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

: day and Thursday evenings, and q matinc
Q on Thursday afternoon. Prices of admis
! sion rs follows: to coLcerts, 20 cents; t.
' matinee or rehearsals. 10 cents; season
, tickets, Uniting to chorus or audience
rs cents The public are cordially invited
: to be present, and many singers are
expected from other towns. Free return
, checks will be furnished to all plylng full
fare over the Central Vermont railroad.
ST.. JoHNsBURY.-The GOOD Tenn lar
dramatic entertainment will como of
March 18th.
Work was to have been commenced on
our new depot this month, but on account
of the weather it will pre- badly be delayed
a month.
Rev. Robert Colyer's lecture on "Pure
Grit" last week was the finest entertain.
ment yet had In the course.
Mr.. Stephenson Of Montreal delivered
his lecture on "Some American Poets
which was very we'll delivered.
The operet.a, "Cinderella," will be
given TO the public by the young people Of
the NJ. E. society, March 10th and 18th.
The annual meeting Of the Y. M. G. A.
board was held last Saturday evening, at
which the propositions OF Messrs. Henry
Horace and Franklin Fairt anks. as stated
some weeks since, we're accepted, so we
expect fine Y. M. G. A. building to be
erected this summer.
A party OF four ladies and gentlemen.
while out coasting one evening last week
on Hastings Hill. came near having a
serious accident by running into train.
BELLOWS FALLs,-W. II. Upham is
making arrangements to build house on
his lot on Atkinson street THIS season.
The young people of the NJ E. church
will give their second entertainment,
Friday evening of this week, in The vcstry
of the church.
Tho Congrega!ionalist society held n
sociable and supper al the residence OF
Edward Arms, Esq, last Thursday
evening. The famous Black Brothers
concert company, being obliged to stay
here over night, kindly consented to favor
the company and appeared in both sole
and concert parts to the edifcation of all
The concert company comprises Wash.
ington, Lucius Horatio, Charles Wesley
Edward Atkinson, Julius Caesar, and
Horace Freely, black, sextette of re.
markable voices. Supper and concert %
cents.
The ladies of the NJ. E. church gave a
missionary tea, in their vestry, last Friday
evening. A g,odly number refreshed
themselves and lively time followed.
The building opposite the Island House
has been repaired and greatly changed
during the past season and is now
occupied by Mr.. T. P. Tuttle of Lawrence,
Mass, and will be kept as a boarding
house. 1t has two good sized dining
rooms where forty or fifty persons can be
dined at one time. The kitchen has
complete appointments, including II large
range with forty gallon hot water boiler,
equal TO the capacity of the dining rooms
Everything is new and inviting abou,
the premises, and judging from the
occasion of the knights of Honor there on
Tuesday evening, Mr.. and Mrs. futile
are caterers OF experience.
Towns Hotel is also being quite
thoroughly renovated by finish and gliding
in various parts of the building and will
include stucco work The halls of the
dining room, Office and reading room are
to be tinted with delicate shade to bend
with the finish. The inside blinds OF the
windows to the first floor have already
received much improvement in this way,
by very delicate blue tint. The house
is being kept in accordance with these
Improvements and is received with
increasing favor by the travelling public.
Mr.. f. W. Bancroft has bought N.
Monroe's hot beds and plant business in
North Walpole and will add the same to
his business on tho terrace this season.
1t will seem very odd not to see Mr..
Munroe shipping tomato plants this
season. but with Mr. Bancroft's well
known enterprise his old customers will
be sure of good service, and Mr.. Bancroft
will make that and his own business the
largest of the kind in this region.
Elbrau l.. Bowers, who went 10 North
arolina last August, Las letmred IN n
visit TO his mother here and will not
return to North Carolina, where he is
engaged in business with his brother. for
week or more.
WEST ENosBURGH.-A ladies aid
society has recently been organized. At
the first meeting, held at Mis-. George
McAlistcrs, about S25 was raised toward
furnishing tho new church, which it is
expected will he finished and ready for
use early in the summer. Mr. Ira Sweat
CT Richlord has been engaged 10 do the
Joiner work and will commence sometime
during the latter part of March. The
pews, pulpit, altar, windows, and all such
work rs can be done at the shop is being
done this winter so rs to expedite the
work in tho spring. The people are
interested in the success of the enterprise
and taking hold of it with will.
SwANToN.-A. C. Allen is the happy
man this week Tho new arrival on
Tuesday is boy. More help flr his
hemp yard farm.
Mr.. George Truax is very low with
consumption and not expected to live from
one day to another. lie is brother of
Rev. A. B. Truax of Brattleboro
The number of deathslhere last week
was something unusual for this village
Mrs. Mullen, Mrs. Hoglc, Mrs. Westover
opI Eranl- tVriuht Mrs NTu1lon yyaS