The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-24

Misses Fannie and Carrie Diaper, |
teachers in the graded school of Barre, |
arrived home on Saturday for few |
weeks vacation.
DR.. W. S. Curtis spent Sunday with |
his family here and returned to Mont
pelier on Monday morning.
Howard Drew has returned home
from Woodstock where he has been
spending few days with his brother,
George Drew.
Charles Beedle of Keene, n. H.,
will arrive here tomorrow to assist at
the next rehearsal of "Pinafore"
which is to be presented April IA and
10.
WILLIAMSTOWN.
Our village reamery paid 2516 cents
per pound for butter fat in February.
A few weeks ago Granite Cutter
Jesse Aubin and family went to Do.
yer, Del, expecting to stay there and
90 on to farm, larger or smaller An
informant thinks he was led to his
decision through some real estate deal
er. Some twenty-four or forty EIGHT
hours OH the ground there led HIM to
turn back northward, and the family
went to Three Rivers, Can. When he
went from here he left household
goods to be shipped to Delaware, that
would sooner or later come back north.
His friends here can hardly help hav-
ing sympathy for tn family in the
loss, first of selling out his home here
and lot of household stuff with it
and following the cost of travelling
back ann forth ETC., etc. "Look before
you leap is sound wisdom yet.
Harry Denny, of whom we write
elsewhere, it is said plans to return to
Florida this week.
Mrs. Harvey L. Cheney and adopted
son, Royal, left for their new home
in Mortified last Saturday afternoon.
Good wishes will surely follow the
family from here.
The name of Wilson Averill of War
rem came out in last weeks items as
Nelson" Averill, mistake on the
part of the printer.
Mrs. Ophir S. Martin continues to
gain in health
Mrs George Edwards returned home
from Bridgeport, Conn, last Sstur-
day.
Harry Slack. who has worked for
Thomas @. Waldo the last year and
half, has hired out to work for Ed.
Woodbury. on bis farm in Middlesex
for the year to come. 1t is surmised
he gets about $25 month for the
year.
Some years ago we made the pine
| tree standing at the southwest corner
of the General E. Bass house the SUBJ
| ject of an item for the Waterman.
| Set out by the unfortunate and sensi-
| tive little man, the late Chester Dick
inson, for so many years in the family
| of the general as hired man and whose
body was SO dwarfed by ricketts, in his
early life, it stood till last W eek me-
mento, as he wished when he planted
! it. He said TO the generals family
then, "When you see it think of me. "
| We have never forgotten his wish and
| as the old tree has grown so fast sky
ward rs if DESTROYS of finding yet the
happy home of him who placed it
there, it has been JOY to think of HIM
as having laid off the ungainly body
he dwelt in here and put on a new
one, family typified by the ever grow
| ing taller old pine The new owner
! of the place would not be expected to
| have any sentimental interest in the
tree and last week cut it down because
! of the injury to the house by its neal
ness to it. Would that it had been set
out farther from the house at the out.
set, and it's history ever followed it,
1t was left to the poor mans death
bed to open his heart to one of the
generals daughters, who nursed him
then and tell her of his life long men,
tai suffering because of his unsbapeIy
body. Gould anyone knowing of this
ever by word or deed willingly give
pain to such sufferer?
Irving Wilfore has gone to Lansing
Mich, to work for granite dealers.
Fremont @. Little and son with two
dogs took home six rabbits last Sat
urday.
Frank Martin, one of our best sugar
makers, tapped two trees last Saturday
from which the sap ran little. He
hopes for a run of sap this week.
Miss Effie Whitney is again ill. She
has had a good deal of sad experience
in that respect
Harry and Susie Webster, children
of Mrs Fred Whitney. are visiting
their brother, Loren, in Bellows Falls
where he il scoring a success with the
Vermont Farm Machinery Company,
we believe.
Mrs. Denny Briggs was with her
mother, Mrs. Gilbert o. Smith now OF
Montpelier, few days last week.
Eugene Carr is said to like his work
in Montpelier very much.
With the assistance of Mrs. Lewis
M. Seaver. Mrs. J. X. Lynde will en-
terrain the ladies' reading club at the
Lynde home on Saturday afternoon OF
this week. The subject will be Italian
music. Mrs. Lynde expects some one
from out of town to be present to add
interest to the occasion.
Will Flint, son of Mrs. Barney u.
Flint, returned from his trip to Ari.
IONA and New Mexico satisfied to re.
main in Colorado and he will likely
hang out his dental sign in Denver.
Mrs. Barnet Goodrich and daugt ter
have been staying OF late in Denver,
Col.
Rev. Thomas H. McLary was much
liked in his lecture at the town hall
IN Satin rdav AyaninQ On Sunday nyan-