Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-01-07
The Week of PRAYER is being observed


The Directors of the Lamoille Co,
& Nat. Bank. declared Semi annual divi.
dend offs per cent, besides adding consid'
cradle to the surplus fund, at their meet.
ing on the lst inst.
AT Farmers Meeting to be held
with the State Board of Agriculture
Manufactures aud Mining, at Passumpsic,
W., Thursday aud Friday, Jan. Is and
Is. 1874, W. S. Thorpe, esq, of Norris
town, will read paper on English Farm
ing" ..s. #..-
The annual meeting of the Academy
a association was held last evening, and re-
4 elected its old Board Of Trustees &C. S.
Noyes, i. b. Sawyer, W. Brigham, G. s.
Page, G. l.. Waterman.
AT the annual meeting of the Hyde
Park Union Meeting House Society, held
on Saturday last, the following officers
8 were elected: ....
n Samuel wiswcll, President
T. S. Page, Vice-Presidcnt.
Alonzo Cobleigh. Secretary.
S. A. Spicer, Treasurer.
A tax Of 20 cents on each pew was
voted to defray current expenses.
The annual meeting of the Fair
Ground Company was held at the town
ball in Morrisville, yesterday, with large
humber of the Stockholders present. The
bylaws were amended so as to have if-
teen directors instead Of seven as hereto.
fore.
A committee was appointed to RECON-
mend such changes IN the bylaws as they
deem proper, and report at the next an.
nua meeting. o
The following directors were then
Elected &s
G. w. Hcndee, Solomon Stowe, .Morristown.
& PC. cleveland, G L. Waterman, Hyde Park.
S Alger Jones, P. s. Benjamin. WoicoH.
R R. Wait. Fl. J Harris, Stowe.
Sewell Newton, l. L. Pearl, Johnson.
I'D Harmon Morse, Henry Smile, Cambridge.
& L. H. Doty, A. C. erriam, Elmore.
W. s. Pond, Eden.
This list includes all of the old Board
The Directors meet at Heudee's Office.
pe1t Saturday for the election of officers.
FIRE.-A half past five on Saturday
morning last, the house and all the build
ipgs connected with the residence Of Eben
Douglass. formerly known as the Nehe mi
"a Waterman farm, in this town. were con-
gnmed together with two coed horses, one
eot, FIVE calves three hogs, eight sheep,
pt ofpoutry, fifty tons Of hay, two hun.
dred bushels of grain, fifty cords of wood
moving machine and a large amount Of
other farming tools, including carts, wag-
ens, sleighs, harnesses etc., and large
mount of provisions, furniture and cloth
ng, making loss Of about $4,000, on
which there is $l,740 Insurance. The
IRE took from the bursting Of kerosene
nteru that hung on peg in the barn
Vhere he was doing chores. He had left
the barn where the lantern hung to 90 to
mother barn, and returned just in time to
zee it burst, scattering the burning oil in
all directions. He tried to smother the
lames, but without avail, then tried 10
Yet out the horses; but strong south
wind set the Ere raging at once, and the
frightened horse he had loosened, kicked
! i'm down and tramplaa him in the stall,
it was with great difficulty that he es.
aaped with his life--as it was, he got bad
bruised and was nearly suffocated. He
Icy aroused his family, and went to the
rescuc Of his stock, the burning horses
ending the air with their cries. Tho
pws were let out with great difficulty
ID danger, and the other stock that we're
epnfned in the buildings, had to be aban.
dpned to their fate. BY this time the
nelghbors arrived and saved large por-
ton Of the household goods, and on that
Wy Mr.. Douglas moved his family into
house lately occupied by Mrs. N. h.
ntes. Eben is an honest hard.workinp
y9ung man,'who had by his industry, got
a1air start in life, and is man who will
not let this severe calamity disheartcn him.
pc farm contains IT'S acres Of very good
md, and is for sale at reasonable price.
1.-The ladies of the Spiritualist Society Of Hyde
erk and Morristown will hold their Annual
stival and Dance, at the American House, in
Bde Park. on Thursday eve., Jan. 22d, 1874.
mission to the hall, 10 cents; supper, 81
couple; music for dancing, rs cents per
npe. NJ. e. DwINELL. President
A. Burke, Secretary.
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We. Hyde zn,H.
MIR. j. M. Parker has moved on to ,