The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-07-30
p. a. PERRY,
REAL TATE ENJOY,
Barre w. Room and Gordon Block.

ril of Montpelier as reader, assisted
by Miss Edith Carpenter; and Miss
Lula Burnham, soloist. Mrs. Terrill
is an elocutionist well known and
popular in Montpelier and vicinity.
She comes to Williamstown for the
first time highly recommended by the
dean of the Emerson College of Ora
tory and many other competent critics.
Miss Carpenter will be remembered as
former resident of this place, and
Miss Burnham is too we'll and happily
known to miss welcome.
Last week we fell in with a veteran
of the war of the rebellion, whose
late father was farmer here, when
it broke out. AS it is always pleas
ure to record good deed, and a great
er one, if possible, to chronicle lasting
gratitude for it, so now we have a
double joy in repeating some things
this veteran said to US. His father
had long been a patron of the Aims
worth store, :" and as boy this veter-
an had taken a liking to the we'll
known merchant, the late Calvin Aims
worth. When the war broke out, this
young man was some seventeen years
of age, and when he enlisted as SOL
der he was strong and healthy. But
he came out of the service greatly
broken in hoalth, and when he re-
newed his visits to the old store,
hardly another man would recognize
the change more quickly, or more
deeply sympathize in it, than did Mr.
Ainsworth. And so he advised the
soldier to apply for a pension. But
the latter thought, then, that pensions
would be given only in the case of
death, or the loss of limbs, and he was
not inclined to move in the direction
of seeking one. Mr.. Ainsworth, how
ever, persisted in his work with him,
and told him he had a friend, a lawyer
in Montpelier, to whom he should go
for assistance. The soldier yielded,
and went, and claim was instituted.
The lawyer died, but the claim lived,
and although it was twenty years be-
fore it was allowed, the soldier drew
his pension, and back gay from the
time it was made. All honor to the
veteran in whose heart lives today,
after the passing of nearly two score
years, the gratitude to his old and
so recently And then as the old SOL
der was barking back to those days,
his heart went out in great admiration
for certain clerk then in the old
store, Frank o. Beckett. His language,
so forcibly put, showed that forty
years had hardly dulled his regard for
the man that he had seen but once,
perhaps, in the time. And SO we now
tally two or three to poor human
nature
Mrs. Barney D. Flint is this week
visiting friends in Brookfeld. and
Chelsea.
Lewis M. Seaver left on Monday for
New York to be absent eight or ten
days. While cutting hay the other
day, Mr. Seaver tells us that two deer
were in the field, and approached him
to within a distance of some five
rods. Not till his dog was seen by
| them did they show fear and run.
Last Sunday evening at the CongIe-
| gational church Miss Marion Hors-
ford, the principal Of our high school
department., gave talk on the work
OF the college III Springfield, Mass, in
| educating persons of various national
tiles, along distinctively Christian
lines. Miss Horsford has been con-
nected with this college as teacher
and her experience could hardly fail to
be interesting. She has been spending
a part of her summer vacation here,
and plans ere long to visit her old
home in Charlotte.
-Four years of age, and the son of
two of our former townsfolk. A little
clash of opinions-his mammals and
his own. The former had had her say,
and this was his gainsay; "Don't
| you know, mamma, that God Bible
says thou shalt let little children do
as they want TOP" And this was
earnestly emphasized by the extended
forefinger OF his right hand, vibrating