The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-03-30
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late.
A daughter was recently born to Mr.. and |
Mrs. Paul Wilfore.
o. A. Blanchard is suffering from an at
tack Of asthma and grip.
Waverley Murray will soon move to the |
Carnes house In Mill Village.
Miss Florence Burnham ia to attend the |
spaulding Graded School in Barre.
Special Easter music is in preparation by |
the Congregational quartette choir.
Miss Belle Hubbard will teach the sum-
mer term OF school in the David Gale dis |
trict
Some very pleasant single rooms can be
rented in Rev. William Schofelds new
house.
Jerry Hutchinson is to build an addition
of nearly hundred feet to George Colby's
barn room.
"who ever heard the frogs here in March
before last week." was recent inquiry, in
our hearing.
Mrs. Joseph Murray has returned from
quite long visit at her old home in st.
George, N. b.
Maynard Spencer has hired the lower
tenement in Leslie d. Gales house and will
move to 1t in April.
Mrs. j. w. Flint is to be in New York
soon to purchase her spring and summer
stock Of millinery goods.
orable news Of the health of his wife who is
yet in Reynoldsville, Penn.
Rev. William Scofeld is to supply for
time the Congregational pulpits in Brook
field and Brookfield Center.
Fred Brown decides to remain in Berlin
the coming year on the farm which he has
occupied the last two years.
The Epworth League had literary even
ing at the church vestry on Saturday, the
subject having been Africa"
Leslie Savory has come back from Que
chez to live here. He occupies tenement
in one of j. X. Lynde's houses.
James Canaly was called to his old home
in Leicester Junction the last Of last week
by sickness in his fathers family
Miss Myra Seaver will teach in the Judge
Paine district and Miss Dearborn OF Chel-
sea in the Jacob Flint district, the coming
summer.
Frank Lougee is taking little vacation
from work at the Reform School, Vergennes,
where he has had employment for few
years past.
After winters job in Roxbury, Melvin
e. Church returned to his home for short
time and then went to Rochester for some
weeks work.
James Gregory, by dint OF untiring labor,
is getting his machine shop in the old viii
lage school house into good running order.
He is able to supply customers with guns
and other wares.
The Congregational ladies' society will
give sugar sociable at the vestry Of the
church ON this wednesday, evening. Sugar
will be served from seven to nine O'Clock.
Admission, ten cents.
E'Rev. Walter r. Davenport of the He'd
ding church, Barre, in exchange with Rev.
P. P. Womer last Sunday morning, was
much liked. The text of his discourse was
BE not hasty in thy spirit"
M apd MIRO u II Giblav ora stavinu in
the new sanitarium at Penacook, N. H.,
Just completed, for cancer patients, and find
it very pleasant. Mr. Sibley's physician
continues to encourage him with the hope
of relief.
Next Sunday evening there will be union
service at the Methodist church to which
the entire town is urged to come. The ul-
innate object of the meeting will be to Sc
cure collection for the relief Of the Cuban
sufferers.
An Ottawa, Kansas, journal pays high
tribute to our late ex-townsman, Walter
Burnham Bass, who had lived near that
city for some thirty years. 1t also recalls
the fact that Mr.. Bass had taught in his
early years in Massachusetts, Kentucky
and Ohio.
Robert Jones is keeper of fancy poul-
try. His thoroughbred silver-laced Wyan-
dots, purchased from a breeder near Utica,
N. Y, and his thoroughbred rose-combed,
brown Leghorns, of Pennsylvania origin,
enable him to furnish sittings of eggs to any
wanting them.
The large lumber interests OF the syndi-
cate with which our former townsman,
is connected, require that again this year,
as in the past two years, he shall remain
largely in Duluth, Minnesota.
Mrs. John NJ. Farnham has been quite an
invalid Of late, from an accident received
by both herself and husband in being
thrown from sleigh few weeks ago. A
very serious injury to the spine was feared
at first but she ia now improving. Mr..
Farnham got severe blow on his head at
the time.
The latest news from George l.. Aims
worth's gold hunting party was from
Athasasca Landing, in the province of AL:
berta, Dominion Of Canada, under date of
February q. The party had been showed
in there ten days. with the mercury from 400
to 45o below zero. They were to start on
ward for British Columbia the next day.
One of the party, q Chicagoan, has given up
and was to start homeward from the Land,
ing. Further news from Mr.. Ainsworth,
he wrote, need not be looked for till the ice
goes out in April.
Last week we spoke of the late Walter B.
Bass as strict disciplinsrian in the days
when he taught district schools, away back
in the fifties. He was never limited to any
single method of punishment, though he al
ways attained one single result, viz, sub
mission to his authority. We have never
forgotten one certain personal experience,
as pupil in our village school, when he
acted for brief moment (though it seemed
longer than that to us, at the time), the role
of "a dancing master" Now no one who
ever knew the old stock of Bases here
would ever perhaps associate one of them,
in any way, with "the light fantastic toe"
business. 1t CHANGED that the writer, as a
lad, was a pupil that winter in the school
of Dancing Master Marsh, 80 well known
hereabouts in that day. We had come in
after the morning recess, had stood by the
stove to warm. and, in starting for our seat,
ventured a few "steps" that Teacher Marsh
had taught us. Alas, it proved fatal ven.
ture, Suddenly Mr.. Bass was inspired,
doubtless for the first, and possibly the last
time in his life with an ambition to give a
dancing lesson. We were told to repeat
the steps, and did it, but with no heart in
our heels. Mr.. Bass then took us, or, more
particularly, the collar of our coat in his
fond embrace" and how glibly he did
"call off the changes" "all hands round"
''cross over" "down the CENTER" etc., and
how glibly he and the writer did perform
those changes, he the propeller, and we
the propelled. And the result2 Well, it