The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15
WillIamstown.

Davis Marcia IS just getting around from
an attack of appendicitis.
Mrs. Maggie Whitney Griffith is caring
Tor sick relatives in Rutland.
Rev William Schofeld has been hired az
anitor OF the town hall the coming year.
j. X. Lynde reports that his new system
tibusiness selling only for cash works we'll.
There was good attendance at the band
concert at Lynde's hall last Saturday even
ing.
Melvin Church has hired out to Thomas
Waldo as a farm hand for the coming sea-
son.
Katherine, the little daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Will j. Young, has been quite i'll OF
late.
Herbert p. Martin and Mrs. John Farm
ham have both been sick with German
measles.
According to Lucius s. Simons' record,
almost nine feet of snow have fallen here
this season.
Herbert 9. Platt is the purchaser of the
pasture land lately sold from the A. Smith
Martin farm.
Orrin Simons will later move into the
Robert Seaver house now owned by Newell
Il. Farnham.
Will f. Croudis has bought a lot in Gran
iteville and will build house to which he
will move his family.
Horace NJ. Fsrnham will rent his Charles
his Calvin Flint farm,
Mrs. John Duffus and two children re-
turned from her old home in Waterbury,
last Friday, after visit of four weeks.
The manager OF our creamery tells us he
is having hundred per cent more milk
brought to the creamery than year ago.
James Morse of Barre, whose second
wife was Ellen Kathan OF our place, is in
critically poor health at his home, at pres
emit
Doctor Lewis Martin returned on Friday
evening from Rutland and Bellows r lis,
uncertain as yet, where he will finally To-
cate.
The talk and the acts OF our farmers in
dictate the high value they attach to ensi-
lage: An increasing number of silos is the
result.
L. d. Carr of Barre, the owner of the
Alvin Flint farm. will occupy the farm,
himself this year, having rented it in the
last year or two.
| Richard j. Jenkins fears he will have TO
give up granite work for season to go to
| his home in Montreal for medical and sur
| gical treatment
Mrs. e. X. Dexter, only daughter of
Elisha X. Burnham will purchase a home
in South Royalton, where are said to be
excellent schools.
The Gulf Springs property, consisting OF
about one hundred acres Of land, was Of
fered for sale at auction last Monday, unless
previously disposed Of
Archie, son of Carl Kingsbury OF Wash
ington, is to begin this week an apprentice
ship with the Grearson-Beckett granite
company, as a sharpener.
George W. Nichols has traded the house
just south OF the town clerks Office, for the
house that Henry Nixon lives in. Mr.. Nix
on gets 5000 bonus in the trade.
Theodore Wilfore, having bargained with
| Windsor Dirty for the John Lynde house,
expects the papers to be soon completed
that shall enable him to move into it.
An extownsman, prominent in business
circles in the West, writes that he can loan
certain money sent him from this way for
investment for only five per cent interest.
Rev. George Wells OF Middlessx preached
at the Methodist church last Sunday. The
pulpit will be occupied next Sunday by
Rev. N. M. Shaw, the Montpelier evsngel-
list.
The condition of Mrs. Joshua f. Bailey's
health remains such after an invalidism of
some years, that Mr.. Bailey will leave farm
ing as soon as he can dispose of his prop
srty.
Ex-Townsman II. A. Ainsworth and wife
are enjoying the delights Of Southern Cali
fornia Just now. He writes of Orange
groves there that are worth $500 to the acre
OF fruit.
Charles II. Beckett, now of New York
rogate OF New York county, N. Y, but it
was an honor that he was 80 prominently
considered for II.
Rev. j. o. Sherburne's contemplated visit
here last week. had to be postponed on ac-
count of the death Of the mother of his first
wife, resident Of Connecticut, whose
funeral he attended.
DR.. E. B. Watson, having purchased OF
j. NJ Beckett the land on which his office
stands, has been improving the Office on
, the inside, and will add front piazza
later, and perhaps raise the building and
grade about it.
1t is said that Arthur Simons and his
sister, Mrs. Fannie Simons Dow, are think
ing of building houses on their lots this
year. Mr.. Simons has bought lot of Will
lam Grearson, near the house which the lat
ter occupies on construction hill.
Our Ladies' Reading Club had treat last
Friday afternoon in the talk on Italian art,
! given by Miss Angie Badger OF Northfield
This talk was illustrated by large num-
Der of pictures. The club met with Mrs. J.
X. Lynde who served sugar on snow in con-
nection with the literary programme. Other
clubs will be paid in securing Miss Badgers
services in this line.
! Our March meeting was supposed to have
completed its work last week Tuesday, but
I it is decided to call another meeting to elect
a first lister. A list of the town officers will
be found elsewhere. The entire tax this
year will be SO 80 on the dollar, or eight
cents more than last year. No new school
houses will be built this year. An sppro-
priation was made to repair certain old
, ones. The article concerning the exemp-
} ton from taxation Of manufacturers EN-
ploying a capital of not less than 81 900 for
. ten years was passed over. somewhat
5 noticeable feature of the meeting was the
number of persons wanting to be excused
, from serving in the offices seeking them
: One of our older citizens has just given
= | us this "Reminiscences. One OF the earliest
| physicians of our town was the late DR..
Perkins Burnham the SAVIOR OF whose worth
fingers here even yet. AT one time he had
| the care OF Anna the oldest daughter OF
the late EnocE Howe, then little girl, and
very i'll of typhus fever. She was finally
given over to die by DR.. Burnham. At the
7 time she was pleading piteously for water,
r but that would only be fatal, according to
3 the theory of those days. After the doctor
had said there was no hope, the father
could not resist the appeals of the little
. girl and to make her as comfortable as he
l could while she should live, began to feed
her cold water by the spoonful To the
surprise Of all she began soon to amend,
and, today her four worthy sons in YER
mont, Michigan and the Pacific coast are,