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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-03-10
SOUTH WOODBURY..

Mrs. Andrew Lyford passed away
Wednesday evening at the home of
her son-in-law, B. N. Wheeler, at the
age of "a years. During her long and
distressing illness she was invariab-
ly patient and cheerful and surround
ed by her husband and children, she
calmly awaited the summons that
called her home. She had been a
woman of remarkable activity ana
her devotion for her family and chill
dren was strongly marked trait of
her character. Nearly her whole life
had been spent in this town and she
was highly respected. She leaves to
mourn her loss, an aged husband,
three daughters, Cora Benjamin of
Montpelier, Mrs. Emma Banks, Mrs
B. H. Wheeler, son, Frank Lyford
of Lowell, Mass, and son-in-law,
Daniel c. Wilbur.
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NORTH MONTPELIER.

George l.. Pray is in Boston this
week.
Arthur Templeton of Montpelier
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Templeton over Sunday.
Mr. Campbell and Mr.. Teachout
of Montpelier have been building a
new refrigerator in the creamery the
past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Stanley visit
ed at Victor Templeton's Sunday.
Quite number from here attended
the play at Marshfield Friday night.
F. Gates of the Standard Oil Com
pany was in town Friday.
Charles Mears is working for Lit
tie Brothers.
Mrs. Florence Little is i'll, threat
ened with pneumonia.
Messrs George and Edgar Pray
were in Cabot on business Friday.
Messrs. Charles Mears and Leon
Kelley went to Hardwick Sunday, re-
turning Monday with clapboards for
the new hall.
cold and Indigestion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Chaplin were
in Barre Saturday.
Mr.. Bushnell of Burlington and
Mr.. Bixby of Barre were in town
Thursday.
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EAST MONTPELIER.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Templeton had
started for the Grange meeting We'd
ncsday evening when their sleigh cut
down and spilled them out The horse
went on, made the two mile trip and
stopped at the Grange hall. No one
was hurt. The horse was driven buck
and Mr. and Mrs TempletCn attend
ed the meeting. Question was, "How
did the horse know for what place he
had started?"
Farmers are breaking reads Into
their sugar places Some are tapping
Several couples recently attended
the Williamstown Grange.
Mrs. Kate Younge is visiting Miss
Upper in Bethel.
Mrs. Davis is very i'll. George Nc
Knight is also i'll with the grip
Edwin Mcknight and his son AL
bert are both i'll with severe colds
Four new members were taken into
the Grange Wednesday evening and
an enjoyable repast was served.
Winooski Valley Pomona Grange
hold their next meeting at the East
Village hall on the 10Th inst.
The poverty ball is on the 18th
The proceeds are for the hall All
come.
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RANDOLPH

AFRO Waters, who was arrested on
Monday for intoxication and sent to
Chelsea to serve a Jail sentence of 20
days, left behind him an 11-year-old
daughter, Josephine, totally unpro-
vided for. Charges of improper con-
duct being made against the child and
evidence satisfactory to the court be-
ing submitted, she was ordered to the
reform school for the remainder of
her minority and taken to Vergennes
yesterday morning by High Sheriff
H. T. Baldwin of Wells River
Clarence Hull has been arrested
for intoxication, and, pleading guilty
to a first offence, was fined So and
costs of $4.9S and signing the pledge
for a year, the fine was RENTED, in
the hope that, as he is only about IS
years of age he may conclude to keep
the pledge permanently.
The funeral of Mrs. Charles II.
Belknap will be held this afternoon at
her late home on Forest street, where
her death occurred Monday noon
after four months illness due to can
Ger of the liver Mrs. Melissa (Bow-
en- Neff Belknap, was born at Brain
tree Branch, May 3, 1874, the daught-
er of Joseph and Louisa (Williams)
Bowen. For her first husband she
married Thomas Neff of Braintree
and of this union three children sur
vive-Mrs. Isabelle May of Bellows
Falls; A. T. Neff, proprietor of the
Neff livery in this place, and Joseph
Neff of Essex Junction. The hus-
bands death took place 13 years ago,
and in 1903, the deceased married
Mr.. Belknap of North Randolph, and,
with him, moved to this village last
fall. Besides her second husband and
her children, Mrs. Belknap left sis
ter, Mrs. Wallace Flagg of Miller,
Neb., who had the sole care of the sick
woman during the last two months
of her painful illness.
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WOODBURY..

Mrs. Andrew Lyford died last week
Wednesday after an illness of nearly
year of cancer of the stomach. The
funeral was held at the house Friday.
Mrs Even of South Woodbury. Off
ciating. Burial was in the Center Gem
etery. Mrs Lyford was highly es-
teemed.
Mrs. William Carr is very ill with
ulcers in the stomach.
Deputy Sheriff Hastings of Middle
sex called on W. C. Peck and Joseph
Tibbetts and few others last week.
r. f. brennan of Montpelier, was
friends.
Mrs. Stella Miller has returned
from Concord, n H., where she has
spent part of the winter with her
parents.
Kate Carr has been called home
from Hardwick where she was a;
work, by the illness of her mother.
Harvey Youngwan has settled with
Elder Ross in his livery business and
goes to Wolcott this week with mis-
Livery
Mrs. Ethan Ainsworth was very
much pleased with her shower Of
postcards on her birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ashley Smith were in
town Sunday.
Mrs Catherine Dana has returned
10 Boston where she has employ
ment.
Charles Watson of Montpelier was
in town on business last week.
A little fawn was killed last week
by dogs and was found on the stone
road that leads to the quarries The
men who worked on the railroad saw
II occasionally and carried hay for it
H. S. Benjamin, the game warden, was
notified and is investigating the mat
| ter.
Fred Crockett is moving in with
Ethan Ainsworth's family and is to
help carry on the farm.
ELI Burnham is reported i'll with
appendicitis.
Mrs. Cora Benjamin and daughter
have returned to Montpelier, being
called here by the illness and death
of Mrs. Benjamin's mother, Mrs. Ly-
ford
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Foster of Cab
OF were at II. S. Benjamin's Friday,
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BROOKFIELD.

Several members of Brookfield
Grange visited North Randolph
Grange recently.
Misses Martha and Cecil Peak of
st. Adams have been spending sew
eral days at c. II. Kibbee's.
Forty or more of the Brookfield
people went to Williamstown last
week to witness the play "Neighbor
lakewood" presented by members of
Williamstown Grange.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perley Reyes are en-
tertaining for few days company
from Burlington.
Lewis b. Panton visited his broth
err, George Panton and family in Ran
dolph recently.
Mrs. Nellie Wright Currier died
Tuesday, Feb. 22d at her home in
Lebanon, N. H., of tuberculosis. She
was confined to her bed only one
week. Her remains were brought to
the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lucien B. Wright where the fun
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TOWN CORRESPONDENCE
News Of the Day As Presented by the
Journals Corps Of Special Cor
respondents, Being Mostly
Items of Interest.
ST. JOHNSBURY.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Morris are
receiving congratulations OH the birth
of a son on March 1. Mrs Morris
was formerly Miss Claire Bemis OF
Marshfield.
C. d. Waters of Montpelier was in
town Friday.
F. f. Carrick is visiting his SON
Harvey A. Carrick in Boston for a
few days.
Mrs. Walter p. Smith, Mrs. S. T.
Brooks, Mrs. George NJ. Gray and
Mrs C. H. Merrill entertained the
Conversation Circle at luncheon We'd
nesday at Mrs. Smiths home.
Miss S. Anna Cunningham has re-
signed her position at teacher at the
Fairbanks Village school, on account
of i'll health.
Mrs. C. p. Davie is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. John Corskie at Barre.
Mrs Davie was severely burned in
Che Railroad street fire few months
ago and is now quite completely re-
covered.
Miss Mildred Stiles very pleasantly
entertained her Sunday School class
of the North church at the home Of
Mrs. H. p. Slack, Friday afternoon. A
snow shoe tramp was enjoyed and on
thor return supper was served.
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WEST CORINTH.

Mrs. Bert Virgins was in Vershire
a few days recently to help care Tor
her sister, Bertha Cross, who has
been quite i'll the past two weeks.
Dow Mcfarland, who had been con-
fined to his bed nine weeks, died last
week Thursday at his home in Cook
Vile. He leaves a widow and three
children.
Rev. H. A. Durfee, DID, general
secretary of the State Sunday School
Association gave an interesting talk
here in the church recently.
Mrs. Lewis True and Mrs. Mary
Wilson visited at Clinton Carton S
in Vershire one day last week
F. p. Whitney of Putnamville and
Mr.. Smile of Montpelier were guests
of j. p. Virgins one day last week
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WATERBURY,.

Emerald Rebekah Lodge No. 80
held regular meeting at |. o. o. F..
hall Friday evening. The degree was
exemplifed. Mrs. Susie Reach, presi-
dent of the Rebekah State Assembly,
was present and complimented the de-
gree staff ON the excellent work they
did and expressed herself as very
much pleased that this lodge had ac-
cepted the invitation to eXempllfy the
degree at the State assembly meet
ing to be held at Burlington in May.
After the close of the meeting, Sc
cial hour was enjoyed at which time
refreshments of coffee, cake, sand
wiches and doughnuts were served.
Joseph Smith of the University of
Vermont, Burlington, was lii town
over Sunday as the guest of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Smith.
Barney Quinn has purchased the
S. M. Kennedy farm on Kneeland HAT.
TIL trade was closed Friday. MIR. Quinn
will move at once.
Eva Crossett of Richmond was the
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. a.
l.. Crossett over Sunday.
Ed. LeClair went to Barre Satur-
day to spend Sunday.
Advertised letters for week ending
March 18th are as follows: c. c.
Brown, Euge ne Gray, Mrs. Bertha
Clark, George Goodrich. Andrew
Moran, Richard Wood. Cards, Mrs.
FloyG Blake, Mrs. Maggie Heath, Miss
Margaret Hicks (2), Mrs. Grant. Mar
shall.
c. B. Wallace spent Sunday with
his arents, Mr.. and Mrs. b. e. Wal
lace
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MARSHFIELD.

Mrs. l. l.. Severance died at the
home of w. B. Fifield Thursday,
March 3. The funeral was held Sat
urdaay, March 5, at her home in this
village, Rev. Lawrence officiating.
H. o. Boyles died March 4and was
buried Saturday.
Ezra Mears died Friday morning,
March 5. Mr.. Mears and Mr.. Boyles
were married the same day.
A. r. Lamberton and J. A. Ennis
were in Waterbury last week Thurs
day.
The Drama American Hustling''
played in village hall Thursday and
Friday night was success in every
way; $500 were taken for the bene-
fit of the K. P's.
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What an unsatisfactory diet the
early settlers were confined to. Moose,
deer. bear, coon, rabbits and squirrel
with little salt pork for meats
Few sheep or neat cattle was raised
because of the depredations of wild
animals. Brook trout, salmon, shad.
perch and pike. Partridges, quail and
pigeons, and an amount of maple
syrup and sugar limited only by their
industry. Every common mans table
in those days was furnished with
delicacies that can hardly be secured
now, and when secured must be paid
for in accordance with their scarcity.
Think of exchanging salt pork for
brook trout, pound for pound With
in the recollection of men now liv-
ing man could catch trout enough
for breakfast any morning between
the School street bridge and the Lane
Company's dam. What a wilful waste
We have made of things we now de-
sire.
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CORINTH.

The drama entitled "Tompkins' Hir-
ed Man." given by the principal and
scholars of the High School Friday
evening February 18th was very well
patronized After the play there was
a promenade and dancing. About ST.
was realized from the admission fee.
The illustrated lecture upon mission
work in China given by Rev. j. F.
Owens Sunday evening, February goth
was much enjoyed by the people.
Monday evening, Feb 21st Mr.. Kim
bail entertaind his scholars at his
boarding place.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Brown were in
Washington the first of last week
The soicable of the Baptist Society
was held at Mr. Jacobs on the even
ing of Feb 22d.
Miss Gladys and Elon Virgins fur
nished music for the dance Feb. 23d.
The school at the academy taught
by Miss Grace Fisher of Vergennes
closed Friday. Some OF the work
done by the scholars during the term
was on exhibition, which was cred
it to both teacher and pupils and was
enjoyed by the guests
Dow A. Mcfarland. who had been
sick over nine weeks, died Thursday
afternoon, Feb. oath. He was born in
Corinth, and was Sc years old. Fun
eral services were held Sunday at the
Center church, Rev. j. F. Owens Off
ciating and burial was in the Center
cemetery He is survived by widow
and three children.
Mrs. Frank Pagan IS visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. F. Hall.
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devil with fire they kindle ire the
first thing.

There Is but one class of people to
be convinced in temperance warfare.
The strongly temperance people may
be depended to vote as they believe.
Sometimes a little effort may be need
ed to get them to the polls The other
people, those who desire to sell, or
those who place their desire to drink
above the welfare of the community
will just as certainly vote in accord
ance with their desires. They can US
ually be depended upon a little more
firmly than the others. 1t is the class
standing between these extremes that
must be convinced or influenced to Sc
cure legislation. 1t is this middle
class, not in wealth but in thought
and belief, that influences most legis-
lation.
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LOWER CABOT.

Mrs. Russell and Elmer Goodale
have rented a farm in Calais and mov-
ed there.
James Witham has rented the house
owned by Mrs. Russell and with his
family have taken possession. He ex-
poets to work for Walter Ford.
Arch Russell has gone to work for
Perley Pike in Marshfield.
Judge c. F. Stone of Laconia, N.
H., who spends his vacation in this
town each summer is in very poor
health, suffering from heart trouble
and Brights disease
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Those who recall one case brought
before the Washington county grand
jury a few years ago, and which was
suddenly dropped at the instigation
of some of the warmest friends of
the temperance movement, will not
be surprised to learn of the trouble
in which the Rev. George w. Morrow
mas become involved, though they
may not believe the charges in their
entirety.
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About this time look for stories of
the man who has hauled home barrels
of granulated sugar with which he
will make an unusually white product
from his maple trees. The man who
really cares for a good market for
his maple product need not bother
with adulteration. There are those
who are getting % cents pound for
all they can manufacture, and others
can get the same price if they will
make stuff that is worth it, The man
who doesn't care won't take pains,
and his sugar will only bring an av-
erage price when taken to some place
like the maple sugar market at Rand
olph and mixed with some of better
quality. This granulated sugar story
is about played out, yet good sugar
makers repeat it about their neigh
hors wear after year.
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Speaking of eating, they say it
was bold man who first ate an oys-
ter. but what of the man who first ate
man who had his fingers caught in
an oyster shell stuck it in his mouth
when it was freed and liked the taste
so well that he swallowed the oyster.
No such accidental occurrence can
account for the eating of Holsters.
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Landlord Subway of Putncy, WIN
was recently convicted of selling in
no license town, claimed that he sold
liquor at his hotel because Sc of the
leading people of that town mad given
him assurance that they would not
object to his doing so with discretion.
The town voted license last wet k 40.
the no license vote was exactly os. Did
those supporters of the landlord
weaken?
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Some anonymous writer has ac-
cused the Rev. S. F. Bloomfield of try
ing to draw people from other
churches by holding services al a diff
ferent hour from the others and by
advertising in the newspapers. A
we'll known citizen of Montpelier has
been heard to paraphrase a famous
saying of Carlyle by remarking "All
men are mortal and most of ZEN.
fools" The writer of the ANONYMOUS
note places himself in the majority
by the way he writes and the matter
he has written. There is field
enough in Montpelier for active church
work without one organization in
terfering with another If church
activities are to mean only a shift
ing of attendance from one house of
worship to another we would do bet
ter to close the churches and put the
money into new high school build
ing. If this writer thinks Mr.. Blom-
fields work is effective he should
urge his own pastor to do something
original.
EARNEST TRIFT ,ER
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eral was held Friday afternoon. Rev.
II. Q. Ward OBLIGATED.
Roy Spooner Is quite seriously i'll.
Mrs. Julia Williams has been suffer
ing with strangulated hernia, an OPP
Grafton was performed Monday after
noon by DIR. e. e. Ellis and Drs. Rus
slow and Hayward of Randolph.
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have a stupid mind A man who does
not distinguish between a langouste
and lobster, between herring, that
admirable fish that carries with it all
the savors and aromas of the sea
and a mackerel or a whiting, is com
parable only to man who should
confound Balzac with Eugene Sue
and a symphony by Beethoven with
military march composed by some
regimental band-master.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-03-10

Yet nine-tenths of the cook books
from which the greater part of our
ordinary fare is prepared are the pro
duction of women. For my own lunch
| have just eaten a baked apple with
butter, pleasing to sight, smell and
taste, nourishing so far as concerns
the latter part of it, and the malic
acid of the fruit a desirable correc-
awe of rheumatic tendency.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-03-10

There lives not far from Mont
pelier man of fine personal quail
tiles and uneXceptionable morals, a
good conversationalist and pleasing
companion who is eccentric enough
to wear his hair longer than usual
and to put on pair of gloves and a
silk nat when he comes to town, and
whenever ne appears people stare at
him in open mouthed astonishment us
they would on Buffalo Bill or Jesse
James.
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going from there to attend the funer-
al of Mrs Lyford.
Harry Gallup and his family moved
to East Montpelier last week where
he will work on farm.
Frank Lyford returned to mis- home
at Lowell Saturday, having been call
ed here by the illness and death of his
mother, Mrs. Lyford.
Ruth Ross was in Hardwick Sat-
urday.
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UNCONSIDERED TRIPLES
Some Facts, Serious and Frivolous, Of
Interest to the People of Montpelier
and Vicinity.

My father named me Autolycus;
whom, being as ! am, Uttered under
Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up
of unconsidered trifies Winters
Tale.
Nearly three times as many votes
cast on the rum question as on the
school house question last week. We
are in perilous state if that repre-
sents the comparative interest felt in
the two subjects. But it does not. The
vote represents interest in one case
and prejudice in the other. There are
very few men in Montpelier who never
drink at all, but many Of those who
do drink vote against license. Per
contra, believe a majority of those
whovoted against the school house
bonding proposition are in favor of
new school house.
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OF all those who read with pleas
ure of Paragot, the vagabond,
wonder how many would care to
know Paragot in the flesh. He had
longblack hair, and unkempt black
beard and long black finger nails. He
was uncouth in manner and uncon-
ventional in dress and he lived as
he pleased in whatsoever part of the
world it pleased him. Let him ap-
pear in Montpelier and he would be
looked on with more suspicion than
he was by the peasants in France
We are much given to an ostensible oh
servance of the convenitonalties Lei
man (of course a woman wouldn')
wear his hair longer than most
Others, or a hat varying from pres
ent style and he will be remarked
upon as some kind of a crank
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William ]. Locke is a popular au-
thor just at present, and of his dozen
books or so "The Beloved Vaga-
bond" appears to be as we'll liked as
any There are frequent calls for ii
in the Kellogg-Hubbard library and
literary critics use this as the criter-
ion by which to judge his other
works.
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The great chefs have always been
men. The Tartars who prepare their
meat by putting it under the saddle
and riding on it for few hours, the
nations of the North who INDUCED
in rude plenty rather than refine
ment, the American Indian who knew
nothing of the niceties of cookery.
the Esquimau whose greatest deli
cacy is the frozen stomach of rein
deer, whale blubber and train oil,
may have left the preparation of their
food to women. But among the Egyp-
tians, the Greeks and the Romans;
who really Toasted, men, usually
slaves, were in charge of the Kitten
ems. And today the really good cook
cry is that prepared or provided for
hy men,
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Look in your albums and you will
sec that Longfellow and Bryant
wore long hair, yet they were not re-
garded as cranks or curiosities. One
of the handsOmest men | ever saw
was Parke Goodwin, long the editor
of the New York Evening Post, with
long gray hair flowing to his should
ers and bushy gray beard. Must
every man who desires to escape
comment dress like every other bust
ness man and allow his individuality
to be smcthered by the autocrats of
the barber shop and tailor shop?
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Some members of the Woman's
Club explain that the department of
domestic science INDUCED in divinity
fudge and tomato rarebit the other
day because something of that sort
was all they could undertake in the
circumstances. They should not feel
hurt at what was said in this column
about their start. There are times
when | would rather eat some of Mrs.
Puffers tutti-frutti than a slice OF
roast beef. l have some agreement
with the man who said he could get
along without the necessities of life
if he could only have the luXuries.
Yet it has alweys seemed to ne that
the instincts of woman in the kitchen
ran more to the decorative than the
substantial portions of the menu.
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Sap is tinkling merrily in the pans
shall not be surprised if the enter
prising merchants of the town Offer
a prize next Thursday for the best
sample Of sugar of this years make
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1t has always seemed to ne that
men We're superior to women in the
higher classes of cookery because
t. ey had letter understanding Of
Mauiassant says. 70 be waning IN
the sense of taste is to be deprived
of an exquisite faculty of the faculty
of discerning the quality of ailments
'Gst as one may he deprived g. ne
faculty of discerning the qualities of
a book or a work of art; .
to have stupid mouth just as We