The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-22
JOHNSON.

On Friday, butter sold at "a
cents.
"A new side walk is being laid in
front of the Town Hall.
Frank Buck returned from the
Stowe House on Monday last.
james Whitney spent one day in
town tuning pianos and organs.
II. j. Baker is repairing and
building an addition TO his shop.
-Thirty-two cents was the price paid
for potatoes to car on Thursday.
L. G. Rogers has repaired his
blacksmith shop quite extensively.
e. D.. Wiswell is exhibiting Fer
guson's Milk Bureau at the Chicago
exposition.
Buck Bros. have commenced their
saw mill located on the old cider mill
privilede.
-Chas. Dubray came home on Mon
day to care for his father who is sick
with a fever.
ALFRED Whiting has engaged to
work for MI. Kimball, of Barre, in his
stone quarry.
Dan. McKinty has rented rooms
in Mrs. Chamberlain's house and COM
menced housekeeping.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Andrews
started on Monday for Montreal to at
tend the Dominion Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. William McLena-
than started on Wednesday morning
for Boston to visit friends.
MIR. S. C. Scribner, wife, and
Miss Carrie Scribner are visiting
friends in Boston and vicinity.
Rev. Mr.. Wilder, of Morrisville,
in exchange, preached in the Metho-
dist church on Sunday afternoon.
The five o'clock p. m. express
moving west and the $50 p. IN. mixed
moving east have been discontinued.
Bert Mills, who came home to
attend the funeral of his brother, re-
turned to Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Mrs. L. j. Baker and her sister,
Mrs. Jaqueth, started on the New
York excursion to visit their sister at
Philadelphia.
e. p. Carpenter, in company with
Mrs. Chas. IL. Stearns, went to Bos-
ton on Wednesday morning to visit
relatives and friends.
"A number from this place have TAX
en- the benefit Of the cheap excursion
to st. Johnsbury during the fair.
Round trip 80 cents.
d. G.. Holmes comes in ahead on
length of corn stalks, and DR.. Wood
ward on size of sugar beets, as shown
on exhibition at Riddle Bros.
Mrs. Bedding, who has been
spending a few weeks with her daugh-
ter, Mrs Dunton, of Poultney, return
ed home on Wednesday last.
Green Mountain Cleaners will
meet in the Congregational vestry on
Saturday afternoon. 1t is especially
desired that there be a full attendance.
"A bay window is being built by
A. Pike at the Congregational parson-
age, under the direction of a commit
tee from the Ladies' Ways and Means
society.
Mrs. Hunt and daughter started
on Monday for New York TO buy her
fall and winter stock of millinery and
fancy goods. Her store will be closed
for about one week.
The Normal School opens with
IS students. The entering class num-
bers 16, the graduating class in both
courses II. A new feature this term
will be a reading room for the use of the
students.
Miss Mabel Raymond gave an
admirable entertainment last Friday
evening. She is really deserving of
the term, artist, for her ~recitations
evinced long and careful study, minute
observation, accurate conception of the
characters whom she represented, and
more than all these that genius for the
histrionic art which is born not made.
The best thing in her repertoire is the
Pleas for Women's Rights, which
would make q man laugh even if he
had his mother-in-law with him. If
Miss Raymond visit us again, she will
have a full house.