The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-02-04
WILLIAMSTOWN.

Ed D. POOR creamery patrons re-
ceived twenty -four and one-half cents
per pound for December butter.
On next week Friday evening, Feb.
2, an exhibition will be given by the
school on the south hill, to be the
closing exercise of the winter term.
There will be long program and
Misses Goldie B. Sheridan and Minnie
M Hebard will assist the scholars in /
carrying IL out. The teacher, Mr. |
Howard, has been carefully training !
his pupils for the occasion and it is
hoped that it will be eminently sue. /
cessful. Everybody is cordially in !
vited to attend.
Thomas Sheridan, who has been do |
ing carpenter work for Horace w. !
| FaInham at East Montpelier, more or
| less of the time since the first of last
August, hopes to finish there this
week and return to life at home.
An adjourned meeting of our board
of trade Will be held at the town hall
on Friday evening of this week.
AFRO A. Reeds mother, of East
| Brookfeld, has been visiting him of
late.
After reading an article in last
weeks Scientific American, on the oil
fields of Louisiana and Texas, and
noting what was being done in oil, at
Jennings, La, it looked as if our
townsman, Asa G.. WILDER, might yet
swim in oil himself, with the amount
of land he has down there in the Jen-
nings district.
AS showing how things sometimes
go in this world, we repeat here
story just told us. Years ago we used
to deal with very prosperous firm in
Chicago known as Furst & Bradley,
manufacturers of plows and other agri-
cultural implements. Later change
was made in the firm and Mr. Brad
ley took the business and the goods are
manufactured in Bradley suburb of
Kauakee, ILL.,, where, by the way, our
ex-townsman, James Adams, finds en-
ployment. One of the founders of the
business was David Bradley, a New
Yorker by birth who married the
Youngest sister Of the late Mrs. Enoch
Howe of our village, Cynthia Abbott.
In early life Mr.. Bradley was a work
or in wood and could make the wood
work of plows. He went west and
took farm in Michigan and what
ever other crops he failed to realise he
wasn't short on "fever IL 'ager." Per-
haps though, he was at no time more
shaken up than when, one day he dis
covered his horses had been stolen and
he went farther west in pursuit of
them. He tracked them them to the
Mississippi River and there lost trail.
He returned to Chicago, with the feel.
ing that he could there get living
by his trade and gave up farming.
His ability to "wooi" plows served
, him we'll in Chicago A very large
!. and prosperous business grew out of
his small beginning and he may have
often felt that he could very much
better afford to lose his stolen horses
than the thief could afford to steal
them.
Mrs. Gene Marshall is taking this
} week for visit at her old home in
Braintree.
Rev. Francis A. Kimball was not
in her pulpit last Sunday owing to
the illness of her sister, Miss Helen
Kimball
The Barker Granite Company has
lately put up a monument for Mrs. 5.
, Soper Briggs in Ran dolph.
Last week some $500 worth of
liquors were taken to M. j. MCGOWAN
of Barre, that were sold to him some
< months ago by the town. 1t was
what was left over last spring, when
the town went for prohibition. The
l last quarterly meeting of the confer
t ence year will be held at the Metho-
dist church on Saturday afternoon OF
this week. Presiding Elder j. O..
; Sherburne will preach here next Sun
day morning
Mrs. David NJ Smith continues to
improve in healtN since her return
from the Mary Fletcher hospital.
Ralph Spencer is yet rather poorly
in health since his attack with heart
trouble few weeks ago.
Gilman l. Jackson has been in Tai
lapoosa, Georgia, for more than year
past on account of his health. He is
better this winter than some OF the
} time last year. He purposes to re-
a turn north next season.
9 Last week we learned something Of
late conditions in the Province of AL
berta in the Northwest Territory, Can
ada, where our, former townsman,
Hamilton Wark, lives. There had been
I two inches of snow, but much mild
weather, and stock was able to feed
out of doors all the time Another old
citizen wrote us from Texas, near the
< Gulf coast that there had hardly been
+ a frost there, and the weather had
been very warm
1t is disappointment to some of
our granite workers that they have to
remain idle. now, for lack Of work
2 coming in TO their employers 1t is
said to be rather a dull winter for
sales, among the big dealers in fin
ished work.
Will the multitude of farmers in
! our town and county, who are enjoy
, ing their telephones so much, some
day find p big telephone monopoly
settling down over them like sitting
hen. Then what will be the hatch, if
a not the regular rates." We know
of company that has been coming
money in the manufacture and sale of
: teleph ones in competition with one of
S the monopolies-and now this same
S monopoly has got hold of big block
of the stock of the company-and we
hear the prediction that it may he so
hereaoouts, later.
The ladies' readi ng club will meet