Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-16
Notes About Town,

Sugar party at the Baptist hall Thursday
evening, 18th.
Rev. ID. II. Miller is superintendent Of
schools Examination Monday, 10Th.
Moore Il Smith have started their meat
cart and are bound to give good meat at
low prices.
Ansel w. Hawkins has sold his house on
the Avenue to John Ilosmer, Of st. Johns
bury Center, for $3.50.
Subject at the church Of the Messiah
next Sunday evening 1.-THE Rich Man
aud Lazarus" by request.
The close-communion Baptists talk OF
building chapel on the corner OF Maple
and Railroad Streets. this season.
Ira Harvey is putting up store just be-
low the SO cent store, on Eastern Avenue
He proposes to keep Yankee notions, &c.
There will be services at the Church OF
the Messiah on Fast Day-Friday the 10th
at half past ten in the forenoon. All are
invited.
juniors" article was good, and we should
have been happy to publish it if he had CIV
en- us his name. We never publish commu-
nications unless we know the authors name.
A fall delegation from the FARMER office
accepted an invitation from Mr.. and Mrs.
Boardman, at the Avenue House, to eat
maple sugar with them, Wednesday even
ing. They spent a very pleasant evening.
Money is being raised by the Free Bap-
lists to build church, and with good pros
poets Of success. They want S600O but
will build this summer if half that sum is
raised. Some $4,000 is already subscribed.
. Bennett, at the Center, thinks he is quite
a butcher, but the other day he came near
meeting his match He undertook to knock
down an OK 10 Moore & Smiths slaughter
house. He struck the animal eight times
without effect, and then borrowed gun and
shot him.
H. Cowdery lost q good horse Tuesday
morning of last week. 1t had been ailing
all winter, and for the past two or three
months has been in the hands Of DIR. Smith,
the veterinarian, in Summerville. An ex-
animation showed that the stomach had con-
tracted until it would hold only about a
quart, aud was partially putre6ed. What
was the disease
We're going to have bank, sure. The
books were opened at the Avenue House
Tuesday and Wednesday, and about S2l3,.
900 Of stock subscribed. 1t will probably,
though not necessarily, be increased to
100000. David Goodell, George Ide, and
John Wheeler took $4,000 each, james
Harris & Sons, Frederick Fletcher, and
Hiram Weeks $4,000, aud others less.
Tom Ward, the policeman, had an alter.
cation with Poland, the saloon keeper,
Thursday afternoon, and after some words
drew his billy" and struck Poland over
the head four or FIVE times. Poland bled
profusely but DIR. Billiard reports that the
skull was not fractured. Poland being
one.legged and defenseless man, and Ward
drawing weapon on him as he did, makes
Poland the subject of the popular sympathy.
The Good Templars of st. Johnsbury
Center will have neck-tie sugar party at
their hall this friday evening. The pub
lie are cordially invited. Each lady must
make necktie of the same material as her
dress. These neckties are put together and
each gentleman draws one by chance. He
then fluids the lady with dress or apron to
match and must wait upon her for the eve
ming. Probably good time and considera-
bic fun will result.
James Mutt, aud his brother now dead,
have re-cut the files for the Fairbanks scale
works for twenty-five successive years, the
llth day ofthe present month.-CdLedonidn,
April II. Other papers both u and out OF
the state have been speaking good word
for Nuts file works. Mutt sells his goods
on the grangers' plan; no middlemen and no
commissions Any man can get single file
as cheap as the merchant who buys by the
hundred dozen.
Why can't we have a spelling match in
st. Johnsbury We have schools and schol-
ars enough, and the people are smart enough.
No doubt we could have the academy hall
for the purpose, and the academy scholars
would probably "knock the spots off, from
any spelling that has been witnessed in other
places. A small admission fee could be
charged which would secure funds to pay
for the prizes, and, seriously, we believe il
would give quite an impetus to correct SPELL
ing, which is certainly rare enough now-a-
days. Then let us get in fashion and have
aspelling match and the sooner the better
The academy hall, large as it is, was filled
with spectators, Friday evening, to witness
the exercises of the middle class. This schoo
has achieved reputation Of which the prin'
cipal, Rev. II. 7. Fuller, may well feel
proud, and whenever there is to be an exhib
ton given by the st. Johnsbury academy it
has come to be certainty that there will be
full house. While the exercises Throughout
were excellent, both in matter and delivery, we
especially remarked the oratorlcal abilities Of
David j. Foster, of Barnet; Helen q. Kin
ney, of Craftsbury, rendered that ever thrill
ing piece. THE Pipes of Lucknow" with
power that brought tears into many eyes
Miss Stribling, Of Texas, read very goot
essay on New England life to Stranger
The recitation "Oh Girls" by Minnie L
Williams, of Glover, was worthy of specia
mention, as was the speaking OF Arthur
Robinson, of Florida. 1.-The Yoke Of Youth,
a very good piece, was well rendered b
VIM. G.. Wheeler, of Keene, N. H. Spac
forbids going over the whole programme a
it deserves, but with all our high-priced lee
lures, concerts, &C., the st. Johnsbury acad
envy furnishes, we believe, if not the best
some Of the best literary entertainments "
ever have.
Cooperation in England.