The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
WILLIAMSBURG.

"The Norman G. Davis farm" was
sold last week to Lawyer III. W. Scott
of Barre, and Return S. Davis and
son, Harold. will go now to their fine
farm in Danville, some seven miles
from st. Johnsbury. Mrs. Norman q.
Davis will accompany them, to re-
main with them for little time be-
fore returning to her present home in
Waterloo, Iowa. The Messrs. Davis
have been among our most progress
sive, up-to-date farmers. and we hope
their new location will give them
ample scope for their worthy ambi-
ton, as farmers. That they may &C
hieve it will be among the good
wishes of their friends, which they
will carry away with them. For
half century or more this good farm
lust sold has been in the hands of
three generations of Davises, and one
could only wish that it might ever be
kept up to the past standard of ex-
cellence, and not, as some one has pre-
dicted, be stripped of the hay and
wood for term of years, and then
turned out as q "back pasture.
"The Walter Williams farm" has
Just been sold to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Jeffords, consideration 81, 700, Though
not large farm it is said to be a
good one.
DR.. Henry Downs, osteopathist,
writes of an encouraging opening Of
his business, in Oil City, Penn.
We lately had the pleasure of call
on our good friends, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ophir S. Martin, who are at present,
! in the family of their daughter, Mrs
Irving Covell. Since her return from
the Heaton hospital in Montpelier,
Mrs. Martin has gained in flesh and
strength to the JOY and hope of her
! friends. Mr.. Martin, who for many
years has been an active man, both in
| his own and the affairs of the town,
must naturally find it hard to be laid
aside now, to the extent he is, by in
validism; but we are not without
hope that he is yet to be better. He
is able to ride out occasionally.
An effort is making for repairs and
changes in the Congregational meet
ing house here, and with the great
assistance of some former residents
and friends of the church, the effort
seems likely to be successful. The
work will not all be done this season.
A former Williamstownian writes
us from Savannah, Georgia, section
with which he is much pleased. He
says at present, vegetation is growing
so finely that it seems like spring
there. He tells of a sunflower stall
on his place, that measured about
twelve feet in height, and had owe,
thirty flowers on it He has a souve
mir, in the way of two penstoGks, til,
material of which was taken from al
oak there under which John Wesle,
once preached.
Mrs J. K. Lynde, of the d. A. r.
and Miss Mary Ainsworth of Moline
ILL.,, were in Montpelier last week. a
the unwilling of the tablet of Lafay
cite, which proved an enjoyable oc
casion to them. Mrs. Lynde tool
with her two dishes that are beinI
kept in the Norman Davis family a
souvenirs, and that are said to hav
been on the tablet at the time of La
fayette's visit at Montpelier.
Miss Mary Ainsworth returns to he
home in Moline, ILL.,, this week.
Mrs. J. e. Ainsworth will go t.
Claremont, N. H., the Last of thi
week, not to return to her summe
home here till next year. With he
husband she will visit Boston an,
vicinity before going to their hom
in Moline, Ill.
One of our villagers. having som
100 hens, is said to have realized {
profit of $l25 in year past.
Charles Staples fell from load o
corn last week while working TO
Orville D. Bosworth, and injured tw
or three ribs. DR., Lewis ID. Matin
osteopathist, attended him.
Granite Cutter Frank Lavine is lai
off from work, from blow give
him on the breast by Charles Guild
with whom he was "fooling," as h
says, last Sunday week. He has t.
have medical care.
The autumnal foliage here is yer.
beautiful at present. We have rarel
seen anything lovlier in its way, tina
a piece of woods just west of tn
house of Irving Covell, in which tall
slim fir trees by way of contras
heighten the glory of colors on tn
naples and other trees. Why shout
there not be "autumn visitors" t
our section as we'll as summer ones
when Nature is in its far more tina
Solomonic grandeur?
Lewis M. Seaver goes to New Yor
this week on one of his business trips
to be away week or ten days.
Regular meetings of the teacher
and school officers of the town wer
resumed at the opening of the fal
term. The first meeting was devote
to discussion of the summer schools
with abstracts of work done and lee
/ lures given at the summer school a
Randolph in August last by Mrs. Id
M. Il. Wood of the village gramma
school and Miss Marion M. Dana @
the George W. Lynde school. Th
last meeting was addressed by Hon
Walter e. Ranger OF Montpelier, su
perintendent of education. The tai
} of Mr.. Ranger was informal. Som
{ of the points touched upon by MI
/ Ranger were the value to town G
teachers meetings.; the demands o
the public schools of today compare
with earlier times; the relation of tn
: high schools to the public schools
the need of a better knowledge of tn
school laws of the State ON the part c
the teachers and school officers; til
use and abuse Of holidays 'concernin
the duties of directors in the matte
of transportation and number of il