The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-20
Joy and gladness will be a pleasant one

Joy and giadness will be a pleasant one for everybody this year. The work which farmers are en- gagged in doing fin the winter time goes on. Loads Of wood and hay are de- livered to customers from day to day, and 1t is fair to presume that a good return in the way of cash comes to the farmer. Farm work in winter is pleas ant.
 Everything and all things which take place here from one week to another are working together for good. and this community was never better off than 1t Is now. It Is hoped that we will all have the fullest share of the good things which come to all at the season Of Christmas and New Year. and that the spring will bring with It green fields and flowers and pleasant mornings. which we all will like more than ever before. We hope that good will be accomplished here in many ways. and 1t Is also hoped that we will all take wider interest in affair than heretofore.
 There are those among us who enjoy all the good there is in life and let us know 1t and help to enjoy our lives day by day. When we meet such people 1t Is source of pleasure to us, and when we feel later on that we are doing too much work we must look back at some of the meetings we have had with our friends. Life is being enjoyed here as never before.
 Along in the forenoon and about Il o'clock Wednesday 1t was cold and the wind was blowing hard among the trees.
 Edward Conway has opened a steam laundry.
 There were bright stars seen Tues day evening, and 1t was a beautiful ev- ening to let ones self grow looking at the beauty of the land and the buildings as seen by the subdued light of the stars.
 St. Agnes society is to give a social at Germania hall on Friday evening, January Il.
 The writer received a handsome al- manac Wednesday morning from Rep resentative Levi D. Southworth. He has some more.
 One day and then another comes along and no two of them are much alike, because yesterday was such a good day. We like to meet each other in the streets and chat and say a word or two and move on, and in a. while we will look back at 1t all and know how pleas ant it was When we are first told how important each one of us is 1t does not seem to be true, and we heed not the friendly advice which come to us in such a way that we do not feel that it Is advice for us to heed, but it must not startle us. It is simply to let us know how well we are liked in the place where we are. The future which is per feet is always with us, and we are each using a little of 1t at a time and are doing well with it.
 The work of the assessors just com pleted shows the towns grand list to be $2,252, 0S2, an increase over the pre- ceding year of $14,714. Though small, it is encoura ging. considering the past two years during which manufacturing and investments have had to stand a heavy istrains s@s Of the above amount s4S,s41 is held by non-residents. Below is given the total Of the most important class of property: ..%
 : Houses, $949, 9,655; islands, $244, 4,619; mills, etc., $20S, 100; horses and mules, $27,23S; cattle, s15,9Ss; sheep, swine and poultry, .s16, 6,111; carriages, s6S500; stock, $107, 1881; merchandising trade, $64,75O; manufac-