The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-07-16
PLAINFiELD.


Harry Flood is home from New
Hampshire for two weeks vacation.
The w. @. T. U. met Friday with
Mrs. Florilla Bailey.
The Kings Daughters served ice
cream from the Methodist church on
Friday evening.
Miss Susie Renfrew is spending a
week at Groton.
Ned Perry got peas enough from his
vines on July for dinner for seven
people. Who beats that this year {?
On Saturday Andrew Lawrence
bid his friends goodbye for ore
year, and returned to his work in
the United States mint. His annual
visits are looked forward to by the To-
cal musicians with much pleasure as
sisted by either Miss Ohamberlin or
Mrs. Cate as accompauist, he does
not entertain for several hours with
choice selections on the violin.
The Rebekahs gave masked pom
enade which was great success on
Saturday night. All sorts of strange
looking people were seen there-the
Queen of Hearts, colored men, God
Uncle Sam, clowns, etc. making much
fun. Refreshments were served.
Miss Elsie Warren has started for
prolonged visit in the west, going to
Montana and possibly to California.
The Congregational ladies' aid have
arranged for Mr.. Foss' moving pictures
on Tuesday, evening. July IA. He has
new and improved pictures, including
an exciting rescue of a woman and
child in fire The Passion Play
pictures will be omitted.
Andrew Lawrence returned to Phil
adelphia on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arch Batchelder re-
turned on Saturday from Saratoga
where they went to attend a masonic
convention.
Misses Lucy and Alice Humphrey
will visit their sister, Mrs. e. Il.
Walz, arriving in Plainfeld the mid
die of the wedk.
Harry Parks and George King have
bought the hay in the cemetery
The Kings Daughters and Congre-
gational girls s0cials last week were
great successes.
Harry Cuttings family has returned
from GrOtOn.
WILLIAMSTOWN.
One of our citizens in the Eighties
tells US of the first two artificial front
teeth he ever had that were not pivot
ed. He was IN the early twenties, and
the work was done by DR.. Walter
Burnham, Jr., in Barre, though the
doctor did not pose as a dentist, he
thinks, this then young man spent
day IN Barre and saw the entire work
done by the doctor. The material
used for the teeth, he was told, was
the tusk of sea.horse. When they
were finished the doctor used a saw,
cutting sidewise into the top of the
teeth, and making openings through
which a silver band was to pass. The
band was of sufficient length that the
ends could be made to "hook around
teeth farther back The cost of the
teeth was five dollars, but the silver
band failed under the corrosive action
of the secretions of the mouth. We
are promised a sight yet of this piece
of dentistry done some three score
years ago.
Lucius S. Simonds tells us of bird,
with head of blue, neck of red, and
had never seen before, that came to
his garden and devoured the potato
bugs, on a dozen or more hills of DO
tatoes, all that he had At any rate
there had been bugs on the vines, and
apparently that was the work the bird
WAS doing, and no bugs were found
after his fight.
We thought it worth while, one day
l,a
our house, to see Moses Parsons, now
in his ninety year, hoe corn
We can imagine any one of the fam
lily of hoes welcoming the grasp of
his aged hands, so familiar has the
family been with it, in these many
years. Wishing to compliment the
worthy old man on his work, we told
MIN she did it as we'll as we could do
it We must say though, that there
was chance for an inference, in the
smile that covered his face Immediate
ly after. AS we hear some farmers
talking of some of the latter day
" hired help" on the farm, "the gait"
that Mr.. Parsons was compelled,
by age to take, in hoeing seemed to
ally him with some of the latest gen.
Grafton, and by the way, we were
talking lately with one who had long
been large farmer we judge, in an
other country, but was forty years ago
IA hired man in our own town. He
had his say about the difficulty of get
ting help nowadays that had COM
PEELED him to give up farming, adding
that he would gladly pay $50 a month,
the year round, for such help as he
knew of, two score years ago.
Three score and ten years ago,
stranger came into town on the stage
and stopped at the village hotel then
kept by the late Septa Simons. There
was an eleven-year- boy in the
hotel at the time and the stranger
gave him a small trunk, in which was
"a book, the life of Murray, the great
Universalist preacher, and an iron
hammer. The three have been kept
till this day.
EAST ROXBURY.
Mrs. Sarah Blanchard went on Mon
day to Randolph to spend week with
her brother, A. j. Boyce.
Guy Fletcher of East Brookfeld