The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-01-21
MSTOWN

Charles M. Seaver is buying a car
load of potatoes to- ship to Lowell,
Mass, this week. He pays fifty cents
per bushel for them.
The mercury here was 40 to AZ de-
grees below zero on Tuesday morning
last. A spirit thermometer might have
shown still lower degree. 1t was
the coolest morning of the season.
Charles Bennett, locomotive engineer
on our railroad, is confined to the
bed with rheumatism.
We hear that it may be three months
before John Dow will be able to go TO
work again because of his recent oper-
alton for appendicitis.
Manoel Benevides learns of the death
of his mother in Portugal and he
would like to arrange his business so
that he could go back there to look af-
ter matters pertaining to the family.
Owing to the absence of the pastor
at his home in New Hampshire two
weeks ago and the Free Baptist quar-
terly meeting in Washington last Sun
day, there has been no service at the
Free Baptist church for two weeks
buC there will be the usual service next
Sunday afternoon there.
1t is believed that If certain bill
before Congress touching the liquor
question shall be passed, it may great
ly help the cause of temperance in the
several States of the Union. Is not
such bill we'll worth the most earn
est consideration of every religious and
social organization in our State and
then, if it is, conclusively, what is hoped
for it, should not all these organiza-
tions petition the Congressman of
Vermont to do all in their power for
the passage of the bill? Could these
organizatins and our citizens at large
do more or better for the cause, than
in this way just now?
One of our farmers tells US that of
hay not of the best quality being sold
here lately for $50. a ton.
As precautionary measure and
I without any complaint having been
made as to the health of the herd, DR..
Lewis D. Martin will have a test for
tuberculosis made of the stock on his
rented farm here.
The Birthday Club in the northeast
quarter of the town, had an oyster
supper and an election of officers for
the coming year, at the home Of Perley
Sanders last Saturday evening.
There will be free admission to the
| stereopticon lecture by Rev. G. W.
week at the town hall This lecture
is to be given under the auspices of
| the Good Templars, and the occasion
can perhaps be considered a sort of
rally OF the ami saloon element of the
place-no small element we are glad
to say.
At the masquerade promenade at the
town hall last Saturday evening Ralph
| Spencer had to be taken out because
of an attack of neuralgia about the
heart, 1T is said.
One of our older citizens, who has
suffered for wears with trouble of the
heart, (regarded by physicians as a
sympathetic one) and who had consult
ed several physicians to little purpose,
decided some six months ago to alb
stain wholly from coffee and has found
almost, or quite, entire relief from the
ailment.
The lecture by Rufus G. King OF
lion, N. Y, next Saturday evening,
| Jan. 90, will be next to the last enter
|
| We have just read two very inter-
esting letters from Long Beach, Gal.
written by N. H. Capron, a son of our
former townsman. Benjamin Capron,
who was brother of the late Lyman
Capron. A year ago father and son
moved from Boone, Iowa, to that city,
the former being eighty or more years
of age. After nearly year there Mr..
Capron writes "To say that we are
pleased but family expresses it. We
are all of us, delighted with it,; and
he adds that his father is very much
better than he would be in Iowa. all
saying that this is the old folks para.
disc. The climate of fruits, flowers,
fishing, etc., are SO much to their de-
light that Mr.. Capron says gift of
the best section of land in Iowa would
not tempt them to return to that State.
We are told that Frank Fifield OF
our village came home few days age
from Peaks pond. in Plainfield or
Marshfield, with several ribs and a
shoulder injured. He was working
in the woods.
The mercury was 16 to 20 degrees
below zero here on Monday morning
last, as reported to us.
EAST ROXBURY.
Bert Williams baby, which has
bene very sick the past week, is
thought to be gaining.
Ethel Wardner was at George Ward
ner's on Sunday.
A party from Brookfield visited
| school on Saturday.
Mrs S. l., Buck, Mrs. j. Steele
and Ruby Wardner are being traeted
by DIR. Mcintyre of Randolph.
Miss Bertha Thayer is az home
from Montpelier.