the Discipline of his church enjoins,
regarding the taking into, or the keeping in
the church, of persons who have been di-
vorced on other grounds than adultery, and
have married again, he replied that he did
not understand that it deals with such cases
though he admits that logical deduction
from the scriptural law, as to divorce,
would make such persons morally guilty of
living adulterous lives.