The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1881-11-10
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The annual thanksgiving this rear will
bc Nov. cath. How abou, that turkey
Owing 10 large importations the price
Of potatoes has fallen in the cities.
a new lot Of birthday, Christmas aud
New Years cards. also photograph albums
just received at Coys
Nearly 800 persons went to New York
on the excursion yesterday afternoon over
the Bennington A Rutland railway. II
WAS the las, and the largest eIcur sion o.
thu season.
Norm" Taylor believes in doing
Things mp in . hurry He left here Tues.
day. went TO Virginia. was married and
back to Newark Saturday ready to com
mence business.
Our thanks 10 Oliver Ditson & Co Of
Boston for.seseral pieces OF new music.
They are one OF the largest musical pub
fishing firms and dealers in the country
and parties wanting anything IN the mu.
steal limo should order Of them.
The American Bee Journal OF Chicago
on the completion ofits twentieth year has
been changed from a monthly to weekly.
No keeper OF bees can afford TO be without
this standard publication The remainder
OF this year and all Of next for two dollars.
Try it,
Henry and Frank Walker, who have
started quite an apiary, have procured q
machine for starting the honey comb for
bees The cells are started aud built up
a short distance by IL and thus a great
deal OF time aud labor saved TO the ''little
busy bee"
--R ii. Fee from Ohio is canyAsoi ug this
vicinity for the Museum OF Antiquity, an
illustrated work OF nearly thousand pages.
The work embraces all the recent valuable
discoveries and is highly recommended by
the best scholars in the country. II is GER
tainly very interesting book and vAlus.
BILE addition TO the family library.
Rev l.. d. Hubbard OF Ludlow asks
for statistics from managers Of cheese fso.
torys. and from owAers oflarge private dai.
ries. for presentation at the annual meeting
Of the national butter, cheese and egg Asso'
citation to be held at Cedar Rapids. a..
Nov 20 10 Dec q The name and address
Of every maker OF fine maple sugar, with
the humber OF trees and the amount made
10 1881 are also wanted Returns should
be- sent 10 Mr.. Hubbard as early Is the Goth
Of this month.
The students rooms. the kitchen and
dining rooms and the out.builiings ut
Burr aud Burton Seminary are being put
in the best possible condition for occu.
pancy for tho winter term. The new Prin.
eipal has also adopted the lates, and best
ieit books aud has succeeded ia arousius
in the students an interest In their studies
which, 10 some cases At least. amounts
10 enthusiasm. Tie prospect for the
winter term, We learn. il good and we
hope 10 see the venerable institu.
ton again sverilo~ing with students. Cir.
cular giving full information will be fur
nished on application TO the principal.
Hon. ]. w. simonls
- her. Df Co.eman. the first Princips.
of Burr Seminary, who wAs stricken with
Hemiplegia on the 10th OF Nov. 1850. still
survives. His lief, side was ,,sralyEc,i. his
left arm continues iifeless snd his lser
limbs disabled so that now be has 10 he
lifted aud can help himself bu, little. His
friends will he gratifed 10 hear that he is
deriving strength from the cool weather.
IL In chscrfui frame OF mind. has no
pain. has good eyasieht, reads almost con.
s.antly, hardly willing TO give up bis
books al times eve0 70 take his meals. rides
on, ia his rolling chair three times each
day even II II rains. says: HE must have |
his ride" He sends his kind remsmb.
RANGES 10 all his friends here. "a
A. G Habbeil, corresponding secre.
Aff OF Inc county Sunday school lnion, 1
complains thai the sanday schools in tho
oouniy are negligent abou, sending him re.
iarns, Those reporting thus far the past
year show the following result: Whole
number Of schools. -. whole number re.
porting. 81 number Of scholars, 2,4s4;
number ia infAn, elasecs. COS; average at.
tsndance. 1915; nuinl~r Of officers aud |
teachers, 3ia. total number Of conversions
IS reported, 80; volumes in Sunday school
libraries, s,s17; saniay school papers tax.
N, sss' cDa,ribntiOns o. moaey. sToosi;
schools IN WHICH their arc teachers meet.
lhgs held 5; schools holding sessions
throughout the entire yeer. 20: held MI
months. l.