Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-07

al assortment OF fancy Soous III ool'oui
prices.
George W. Hartwell, former resident
wi has been residing in Westfield for
four years past, is in town on visit.
Geo. w. Colby and Charles A. Owler
have gone into the painting business in tho
shop formerly occupied by Peck & Colby
on Elm street.
WE. Dunwoodie, who has been absent
from town several months. returned ON
Saturday and is now back again in the
employ of the Lane Manufacturing
Company.
Miss Eva j. Bancroft, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Def. Bancroft, entertained
some thirty of her mates at her home on
Wednesday evening, February 18th, her
10th birthday.
Farmers Meetings, under the direction
of the State Board of Agriculture, will be
held at
Barnet March 1914.
Wolcott l4-l3.
Glover, lo-l6.
On Sunday morning as Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Atkins were about leaving their
house for church they discovered, by
smell of smoke, fire in one OF the
bedrooms, bed having taken fire from a
spark from the stove in the room. The
bed and bedding were ruined and also the
floor and walls were damaged. The
timely discovery saved the house from
destruction.
Next Friday evening there will be
dramatic entertainment at the vestry of
the Church of the Messiah, given by the
ladies' society. The play is very bright
and lively and the characters are repre-
sented by the old favorites and some of
the new ones. The play is "Scrap Of
Paper" and for so small an affair as a
scrap of paper it makes quite an uproar
in the neighborhood. Come and see it.
Admission 25 cents. Begins at quarter
before eight.
Durfey, near the Pioneer mill Berlin, had
narrow escape from destruction from fire
the roof taking fire from spark from the
chimney. The family were all absent at
the time, with the exception of the hired
girl, who fortunately discovered it in
time to give an alarm attracting the
attention of man passing by in team,
who aroused the mill hands near by, max
ing rallyng force that extinguished the
fumes before much damage was done.
On Sunday evening was held at the
Bethany church, the monthly temperance
meeting. Rev. Mr.. Miller opened the
meeting by giving some very good infor-
nation obtained from statistics compiled
by Joseph Cook. Others who spoke were
Messrs. Burpee, Prescott, Wright, Stone.
Gordon, Lull, Ferris and Rev. Mr.. Stow
ell. who is occupying the Baptist pulpit.
His remarks went to show the manner in
which liquor is used in the city of Chicago.
He stated that the annual expenditure for
intoxicating drugs amounts to thirty
million dollars and salot rs where liquor
can be obtained reaches the enormous
number of four thousand. 1t was encour-
aging to see the number present who feel
an interest in the temperance work.
Pensions have recently been granted as
follows: Reuben Richardson, Fayston, 50
month and $3.50 arrears; Sarah j.
Hines, Waitsfeld, IS a month and $1,000
arrears; Luther Knapp, Northlield,
increase 81 month and $3.50 arrears;
Thomas S. Wood, Montpelier, Sc month
and 5000 arrears; S. d. Moulton, More.
town, 81 month and 5000 arrears: c.
NJ. Betchelder, Wolcott, 81 month and
$3.50 arrears; John F. Tucker, Chelsea,
81 month and $3.50 arrears; Henry p
Blodgett, Worcester, 81 month and
800 arrears; Daniel Sherry, Waterford,
81 month and 1910 arrears George
Markham, Worcester, increase 80 a month
and $4O0 arrears Michael Hogan.
Mortified, father So a month and Sl70O
arrears; Sally Emerson, Berlin, mother
50 month and $1,000 arrears; Mary j.
Hinkson, Worcester, mother So month
and $1,000 arrears; Rev. Father J. NJ.
Duglue, Montpelier, guardian of children
of John Gavigan, $l4 a month and $500
arrears; Jackson Stockwel, St. Adams,
an increase of $50 month and $4,000
arrears. All of the above pensions were
procured by T. j. Deavitt, of Montpelier,
Vt.
Mtte P, daughter of Rev. Milo
Durfey of Worcester, died of pneumonia,
in South Manchester, Conn, March I'd,
aged 10 years. The death of this estimable
young lady deserves more than passing
notice, inasmuch as her sweet disposition
and pleasing manners have greatly
endeared her to a very large circle of
friends, as was most conclusively shown
during her protracted, painful illness and
ultimate death. Daring the last fall she
engaged in the noted silk factory of the
Cheney Brothers of South Manchester,
Conn, and about the beginning of the
year was severely attacked with pneumo-
mia, but finally rallied and so far recovered
as to be on the point of leaving for home,
when sudden relapse speedily terminated
in death. So highly was she esteemed by
her employers that all the expenses of her
sickness, including the best possible
medical attendance and every delicacy
which thoughtful kindness could suggest,
was gratuitously furnished, and after her
decease an elegant casket with the choicest
loral tributes was provided, and trans.
portation furnished to her Vermont home
for sepulturc. The entire expenses of
the father TO visit his sick and dying
daughter, and accompany her remains to