Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-01-26
Bring in the wood.

Louis Latuck, living in Duxburv, aged
SO years. last summer chopped 65 cords
of wood.
Are you in arrears for your paperP If
so, remember we need the money and
remit promptly.
A lively runaway on the street Monday
evening resulted in no injury save badly
served sleigh.
Those of our subscribers who wish to
pay in wood are reminded that the sled
ding is good now and may not last forever.
Ed " Bowers has secured a place ms
fireman on the Central Pacific railroad
and starts for Sacramento, California.
next week.
The fourth social assembly at Berlin
street hall next Friday evening, A good
company, as has been the rule, is expect
ed and good time is promised.
The protracted meetings held at the M.
E. church in Waitsfield closed last Thurs
day evening. A good interest was mani
tested and some conversions are reported.
Counterfeters have now turned their
attention to the manufacture of spurious
quarter dollars, and the fraud is so clever
ly done that even good judges are said to
be unable to detect the imposition.
The unprecedented fact that gas COM
pany in New York has actually acknowl-
edged that meter can go wrong, and has
given credit for an overcharge in the bill,
is credited to the effect of the electric
light.
There will be ball at Capt. X. J. Cof-
fey's, at Richmond. on Wednesday even
ing, February I'd. Music will be furnish
ed by the Howard opera house orchestra,
and all who attend may count on de-
lightful time.
The other day J. L. Porter of Greens.
boro, showed us small China dish con.
tanning some Indian ink. The dish and |
ink were brought from China in the year
1901 by his father, Amos Porter, and the
ink still retains its moisture,
John A. Goodwin. former Montpelier
boy, but for the past seven years in the
employ of Warren NJ Batcheder In the |
boot and shoe business at Rhode Island |
has returned to the capital anG purchased |
the boot and shoe business of Calvin
Stow on Main street.
~ Il, IL, II,
throw over IL fire caused by the splitting of
Kerosene. Flour is always in convenient
reach. and often valuable articles of cloth
ing, blankets, ETC., are destroyed in ex
tinguishing such fires, Ashes and saw
dust are equally good.
Mrs. Mary L. Purple will give public
reading, interspersed with music, in the
Congreg ational church at Berlin Corner
Tuesday evening, February LIST, for the
benefit of that society. Admission fifteen |
cents; children ten cents. All are invited
to come and help in good cause.
The losses caused by the cab shop fire
have been adjusted by the insurance
companies paying 1870, the entire amount
Of insurance on the stock, Sl462 on the
machinery and $1,000 on the building
Fred E. Smith, the owner, has already
commenced repairing and putting things
in shape.
The team of Charles Keene of Water
bury, made a lively run down Main street
on Sunday, turning and going down the
alleyway between the Argus Office and
Knapp's store, and around the buildings
in the rear, and stopping when in the rear
of Slows shoe store. The sleigh was
damaged somewhat, and the cross bar
broken.
About Il dozen young ladies of Mont
pelier at the invitation of Capt. Ely
Goddard selected their escorts for Il visit |
to Ely and Monday the party left town at
half past nine in a couple of big sleighs
They dined at Chelsea where Mr., Hyde
opened the hotel to receive them and
reached Ely Monday evening. Water
mans band accompanied the party. The
return Is made to-day.
On Friday afternoon Henry Canning,
an employe of the Lane manufacturing
company, met with painful accident.
AS he was rapidly descending the stairs to
the wash room u wire in the form of
hook ive-sixteenths of an inch in diameter
and hanging from "a piece of shafting
overhead entered one, side of his right
eye, pushing the eye out and making
bad wound. Medical aid was summoned,
the eye replaced, and hopes are entertained
that the sight will not be destroyed
Orrin Daley has leased the store in Hub.
btrd block formerly occupied by John II.
Lease as u harness store. and after
thoroughly renOvating and refitting it so
that the old store would hardly know
"~oif' has moved his stock of goods there
a1d will always keep on hand fine selec
ton of foreign and domestic fruits, nuts
candies, etc. He now has on hand some
four hundred barrels of good Baldwin
apples he is selling for So 90 per barrel.
Give him call at his new stand, first door
south of Taplin's corner store" Main
street.
The Mad River Valley agricultural So
ciety held their annual meeting at Waits
field Saturday, January Odd; chose for
president Josiah Holden, Waitsfeld; vice
president, A. E. Hanks, Warren; secre-
tary. A D Bragg, Fayston; treasurer, E.
A, Fisk; auditor, w A. Jones.
DIRECTORS.
Waitsfeld-Alfred Joslyn, F. Nearly,
L. X. Josyn,
Warren-C. W. Bragg, Alonzo Ralph,
S. ID. Allen.
Duxbury-J. d. Andrews, D. D. Bulk.
lev. G 0 Turner.