Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-09-19

we Understand lllaI ooun A'"t h6"n II
now licensed auctioneer.
A party from Montpelier are no"
camping out at Groton Pond.
40. Cummins returned home from
his trip to Oregon last Thursday.
O. u. Scribner has moved into the
Orrin Pitkin house on Main street.
VII. Wakefield & Son have sold out
their fish and fruit business to Henry
Norton.
About one hundred from Montpelier
went on the excursion to Newport on
Saturday.
Walter A. Williams of Detroit, Michl'
gan is visiting friends in Montpelier and
ST. Adams.
George w. Durfey removes this week to
Morrisvlle. where he has secured sltua
ion in the bakery there.
The meeting at Wrightsville next Sun
day afternoon at two O'Clock is TO be
conducted by Mr.. Wright.
O. d. Scribner has moved his meat
business into the vacant store in Langdon s
corner block on Main street.
Hartwell Edgerly has moved into Aaron
Bancroft's tenement house on Berlin street,
recently vacated by Ed Hutchins.
Frank Carver returned home with his
family this week from Maine, whore he
has been stopping since the first of May.
The farm of the late Chauncey P. Guer.
lev. is to be sold at auction the 4th OF next
October. See advertisement in another
column
julius p. Knapp has exchanged his
house, recently erected on 1st avenue,
with Hiram NJ. Pierce for one hundred
and twenty acres ofland in Iowa and 5000
shoot" money.
Miss Jennie Whitcomb and mother have
removed from Aaron Bancroft's house on
Berlin street, into Eliz, Taylor's house on
Hubbard street.
Charles J. Hubbard returns next Mon
day 10 Cambridge, Mass to accept
position in the office Of president Eliot OF
Harvard University.
John Rowell and VIM. Stevens started
on Tuesday morning for Waterbury,
Conn, where they have secured God
situations in large factory.
Miss Maud, daghter of S. C. Shurtleff,
and about dozen OF her little friends
helped her celebrate the anniversary OF
her birth last Saturday afternoon.
Last Wednesday John Emmons, the
teamster for the Lane manufacturing CON-
papy. was thrown from his load and had
his shoulder quite severely hurt.
Henry Tibbetts of South Woodbury.,
while planning lumber at East Calais. had
three fingers of bis right hand cut OIL
leaving the thumb and forefinger.
Matt Harrington. who learned the
printers trade in the FREEMAN Office
some ten years ago, made his friends IN
town short visit the first of the week.
The standard theatre company will pay
their respects to the lovers of amusement
in Montpelier at Capt. al Hall, Friday
evening, September 2Sth, and will present
that most successful of all American plays
"Uncle Toms Cabin" The company has
received Mandatory commentator, and
will come strongly endorsed. Admission
% cents. Received seats only 50 cents
George C. Guyctte who took poison at
his brothers in Berlin on the 9TH died on
the 14th. post mortem examination by
the physicians revealed confusion
upon his brain caused some years ago by
fall which he got striking upon his head
The funeral was held on Sunday, Rev. j.
Edward Wright officiating. Post Brooks
G. A. r., of which he was member,
escorted the remains to his last resting
place in Green Mount cemetery.
Mr., Romeo G.. Brown, who is now in
the senior class at Harvard college, Mr..
Carroll G. King, who is a junior, and MIR.
Charles M. Thompson, sophomore, will
soon leave town to resume their studies In
that institution. Mr. George B. Shepard,
who, also. is pursuing course OF study
at Harvard, has not yet fully recovered
from his sickness and will not be able to
return for short time. The college
begins September 9th.
A fire at 8: 80 o'clock on Monday morn
ing destroyed the barns and sheds OF
James NJ. D. Celley, Lewis Wood, and
Benjamin Scribner, in the rear of their
houses on the corner of Main and North
streets near the foot of clay hill. The fire
was under such Roadway when discovered
the fire department could only use their
efforts in saving the surrounding buildings
which was done. The buildings and con-
tents destroyed made loss of about 5000.
Mr.. Scrbner had sos insurance. Mr.. Wood
s75, and Mr.. Celey none. The origin of
the fire is unknown, but it is supposed to
have been set by some boys playing in
Mr.. Celley's barn.
There seems 10 be revival of old
account books in town. The demolition
of the old Caldwell house brought one or
more to light, and last week the daybook
of some firm doing business in this
village in 1911 was discovered in an old
house on the road 10 Montpelier Center.
There was good book keeping in those
days. Rum, gin, tobacco and snuff seem
to have been the goods principally in
demand. With one of those account
books in hand it is easy to show a person