Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12
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Fourteen persons united with the Free
Baptist Church Tuesday evening.
There is TO be bon-bon party aud anti
quariap supper at the vestry Of the church
OF the Messiah on Thursday evening next.
@. w. Thomas commenced work for Luke
Buzzell Tuesday morning. on as good job
as his former enc, which he finished Monday
noon.
St. Johnsbury is quite rag factory. Mr..
Edwards, the village pe1dler, gathers up on
an average three thousand pounds Of rags
month.
Remember the Baptists will be glad to
see you at their hall in Bank Block, Main
street, Monday eveniug--and you will prob
ably be pleased to see them, if you go. They
intend to please everybody
Miss Jennie p. Chase, Of Newbury, will
be in this village next week, canvassing for
the Bible Looking Glass. II is a book Of
800 pages, illustrated by l72 engraviugs,
well printed in large, clear type. ....
Beauman Butler has been granted pat-
ent on his harrow, mentioo OF which was
made in our fair reports last fall. He is
now NJ WORK on COulOlueu nuTTOW, mhTkeT
and corn planter, for use on the prairies.
The Patrons will have levee at the
hotel hall, st. Johnsbury Center, on the eve-
ming of the 18th. All Patrons are invited
to attend, with their ladies. St. Johnsbury
quadrile band. Bill dance, Use; supper,
81 horse keeping 25c.
The meetings Of the Y. NJ. Q. A. for the
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successful, so than at any other place
in the state Between 60 aud IS persons
have made a profession, number of them
being among the academy scholars.
Stone denies having said the Sovereigns
didn't know enough to keep money If they did
save 1t, and it had better be 10 the hands OF
the merchants. We have it on reliable au-
thority that he did express precisely that
sentiment, though perhaps not in exactly
those words.
Some evi-minded person at st. Johnsbury
continually sends out newspaper items to the
effect that that town is going to the bow
vows altogether, and that especially are the
Fairbankses dischargiug help AMI contract
ing; which the Caiedonian busily contra.
diets Woodstock Post
A four horse team loaded with lumber
went in to DIR. Billiards., Saturday, and as
the team turned part Of the load which
projected behind struck the lamp post in
front Of Judge Frenchs and knocked it
down. We hope it won't stay down long, as
that lamp has been Que OF the most constant
in shining on dark nights.
The Thespians, from Barton Landing, will
play "Nelghbor lakewood" consisting Of
five acts, at the town hall next Tuesday eve
Mug. Wednesday and Thursday evenings
they will give Ten nights in a Bar Room
and Uncle Toms Cabin" Turn out and
give them a good house. Tney have fitted
up at great expense and in style not to be
seen outside OF the cities. Admission 80
cents.
The White Mountain medical society at
their recent meeting here passed the follow
ing resolutions: 1--WE as members of the
w. NJ. NJ. Society, do not think it advisable
to make use of tobacco, regarding it as a
poison which has no place in the hcmaI
economy, and furthermore that as medical
men we will pledge ourselves to induce as
many as we can to abstain from the use of
tobacco"
o. G. Hale wants it distinctly understood
that he never offered the Avenue House for
$4,000, as stated in the Caledonian last
week. He never offered it for less than
$4,000, and considers it as well worth that
as the one on the Plain is the $4,000 it
was sold for recently. He proposes to
keep good, substantial, common sense hotel,
and not to have people go out of his dining
room hungry.
Read the prices Of fresh meat in Boston
and compare them with prices in st. Johns.
bury, where they are tending upward on &C.
count of rise in the market. Choice hind
quarters are II to 1874 cents; common to
good, 8 to IL; fore quarters, choice. s to
81 common to good, to 8 cents. While
the best part OF quarter goes at higher
price than the whole quarter, in st. Johns.
bury, as it ought, how much lower than the
price of a whole quarter is the poorer por.
tion sold
There are certain inquisitive people who
would like to know if the facts and figures
relating to the actual cost of the Portland
street bridge and the Railroad street sim
provements" are to be made visible to the
naked eye OF the average st. Johnsbury tax
payer at the next March meeting. We
can't account for this strange inquisitiveness
of the taxpayers, but it is a fact, and fact
which certain gentlemen cannot do better
than recognize if the power Of the present
ring is to be made continuous. These seem
to be facts, and "facts is stubborn things.
A St. Johnsbury correspondent writes to
the Springfield Republican thus: Il. 4 T.
Fairbanks x Co. keep store, in addition
to their manufacturing business, at St
Johnsbury, and are the only business house
that has not at least tacitly opposed the
Sovereigns OF Industry, on account OF their
cooperative policy and buying goods direct
from the market. The Fairbanks company
express themselves willing to order goods
for tho Sovereigns with their own orders
They recognize the fact that what benefits
their workmen benefits them. No danger Of
strikes in the scale works.
Tom Whean married a wife here and
then went to Connecticut and married an
other. He got hold of about $500 worth Of
property belonging to wife No. 2 and theI
came back to live with the first one. He
got along swimmingly until Friday, when he
saw Connecticut officer and Sheriff Pres
ton approaching the house at Passumpsic
whore he lived. Whelan found it convenient
to make tracks in an opposite direction
Preston followed the tracks without seeing
the man until they went into barn. A
there were no tracks leading from the bari
Preston made an investigation of its con
tents. In probing pile of chat he struck
Whelan's head with the tines, and after
brief scuifie he placed pair of bracelets OIL
his wrists and the two returned to ST. Johns
bury on apparently friendly terms, Whelal
went south on the mail train Saturday, i
company with the Connecticut man.