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TROY, N. Y.
SOUTH sHAFTsBURY.

Il. ESJa was IN Town tuesday.
Mrs. Jessie Spencer has sister visit
ing her.
Miss Leon Wyman returns to Man
chester Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ormel Pierce, Jr., are
away on visit.
Ernie Cary, young daughter of
Frank Cary, was buried in this village
last week. She was a nice child and
will be much missed in her home.
Drs. Woodruff and Goldthwaite are
unusually busy these days. The cool
nights make it more sickly, perhaps, than
less changeable temperature.
Considerable cold weather and frosts
at night is telling on the gardens. Some
look as though a change of climate
would be beneficial.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Loomis, Mrs. NJ.
Houghton, also Mrs.. Marsh and
daughter of Bennington, were in town
on Wednesday, attending the funeral of
Mrs. Hastings.
Mrs. Brown, grandmother of Mrs.
Henry Spencer, died quite suddenly last
week. The funeral was from the home
of her granddaughter last Sunday after
noon. The interment was in the village
cemetery.
E. Estabrooks of Bennington, has the
contract for the erection of a monument
in Mrs. Dallas Mattison's family plot in
the cemetery in the village, to be erected
to the memory of the late Earl K. Mat
tison, her only son.
Willis Spafford and Charles Benzie of
Troy, N. Y, have been the guests of
John Gorden, Jr., for few days. They
were up on a fishing trip and were quite
successful, and succeeded in carrying
home some of the speckled beauties.
Sylvester Hawkins bought the home
of Mrs. Jane Smith and Byron Mattison
bought Clark Smiths place. Every
thing sold unusually well at the auction
on Monday. Mr.. Smith, his wife and
mother left on Wednesday afternoon on
the $50 train, en- route for their new
home in Centreville, Iowa. May our
loss be their gain. They have the good
wishes of many friends.
Henry Hastings of Utica, N. Y, came
on here this week to attend the funeral
of his brothers wife, Mrs. G. E. Hast
ings. Mrs. Hastings was not confined to
her bed as long with her last illness as
she was last year. Her suffering was in
tense during the brief illness. She died
on Monday morning The funeral SER
vice was held on Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock, the Rev. Mr.. Peck of North
Bennington, officiating. The interment
was in the family plot in the village Gem
etery. The funeral was largely attended
from her late home.
Enterprise Lodge, I. o. G. T., which
was organized January 18th, with %
members, has increased its membership
to SO. 1t has new regalias and new fur
niture. The followingl officers have
been elected: A. A. Collins, G. T.; Mrs.
Fred Eddy, V. t.; R. A. Moon, chap
lain; Fred Church, marshal; Grace Mar
tin, d. NJ; Horace Harris, g.; Lizzie
Bourne, secretary; Maude Smith, assis-
tant secretary; Loren Draper, treasurer;
w. G. Sickle, financial secretary; Nina
Knapp, S. of T.; S. E. Hawkins, P. c. 7.
G. P. Montgomery is getting timbers
framed and ready to erect house on
the same foundation of the one raised
there over year ago, and blown from
the foundation during the heavy east
wind year ago last April. We are glad
to know that trifles like the destruction
of former building did not discourage
Mr.. Montgomery. Wednesdays BAN
NER tells us of three new houses going
up here by the Eagle Square Manufac-
turing Company; an error somewhere.
! We fail to see the houses. Some that
have been erected are not entirely fin
| ished yet G.. r. and A. B. Hawkins are
putting up large and convenient store
which, when finished, will no doubt
look finely. The Good Templars have
rented the hall over the store and when
it is done will occupy it, The Eagle
Square Company are not building the
store although good deal of the work
is gotten out by them. Eugene Deitz is
experimenting it. Byron Cary and
Luke Morse are employed there also.