Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-23
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FRIDAY, FEHnUAHY ~, is,,.
The firm of 0. +. g. W. Russell at East

The firm of o. +. Il G. w. Russell at Eas
Concord have suspended payment.
Six persons were baptized at tho Baptis
church last Sunday evening.
Rev. Mr. Sandford of the Baptist churc
has gone on visit TO his former homo Il
Maine. Mr.. Hibbard will supply the des
next Sunday
The steps and side walk in front of tn
postoflice and bank on the plain furnish al
inviting place for loafers and politician
these spring-ike afternoons.
Mrs. Thayer's house on Main street tool
fire Monday morning. The hose companies
responded quickly to the alarm and quench
eel the fire before much damage was done.
What is more bothersome than an OLD
clothes wringer, all out of fixp We give il
up. But Mr.. Rhodes don't give il up when
they are sent to him tor repairs. lie takes
the "bothersome" all out OF them. See adj
vertisoment.
Jerry Drew came home from the "French
country" down in Canada with twenty
horses. What Jerry don't know about a
"hoss" is not worth the knowin,'" and now
look out for your "two-fortys," etc. We
shall have to turn out our spanking black
ambletouian and try tho mettle of some of
Jerry's imported mays.
SHEFFIELD.-The school in district No
|, taught by Miss Josephine Garland, an ex-
perienced teacher, has proved success.
The school closed last Saturday with n SPELL
ing match in which Flora Chase spelled the
whole school down. Isaac Pearl has
bought of George German his residence IN
Sheffield village.
We regret to record the death of Mr.. s.
l.. Baldwin ut the Avenue House this (Thurs-
day. morning. He was q "lellow boarder, i"
M hoA II. Al.
office, very genial and pleasant in his ways,
though n stranger to us. He had been Ill
some weeks of typhoid pneumonia, and was
doing well Till II relapse Wednesday evening
from which he could not rally.
Henry Whitney, man about 30 years of
age and who is supposed to have quite u
hevy of wives scattered over our fair land,
besides being M adept in "lifting horses"
from their owners, was tried Wednesday be-
fore Justice Lewis, and bound up to the
county court in $1,000 bonds. His last mat
rimonial alliance was with one Miss Parker
of Summervile.
Another democrat-the sidewalk clean
ing Kind, we mean has been dscov-
cred Bowen, the barber under the bank
and he has done it right along, too. We did
not mean last week that Randall, Cook and
Bartlett were the only ones, though the rest
were not too numerous to MENTION Let
the good work go on and not wait for dog
days" to clear the side walks of ice and
slush.
A policy of 80. 900 on the life of the late
John Weston Of West Randolph was paid to-
day by II. Il. Sargent of this place. The
1Etna Life, for which he is general agent,
paid in January in death claims SI36, 962.
and to the insured on matured policies SlOI.-
l23, total of 1926, 0S6. Mr.. Sargent has
also received the check to settle small pol
icy on the life OF the late John +. Kempton,
of Island Pond.
Messrs. Ii Il Ii. Il. Randall are live fell
lows, and all through these hard times bust
ness has been us good with them as usual;
in fact. we find they are now doing twice rs
much us they were doing a year ago ut this
time. They have just contracted to build a
house at once at White River junction, for
5. 5. Thompson of Lyndonville, and they
have other contracts under way. Success to
them!
thud and then somewhat vigorous
thrust forward, past several car seats was
the first intimation we had Tuesday, on the
mixed train at Norrisville, that the cars were
of the track. BY the breaking of journal
freight car was thrown from the track and
after going along some thirty or forty feet
and piing up dozen ties or more it stopped
)" 'hS 'hSO'NiNN anu lHt low plSSe0-
gers were brought to this place on the engine
and the damage soon repaired.
W. ii. Nelson, the music dealer in Odd
Fellows block, has host of friends, rs he
ound Wednesday evening when they turned
out with trumpet, paus. milk cups and sun
Try articles to celebrate his "tin wedding
Neighbor Nelson and his excellent wife look
pack over the ten years of welded life and
domestic happiness with great satisfaction
md gratefelness, and forward into the next
lecade with n confident faith in the Provi-
ience whose favors have been so numerous
md bcneficent in the past