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SOUTH SHAFTSBURY,


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The new Methodist minister is fast
making friends among our people.
Edwin Hastings of Rutland is at home,
called here by the sickness and death of
his mother. His wife is now in st. Paul,
MINI. ~
Seymour Galusha has the foundation
for new house already completed, and
Simeon Green is preparing to build one
also.
The new Hawkins building when COM
pleted will be quite an ornament to the
village. 1t fronts the main street, will
be two stories high, in size, 2Sx60 feet.
The front of the lower story will be of
glass, there being two windows each 7x7
feet. The lower story and basement
will be occupied as store and is to be
finished with all modern appliances.
The upper story will be den off into
good sized hall with ante-rooms adioin-
ing, and will supply long felt want.
The work entire by the Eagle Square
Manufacturing Company, is well done.
Eugene Dietz has had charge of it.
The A. P. A. Society here is SAID to be
flourishing, and now has about 40 mem.
bers. What position it will take in the
coming fall elections is the conundrum
that some of our people who have an eve
to Office are trying to solve. There are
said to be several that are just ready to
start in the field of possible candidates,
but who are not quite willing to have
their names announced at present. A
leading Republican said, not long ago,
that the Democrats would be defeated
worse this year than they were two years
ago.
There has been considerable of a build
ing boom here the past year. Among
the houses built are noticed: On CleYe-
land street, Adelbert Hawkins and Will
liam Cole have each new and tasty-look-
ing residences; the Methodist church
was rebuilt at an expense of about So
800; on Main street, q, Bronson has
built $1,000 house, and near it, Mrs.
Mary Dean has built another at about
$500. Just now considerable interest
is manifested in the band stand which is
nearly completed.
Mrs. Rhoda Galusha, wife of G. s.
Hastings, for thirty years proprietor of
the hotel here, died Monday morning at
V. 80 o'clock. She was So years of age
a pd had been suffering for some time
with complication of diseases. The de-
ceasR ed was daughter of Elisha Ga
lushM a once prominent citizen of the
town, And was direct descendant of
one of the first settlers in the place.
She was born in the town where she
died, and \had always resided here.
Mr.. and MIRA. Hastings were married,
January End, hS54. She was the mother
of two sons, WHO, with the husband,
survive her Mrs. Hastings was one of
the best of neYghbons and friends, kind
and true, and her death is deplored by
many an one she has aided and comforted
in times of trouble. At theA request of
the family, an autopsy was held by Drs.
Rogers Of Bennington, and Woodruff
and GoldAhwaite to determine the cause
of her death. Her funeral win be OBJ
served from the house Wednesday after
noon, at 1.30 o'clock.
Business at the works of the Eagle
Square Manufacturing Company plant is
good and about 100 men, most of Them
married, are employed on full time.
This plant with his paid up
capital of $50, 900 did not suffer as much
during the depression of last season as
May did. The work was run on full
time until November LIST. From then
until March lSt they ran four days In
week, since then, on full time. In addi-
ten to their squares, the companyis now
making furniture in sets, mostly ash and
oak. This branch of the business is
running light at present. The company
are now erecting three houses in Benning
ton and as many more In SALISBURY.
Among the many buildings built by it
in the past few years is the Free library
at Chester, the summer homes of E. II.
Putnam, near Westport, N. T., that of
j. l. Gale at Williamstown, and others.
The works have been boom to the vii
lage OF South Shaftsbnry, one of the
most thriving and attractive of any in
Southern Vermont. This place is about
the last one of a number of industries
that fiourished in Bennington county
twenty years ago. The president is E.
@. Gale, of Troy, N. Y. The superin-