The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-04-03
EAST DORSET.

now have the best sleiehing we have
had,
j. NJ. Griffith is nearly well and
James O'Brien, who was badly injured
some time ago by being thrown back
wards out of wagon, now operates
ON crutches.
Hartwell Kendall, aged about so,
has of late been ON our sick list at
tended by DR., Marsh, but is now
much better. He is about the oldest
man among us, and has been the
heaviest and strongest of our yankees.
He is the inventor of a cheese press
aud blacksmith's shears and used to
teach all corners at checkers "some
excellent moves"
Boy No. 3 arrived at William
Whalen's on Monday Of last week.
lie weighed II lbs. and filled a lap
full. Evidently la grippe hadn't
bothered him.
Geo. Nj. Wall lost a valuable work
horse last week.
W. e. Bourn has a thirty dollar
bill, old continental money, date
l779.
Misses Maggie McNaboe and Mary
+. Heating, two of our teachcss, who
have been at Bennington the past
winter studying methods have return
ed home.
Jay McNaboe is also home from
Middlebury college for a two weeks
vacation and Eddie Griffith and John
|. Cochrane are expected this week,
the former from Dartmouth and the
latter from Harvard. John is quite
an athlete. His shop, skip and
jump" measures anywhere from "a to
40 feet. Soon after he went to Har-
ward he coaxed reluctant, pale-face
lad to put Oh the gloves with him
After the pale-face had knocked hin
down five or six times, as fast as hi
could get up, John concluded that he
wasn't much of a John l.. Sullivan
and that he would depend upon his
wit for standing instead of his muscle
The result was that he captured :
scholarship prize of $3.50, his mari
in Algebra, test study, being per
feet and tue highest in his division o
so students.
Ice is being shipped as fast as car
can be had and ice trains are runnin,
, every day, and it is said will have t
/ continue so to do till the first O
+ August.
Miss Lillian Edgerton teaches i
Manchester the coming term and Mis-
Emily Griffith in the higher depart
ment of the village school in Dorset
! Miss Mabel Allen of North Dorse
+ teaches in the south village and Mis-
, Edna Brophy in the Rogers district
Our village schools commence o
) Monday, Miss Mabel Torrey, teache
of the lower department the,last tw
years, will have charge of the highe
< department, and Miss Maud Hit {
e Rupert, the lower.
The Dorset Marble Co.'S propert
was sold last week as advertised, til
e real estate to II. c. Gleason and
I Mr.. herman of Philadelphia, son {
&. 5. sherman Of CAST ton, fc
$4,000, and the personal property t
: the Vermont Marble Co. for 81, II;
These prices are considered merel
l nominal. The purchasers have, how
ever, bought some legal tangle whic
/ they purpose to straighten out an
then organize Il corporation and wor
the property.
Some twenty-five or rather MOI
years ago Heman Morse, well-tt
do farmer, was thrown from a NOV
ing machine and fatally mangled b
f a runaway team. Some 200 acres {
+ his farm passed, few years later, il
to the hands of James G.. Tuoh,
The consideration, as remembered
was over $4,000 and nothing was pal
down, the purchase and other proper
ty being mortgaged as security. Nj
Iuohy keeps 20 or 30 COWS, 4 fe
head Of small stock and two or tire
horses summer and winter, and no
! he has prospered and his annual sale
would probably astonish some farm
0 ers, SO called, who are being pushe
S off from the farms the fathers cleare
by the growing timber. Our lare
farms seldom change hands OF pa,
out of the family. Only oae in OF
valley, between Manchester line an
Dandy, is thought of that has be,
sold in half a century, and not one
them is for sale. 1t may be add,
that Mr.. Tuohy has nine chidre
and the three oldest, Nellie, Ma
J and Jennie, are being educated in ii
IL Albany Business College. TIL,
II mark maximum in nearly every stud
q A few days ago 100 words were Civ,
IL to the 400 students there to spell, al
N those who spelled every one, afte