The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-06-28
WiIllamstown.

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selectman HeNt, Martin is on lake fish
ing trip at Milton.
Mrs. William j. Young was visiting In
Burlington last week
Mrs. Barnet Goodrich, for weeks an in
valid, is a little better
Mrs. John Adams is getting out OF the
house after long illness,
Alfred House and Leon Dirty are paint
ing the outside OF the town hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Colby returned 10
their home in Burlington on Tuesday last.
George e. WILDER has closed his labors
ia j. X. Lynde's store and Is at home, farm
ing.
Charles Brockway, a barber in the Marl-
boro hotel, Boston, is visiting his parents
here.
Lewis NJ Seaver has sent here from New
York, several horses to be pastured on his
farm.
The fine old Calvin Flint orchard is said
to have been stripped Of leaves by the
worms.
Mrs Call Seaver and son will remain
with her parents in Granville, N. T., till
after the Fourth.
Mrs. Henry j. Martin is improving in
health, and may yet be able to be about her
household duties.
Mrs. Andrew Burnham, now upwards Of
ninety years of age, is very feeble and SEEM
ingly cannot live long
Mrs. Theodore wilfore Is to have, as
guests, her brothers. family from Michigan,
now on their way here.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Beckett returned
| from New York, last week. While away,
| they visited West Point.
One OF our best farmers tells us he thinks
there may not be much more than half
crop of hay here this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fred Austin returned
| from Montreal on Saturday and are to board
in George W. Clark's family.
J.K. Lynde has sold a handsome span of
six year old horses, that he has had in
| training for some weeks past.
Norman g. Davis has been quite i'll OF
late from overwork. He has been under
| medical care, but Is now better.
Miss Susie Benedict has been obliged to
give up her school in the Rodney Seaver
district, on account of i'll health.
The Epworth League of the Methodist
| church will hold its meetings hereafter on
Tuesday evenings instead of Saturday.
Robert II. Jones, one of our best granite
workmen, has been i'll Of late with sore
throat and obliged to give up work for a
| few days past.
MIR. and Mrs. Horace Nj. Farnham were
| in Boston last week. Their little boy stayed
here with his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Farnham.
Frank Benedict, who has just finished his
second year in Tufts College. is at home on
| his summer vacation. He is in excellent
health and spirits.
Jesse A. Martin will teach the coming
fall and winter. He is working his own
| way in getting an education and may likely
enter college another year.
The Junior Endeavorers served ice cream
on the church grounds last Saturday even
ing. They are using the proceeds In re-
pairs of the church vestry
Dr. Elan G. Lewis, with his wife and a
niece of his first wife, came from Rutland,
last week, to visit the family OF his brother
in-law Herbert p, Martin.
There is now an opportunity to pay the
second installment OF taxes to our town
treasurer. The time for getting the four
per cent deduction will expire September
22.
William f. Croudis, for whom those who
know him always have good word, has
gone from the quarry district to work in
Milford, Mass, in connection with quarry
there.
None of our Grand Army veterans went
to Montreal last week. 1t is said that the
excursion rates Of the Central Vermont
Railway Company were thought to be too
high.
Our old townsman, Rufus Walker, now OF
Moline, ILL.,, is meeting with very cordial
reception from his old acquaintauces here,
and is having, and giving others, "a very pleas
ant time
Mrs. Charles G.. More, who has been in
Atlanta, Ga, for some years on account of
her health, is expected here soon to remain
for Iime in the family of her brother,
William Grearson.
One of our business friends, who has
long and successfully studied the art OF
money-making, now tells US that a certain
millionaire, as we recall him, once said to
him, it costs nothing to be gentleman and
it is the greatest capital one can have.
In recent chat with an old ex-Williams-
towniaD, who was recalling his early days
here, he tells us that in our village school,
| the teacher asked the school what OUCH
ess was, and received from one of the
younger boys the reply that "it was te-
male Dutchmanl"
A member OF Barney d. Flint's family at
Woodburn, Oregon, writes that she would
be entirely satisfied to live there II only her
friends were there. Outside work is 80
scarce there, that fifty cents day only is
paid for what would likely command dol
lar day here, in an instance that Is men
toned by her.
One Of our friends, now living elsewhere,
is good Presbyterian brother. and happy
in an only grandson, bright little boy Of
some five or six years. Not long ago the
| grandparent CHANGED to be at the home of
and suggested that he remember in his
prayers a certain person of his acquaintance.
The boy did so, but said to the Lord, "You
can't do much for him, for he won't do
anything for himself"
After q long illness and great suffering
with cancer in the face Henry #. Erskine
died last Thursday at the age OF sixty-tw o
years. His early home was on the west
side Of the state, in the family of his uncle,
the late Hon. Horatio Needham. When a
young man he entered upon a collegiate
course at Middlebury, but on account Of
poor health left it after two years of study.
Coming TO Williamstown later, he first mar
ried the only daughter OF the late Aaron 8.
Martin, who did not live long. He then
married the second daughter of the late
James Martin who, with one son and one
daughter, survives him. He has long been
an active farmer on our East Hill, and in
the early history OF the Grange here was
quite prominent. He has served the town
as auditor and selectman, and for years has
been member Of the Methodist church
here. or his interesting family of six chill
dren, three were carried away by diphthe-
ria some years ago, and fourth, worthy