The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-04-01
WILLIAMSTOWN.

time health she is much better than
at times in year or two past.
The Ladies' Home Study club will
meet next Friday afternoon with
Mrs. j. M. Seaver and sister.
Ed ]. Poor with his family attend
ed the funeral on Monday of his
brother-in-law, Paschal Currier Of
Montpelier, and has sons were bear
ers on the occasion.
Mrs. Emma Staples Hutchinson
was lately called to McIndoes Falls
by the health of her daughter.
For the first time in many years,
the rather remarkable sugar place
en- the old General e. Bass place in
our village is to be carried on by it's
present owners, the Thomas c..
Waldo family. There are so many
naples of second growth in this or
chard and the sap has been so rich
in sugar in the past, that we shall
have a great curiosity to know, If
there shall yet be good season,
what the results will be there
We have had Gin pickle" for some
weeks an excellent letter from one
of our former citizens now in South
anrQ California that we have wanted
IL share with our readers. She has
her home on a thousand acre fruit
ranch there and writes of things of
much interest. Precautions have to
be taken at times when frost threat
ems the fruit and the "smudging" is
done by the starting of $500 fires in
small sheet iron stoves, scattered
through the orchards that have for
burning, a mixture of shavings and
sawdust baked in oil. Japanese help
is employed largely and in 30 min
utes the work of smudging is well
under way. The expense is about
$500 for a first class job of the kind
on this ranch, and not only are
frosts to be watched, but there are
other enemies of the trees, like
scale" and spiders of many kinds,
that require systematic fumigation,
by men who do nothing else, and
who have to do the work nights and
when it is clear. The trees have to be
covered with tents and the use of
the necessary acids for the fumiga
ton, that is death to all animal life
in very brief time, makes the
work dangerous, only as well under
stood and well performed. Our cor
respondent writes Of beautiful things
there, flowers and palms, but adds
that there is nothing that she has
seen yet, so beautiful as New
England summer. But she likes the
summers in California, much better
than the winters there, with their
fogs and dampness that make heavy
coats and furs indispensable there.
She finds very nice, hospitable peo-
pie there, but they seem to her to
be con the move this week there,
and the next, their homes are sold,
and they are gone to some other
place, so much so that merchants, in
some cases, find it hard doing bust
ness so far as can see, she says,
unless one has money or a pull, or
VA push, one is just as well, or bet
ter off in the East than here.
A son of OF new corners in the
Beckett block, Mr.. and Mrs. A. N.
Fellows, will teach in town next
term.
One of the jubilant members of
our Ladies' Village Improvement
society, who naturally feels pleased
with the work her society has done
here so far, has just given us a
conundrum indeed. Where" she
asks, "is the Board of Trade Of our
town." AS we do not believe in
communicating with spirits, we
shall not go hunting for an ans
wer to this conundrum. But we are
compelled to believe that some good
has come in the past to our town
\ through lHc Olh IiiiC bOoAN ~
rrade."
Lewis M. Seaver is on one of his
usual business trips to New York
ity this week.
The Chelsea Dramatic company
seems to have been much liked here
hast Monday evening.
Henry G. House thinks the word
Inc is constantly getting from Col
orado concerning the health of his
sop-in-law, M. J. Elliott, is favor
ADJ He is able to take walks
anX-hting to the distance of mile
in the round trip.
Glenn McAllister of the j. X.
Lynde company here, has lately
been approached by an out of town
business firm of local note, with a
view of securing his services, but
he thinks he will remain here for the