The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-04-03

years. But they were made Of stern mater
isl, and this year they are to take up again
active work on the farm, their son Henry
being engaged by road commissioner o. A.
Blanchard to run the road machine. Mr..
Erskine has data for remembering that
thirty-seven years ago he had a remarkable
flow OF sap about March %, the like OF
which he has hardly seen since, on that
date.
Fremont G. Little. one of our best sugar
makers set 800 sap buckets week before
last and early last week made twentv-four
gallons of syrup that he sold for $1.15 to
81 % per gallon.
Melvin e. Church went last week to Bar
nard. where he expects to work the coming
season. He has rented his house to Mark
Eastman.
Erskine Rowell has been out of late So
Letting successfully granite work to do, end
h rented shed room of the Grearson-
Beckett Company. Gene Call went to work
for him on Monday.
Mrs. Albert Briggs Is quite poorly at
present,
Some Of our citizens will pleasantly recall
Jane Kidder Ellis, the oldest daughter of
the late Presiding Elder W. j. Kidder who
died in Northfeld. She is said to be very
i'll at her home near Pittsteld.
We h. We lately read and unused over an
article in leading city religious journal,
based on the remark of an ex-newspaper
man, that "a newspaper reporter who sim
ply knows how to tell the truth In plain
language would have a poor chance, on any
metropolitan daily at the present time"
There s food for r, Election for the public
at large in such statement, for their news
will sooner or later be what they demand
For the credit Of our town and the comfort
of reporters here who try to iell The tru, h,
when they tell anything, our experience
laa1a IN that Xuhila tpnu1H Of
tentimes have nothing said, publicly, of
their own affairs especially, yet they want
the exact truth II possible told, il anything
is to be said,
There was q good attendance at the band
supper and concert last Wednesday even
ing and everything went off finely. Up
wards Of $50 wes realized.
Mrs Walter e, Granger Ia to collect, for
the first quarter, the funds subscribed on
Sunday, March IT, at the union meeting at
the Congregational church for Ani-Saloon
League purposes.
A member Of our school board says de-
| ploringly that certain former teachers that
the board would gladly keep here, are get
| ting better in ucemenGs 10 teach elsewhere,
for lack Of funds here to hire them.
Our next Saturday special will be ladies
kid gloves Homer Fits, Barre.
While in Barre city last Saturday Adna
result that an express wagon to which it
| was haruessed was badly smashed.
1t need not be a matter OF mere fiattery to
| the vanity OF our place to repeat the high
compliment we have lately heard paid onr
! citizens by very pleasant, intelligent and
! comparatively new conner here from anoth-
or Srate, who finds herself, virtually, among
people she likes very much
In late conversation with one from the
! South in reply to our questions the state
ment was made that Southerners frankly
said they did not like the Yankees and il
was added that the spirit OF sectionalism
was strong in the important city where the
person addressed had been living.
Arthur H. jackson and Miss Anna Smith
OF Barre were married by Rev. f. K. Cur
rier at the Methodist parsonage on March
81.
Mrs. f. r. Ourrier has been i'll of late.
The wife and children OF the late Barnet
| s Goodrich desire to thank all who 80 kind
| ly ministered to them In his sickness, death
and funeral.
There will be special Easter services at
| the Congregational church next Sunday.
Our leading merchant has the happy fac
ulty OF taking az we'll as giving joke 9TH
erwise this reporter might not be on earth
now to tell this tale OF last Monday, April
| l. For reasons known to the merchants
family, the dinner hour was to be materi-
ally changed, beginning with Monday OF
this week. Somehow the fact had slippe d
the memory OF our friend, and on that day
he left h store as usual for dinner. ANY
one we'll acquainted with the head of do
nestle affairs in that household wonld
know that such first day OF April oppor-
tunity for some fan would not be likely to
pass unimproved. In due time the bell
summoned the family to the table, where
only one thing was lacking, namely, the
dinner. Presently something logged the
memory Of the man OF the house, and then
wasn't there feast Of fun?
The following program will be rendered
ing, assisted by Miss Burnham and Mr.
Gram: "Why Seek ye the Living2" Brunn;
duet, Live Divine all Love Excelling,"