The Republican journal., 1885-04-16


PROSPECT A company ct twenty with ten
lcatu- met aI the house ut Mr.. Arthur Hole aud
drove out tu pay Thomas &. Smart E-.l visit aud
spcui the evening. They were heartily welcomed,
and uuDer tup maua-euout ~ MIR, smart an
excellent supper WIS provided An were N.ry
mu-h pleased with tAr Visit. Mr smart taught
school In tine CIrk district where he wa- highly
esteemed. The party was from that dl-trlrt-.. NJ.
II. lIa.yy lost valuable hur~e Ia-t week. In Turn
iu4 oul near the Mountain school house for q load
of HAY To- pass the horse got into the snow aud
broke "a leg and u.d to be kilIcd....J. F, Libhy is
having d good many eggs to market from this part
of the town lie always payS thc best prceo,...I
+. could has five horses amt one j. a good stopper.
No one in CHS town tries to crowd by him on the
road.-..Mr-. Hosea LItuehcid during the year
ending NIr ~ le>5, has -oai 80 hs. ot butter made
from hcitcre, besides furnishing milk and butter
for a family Of five. One heitcr came in st is
months old -. Mrs Horace LittcHeld, nov - Yrs.
obi, can beat many Younger women IN turning ou
work with despatch She cut the squares lor five
quilts III four half days The squares were and 1
inches and the cloth WAS doubled IL times We
fore cutting. IF, H. Lane arrived home last week
from it ctnvassiug tour in Nova scotia. lichrought
home /. superb looking mare bought near Dighy
\. : The mare is OF the ClyIesialc breed, ; wears
uld and good enough tor anybody. The herds
grass and clover seed has arrived at IF Libhy's
store. John has got 4 lot of it and the farmers
need it. 1t is cheap, too....Quitc number of our
village houses are to be painted this spring.
suppose the place is big enough To- hc called
village, at any rate it is the customary place
where four roads meet and there is gudeboard.
The grand exhibition in District No. was held
Monday evening. There are the most advanced
scholars of their ages in this district of any district
in town. The district is II small but the schUl-
airs plucky and hard to beat. Their first trial
exhibition was held above. The programme is
too long TO mention all. In the sci, ct reading Miss
Amy Lane beat all, in reading The Wreck OF the
uesptrus. Maud Gould is also good reader ana
50 sanford Lane and Frank Crockett. should
have said that the older people in the district help
ed the scholars. Mrs. Mary Smith has not forgot
ten her school days and favored The company with
some good reading, Mrs. Charles Littlcheld, also.
The defamation by Charles Wood representing
the negro stump speaker running for the office OF
constable, made lots of fun. Also Birak Litticheld
Nellie Partridge and others had nice pieces The
dialogue entitled Scandal by Miss Martha Herman
and Amy Lane, brought down the house with laugh
ter. Addie Crockett and Nellie Partridge did well.
sanford Lane and Maud Gould had dialogue,
Miss Carrie Grant. the teacher Miss May Lane, and
Fred Lane favored the company with the dialogue
entitled Rhoda Hunt. An did well, and good
music furnished for the OCCASION Miss Carrie
Grant, the teacher playing the concertina and Miss
Martha Herman presiding at the organ. The pa
per edited by the teacher excellent and pleased
the scholars. 1t was one of the best evening enter
tainments we have had, and this was the veriict
pronounced by ALL The scholars are stepping higher
for it to-day. The scholars all had from two to
1--WE pieces and the older in the district helped
them out, including the parents and the former
agent, who furnished select readings.