Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-09-18


Fair, owing to the Inconvenience of
having to re-ship from the g. I. Il.
to the B. c. & NJ. at Groveton June
ton. Now, however, this objection
does not exist and we donbt not many
stock growers on the line of the G.
T, R. will send their cattle and horses,
which cannot fail to ensure a superior
shcw to those of former years. 1t
will be worth the price of admission
to see Mr.. Rurbank's full-bloods.
Gorham.
Our school house was completed about
three weeks ago, and as some dedicatory
demonstrations were anticipated we have
deferred mentioning the house until that
occasion was over-passed. For many
years we have been sadly in need of n
more tommodious and respectable school
house, but the object has never been &C
complished until the present season, when
the district last spring voted an appro-
priation for that purpose. Among the
various plans which have been offered
within the last few years the one present
ed by Mr.. Augustus Evans was selected
as The most acceptable to the largest
nlmber, and Mr.. Evans was selected as
master-buflGer; and we can to-day show
as fine q school edifice for the amount of
money expended as any other community
in the State, The rooms are three in
number, about thirty feet square. The
posts are very high and ample room for a
sufficient quantity of pure air. They are
lathed, plastercd and papered and sealed
up five feet with ash, birch and birds-eye
maple. Sheathing paper is also between
side and the clap-boarding, making the
house throughout as comfortable as build
ing material can make it. The frames of
the seats are of cast iron, the desks and
benches of hard wood and were purchased
of a firm in Boston. They are of the pat
tern in common use in all the school rooms
in md about Boston. The district appro-
priated 800 for the building, as it is
now completed, and it cost little less
THAI the sum thus raised At meeting
OF the district to accept the house there
was not an opposing vote; all was per-
feet harmony and every one apparently
well pleased with the house and it's cost.
If any were disappointed it was because
the mastcr-builder did not call for an adj
dtional appropriation. The house, with
all its appointments, is an honor to the
village, and alsoto Mr.. Evans and the
building committee. The three schools
are now in session under the tutorship of
Mr.. Chaffin, gentleman of much exper-
fence as a teacher. He has called to his
assistance to manage the primary and in
termediate departments Miss Maggie S.
McKenty and Miss Abbic Knight, all oil
| our village, and perfect harmony seems
to prevail in each division There seems
now to be no obstacle to the progress of
our schools or any reason why they may
not take rank with the best in the State.
Much might be said in praise Of the house
for which we have not time nor space.
/ There it is, q visible monument of our
peoples generosity, and will reflect great
credit upon those who had the persever-
ance and energy to accomplish an object
Of such very great Importance to The gen
Grafton now on the stage ana TO those
who may follow.
Last Friday night we had a very heavy
frost. In places the ground froze quite
hard. Veg etation is killed.
Charlie Gonya, formerly in tie telegraph
office at Island Pond, is now stationed at
this office. He takes the place of Mr..
Gordon, who goes to Chicago, we learn
Charlie is fine little fellow and accomo,
dating to the letter.
Stephen Gordon announces that those
who are owing him must settle on or be,
fore the 30th inst. or they will have to
settle with an attorney and pay costs. \
word to the wise, etc.
Now that our school house is completed
we are of the opinion that arrangements
should be made to have two or more
courses of lectures this winter on some
scientific subjects that may seem bes
adapted to the wants and capacities o
our scholars. We have persons among
us amply competent to render such in
struction, and the object should not b,
lost sight Of
Prof. Wyman, of Cambridge, Mass
was in town the first of the present week
His son is boarding at Mr.. George Hodg
don's, on Gorham Hill.
A young man, Phillip Dunn, brake
man, was thrown from a box car jus
i above the bridge, at Lary's cossing, OF
Monday, the 9th, injuring the ankle join
considerably and tracturing one of tn
bones.
The scholars at the new school hOus
became considerably alarmed while a
play one day last week from the discharg
of shot gun into their midst, as they al
lege, by c Frenchman named Coulon
who lives near by. 1t is said that thi
man took offence on account of the out
buildings to the school house being Sc
closer to his premises than he desired
/ and therefore threatened vengeance i
the manner mentioned, or that the builc
: ing should be burned. Whether the stor