Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-03-13
CALEDONIA COUNTY.

ChhEbONAh tOONIHs
II. H. Morgan, Lyndon, is the man to
make your stencil plates brands, &c
Frank o. Randall has gone to Boston aud
accepted clcrkship in drug store.
VIM. f. Carpenter has sold a building
lot on Pearl Street to Daniel X. Wakefield
for 5000.
Ten persons Joined the Good Templars'
lodge at the Center Wednesday evening
They now number 3D.
A temporary bridge was thrown across
Moose River so that the p L. o. train pass
ed It Saturday evening
The water pipe has been laid across the
p. & o. railroad bridge and the village is
again supplied with Waterford water.
Jerome G. Buck, formerly Of Newport
has accepted a situation as salesman in the
store Of Il. Il T. Fairbanks Il Go.
r. p. Harvey aud wife, Of Passumpsic,
celebrated the 25th anniversary Of their
marriage March 6, but owing to funerals
and deaths in the vicinity the company was
not large.
About 100000 feet Of logs we're carried
from the Lyndon mill company by the fresh.
et Most OF them lodged below the falls,
and will probably be saved and sawed at
Pieroes mill.
A lecture was gwen last Thursday even
ing in the town hall before the French So.
ciety of St. Jean Baptiste, by Ferd Gagnon,
ESQ, editor of L'Etendard National, Of
Worcester, Mass.
Darwin d. Hall, about so years of age,
killed himself with morphine in Newark
last Saturday. Cause, some trouble in ref.
erence TO the hired girl. He was a promi-
nent citizen, and man Of property.
See Matthews & PettengilI's ADVERTISE
ment of change in their business. They
are good fellows, sell good goods and at fair
prices, and as they advertise in the farmers
paper let the farmers remember them and
give them share of their trade.
Pat Rooney and Jas Reardon, while of
on time last Sunday with one of WIN. N
Randall's best teams, got spilled out near
Deacon RaDney's, and somewhat bruised
The hind legs of the horse were badly injur.
ed, but Randall hopes to save him.
j. o. Dodge, of St. Johnsbury, while re-
turning from Littletou, N. H., on Tuesday
with team belonging to VIM. N. Randall
drove little too near one side of bridge
in Waterford, when the plank, not being
fastened down, tipped up, letting team and
man off into the stream, killing the horse al
most instantly, injuring Mr.. Dodge consid
erably aud running the sleigh. The horse
was Que that Mr.. Randall paid $500 for last
fall
We learn that a dead Beats Directory
will shortly be published and extensively
circulated in New England. 1t is certainly
one Of the necessities Of the times and nov
all those who are accustomed to get trusted
for their groceries, clothes, livery hire, news
papers and other necessaries without the
intention of paying for them may expect t
find their names pilloried in six states. Al
agent in st. Johnsbury! Dead Beats, thu
slow, unmoving finger of public scOrn will
find you out Beware
On the 9th inst Past Master Joseph Dow
organized grange in Barnet, called Barne
Grange, of about 40 members, all practioa
farmers, aud more are knocking at the door
The following are the officers: VIM. Lind
say, Master; P. Lindsay, o.; Alex. Nc
Laren, L.. l.. Manchester, S.; j. McLareu
A. s.; r. A. Stevenson, c.; VIM. Warden
t.; Daniel Harvey, Sec. VIM. Gleason, G
X; Miss j. l.. Adams, Ceres; Mrs. JUL
l.. Crane, p; Mrs. NJ. j. Lindsay, f.
Mrs. NJ f. McLaien, l.. A. s.
\ ell
item from the Caledonidn Of Feb. 90: rs
A. Howard, of Wocott, has kept house 70
30 years, and when first married he bough
a paper of pins and one of needles, an
though he has brought up 4 children, he ha
never bought or had any Others, and he ha
half the original number left. That ma
may have a woman but he does not deserv
to have wife" There we're several falls,
hoods in the above before it received its cor
GLIDING sentence at the Caiedonidn ofhc'
That sentence is the last hair that brok
the camels back, and demands reply an
rebuke What right has the Caledonidn {
any other paper to parade the peculiariti,
of private life before the public in any sue
contemplate item? Mr. aud Mrs. Howar
have an Unborn right to substitute buttoI
for pins if they choose. Their harmless p
culiarities (if they have any, are their ow
individual property aud should be as sacred
ly respected as their lives. 1t is time thI
private life should be respected by publ
, journals. The lawlessness Of the time
glaringly apparent in this Disregard of pc
soual rights. What does the editor Of II
Caled0nian know about the character Of G
Their OF the parties mentioned, outside wins
Is contained in that itemP have unde
stood that he processes to be 3 Christia
As Christian he mss not even the NOR
right to reprint SUCH an item from anoth
paper, thereby ihvaiiug the sanctity Of al
others home. Il, tbs sentiment containt
10 that closing sentence were dropped in
the scale of Christian charity, how would
; weigh alongside the injunction "Whatsoev
We would that others should do to you, {
We even so 10 them."2 Yours,
One OF THE Howard Blood.
The arrangements for Odd Fellows Ha
are progressing finely. Stock to the amou
Of $40 $50 has already been subscribed
lot on Railroad Street, the second one nor
Of Geo. d. Randal's drug store, 81 by II
feet has been purchased OF Justin Burnhal
, for $4,000. The following among the stoc
|, holders have been chosen building comm
tee - j. N. Gale, N. M. johnson, II.
Danforth, L. g. stiles, j. W. Lewis,
Randall aud j. Burnham. This commit
has chosen j Burnham, president s. Ra
dali, vice president j. N. Gale, clerk
NJ. johnson, treasurer, The building is to
: 90 feet by 20, with brick walls, the triI
: mings to be of granite, and a mansard ro
There is to be basement % feet in high
a the first story for stores ID feet the Sc
ond for offices l2k feet; above which, in t
, roof, is the Odd Fellows Hall 20 feet
}, hight with its ante rooms, banquet hs
e kitchen and parlors. There is a hall a
g stairway extending through the center of I
= building, with water and water closets
each story from the basement to the no