Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
CONCORD

CONCORD
The following items we clip from
the Union;
Hastings has got up the basement
of his mil, recently burned in Tinker
vile, and has board saw in opera
zion cutting out the frame and boards
for the superstructure. The mill
will he IN improvement on the old
one and will be supplied with the best
modern machinery.
Many Of the teamsters have com
plcted their jobs Of Numbering for the
winter and the business Of hauling
has decreased somewhat during the
past two weeks. A good many slabs,
however, are being drawn from the
different mills to the depot and ship
ped to st Johnsbury. Slabs in the
village are worth $3.50, delivered.
Gen. Grout, of Barton, delivered
his lecture on Robert Burns" to a
good audience, in the Universalist
church on Wednesday Of last week.
Trudell has about 40 men at work
on the railroad East Of the village.
They are divided into four gangs and
located from one to two and IL half
miles from the village. They rendez-
vous in two shanties about a mile
apart. As soon as the spring opens,
the force will be increased and work
pushed on more rapidly. 80 more
men are expected this week.
VIM. Powers has run nearly 80
horses i'll his logging business this
winter and will soon have lot to
sell.
There are 40 dogs in the village Of
West Concord. No other point in
this part of the State furnishes so
good an opening for a sausage facto-
ry.
The Inauguration ball at the Essex
House was attended by about 70
couples, and a large concourse of
spectators, who were drawn together
to listen to an address by Hon.
Thomas Bartlett, of Lyndon, who also
gave some interesting readings from
Addison's Spectator. The tables
were bountifully spread, to the great
credit Of the house. The dining hall
was filled times before the hungry
crowd were satisfied
d. A. Pike has sold out his one
third in crest in saw mill, so acres
Of land and new house. on the
Tinkerville road, q nile anil half
from the village. Price $500.
Geo. II. Smith has bought Of o. F.
Russe, house for 500, and will
leave his farm Cor bis son, and move
into his new purchase.
The village school district has a
grand list Of about $l,700. The Cas-
tie district, No 5, the Chandler dis
trict, No ID, the Money Hill district,
No II, and three farms from the Cor
ner district, No /, might be annexed
to the village district, with improved
convenience TO the persons OF those
districts, and thus increase the grand
list Of the district, as consolidated, to
over $4,000. With this list a good
graded school house could he built
and school, with male Principal
be supported 40 weeks in the year,
and without excessive tax upon the
people Those who have an eye to
the highest interest Of the village and
locality, are ready to favor such a
project. OF coarse it would receive
opposition from certain class, hut
all modern reforms 90 toward with
opposition. We can think Of nothing
the people Of West Concord cab do,
which would so materially enhance
the value Of real estate, farms and
houses, as such school enterprise
literally supported. Instead of PEG.
pie moving away from such q village,
the current Of immigration would be
the other way, and new corners
would be inquiring for places in the
village to purchase.
The Methodist society have hou.
rishing Sabbath School, Of about 12j
members. From the Superintendent's
recent report, we take the following
figures. Largest attendance during
past three months, 102 smallest,50
average attendance of males "a fc
males 81; teachers Is, 4 males, an(
IL females Average amount of pen
ny contribution 81 cents, about cen
per scholar. Amount received il
1872 for books, papers &C., S142.