The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-12-11
EAST DORSET.

A little snow on top of little ice
nd girls and boys are coasting and
kating and light rigs are speeding
Ifter our Maud SIS like birds on the
wing,
Henry Buffum has bought his uncle |
Henry Johnson's house in our south |
village,
NJ. Dejordy,f contractor for Griffith
4 Shelter, commenced hauling logs
to the mill on Saturday. He has
about 5000 spruce piled and will cut
and draw from the stump till the
snow is too deep. He expects to run
twelve teams.
Charles Crandall is taking once in
a while day to pick spruce gum.
He is doing Mt. Tabor just now and
gives glowing account of the crop.
Says one lad picked l-2 lbs. from
one tree.
G. Fayette Griffith returned from
Montreal last week with thirty horses
bought for Griffith & Mcintyre.
Their average weight was 1900 lbs.
and their average cost, duties, ex-
penses and all Sl31. Says horses
were never so cheap up there and
that the small boys even know about
Mckinley.
Mrs. Mary Michigan, wife of
james Michigan, died on Wednes-
day last and was buried on Friday.
She lost two sons in our late civil
conflict and notice was received on
the day of her burial that she had
been granthd pension of twelve dol
lars a month under the new law and
that there was due her from the Con-
cord agency ffty-six dollars.
While Maxiam Seymour was under
wagon, upon which there was cord
of wood, repairing the reach last week
the team started and one of the hind
wheels run over one of his legs be-
tween the ankle and knee joints max
ing a nice blue run round and wreath
ing his face with scowls. j..
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Grout are rumi-
mating over trip by rail to the Pa
cifc. If they go they expect to re-
main till spring.
E. G. futile of Manchester Cen
ter, former resident was here last
week doing us on orders for nursery
stock. He is reported to have had
abundant success.
Miss Emily Griffith, teacher of the
higher department of our village
school last term, expects to 60 tc
Albany soon to take course of study
in the Albany Business College.
Miss Mary Lyon of Peru is expect
ed to be her successor and Miss Hit
OF Pawlet, teacher of the lower de-
partment. Schools will commence
next Monday.
The next meeting of the Nortlerr
Teachers Association of Bennington
county will be held here five week.
from last Saturday.
A meeting of our dairymen abou
a creamery was held here last Frida,
evening but no definite decision wa
reached. Several of our farmers cal
keep 80 or 40 head of cattle beside
teams summer and winter. One O
the largest now has AZ head, inclu
ding 80 COWS, and horses and
colts. If creamery was run salts
factorily there would be receive
: quite diurnal puddle of milk.
One Of the scribe's budgets some
time ago contained an account of tn
stealing of G. l.. Gifford's ban
, book, the thief obtaining $315 frol
a Rutland Savings Bank. The SUI
brought against the bank has just bee
decided in it's favor in the Suprem
: Court, three judges, as is understood
) being for the bank and two for Gil
Z ford.
We see from newsy budget in I'll
last SITTER that "girl lately ma
ried" at the mature age of "eleven.
Our lads don't smile much on lass
when "going through the rye" befol
she attains her teens. We are bea
: en-. But as nothing happens, accort
t ing to an old philosopher, without
"sufficient cause" we attribute tt
r said phenopenal precocity, in OF
haste, to more abundant and fresh,
air and more tropical climate.