The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-04-08
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gational church, had been ailing for
a few days last week, and his ply
stefan advised that he should not
preach last Sunday. He hopes to be
able to be in his pulpit next Sunday.
Our village blacksmith, Albert r.
Martin, who is daily at his anvil, al
though past &c years of age, still EN-
joys sliding on a snow crust with
his little Kanaly granddaughter,
when they are out here from Mont
pelier.
A. r. Stearns, on the old Orville
J. Briggs farm, has returned from
his visit to Maryland where he re-
Gently went with his father and bro
Their and another Chelsea man, to
spy out the land there with a pos
sible view to buying. The country
he went to is on Chesapeake Bay
Weare told that he found prices of
land pretty we'll up, with nothing in
the way of fine buildings in some
cases to make them high, but he
liked the lands. There had been no
snow in the last winter in some one
or more places he visited and that
doubtless would be a prime recon-
mendation to him and his party. But
time to get our handkerchiefs out,
!. as we are glad to say, before we
Dshall lose our towusman.
One of our former townsfolk, now
living in new and distant section,
writes of having had to pay physi-
clan at the rate of 81 a mile, and in
this case it was a 20-mile ride, for
his visits to the family, in a certain
case of sickness.
The opening of the summer term
of our high school was postponed
from last Monday to next Monday,
April ~, on account of the condi-
ton of the roads.
Some on our East Hill told us one
day last week that he thought the
snow would average three feet in
depth in the woods on his place.
George L. Lane, son of Gilbert
Lane of Washington and now work
ing in st. Adams, was in town the
first of last week, the guest of Mrs.
Thomas C. Waldos family.
Lee, son of Carl J. Kingsbury, has
been getting out some 500 cords of
wood, this season on the old Frank
Mcconnell farm for our States At
torney Wilson. He has had five men,
more or less of the time, as helpers
and he may yet increase the wood
pile by 100 or 200 cords.
Mrs. Albern Briggs, now so years
old or more, has had to have the
care of physician of late.
We heard new phrase one day
last week by one of our yankee"
friends, who was talking of form
er citizen that he respected as an
honest man, although perhaps a
somewhat close one. Said he, 81
rather a man would be honestly
hard, than hardly honest"
Ed. ]. Poor, one of our biggest
stock men, ties up 101 head of cat
tie on his farm.
Some people seem born to con-
tinual comical happenings and hap
by that one that can take them with
a hearty laugh. Such a one is the
we'll known wife of one of our cit
liens, who can always laugh with
her, at such times. Not many days
ago, a seller of essences and the
like called at her home and she
was induced to buy peppermint es-
sence of marked strength and while
she was about it, of course, she
found that she needed some extract
of lemon and bought. She was hav-
ing lumbago at the time and wond-
cred later, if essence of pepper
mint wouldn't be good for it. Hell
judgment gave an affirmative ans
wer, but unfortunately in her appli-
cation of remedies, she by mis-
take got hold of the lemon extract
with which she had hand to hant
encounter on her back with hel
painful trouble. A little later as the
essence peddler was passing the
house again, she asked her husband
if he didn't think the pedler would
/. like her testimonial of the merits
y of his peppermint, that he had 81
highly praised. At one time in tn
West this family occupied hous
of only two rooms and of cours
.were cramped. Hence shelf il
~ the room where was their bed, wit
doubtless many other things TIL
shelf was above the bed but not S
high as to cause suspension of tn