The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-05

a was discovered 10 lie on Gre and within ~
! hour vas eniireiy consumed. The Sir
/ caught from defective chimney mp stairs
j. Mr.. Hughes daughter, Who Is about !.
y years old. WAS SICK with scarlet fever. Mr.
. Hughes also being disabled As reportss
= 10 last weeks tounx.r. and they ver'
: somewhat frightened. bat the neighbour
4 rescued thesn before the flames had spread
4 much Johu Sweeney. who VAS boarding
with Mr.. Hughes. los, al his clothing
9 ten dollars in money and some valnabl,
l papers which were 10 his trunk. Very
B little OF the furniture Was saved. The
= house WAS new, having been built only
about two years. Insured.
J -Ai the annual school meeting Of Dist.
. No. 6 A. T. Bowen was chosen moderator,
. L. L. Hsrwood clerk, J. NJ. Griffith treas.
urer W. II. Bebce committee. Irving Tor
rcy collector. James Bebeo, q. William
Bebee aud Harry Bropby auditors. Geo.
! Reed. James Bebee and John u. Lovett
were chosen to settle with persons who
! have land in other districts, and are taxed
IN this district. A tar Of 30 cents on q
dollar was voted. The scboolhouse is o
very large building which cos, some over
five thousand dollars, the first floor Of
which is nicely arranged for two schools.
The second floor Was at first q nice hall
which was needed as much as anything
else in this place, but in the year 1880 ii
was temporarily psrtitioned and the east
end rented TO the Odd Fellows for three
or Ave years for $50 year Al that time
very few Of the young men attended school
meeting. and the old gentlemen ran things
10 suit themselves. but this year OF our
Lord 1888 the young men appeared at the
school meeting and proposed having the
PARTITION taken down, which was carried
BY vote OF "a 10 II. After adjournment
tho question came up. lis il legal, il was
not ia the notice" Finally it was said to
be illegal. 30 now we are to have special
meeting, and the boys say that dividing
line must come down. II is frequently
said there are t~o halls in the place which
can be hired at any time dnring the winter
months, though in the summer they are
like persons pocket, the owner will say,
Stranger. keep your hands out, that's
mine. The fact is there cannot be hall
hired in this village during the summer
months, and for that reason the young
folks and some OF the old ones want the
partition taken out to accommodate tho
sport seekers Of this place. travelling
shows or any recreation requiring large
room. Some OF our citizens think the
hall with the partition taken down will
not bring as much for the district as it
does now. Perhaps they are right, and II
80 il would be advisable tor all towns to
partition their halls in order to make few
moro cents in year.
SOUTH LONDONDERRY,
NO sugar made yet.
Monday morning the mercury stood
at zero in this village.
MIR. Dan. Marden OF Landgrove is
moving into the village.
Nathaniel Johnson, stage driver to
Chester, is very sick with pneumonia.
WIN. Yearly has rented his farm to
his son Herbert and will move into the
village.
-Asweet smelling SAVIOR goes out from
the vicinity Of the depot-all from ell car
OF phosphate.
The wife OF DR.. Marden died March
2Sth, after iniysring illness Of conusmp-
ton aged 50 years.
--Theo. Hahns we'll known summer
visitor to this place. aied recently at his
residence in New York.
Temperance services were held at the
Baptist church Sunday evening by the
pastor Of that church assisted by Rey. J.
Z. Knapp Of the NJ. Z. church. ID
LAsDoRovK
Another Of the Leland family, ma
live Of this place who will be remembered
by some Of our old residents died last week.
The following notice Of him We take from
\ New York paper.
w. Jerome Leland, one Of the proprie.
tors OF the Sturtevant House in this city,
died Yesterday at the Leland homestead, in b
Newburg, near Cleveland, Ohio. He left !,
this City ON Tuesday Of last week and
went to Newburg 10 attend to some busines.
He was suffering from slight cold when .
he started, and this developed into pneu. O
monis, which WAS the cause Of his death.
Jerome, Us lie was popdlarly known, was
one Of the best known and most popular
Of the Leland family, aud has been con-
nected with the management OF hotels =
from his boyhood. He was the fourth !
ION Of Aaron p. Leland. and was born in =
Landgrove, VI. in lS4l. He began his :
lotel career in 1856 when only 10 year old
u the Metropolitan Hotel OF this city,
which was then under the management OF
lis nncles, Simeon Charles and Warren !,
Leland Jerome began - . clerk in the
private office, and was promoted from 2
hat position step by step, until he had 4
lotel business in oil its branches. He q
hen In 1862 went 10 San Francisco and
with his brother Lewis, opened the Occi. ;:
lental Hotel, which was for many years VI
he leading house Of the Pacific coast. He
remained in San Francisco five years,
he returned TO the East and opened =
he Columbus Hotel u Saratoga, which u
ie managed Is . 6rst-class hotel until CT
1871. when be came to this City and, in Il
company with his brothers, Lewis and
ieorge opened the Sturtevant House. He
continued to hold IN interest Ia this hotel
until his death. and devoted his entire o.
lime to the business there, with the sx- Of
,eption Of brief season when he aided TO a
tart the Leland Hotel in Chicago. Lewis :.