The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-26

Mrs. William Grearson, for whom
scarlet fever was feared last week, es-
capped with only a sore throat.
julius Montini, the young Italian
book keeper for Fontana Brothers, has
just consented to take class in the
study of Italian, which at present in
cludes DR.. E. b. Watson and wife,
and Rev. ID. II. Strong and wife. If
any other of our citizens desire to
learn the language, it will be rare
opportunity for them to do so now.
Will our ministers now, be thinking
the former days were better than
these? An old citizen gives us this
"reminiscences of former days here. A
minister in one of our churches, then,
had left the practice of law and taken
up preaching. Asked by one of his
Pensioners which profession he pre-
ferred, he replied that cas- lawyer
all the bad things were brought to
him, while now none of them came to
him. "
Our Belgian farmer, Theodore Alex
ander, has sold over 100 bushels of po-
tatoes in Graniteville at eighty cents
per bushel.
Elmer Farnham, and family have
returned from a years absence in the
vicinity of Pittsfeld.
1t is said that the Italian anarchist,
from Patterson, New Jersey, who
| spoke to our Italian citizens re-
Gently, would return here within two
or three months, to hold a discussion,
pro and con, with another Italian
| from abroad, who is great speaker,
and that they may be here a week or
more and twice as long in Barre.
We hardly recall time, in late
| years, when there has been so great q
| call for tenements here as now. The
granite business is fine, with large
Italian element among the workmen
at the sheds, new families are coming
in and desirable house for rent finds
plenty of applicants for it.
Rev. d. H. Strong was called to the
East Hill in Brookfield, some eight
or ten miles away, last Thursday
evening, to marry couple, the groom
being a son of Silas Newell of East
Brookfield.
We lately had the pleasure of visit
to the room of Carlo Abate, the Ital-
ian modeler, who has a diploma from
an Italian academy. He had Just fin
ished plaster model for statue to
| crown a monument to be made here
| this season by the Italian firm, known
as the Willamstown Monument Com
pany. 1t is to be of light granite and
| typical perhaps of wife at the grave
of her husband, with a wreath of
flowers to place upon it. Signor Abate
has taken another model in hand for
a statue. We have been told he is an
expert workman in his art.
The Congregationalists have voted
to have new hymnal for their Sun
day service and will get the one pub
lished by the Congregational Publish
ng Society.
Mrs. Judson Seaver, after years
lived in our village, goes this week
to live on the East hill, with her son
Forrest.
Veteran John Bacon decides to 90
to the Soldiers Home in Togus, Me.
The place is five miles from Augusta.
In a recent conversation with Yer
mont veteran he tells us that he has
spent some four years i'll the Home, and
that at one time while there, there
were 2000 veterans being cared for.
He spoke we'll of the institution
The sale of the old granite shed re-
Gently made by the Grearson- Beckett
Co. to Angelo Zarilla, will send recent
occupants, Mike Elliott, Willard
Walker and perhaps John Dow and
Will Lougee to the Lynde granite
sheds in Mill Village to work.
If only there were more granite
shed room for rent here, and more
tenements for workingmen, what an
increase of business we might see.
In the going off of our snow, and
the April-li weather, the matter of
a large amount of maple sugar to be
made this season here, is doubtful
question.
Mrs. Leavitt S. Hayward is improv-
ing in health III Mortified, and she
may return home within short time.
The wife of Lawyer w. G. White
and children went to MiddleseX last
week for a visit with home friends.
Horace n Farnham is in the west
again, for more horses
There was an excellent run of sap
here, Friday and Saturday last.
Mrs. Ella Benedict Griffin is thought
to be doing we'll at the hospital in
Burlington though not able to sit up
any yet. Her trouble is called tuber-
culosis.
Mrs. AFRO A. Reed and new born
son, are, it is hoped doing well.
Mrs. j. w. Tindall is to have a
class of ladies in physical culture
Already fifteen persons are found to
join it.
Rev. Frances A. Kimball is to as
sist i'll Lenten services in Lyndonville
and Glover this week. Rev. Effie K
Jones of Barre will preach at the
Universalist church here on Friday
evening Of this week.
Miss Ellen Folsom is on her way
from Massachusetts to our place for a
stay with relatives before returning
to her missionary work in India
Landlord G.. d. Harrington thinks
this week will end his stay here, unless
he succeeds in buying the Monument
house.
Ophir S. Martin is getting through
the winter in good condition of health
and his case may prove another like
Clinton Grams, who has had such
good health in late years after profuse
hemorrhages from the lungs.