Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-04-25


taken in favor of his return to! Chelses
another year. His salary has all been
paid and large donation besides. and
also the claim of the presiding elder and
that Of the bishops, and all of the or.
binary running expenses of the church
n CHELsEA.-The roads here have settled
Is much quicker and with loss mud than 70,
"a many years.
"a The selectmen will enlarge Highland
" cemetery by appropriating. under the
statute, six acres adjoining the cemetery.
April 25th, n good run of sap is reported
much to the qualification Of farmers.
Herbert o. Bixby has sold his new
house to A. W. Whitney.
Josiah Douglass died April 18th, aged
lS9 years less two days. He was the
oldest man in the town. and substantial
reliable citizeniand native of the town.
j. b. Cosgrove has an eve sheep that
is four years old. He says the natural
increase from her and her lambs now
amounts to sixteen sheep and lambs
having had four pair of twins herself.
| William Carpenter has gone to Mime.
sofa in search of lucrative business.
Ernest Corwin, clerk in A. N. Kings
store, Tunbridge, has been at home on a
vacation.
M. r. Ordway has sold his horse to j.
Currier of Connecticut for $500.
A. lVoyes has had a visit from his
brother of Somerville, Mass.
Richard Kimball, formerly of the east
hill in B.'ookfeld, died in Hopkinton, N.
H., April 2lst, at the advanced age of 90
years.
Mrs. b. Martin has packed her house
hold goods, preparatory to moving, shut
up her house and returned to Vergennes.
This sugar season challenges the recol.
lection Of the "oldest inhabitant.''
Rev. Mr.. Mason of Brookport, N. Y,
WAS in town last week on the occasion of
the death of his stepfather Mr.. Josiah
| Douglass.
A beautiful boquet of the wild "silver
leai' blossoms was shown us April 2lst
by H. l.. Bixby.
A. T.. Skinner is about to 60 to Lowell,
Mass, 10 work at the painting business
Adelbert. his son. will manage the farm
this seanon.
CoRINTH CoRNER.-Mr. H. w. Carlton
has returned home from his trip to North
Carolina.
But little sugar has been made vet in
this locality.
The series of meetings. which have been
held recently at the M. E. church were
very thinly attended. owing to the bad
roads and were, therefore, of but lutte
avail.
Lyman Porter is the prudential com.
mittee in district No. 4.
ST.. JoHNsBURY. is commenced
once more on the new depot
Rev. Mr.. Sockhart has gone to Worces
ter, and the Free Baptist church is without
pastor.
B. G. Howe is back again in the
Avenue House and is repairing and
getting 1T in good shape again for the
public.
Henry Randall, who has been running
sash and blind shop in Paddocks village,
goes on the Passumpsic railroad as over
seer of bridges and buildings.
The building mania seems to have
struck this place hard, as there is in
contemplation, new M. E. church,
Catholic convent, Y. M: G. A. block,
repairing Music Hall, extension back of
both the Academy and South Hall some
fifty feet. new residence by w. P.
Fairbanks and additions to the scale shops,
besides good many similar jobs
About two inches of snow came here
Tuesday night.
Those farmers who have not gathered
their buckets report q good run of sap the
past few days.
Rev. MIR. Culver left for conference
Wednesday. We are expecting him back
another year.
Geo. Fairbanks has had large force of
painters, decorators and carpenters at
work on his house for the past two 1
months. 1t is estimated that he has had
$4,000 worth Of decorators work.
Miss Whipple, our music teacher, has
gone back to Boston, and Miss Cleveland
from Martha's Vineyard has taken her
place but is now quite sick.
NORTH MoNTPELIER.-Mrs L. N. Morse
is in Duxbury this week visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Kennedy.
The summer term of school of ten
weeks, is to be taught by Miss Cherre B.
Morse of Calais, and will begin May 9TH.
Byron Goodwin lost COW last week.
John R. Nye intends to start for Fargo,
Dakota, the first of May, and will sell at
auction April 26th, at the store of W. G.
Nye, lot Of personal property. C'assius
Bennett, Harry Little and Herbert Hollis
ter, are to 60 with him. Success to the
boys.
NoRTHFIELD.--The young ladies' aid
society of the Universalist church gave
masquerade party on Friday evening of
last week.
The Spy of Atlanta was repeated
Saturday night by the Cadet dramatic
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