The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-15

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Brown.
Mrs. @. S. Adams will hold her fall
millinery opening on Friday and Sat-
urday of this week. Miss Florence
Robinson, an experienced trimmer,
who has just returned from several
weeks stay in Boston attending the
opening of the season in that city,
will be in charge of this department
for Mrs. Adams.
Constable j. Berton Pike was in
Rutland on Saturday to commit
George Sulham to the work house for
season to work out sentence i'm
posed on him by Justice o. II. Smith
for assault and breach of the peace.
His allotted time at that institution
is 232 days.
Mr.. and Mrs. George o. Davis
visited in Wolcott part of last week.
Forty-six tickets were sold from our
station Tuesday morning for the ex-
cursiou to Boston.
WILLIAMSTOWN.
Mrs. j. X. Lynde attended the an
nual musical convention at Burling-
ton, last week, and later went to
Bakersfield to visit her sons, pupils
in Brigham Academy.
Nat Simons' son-ln-law of the late
John Lynde, at last accounts was
live at his home in Princeton, Ill,
though for weeks seemingly at the
point of deaths with Bright's disease
"The General Ebenezer Bass"
place, in our village, was sold last
Modnoc1oy tbrnnub tha n Dairy
Real Estate Agency of Barre. 1t was
supposed here till the morning of the
sale that the place was to go to a
resident of Barre city, and deed
had been made out for that resident
and sent to the Perry Agency the day
before But on Wednesday morning
it appeared that our villagers, George.
Edison and N B. Robinson, were to
be the owners OF the place, and then
a deed was made direct to them. Cen
eral Bass bought the place of John
Bryant, in 1884, and there has been
no change in it, in the way of addi-
ton to, or subtraction from the land,
from that time to the present. There
have been changes in the buildings,
that, at one time, presented con-
tinuous front to the street, the horse
barn having been much larger than at
present. 1t was a well-known hotel
stand in the olden time, on the way
from Boston to Montreal. 1t is told
that fifty horses were sometimes
stabbed Nfor a night here. 1t will not
require very vivid imagination to
picture the scenes of these early days,
in connection with this place, when
1t must have been an active section
of the village. 1t is in what was once
the old bar room of this hotel, that
for many years the Waterman items
have been written; and with "pas
sion" for "reminiscences of the town
it has sometimes been wished that the
four walls could speak III answer to
some questions; but, lest it should
be bedlam-or worse-let loose, :"
their silence is better. However, we
have no idea that it differs mater
tally from the bar rooms of other
respectable hotels, in those earlier
days Had General Bass been willing
to take the offer for the farm, IRE
serving his house and other buildings,
and the land about them just before
the railroad reached here, some fifteen
years ago, it would not only have
brought much larger sum than at
present, but it is said that the depot
and other Duildings-stone sheds, ETC.
would have been built on the place.
Just what Messrs. Edison and Robin
son will do first on the place is no
known, but it will likely be opened
up for building lots, In time. Surely
the place is part CT the most beauti
full section of our village. A wealthy
man once said he would give $4,000
for the stream crossing this farm, if
he could have it at his summer home
farm in an adjoining State.
We have just heard of a Vermont
lady in southern California who says
'she might as we'll come back to Yer
mont and freeze TO death, as to. stay
there and be eaten up by fieas. "
We hear that Ira howell will go in.
to company with Manoel Benevides,
| in the meat business and they will
build market in our village later.
John Dexter, now of Brookline,
| Mass. has been visiting his old home,
here, of late. Born on MATTHIAS
Vineyard, some sixty years ago, his
father, Hiram Dexter, moved to q
farm here in town, when he was
twelve years old. For nearly two
score years past, Mr.. Dexter has been
in Faneuil Hall market. Boston,
where he is supposed to have acquired
at least generous competency by his
increasing devotion to business, and
thrift. His wife died very few
years ago, leaving a family of several
children. AS consequence, likely,
Of overwork, Mr.. Dexter has beer
compelled to give up business, for 8
time at any rate. After calling Oh
old neigbhors and friends, he left
here last Saturday afternoon for Mont
real to visit the city for the first time
H. H. Martin has lately had can
Ger taken from lip by DR.. Mayo Of
Northfield.
The CongreRationalist ladies mis-
sionary rally here ON Friday Afternoon
and evening was one of profit ant
interest. Mrs. John Comstocko.
Chelsea presided at the afternoon SEES
sion, at which methods of work by
the ladies' missionary societies were
discussed. Mrs. REV George Ladt
of West Randolph read an excellen
paper. Mrs Woodbury. of Massachu
sets, representing the American
Missionary Association, was present a
this session, to render any assistance
she could. Tea was served in til,