The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-13
MODERATOR.
FIRST sELECTMAN.

Scattering. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
June's majority.........................l4S
TREASURER.
d c Bascom. ...........................l50
Volney ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S3
Scattering. ............ Observation-Disclosures.
Bascom's majority. Observation-Disclosures. %
CONSTABLE.
III Buttles Observation-Disclosures.
III III ..........................lO Iva
Buttles' majority. ....................''' w
1t was voted to pay the Bellows Falls
savings bank and Asa Collins; wh'cn WI
free the town from deDt ana leave FS,o.V
in the treasury. II
1t was voted to listers the sums eXpcnyil
by them for counsels fees in the suit Of n.
T. Sprague against them
The constable is to he paid two per cent
for the collection Of taxes. and pay the
overseer of the poor $3.50
MECHANGCsviLLE.
Rev Thaddeus f. Stewart of Burlington
preached in Mechanicsvillc Sabbath after
noon, March LIST, and held series of
meetings at S. II. Liyingston's hall in Tar
bleville through the week following. and,
by appointment, will continue them the
present week Much interest is manifested
in the meetings and many hopeful CONVEX
sions have been made rs the result Of his
advent among MS.
Rev. Joshua Clements of the Baptist
church in Mount Holly, is holding meeting,
at the school house in District No. II. near
John Graves mill, every Wednesday even
ing. We hear that good results are at
tending his labors.
Town meeting passed off quietly with
us, most of the old board of town officers
being reelected. There were some who
did not agree with the majority however,
that voted TO raise but 80 cents on the dol
lar for town tax, as they thought it would
need more than this amount to deiray the
expenses of the coming year.
A vote of the town at town meeting set
d II Parker and Gardner Carlton from
District No II to IA, and Wm Roberts.
George Briggs, Sylvanus Dickerman and
Thomas Danna from ~ to 0. The neceSsi-
ty of the above changes in school district.
are not fully seen by the people.
Willie Moore, whom | have mentioned
in other communications, as the little suf-
ferer having a cancer in the eye, died Feb
odd He dropped quietly away at last and
little unexpected to the family in his lina
departure.
Mr. Tarble has shipped to London thi,
spring some 600 dozen rakes via New York
it being about his usual amount Of good,
sent to the same firm for the past six years
We hear that at the present term of cuurI
a new petition has been made and served
| to call the road commissioners out again t,
make alterations on the Horton road, 81
called. 1t is hoped to get through with lhC
road this summer. Cannot it be done?
see by The GLOBE that Henry Priest
of East Wallingford, is editor of aperiodi
cal, the T'uftonidn, published by the stu
dents of Tufts College. Now, w nj
know and honor the abilities and peculiar
| fitness as editor of Mr. Priest IN his posi-
ton on the racy, spicy TtftOnian, We be
| lieve his residence is here his father live.
about half mile from our village and Ii
has always made his residence with him.
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BRIDGEwATER.
presume your readers may be ntereste,
especially at this time, about anything thai
touches the subject of intemperance; anC
probably many of them will rejoice to hea
of anything of note in this direction don't
by moral suasion. On Sunday evening
Feb. 9Th, A. L. Willis, native of Bridge
water, former resident of Rutland, a
present good mechanic of Springfield
Mass, at the head of the Good Samaritan
order of that city, gave the people o
Bridgewater village and vicinity a talk
as he calls bis efforts, at the village schO0
house. His "talk" seemed to stir up tn
people, and that was an agent which wa
the means Of procuring tifly-two pledges t
total abstinence that evening. One wee
later A. Il. Willis and A. N. JENNIE wer
with them at the same place, making som
telling remarks that were very attenliyel
listened to, and others, residents of til
place, made some timely suggestions a
they saw fit. Some good music furnishe
by an imp romptu choir gave much inleres
to the occasion. Altogether, 1t was, as wa
remarked by one or two, quite "lOy
feast" The result was twenty-eigl
pledges and an organization of the "BIidgt
water Good Samaritan Reform Temperate
Society" Lemuel Shattuck president. Til
22d ult. another social or "conierenC
meeting" was held, and though the eli
ments without were not suspicious, thei
was a goodly number within, and anoth,
profitable time for the cause Of reform
eleven signing the pledge.
In another part of the town meetin
has been holden in small school dlstric
where thlrty-two out of the thirly-t0l
present signed the pledge. These are II,
all new converts, but some OF them are Il
hard cases of Brldgewater. We hope the
may hold out and that true spirit {