Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-11-14

The services at Wrightsvlle next Sun
day afternoon arc to be conducted by Mr.
Wright.
Mrs. Joseph Fisher was quite severely
hurt by q fall down stairs last Saturday
morning.
The examination of teachers for Mont
pelier takes place in room No. s, OF the
graded school Saturday, the 18th.
John Stone has removed from Mrs
Kinsman's tenement house on Barre street
into The Hibbard house on Berlin street.
The household goods Of Eli Marsh was
sold at auction on Saturday afternoon,
Mr. Marsh leaving for his Colorado home
next month.
james Smith, who recently returned
from D,kota, has removed TO Wrightsville
and entered into the employ of Denison
Taft in numbering.
Merrill Russell has purchased building
lot on East Liberty street, near the resi-
dence of A. c. Harlow, and will build him
~ lCoItCiCC upon
On Saturday afternoon Carl, an year
cd son Of l.. p. Gleason, received some
baa bruises from fall while playing upon
the Goa! cars in the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad yard.
E. w. Thompson, formerly in the
employ oil the Central Vermont, but now
the eastern passenger agent of the Canada
Pacific railroad, was in town Tuesday
after trip of five weeks in Manitoba.
On Friday afternoon Luman M. CIRCUITS
team made lively run from the street
for home, the Jewett farm near the
junction. 1t was stopped before reaching
home, however, without doing any dam
age.
Irish u Sparrow have purchased of
Hiram Fales the Bishop hotel property,
paying 1900. Possession will be taken |
December lst They will remove the
steam heating works from the Union
House into the Bishop House.
On Friday afternoon seven year old
son of Joseph Shequette was accidentally
knocked down on State street, and run
over by the team Of George H. Smile and
badly bruised about the head and body,
but received no serious injury.
On Friday - crates of oranges were
received by A. G, Stone from the farm OF
John p Dewey in Florida, and were
speedily taken by our fruit dealers in
town. Mr.. Dewey writes that he has
$4,000 oranges upon his trees this fall.
Hiland Rowland, we'll known resident
of Montpelier and vicinity for many years,
died on this, Wednesday, morning. very
suddenly, at his residence on lower State
street, aged G4 years He was a member
of Company G, 9Th Vermont regiment
during the late war.
Hon. John r. French, ex Sergeant at
Arms of the United States Senate is
announced TO lecture in Capital Hall next
Friday evening. Nov. IS. His subject
will be Ten years among the senators"
and will be full of information concerning
the Senate and public men at Washington
Mr.. French comes well recommended by
the press wherever he has lee ured and
should have full house
J. A. Lacroix yard mas ter Of the Central
Railroad at Montpelier caught his foo
in a frog while coupling cars in Barre on
Saturday afternoon. The tread of both g
wheels of car passed over it, before he
could extract it, but very singularly no t
bones were broken but the foot was terri /
bly, bruised and will cause him to be laid
up long time. This is the second injury ,
he has received in short time.
During the heavy gale on Monday night s
about two-thirds of the tin roofing upon
the Pavilion was torn up and ruined, a L
large section of it being blown from the t
building, causing damage of about $500
About five thousand square feet CT it will a
have to be reaid with new tin. The
work of repairing commences 10 day.
The weather vaue on the Central depot ::
was blown off and one of the large trees =
in the yard of the old Keith place on Elm
street blown down. Windows were blown ;,
in in several places in he village, furnish
ing employment for the GLACIERS. 1t was
one of the hardest gales that ever visited
this section of the country. II
On Wednesday, Nov z, some seventeen =
ladies of the Bethel Gilead NJ. Z. church 81
met Mt the parsonage ostensibly for
sewing party to assist the pastors wife; IL
but the thoughfulness of the ladies In l.
bringing along dress materials, cloth, etc , VI
soon made it apparent that it might ).
properly be called donation visit OF
willing workers, which was highly appre-
ciatod by the recipients. On Friday l.
evening, Nov. 16, the Rev. Fl. A. Spencer D
will lecture on "John Wesley and his n
Tines" II
The proposition of James w. Brock !,
which has been much talked about for "
some weeks will doubtless come up for II
action in the next Montpelier village u
meeting 1t is in short to put in water
works as they should be, the village to
have their use for public purposes for ten :,
years on paying twenty thousand dollars -
towards the enterprise-and those putting -
in the works ESTIMATED to cost SSO,OoO)
to own them. The company building the II
works would get its income for its invest
ments from water rents to private parties,
from the $4,000 voted by the village for > !
the first ten years and from such payment l.
by the village after the ten years as the
company and the village either now or
then should together make arrangement a
for. That is in brief the plan proposed (