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

The village creamery paid its pat
rons t~wenty-four cents per pound for
December butter.
Mrs. George M. Seaver's health has
improved so much since going to Long
Beach, Cal, that she recently walked
two miles. After the years uf her
great invalidism here, this feat seems
wonderful. Some one writes us from
California of another recent case of
marked benefit to health, from going
there. One who had for fifteen years
been at the head of the schools in a
we'll known city this side Of the Rock
les, and was so broken in health it was
feared he would not live, went toiCali-
fornia last July, and is now so strong
and well that he works every day,
and all day long, there.
George Torrey, a grandson of the
late solomon Edison of Brookfield, and
a resident of Malcolm, Iowa, was the
guest last week of his cousins the
Misses Edison of our village. He was
accompanied by his cousin, Dana Tor
rey of Bethel.
w. II. Sprague of East Brookfeld
has ordered "A granite monument at
our now stone shed. The Barker
Granite Works.
Thomas Waldo tells us that the low
est temperature thus far this season at
his place (known earlier as the Thorn
as Flint farm was eighteen degrees
below zero.
We have just been told the present
sentiments of two of our former towns
men, on the subject of prohibition
in their respective towns in Vermont.
One is living in a small place that
has not had the most savory name in
the past. When he came to vote last
March on the question of prohibition
OF high license for his place he said to
himself it could hardly be worse with
high license than it had been before
under the old law and he would vote
for high license, as did a majority of
the voters in the town. But it only
needed the trial of high license to
bring him around to the decision not
to vote for it again, and he thinks a
majority of his townsmen are now of
the same mind. The other ex.towns-
man lives in one of the leading cities
of the State. Last March he voted for
high license, and the workings of it
in the meantime in his city he's
changed his mind and next month, if
he lives, his vote will be for prohibi-
ton.
Irving Robinson. on the old Daniel
d. Royce farm, has just put a tele-
phone into his house and had a mile of
territory to cover to get the wire to
his house. He is on the Orange coun-
ty line. A telephone on this line has
just been put into the Lasell meat
market.
The selectmep, believing that George
II COlhu5c doc hn6 ottanka6 anI in
jured or killed some sheep belonging
to Nelson Carleton; and MIR. Colby
believing the charge had not been
proven and refusing to pay damages,
the former brought a suit against the
latter and the trial will be on Thurs
day OF next week. Feb. ii.
In a lawsuit before Justice James
K. Pirie, last week, in a charge by
the State against Jerry Hutchinson
for breach of the peace, the latter
won the suit.
How we'll it pays, sometimes, to
chang on" is shown in a case recent
ly come to our knowledge. Two YER
monters, brothers, years ago went to
Iowa, and bought land when prices
were lower than now. One staid
there and the other came back. The
land bought and sold by the latter,
has since sold for 500 an acre. The
land bought by the former is still IN
his family in Iowa, and is said to be
worth 500 an acre.
John Perry is at work in the Lnyde
saw mill, in Mill village. His bust
ness is scaling and rolling the logs.
The singers of the Methodist church
in Barre city, took a sleigh ride to
our village last Friday evening and
partook of a supper at the town hall
provided for them by the ladies of our
Methodist church.
The wife of our late ex-townsman,
George, son of the late Albert Bruce,
has just died in Warren. Only lately
she fell and broke a hip. Her death
was a surprise to Ler friends here.