The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
TOWN CORRESPONDENCE.
ITEMS or INTEREST--PERS
IND GENERAL.
WillianstOwn.

Mrs. Jane Palmer of Montpelier was the
guest last week of Mrs. A. NJ. Hubbard.
Mrs. Lucinda Rood Edwards, now OF
Barre, has been visiting relatives here OF
late.
"Hal" Cheneys new house, in progress
in Mill Village. is assuming stately and
fine appearance.
Grearson g. Beckett have forty-two stone
cutters at work just now, besides polishers
and ,other needed men about their shops.
Frank, son of the late Charles Lynde and
for the past year a student in the Harvard
Dental College, was with family friends
here last week.
Henry A. Ainsworth, now of Moline
ILL.,, and Miss Sarah f. Anderson were to
be married yesterday, June 30, at the home
of the BRIDES sister.
Miss Annie Mckee, in the last year or
more teacher here, we are told goes to the
Fabyan House, White Mountains, next
week, for the season.
d. M. Perkins has been out of health for
months with liver complaint and other
trouble. Recently, we hear, brother, who
is physician in Massachusetts, has visited
him.
Jeweler Bosworth of Berlin who takes
possession of his purchase in Beckett Block
this week, will occupy the upper tenement
in the Orville III. Briggs house in our vii
lage.
Orren H. Smith, son of Marcus A. Smith,
who has just graduated from Tufts College,
is to make journalism his profession. He
will, however, take post graduate course
OF one year at Harvard University.
After an illness of nearly two months,
Miss Alma Work is yet confined to the bed,
having been more poorly of late. She has
been suffering from trouble with the liver
and nerves, and is very weak at this writ
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to Boston and vicinity till this week We'd
nesday at the wish OF her oculist, DR.. John
H. Payne. 1t seems that she was on the
road to probable blindness had not the
trouble with her eyes been arrested.
There was a well.attended lawn sociabe
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Sibley
Tuesday evening of last week, under the
Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor
Ice.cream and cake were served, our band
was in attendance, and goodly financial
outcome was one of the results.
Our town Grange, true to its mission, in
part for intellectual and social improve
ment, will have an old-fashioned debate at
Town Hall on Wednesday evening of this
week together with other exercises. The
subject of debate will be the relative merits
of military leadership in the Revolutionary
War and in the late War of the Rebellion.
A recent telegram from Racine, Wis,
announced the death of A. Judson Burn
ham, the younger son of the late Deacon
Enoch Burnham, so we'll known and es-
teemed here half century ago. He was
run over and killed by a locomotive. His
age was some sixty years. He went West
some two-score years ago and married a
lady in Racine, who, dying, left him with
one daughter. He had spent some years in
the then territories Of the far West. A few
years ago he revisited this section and re-
manned for a time with relatives in Barre.
A lifelong and worthy farmer of our
place, now past the three-score-years. and
ten limit, was recently approached for a
subscription to the salary OF one of our
ministers Although he is not a member of
any church, he was born into good religious
privileges, and has financially supported
and has personally attended them in his
long life. To this recent call he responded
cheerfully and generously, and told the So
licitor to come to him for more if need be,
adding, in his quaint way, 81 shan't be
over this road again, and I want to leave it
as good as 1 found it,"
With all the boosted improvements and
educational opportunities OF the late years,
the charge is made and reiterated that our
own townsmen OF to-day, as a WHOLE are in
marked degree behind the men Of the pre-
vious generation, at least in some impor-
tant particulars. Probably this difference
is nowhere more apparent than in the pub
lie meetings of the town. The mass of criti-
their mouths publicly, while the few who
do thus speak are more or less easily criti-
cised. as rule, for their shortcomings as
speakers. There ought to be remedy in
good part for this state of things, and could
it not be found measurably in well-sup-
ported debating clubs of former days? We
could wish almost that attendance upon
and participation in such club work could
be made compulsory, if need be, with all
voters during portion of each year for a
tnrvr ~ Rt1t hnxry tr,n = no.
reported criticisms may be, we should be
10th to believe that they would apply here
any more than to sister towns under condi-
tions similar to those OF our own, where it
has been the fate for many years to lose the
greater part OF the more literally educated
young people as soon as they were fitted for
their life work.
ELI HILL, Lumber City, Pa, writes: 81
have been suffering from piles for twenty
five years and thought my case incurable.
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve was recon-
mended to me as pile cure, so bought a
This is only one OF thousands of similar
cases. Eczema, sores and skin diseases
yield quickly when it is used W. z. Ter
rill & Co., Montpelier, vt.
Fairlee.
General Gilmore left town last Wednes-
day for a few days.
Miss Stella Chase of Plainfield who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Bythrow, has
returned home.
The fire on the mountain, near the head
OF the lake, last week Tuesday evening,
was pretty sight.
Miss Virgie Bythrow received a severe
shock last week Sunday by falling the
whole length of flight Of stairs.
1t is regretted very much that Mr.. Chap
man did not finish his hotel at the foot of
the lake in season for summer boarders.
Bicycles are all the rage in this town as
we'll as elsewhere. Those who haven't a
wheel to ride have got wheel on the brain.
The Queen Of Fairlee," one of the finest
horses in the state and owned by II.
Buffum, cut her foot badly last Sunday
morning on barb wire.
II. p. Warren has started paper to raise
funds for a Fourth of July celebration,
which will take place on the muster ground
at the foot of the lake. #. w. Abbott q
Co. head the list with So.
Miss Lillian Paine of Fairlee, teacher in
district No 3, and Mr.. Thurber of Corinth,
teacher in district No. 4, whose terms OF