Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-03-05

BARRE.-Barre cornet band held tbei
# annual festival in the Town Hall. Feb 81
J with fair attendance for an evening $
= unpropltious rs 10 the weather. They di
themselves honor in furnishing goo
!. music and were assisted by the Williams
: town ban l OF twelve pieces. An excellen
+, supper was also furnished; all for fin,
: cents tor each attendant. BY the reques
|, OF several of the leading citizens, the,
VIII give another entertainment on tn
: evening of March 6, when they hope TO
r fair weather and full house.
: One more of the elderly people, long A.,
resident OF Barre. has left US for the other
, shore, in the person of Mrs. Saviah Johon,
) nett. She was nearly seventy seven wear,
Old and the seventh aged person that has
died in town since the year came in.
Herbert Camp has sold his place in
, Gospel village to Mr.. Hill.
; About thirty of the Sons of Honor went
; to the capital on Thursday evening and
returned by an extra train. They tell of
having a good time.
A young horse belonging to William
Mears made lively run through our vii
la9e on Saturday afternoon No che wa.
hurt and no damage done.
Rev. IL. w. Worthen of Chelsea is to
lecture in tho Town Hall five evenings
next week, commencing Monday evening,
March 10th. The following subjects have
been selected; lst, The Beauties of Paris
ID, The Antiquities of the Earth; Sd. Ten
days in London; 4th, Rome, its People
Architecture, and Ruins; 9th, Advantages
and Disadvantages of Homely Men. Sin
glc tickets ten cents. Tickets for the
course forty cents.
The Wilkinsons will appear at the Town
Hall. Barre, on Friday evening, March
9TH Tickets at the postoffice.
BETHEL.-Mrs. L. G. Gould of East
Bethel has u silver coin of the date of
1902. We do not wish to be understood
that Mrs. Gould has kept this coin all this
time-by no means; but she obtained it OF
! hfr father, Loren Roberts, now living in
Tunbridge, this state. Mr.. Roberts OBJ.
tanned the coin Of IN Irishman by the
name of Patrick Courtney, on his arrival
here from Ireland. Mr.. Roberts had kept
it over thirty years when he gave it to his
daughter.
CALAIS. The next sociable at Maple
Corner will occur next Wednesday even
ing, March 18th. After the regular pro.
gramme on the stage there will be m oys-
ter supper and general good time; nd
mission, five and ten cents; and in add-
ton there will be charged extra, for sup.
per, twenty cents. All are invited.
Arden Martin, Second. will speak on
the temperance question at Maple Corner,
Thursday evening, March 9th.
CHELsEA,-Harvey Spear, while chop
ping. recently, cut one of his large toes
nearly off.
Two of tho leading sheep growers in
this town, E lward Douglass and j. F.
llemenway, have been to the west part of
the state to nuke selections of sheep from
the best llock5, with view Of improving
their own fiocks.
.ItStin Nlnnly h,l Ia, r.
days ago, by a limb falling on to it while
he was choppng down tree. He saw
the limb falling, as we learn, hut was so
situated that he could not dodge it, and
threw up his hand to ward off its force
and it struck his arm. Bat for that pre-
caution, he no doubt would have been
more seriously, if not fatally injured.
A donation visit was held at the parson-
age last Wednesday for the benefit of Rev.
II. W. Worthen. A goodly number at
tended both afternoon and evening,
though the weather was quite stormy.
The cornet band was present in the even
ing and furnished choice music. The &C.
casion WAS n very pleasant affair.
George Reed of the West Hill, in con-
sequence of his horse getting into the snow
and overreaching, was thrown violently
out of his sleigh among the gearing of the
sleigh and the horses feet. On getting
disentangled he found one hand was Sc
verely sprained and so injured that he has
been unable to use it since.
Samuel Sherman has Cotswold buck
less than year old that weigh, one hun.
dred and thirty-live pounds. and its wool
is nine inches long.
Last Sabbath was communion day Mt
both churches in the village. At the
Methodist church four persons were bap.
tiled by the pastor, and four We're received
into the church rs members.
1t is reported that b. f. Hyde, the pro-
prietor of the hotel, is going to II hospital
in Boston for the purpose of having an
operation performed, in consequence of
the rupture of Il capillary blood vessel in
the side of his head.
From the printed report of the select.
men for the present year, we take these
items of interest; Expense of supporting
the poor, Sl293.37 cost of keeping tramps
Sl450; produce sold from poor farm,
$4,000; stock and produce on poor farm,
$50l.75; town officers salaries, S2S8. %;
amount of liquor sold by town agent,
S632,3l; profit on liquor sold, $ll834;
amount of cemetery fund. S75O86; in
debtedness of the town over its assets.
S209.9S.
Some horse buyers from Connecticut
have been in town recently for the pur.
pose of obtaining valuable horses.
Geo. Robbins had n nice COW die few
days ago, which was severe loss to him.
Frank Mills went to Burlington last
Tuesday to attend course of lectures at
the medical college of that place.