The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-12-12

Mrs Henry Martin has recently visited
her son, Allen, who Is a lawyer and judge
In Essex Junction.
Mercury here on Monday morning regis
tered from fourteen to eighteen degrees be-
low zero at different places.
j. M. Seaver Is confined to the house by
illness and Is under medical care.
Charles H, Perry will break up house
keeping and later expects to sell his house,
Marshfield.
Mrs. Lizzie Spencer Robinson OF Barre
was recently the guest of friends in town.
Ira Ormsbee has moved his effects to The
home OF o. L. Preston, with whom he has
taken lodgings for the winter.
Mrs. e. l.. Burnhsm mt to East Hard
wick last week Tuesday, where she expects
to spend the winter with her mother, Mrs.
Curtis Gould.
The orchestra has an engagement to fur
nish music for cotilion party at village
hall, East Montpelier, Tuesday evening,
Dec. 10, alao at Marshall's hall New Years.
The snow roller was out for the first time
last Thursday morning. Has anyone heard
from or seen anything of the four new roll
ers the town voted at last March meeting to
have built on or before the first day of Oc-
tober
Miss Ellie Thompson, who for some
weeks past has been visiting at II. A. will
sons and other friends in this vicinity, re-
turned last Friday to her home in East
Providence, r. 1.
j. Ward Carver was in town on business
the latter part OF the week. He has ac-
cepted a position as teacher in one of the
Barre schools in the vicinity of William
Mears' place, about one and one-half miles
from the city.
Fred Carr, the repairing agent for the
New England Telephone @ mpany, was in
town Thursday to pla ce switch in the To-
cal Office here 80 that a direct call may he
made with the station and Lanesboro in
stead OF through the Central office at Mont
pelier, as has been the previous arrange
meut. Still greater improvement in the
service might be made, and increased pat
ronage had, by the extention to this office
the privilege enjoyed by patrons at other
stations on their line by the installation of
a booth for the private transaction of bust
ness.
The destruction by fire OF s. II. Packers
barns and possibly the whole of his build.
| iDgs caused by the overturning and explo-
| sion OF lantern wac but narrowly averted
| Saturday morning and then only by the
presence of mind OF Mr.. Packer. o. had
| placed his lantern in the same spot that us
| ed for that purpose for many years and
| went up on the NOW to throw down some
| hay for the stock and few stray locks of
an unusually large fork full overturned the
lantern which exploded and large flame
| leaped up at once. No doubt the next act
OF Mr. Parker was what saved his buildings
which was to gather up another large fork
full and cast it upon the burning pile to
smother it, He then jumped into the mids t
OF 1t himself and commenced stamping it
out which he succeeded in doing sufficiently
to give him time to 90 outside and unfasten
the large doors into the barn floor so that
he could pitch the pile out into the snow
and then mplete the extinguishment of it.
| "Sile" says that he does not care to assume
the chance again.
If money were a sentient thing-if il
could see and hear and reason and feel ioy
and sorrow and sympathy-and if you were
doomed by some fairy to be changed into
money and go up and down the earth for a
season, doing what money does-what mon
ey would you choose to be2 Or, il you went
through many hands-as money does, serv-
ing many people in many ways. when wou
your life be most joyous and your satisfac-
ton greatest? Would it not be when upon
the death Of some husband or father, you
were put in his place to care for and minis
ter unto those loved ones? Wouldn't Won
feel that whatever men have said or sung
OF love, in the lover, in the husband, in the
father-that you were--that you expressed
that you did? And yet you work, in
keeping the family together, in providing
for their needs-material educational and
social-would only tell in part what Life
Insurance does To get the whole story we
should have to question the money paid to
the living policy-hoder in his old age
ALYI I. DAVIS, Agent for the New
York Life Insurance Co.