Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-04
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ness OF his photograph rooms to son OF
Myron Dikeman, Esq, of Hubbardton,
brennan and Smart, boot and shoe
dealers, will during the present week,
move In two rooms recently fitted up
for them In LoYeland's new building.
C. Naliquette will soon reopen the
boot and shoe trade in the apartments
formerly occupied by him in the same
business, made vacant by the removal of
the above named firm.
1t is reported that Samuel Williams,
of Rutland, has purchased the interest of
the late Charles Langdon, in the marble
firm of Sherman, Adams & Langdon.
Mrs. Foot has moved her circulat-
ing library from l.. W. Preston's store
to rooms fitted up expressly for the same
in her new house on Seminary street
Deacon Holt offers his real estate
for sale, and contemplatcs removing to
the west at an early day, where he and
Mrs Holt will spend the remainder of
their days, with a son, in Michigan.
Two of our old inhabitants were
buried last Monday namely Mrs. Brew
stcr and Mrs. Wheeler. They were be
tween 70 and so years of age. Several
of our old people are still on the sick
list, among whom are j. H. Ransom, A.
w HYDE, A. Branch and $. II. LangdOp.
They have all been active stirring men
for many years.
Three men are living in town, who,
thirty years ago this spring, went from
this village to Troy, n. Y, with three
teams, each of them loaded with ton of
wool, belong to Mr.. LangdOn, who was,
at that time, an extensive wool buyer,
and returned the same week on snow,
between the third and eighth day of
April.
j. S Benedict has lately sold
number of his choice blooded sheep at a
high figure, to parties in New York and
Michigan.
This vicinity was visited with one of
the most driving storms of wind and
snow, last Sunday, of the season. March
came in like a lion and went out like a
menagerie. Sleighing, snow and ice as
plenty and good as ever. The clerk of
the weather must be abroad in some
other country where the climate is more
salubrious than this.
Rev J. Phillips was presented by
the Good Templars, last Monday evening,
with a handsome present, though DR.. \.
c. w. Smith, as token of their esteem
of him as a strict Templar and Temper
ance man. Mr. =. responded happily and
with deep feeling, as he is soon to sever
his connection with the body. His son
occupied the desk of the church last
Sunday He has or will soon conclude
his course of study at the Methodist
University at Middletown, Conn.
On the same evening, resolutions
expressive of the appreciation entertain
cd by the Lodge toward Mr.. 5. b. Pep
per for past faithful services, rendered
in behalf of the Lodge, during his con-
nection with it and of regrets at his re-
moval to distant State at the west,
were unanimously adopted, with instruc-
tions to enter them upon the records aud
forward a copy to Mr. p.
Mr.. Lucien W. Palmer, of whom
complimentary item was published in
THE HERALD of Tuesday last, relative to
his appointment to the SUPPLEMENTARY
of the Connecticut and PassumpsiC
River railroads, is a native of Castleton
and son of Allen Palmer Esq His
wife a Miss Greene of Clarendon. They
were pupils in the seminary under the
instruction Of Rev. a. Hyde.
Audiences were happily entertained
by the seminarians at the chapel, last
Tuesday night and by the young people
of the Corban Society, at Town Hall,
Friday evening. Finer descriptive scenes
or richer displays of artistic taste and
skill are not often excclled.
Services at the Brick Church, Sab
hath morning were commemorative of
Easter Sunday. Billings, an old Easter
anthem, ''the Lord is risen indeed, was
well rendered by the choir.
--Rev. II. L. Herbert preached bis
farewell sermon in Castlcton, at the Lib
eral church, prior to his final departure
for the far west r. W. It.