The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-05-21
WILLIAMSBURG.

has with her two grandsons, son OF |
Horace N. Farnham, and son OF DR.. |
Lewis ID. Martin. Tho latter has |
been in poor health since having the |
and has trouble with his
lungs.
Mrs Orcutt Abbott and daughter, |
to their home last week, af- |
ter winters stay with the family of |
DIR! James Bailey,a son-in-law of Mrs. |
Abbott in Ticonderoga. N. Y. They |
are always sure of a cordial welcome |
by their old friends here.
Our stores and post-offi are to be |
closed on Tuesday and Friday even
ings, each week, this season, a change |
having been made from Wednesday, as
first announced, to Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Ralph Dirty seems to like, and
to be liked, in her work at Lunenburg,
in the home of the father Of Rev. +.
e Currier.
Rev. d. H. Strong will be absent
on the coming two Sundays, as he is
away on his annual vacation.
Henry j. Martin and George Jack
son caught seven trout one day last
week that weighed together two and
one-half pounds. They fished in the
stream coming out of Gutter Pond,
and not very far from the pond.
The richest of all our bird songs.
those of the bobolink, we heard for
the first time, this season last Thurs
day.
Henry j. Lasell has just put a smoke
house addition, to his lard-trying es-
tablishment.
Lewis M. Seaver was recently con-
trasting the painful situation of our
trainers, who cannot get the help thev
need on their farms, and the condition
of things he finds in New York on his
frequent visits there, where, too often,
able bodied men would rather beg
there than to go out into the country
and do farm work. He told US of
ruse that is resorted to there, where
people will beg for a penny, to make
three pennies needed to cross a ferry.
One of his friends encountered such
beggar, in the person of woman,
who gave her twenty five cents in place
of penny, and went on. But turn
ing to look backward presently he saw
that she had tackled another man, on
the same errand as it proved. AS the
second man approached the first one,
a conversation followed, that showed
her over the ferry.
DR.. Elan @. Lewis, now of Rutland,
has just started for visit with
friends in Illinois, and may be away
till about June /.
A bright young business friend in
one of our principal Vermont towns,
with ourself, having failed to receive
a wedding card from a mutual friend,
lately married, remarked to us that it
had proved misfortune to him,
sending out cards when he was mar
ried. The unpleasant feeling on the
part of some who we're overlooked had
affected social relations not only, but
he thought in some in tances his bust
ness had been injured by it,
The strawberry supper and entertain
ment given last week Tuesday even
in9 for the benefit of the Universalist
ladies' society, proved very pleasant,
and successful affair, under the spe-
cial care of Mrs. Alf House, and Mrs.
Ed House, with Miss Helen Harring-
ton assisting.
Rev. William Schofield's team goes
twice daily to the home of Mr.. Siv-
right in the William Hanson district,
in bringing and returning children
that attend the village school.
James f. Rice former brakeman
here, is keeping house i'll Montreal, z.
O., where he has railroad work We be-
lieve.
Gene Call and Walter f. Granger
have had quite job of carpenter
work in the changes and repairs made
in the house of George T, Colby, the
house once owned by the late George
l.. Simons
Some one remarked to us the other
day that he heard bobolinKs nowhere
else in our village than ON the mead
ows south of the Poole bridge, and one
hears chorus of them there, nova
days. Can there be two opinions as to
the southern section of our village be-
ing the most beautiful part of it, dur
ing the open season of the year?
The sweat of the brow, and the fer
tilizing, that are now going into the
Chester Martin farm, at the south end
of our village, under the means and
management of the new owner, Will
liam Y. Pratt, are bound to tell most
effectively for it. Mr.. Platt is plan.
ming and executing things here in
persimmons are likely again to fall
into his basket, after the manner of
years past, in the quarry district.
Miss Cynthia Townsend gains slow
ly, in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. James
S. Hopkins.
Our citizens are absolutely unit in
wanting rain to come now. They
might not agree as to the time when it
should cease to come.
Think of it The little son of a
Williamstown mother in nearby sa-
loon cursed city, weeping bitterly be-
cause of the saloons there AS we hear
of the crowds there entering them, we
may we'll thank God that our own
town has nothing of this kind to cause
even children to Cry over them.
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