The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-06-07

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~ cznssrenes BY 10 passor Or aetink pas
lsr. sad two or sore delegates. Apd BY
~ msny o. "a members - possible
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sons people are beElnnisg 10 Doe
tAelr corn. Rather early foF this looAliiy
Mrs. ) u. Abbott, who hss besa
quite l5i, 81 recovering.
There wAsA large Attendance $, he
services. Decoralion Day Alter The sK.
srelses At the cemetery Mr.. IA Hart
entertained the people with an sppropfi-
ate address At the ball.
SOUTH LONDONDERRY
-Rsv. Mr. Wheeler viii preach next
Sunday agaInst splfllaalism. Go and
bear him.
The warm weather Of the past week
has bad wonderful effect upon vegetA'
.lon, and al crops look unusually we'll
Don't forget The meeting OF The state
Board q agriculture NEXT Tuesday aud
Wednesday, the i2sh and 18Th.
DIR. Owen, Of Springfield, Mass,
leeiared 90 temperance, Sunday evening
TO small audience.
MIR. Curtis Robinson died Sunday at
the ago of74. AFR. Robinson has been
valuable citizen, holding to liberal and
advanced views, and being Ia sympathy
with all ideas aud projects that would
benefit humanity at large, a thorough
townsmsn, and has held many Offices Of
trust aud profit, twice a member of the
\ State legislature, and for many years n
valuable agent for the Vermont Mutual
/ Insurance Co. The writer beard him say
few months since that be hoped to live
to see the proposed railroad project ma
tured. Such has been bis life. Peace to
| his ashes.
The following is the programme o: a
meeting Of the board OF agriculture, TO
be beld Tuesday aud Wednesday, June
Il and IS, 1877;
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
| /. Opening Address, j. l.. Martin, So.
Londonderry.
2. A Plea for System 10 Farm accounts
A. Chapman, Middlebury.
3. Grass, j. ii. Mead, West Rutland,
TUESDAY EVENING.
4. Riches aud Pleasures of Rural Life,
Johnny Lyon, South Londonderry.
8. Dignity OF Labor, Rev. L. W.
Wheeler, South London derry.
e. The General Principles OF Fertilizs-
ton, Prof. Peter Collier, Burin gton.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
z. Theory and Practice, a. L. Cud-
worth, South Londonderry.
&. Vermont Its Promises and its De-
mauds, II. NJ. Seely, Middlebury.
9 Young Stock: lite Care the first
Year, o. Paul, POmfret.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
10. How can we make our Dairying
more Profitable G. S. Fasset, Enosburg.
II. The Young Farmers of Vermont,
Col. j. b. Mead, Randolph.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
-. Poetry OF Farm Life, Miss A. l..
Stuart, Bellows Falls.
IS. Insects injurious to the Farmer,
Prof. G.. II. Perkins, Burlington.
ARLINGTON.
Rev. j. Randall of Randolph has sc-
cepted call to the Episcopal church in
this place.
Decoration Day passed of with
rather more than the usual interest. The
exercises were much the same as usual
and the address OF Capt. Albert Clark Of
st. Adams was very fine.
SYNDICATE.
Very many people have the impres.
sion that fowls will not eat the potato
bug, but Mr.. Thsmas Hayes of this place
saw his rooster poking around among his
potatoes, and supposing that the old fel
low was digging them up, killed him
and finding the crop very much distend-
cd opened 1t and found therein one hun
bred and seven veritable potato bugs
Mr.. Hayes thinks now that he killed bis