Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-03-10
NOTES ABOUT TOWN.

The Fairbankses sent a carload Of scales
TO the centennial on Monday and two more
are to be sent soon.
Ferdinand Harvey and wife of East St.
Johnsbury started Tuesday morning for Cal.
ifornia where they intend to live.
Harmony Lodge, No II, Good Templars,
hold meetings every Tuesday evening at
Grange Hall, and is receiving new members
eekly.
Holders Of Walden town bonds can draw
their interest by presenting their coupons at
the Merchants national bank. See adver-
isement.
This will be a busy year Just think Of
it--366 days, 53 Sundays, leap year, cen.
tennial celebration, and the presidential cleo.
ton, and perhaps-the millennium.
Elisha May was so fortunate as to hold
an accident policy for s3000 from which bo
drew $500 a week while laid up from the
kick Of his horse. There is no fun in getting
kicked, but one OF these policies is good
thing to have.
William II. Wheeler has been heard from
again, this time at Silver City, Nevada,
where he is on the editorial staff Of the
Times, at a salary Of S2S.00 week, gold.
Lets all 90 to Nevada; that't the place to
get appreciated in.
On Friday evening, March 10, Murray's
troupe will play Rip Van Wrinkle at the
town hall, and evenings following other
plays will be given. THIS troupe is highly
spoken Of by the Concord Monitor. See adj
vertisement elsewhere.
st. Patrick's society will celebrate St.
Patrick's day, the seventeenth inst, by hear
ing mass at the church at ten O'Clock, with
an address by Rev. Father j. Mchaund Of
Newport in the evening, to be followed by
an oyster supper, after which the guests will
be entertained by singing and amusements in
the society's hall.
A good old.fashioned celebration is in
store for the Fourth. At town meeting
the selectmen were instructed to confer with
the select men Of other towns in the county
with view Of uniting this year in a grand
Fourth Of July celebration, of and by the
people, without regard to sect, party, or So
ciety of any kind, and to procure speaker
who shall review the history of Caledonia
county for the past hundred years. This
will be capital plan aud we hope to see it
carried out in patriotic style.
About fifty of the village boys under the
direction Of Col. e. p. Farr, have formed an
association styled the St. Johns5ury Boys
Association. the object of which is mutual
improvement. They have a president, sec.
rotary, treasurer, and various committees
and run things in legislative style. Last
Saturday they chartered couple of teams
aud took ride to East St. Johnsbury where
they were received by the citizens mud where
they listened to eloquent remarks from Hon
Calvin Morrill,, at the church. On their re-
turn Clifford put them in front of his camera.
Town meeting this year was almost or
quite the shortest ever known here, lasting
only an hour and ten minutes, and passed of
without jar or contest except a little feeling
upon the election of collector. Mr.. Hum.
phrey was elected in the place of Mr.. Weeks
Some claimed that Mr.. Weeks had been too
lenient with poor people, not wringiug the
last cent out of them and driving them to
starvation or Jail in order to get their taxes
And other charges were laid to him of which
it is extremely doubtful if he is guilty. If O
change was to be made probably no better
candidate could be found than Mr.. Hum
phrey. The town voted to pay to each Gem
etery associotan 200 for each burial, in
stead Of Sl.25 as heretofore. A resolution
was passed ordering the financial year of the
town to be closed on the irst ofJanuary, and
all the accounts TO be published in pamphle Ell
form during the month of January, and dis
tributed among the voters. Action was also
taken In regard to a Fourth of July ceebra
ton.