The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-11-06
WILLIAMSTOWN.

WILLIAMSTOWN.
Mrs. Manoel Benevides thinks she
is being helped by DR.. Chandler of
Montpelier in his treatment of the
painful and serious condition of her
eyes, from which she has suffered for
some time.
Ralph Dirty has been very i'll Of
late and confined to the bed.
Rev. d. H. Strong and wife return
ed last Friday evening, accompanied
Mass, "a sister law of Mrs. Strong.
A little daughter of Mrs Hardy is
with her,
One of our farmers, who has lately
harvested fine lot of winter apples,
tells us that spraying his trees at the
proper time was a prime factor i'll his
success.
George r. Colby sold his two car
loads of cider apples to resident of
Lebanon, N. H.
Mrs. X. L. Watson returned from
Greenfield, Mass, last Friday.
Harley Averill of Barre, was buy
ing cider apples here, last week, to
ship.
A member of the ID. A. Perry real
estate agency of Barre. was III town
last week, showing the Denison
Brown farm to some one from New
York. At the low price for which
this farm is offered, Mr.. Perry
thinks there is money i'll it for the
right man.
Carl j. Benedict of Burlington was
in town last week. He reports his sis
ter, Mrs. Frank Erskine of Albany,
N. Y. as on the way to recovery of
health.
One of our new Italian citizens re-
ports knowledge of ten families in
Barre who would come here now if
they could find houses to live III.
In the last ten years it has been IA
source not only of pleasure, but of
profitable instruction, the coming to
our house of certain of our Italian
granite workmen for help in learning
the English language. They have come
from northern Italy, are naturally
bright, intelligent fellows, and very
gentlemanly. Natives of Italy, they
have worked as well III France, Ger
many, Switzerland and can give one
interesting and valuable accounts of
their lives in these places. Just now,
OiiN Vi tiiNoN NtNhlN NlSlNolS 10 a y OullS
man, eighteen years of age, whose
life, till coming to America last year,
had been lived near Venice. Born
into a stone cutters home, it was in a
city where he has had some fine adj
vantages that he had the heart and
taste to make use of. a lover of books,
sculpture, paintings, music, he has
been a reader of his own Dante and
of TRANSACTIONS of Shakespeare, Goethe
Walter Scott, and our own j. Feni-
more Cooper. His work here is that
of granite carver, and his aim is to
be good carver, and sculptor. With
health he will doubtless reach his
goal AS we write these words we
think of the enormous debt the world
of today owes the Italy of the past
Is 1t not then duty, as well as the
dictate of Christian patriotism, that
we give what we can as well as take
what they can give us, to make the
new citizens fellow citizens in the
highest and best sense of the term?
j. B. Brockway and son, are to add
to their facilities for business, an add
ition to their store, built only this
year.
j. X. Lynde and Company have u
fine trade i'll the quarry district, where
they deliver goods two or three times
a week. One day last week seven
horses We're used to draw goods to fill
orders for that day.
Little Archie, the invalid son OF
Charles c. Staples, has dropsy as the
result of heart trouble. For the first
time, last week, ten or twelve pounds
of water were taken from him, which
affords temporary relief.
!. Our State School Superintendent
lecture on educational themes last
Thursday evening, was quite we'll
attended and greatly enjoyed.
Miss Lucy H. Paine of Bethel, after
few weeks of hard work here for the
home correspondence school of Spring
field, Mass, went home on Saturday.
instead of going to Washington. She
is called to Springfield, with posi-
bility of better position in connec-
ton with the school than she has be-
fore had.
One of our rising Williamstown
boys in IL neighboring city is paying
$40 to $75 for courses i'll "a correspond
ence school i'll one of the middle states.
For the first time within our knowl-
edge, correspondence schools have sent
a representative here of late to secure
pupils, and the query naturally has
arisen as to the worth of this method
of study. What better answer could be
given than the words of President
Harper of the Chicago University,
that this method is intended for those
who have the ability-the backbone
to work without the constant prod
ding of teacher and adding that
1.-THE students who come to the Uni
versity after a year of such work are
better prepared than those who have
been in the class room of the Univer-