Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-03-13
Fast day in New Hampshire April II.

Henry Ballard, OF Burlington, is to de
liver the Decoration Day address thi
year.
The season TO get your dog licensed, OIL
have his tail clipped close to his ears, ha
again arrived
Notice, in new advertisements, Pope {
Watson's card of the Tinkham butte
packages which they make.
The ladies of Trinity church held ;
sugar festival in their vestry last Monday
evening which was well attended.
A. G. Dewey G. Co, Gohn P. Dewey
falling to compromise with their creditors
have been forced into bankruptcy.
Adjutant General James S. Peck o
Montpelier has gone to Washington, OF
business connected with his office.
Mr.. r. II. Whittier, our well-knowr
townsman, has been very sick again the
past week, but is now reported to be on
the gain.
The Arcadian bell ringers have been
compelled by the bad state of the roads to
give up their entertainment in Village
Hall this evening.
In few days Mr.. Geo. Jacobs will
open West India goods store in French's
block, recently occupied by the 99-cent
store. his stock of goods having already
arrived.
II. II. Bishop, formerly of Bishops Ho-
tel here, has leased the American House,
Burlington, and does not propose that his
well-earned reputation for keeping II hotel
shall suffer.
The young people of the Church of the
Messiah, will give dramatic entertain
ment in their vestry on Friday evening of
this week, at half past seven o'clock. Ad-
mission fifteen cents.
The Broadway Theater Company is to
appear in Village Hall Thursday evening
next. This company has appeared at
Burlington and other places in the state
and the papers give them the best praise.
Saturday last the store of Mr.. Denison
Dewey was taken possession of and closed
by U. S. Marshall Foster of Burlington,
Mr.. Dewey having gone into bankruptcy
The workmen were discharged but spcedi-
ly found employment in the other stores
about the village.
The tax relationship of East Montpelier
was let out to the lowest bidder at the
town meeting last week. Horace Stewart,
who runs a meat cart in to this village.
was the successful bidder he assuming the
collecting of the taxes for the sum of forty
dollars.
Mr.. Alpheus Flanders. whose death we
notice this week, was for II quarter of a
century resident of this town, and for
many years was engaged in freighting
from this place to points in the north part
of the state. He attended town meeting
on Tuesday, was taken sick that night,
and died on Thursday morning at four
o'clock.
Diaries at half price at the argus and
Pdtra0t store. Our neighbor having got
hold of the stock of an overstocked deal
er at II great sacrifice, can sell them ut
half the manufacture cost, and all who
haven't yet got their diary for 1873 will
find this an opportunity they should not
lose. At the same place may also be
found the greatest bargain out in the way
of box papers.
On Friday evening our village was in
vaded by quite an army of tramps. Sew
eral OF our citizens were stopped in the vi.
entity of the Wells River Depot and their
money demanded, but this not proving
very lucrative one walked into the store
OF MIR. A. II. Bailey and demanded money
Of the clerk. Mr.. Oscar Warden happen
ing in took the clerks part when the tramp
turned upon him and after anything but
delicate handling was landed in the
street completely tuckered out"
Last Thursday forenoon as LAWYER
gleason was about to get into his carriage
Standing in front of Bixbys drug store,
his horse made 4 counter move and Started
up State street overturning and dragging
through the six inches of clean mud his ;
wo hundred pounds of legal lore which 4
laa grip on the fore wheel rs tight as he t
YER held on to II fat case in court, but on t
turning the corner Mr.. Gleason concluded +
to let the horse manage its own case. l.
which it did and turned up a few minutes \
later none the worse for its little escapade. d
GOLDEN WEDDING.-A large number of b
The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wooster il
oprague of this village called on them at d
heir residence on Barre street Monday u
The reason of the calling was h
because Mr.. and Mrs. Sprague were mar. L
led half century ago. Few 9" golden n
have passed more pleasantly t
nan the one of Monday evening. Mrs. L
9praguc was forbidden by the kind offices il
ii her neighbors from undertaking. tbc c
abors Of preparing for the Entertainment I
II The guests and found her house decorut- d
At and set in order by younger hands. o
'erlaps the most notable event of the
venlng was the singing of the song "FiGv u
ears ago which was surprise, and Il
host appropriate and well planned tribute W
the aged couple, and evidently dceplv W
ffecied them.
A man named Eaton, in the EMPLOY Of u
ames q. French, and who resides in his
lock on the east side of the arch. was, p
bout six o'clock Tuesday morning, as
'ulted and badly cut and bruised BY Jim III
ayes. He was just leaving his house to
to Mr.. French's, when, in PASSING ut
rough his back kitchen, he was met nv to
ayes who was intoxicated and had made st
Is way up the back stairs. Mr.. Eaton
'deret him to leave, which he refused to 81,
and h1a nf 1