The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14

writing.
Miss Alice Walker is caring for Mrs.
Ophir s. Martin, as nurse at the home
of Mrs. Henry ]. Lasell.
The parents of the Clogston broth.
ers, owners of the old Judge Paine
place, are here from Montpelier on a
visit.
1t is not Mrs. Luara Stone wife of
Christopher Hood, who is asking for
the appointment of y. U. Lathrop as
the administrator of the estate of the
late Mrs. W. b. Braman of Montpelier
in which she has no interest. But
Mrs Laura Cabot Hood of Chelsea, a
niece of Mrs Braman. From all that
we hear, and as things go in this
world sometimes we are led to ask
what If Mrs. Braman's natural heirs
and the legatees of the~Bramap will
should be compelled TO take up with
the crumbs that may fall from the
lawyers table after the feast is over.
James s. Hopkins has been receiving
new goods of late and his store is
summer like within, even if nature
persists in looking winter like without.
There has just come to us a letter
from dear friend that we would glad
ly use to inspire young men of small
means, who are yet DESTROYS of COL
lege education. Some thirty.two
years ago we first met this friend, q
lad of perhaps eight or ten years of
age, one of large family of children
in western home The father, was
farmer and a renter. The
was fine scholar and lovable fell.
low. He was determined to have an
education and in due time started for
a well known western city, in which
was the State university, and with
$25 in his pocket. He was a student
there four years and remained there
eleven years longer as a teacher in the
university. He says he sawed wood,
pitched hay copied papers. carried
newspapers and could make enough
to keep in the line and ct the same
time by actual count. there was eighty
per cent Of the boys IN that institution
who were earning their expenses
he was doing. Today he is teacher
in prominent eastern university,
having come from the west there in
the last year. He has lately had a
call to another State university in the
west but declines it; what this friend
has done and is doing we believe many
another poor boy with his determine
ton can do also.
There have been two recent deaths
i'll Rock Island, illinois, that will in
terest some other old Vermonters, as
well as Williamstownians. One is of
Mrs. Mary Adams, widow of the late
| Cornelius Lynde; the other of DR..
| Charles O. Carter, son of the late
Elijah Carter. Mrs. Lynde was the
daughter of the late Samuel Adams of
| Grand Isle. Her husband was a
| grandson of Cornelius Lynde, one of
The early settlers of our town, and
the father of the late John Lynde.
Mrs. Lynde died of pneumonia, at the
home of her son, Samuel A. Lynde,
in Chicago, at the age of seventy three
years. DR.. Carter was grandson of
Abel Carter, years ago resident of
our town, aud later of Montpelier. He
was physician of note in Rock
Island. He died of pneumonia at the
age of fifty-two years. Both Mrs.
Lyude and DR.. Carter were prominent
Epicopalians of Rock Island, we be-
lieve.
Our ex-townsman, DR.. Jason @.
Briggs (who is also an ordained min
ister), a resident of Somerville, Mass. ),
has lately been made a presiding elder
in the Evangelical Association. His
work may call him to Montpelier, on
a visit, soon.
The Randolph Herald and News is
quoted as authority for the statement
that if our townsman, @ U. Lath-
| rop, is given the nomination for as
sistant county judge of Orange county
at the next convention he will not de-
cline it. 1t is an Office that he has
filled In the past for four years.
Mrs. J. Monroe Seaver returned
from Concord, n. H., last Saturday
where she had been caring for her
great-aunt. Mrs. Charlotte Burroughs
Ryder, few weeks. Mrs. Ryder is
convalescent.
Oliver Dickinson finds his services
in good demand at paper hanging.
His daughter, Miss Ednah, is at
school, in the Sem mary at Montpelier,
and not in the best of health at pres
ent.
Some one thinks there is not the
usual number of crows hereabouts,
at this season. We're they the victims
of the recent cold winter?
On recent inquiry we we're told that
there were some siXty-tive names Gu
the roll OF our Granite Cutters
| Union.
Mrs Charles Hayward is waiting her
chance at the Mary Fletcher Hospital,
and may go there this week for sur
gerry.
The high school club entertainment
at the town hall last Saturday even
ing proved pleasant affair, in it's
variety, and carrying out The bur-
lesque discussion of the resolution,
"That Fishing Affords More Fun
Than the Study of Algebra, with
three Young ladies as the jury-was
amusing. to say the least The pleas
made by the opposing disputants to
this jury, for decision each in it's
particular favor, were telling" One
side appealed to their "beauty, in
telligence and ability to do examples
in percentage, where there were no
fractions, and the like, and was
met with the copntercharge that THAT
was all flattery, for there was no
ground, in fact, for such appeals. "
The Algebra lists won in the de-
bate TT ere were three scenes from