The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-02

a son was recently born to our ex-
townman, John Howe Adams, a mel chant !
in Etna, in the northern part of California
If Rev. F. E. Currier, for three years
past the universally esteemed pastor of
our Methodist church, shall not be com
PEELED to give up his ministerial work for
time on account of i'll health, it is proba
BILE that he will be returned here by the
coming conference. We are glad to re-
port that he hopes he is improving some
what i'll health.
Mrs. Rice, who has Just come here
as milliner from Mortified, has taxi
en- possession of her rooms over j. b.
Brockways store. All hope she may
have good patronage.
Rev. Carlos Adams is preaching in
Howell, Mich.
Wilbur f. Adams is yet connected with
the city schools in Tacoma, Wash, where
he has been for some time.
Frog melody in March, in this particular
locality, some one thinks he never knew
before in his half century more or less of
life here until last week. Verify, it does
seem as if March had this year robbed
April of some of the delightful welcome
usually accorded her. And will it be only
"humann if the latter should be pouty and
cold and wearisome by spells, under such
provocation
One of our villagers has for years main
tanned an old time bird house perched upon
pole in his yard,t which i'll all this while
we believe the marten birds have never
failed to come for the summer. But the
possession of this house is not peaceful
one for the martens. The English spar
rows that are always with us want this
same house and they seem to have as much
of the "John Bull spirit" about them that
they never know when they are whipped
and again this year they are happily busy
in all their household arrangements there,
little suspecting the tumult that awaits
them some weeks later. AS one looks at
them in their gleeful work now, one can
hardly help wishing they might be the
victors in the coming battle.
Newell X. Farnham, now a confirmed
villager, hopes his only son, Herbert may
decide to take the home farm on the East
hill to occupy the coming year
The dilapidated old dancing hall in con-
nection with the long ago hotel stand +,
known now as the General Z. Bass place
in our village, yet affords us personally an
interesting place for exploration, an inter-
est, the same in kind we suppose, that
buried cities in the East affords explorers
now, The other day, in the big fiddlers'
desk in this hall we came upon a quite
well preserved New Testament that was
presented the late Eunice NJ. Bass, the
oldest daughter of the late General Bass,
in 1914. There is writing in the book,
in the very neat hand of the late Deacon
Horace Ware, then superintendent of the
Congregational Suday school, saying that
the book was awarded little Miss Bass for
having committed and recited the entire
Assemblys Shorter Catechism. 1t was
the fifty-fourth present of the kind in the
school.
The foregoing item suggests, and
most painfully, the changes that have
come in the last half century, to our
religious societies in the matter of the
number of families, and the size of
the audiences found in our church
services, and perhaps in our Sunday
schools. A Congregationalist was
this week naming over in our hearing
the families land they were families,
not simply couples, in those days. that
were Congregational church attend
ants where now there is hardly rep
resentative of these families left here
and none to take their places. One
wonders if this sad change may not go
on here for some time at least.
DR.. E. B. Watson reports the advent
of daughters last week into the fam
lilies of Messrs. Fontana, in our vii
lage, and Joseph Phillips, on the old
David Burnham place.
Report comes that our old towns
man Mate" Harrington, now of
Grinnell, Iowa, is expected to live
but short time. He has been out of
health for some years.
Mrs. Nellie House Elliott was called
to Mortified last Monday morning by
the news that her husbands brother,
Patsy Elliott, was apparently at the
point of death, if indeed living.
Mrs. Bert L. Snow, who died in
Montpelier last week, was the daugh-
ter in law of our former townsfolk,
the late Ira and Mrs. Mary Simons
Snow.
Bert Davenport was in town last
week.
some one tells us or what Presiding
Elder Sherburne has been doing since
his return to his home in st. Johns
bury, from Cabot, where he had the
misfortune to fall not long ago, and
break limb One is led to wonder
whether that unfortunate member
is getting the consideration from the
other members of the worthy Ed
er's body that it deserves, but that
"fullgrown man" is yet "child,"
we suspect, in the art of keeping still.
AS it is natural for any town to as
sumo to itself when any citizen, past
or present, has done something ex-
ceedingly we'll, so we will glory lit
tie now, over the success that seems
to have attended Rev. Walter Daven-
ports efforts since appointed Princi-
pal of the Methodist seminary in
Montpelier.
As usual, Easter Sunday was spe-
cially observed in all our village
churches and flowers did we'll their
part. Rev. ID. H. Strong took for his
text Consider the lilies" 1t was
only a coincidence that Easter lilies
mara r1acad in front Nf b;e ,N,,l,,;+