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InOb0eT Ill MluulGUulJs
Mrs. JOHN S. ROBINSON of the Centre
is visiting niece in Boston, Mass.
Mrs. CHAs. GOULD of Pittsfield, Mass,
is visiting her son on Grand View street.
MRS. STEWART and daughter of Nor
witch, n. Y, are visiting Mrs. S. 5. Pratt
ALoNzo RAND las sold house and
lot, South Monument Avenue, to John
Wool Griswold. Consideration about
$500.
CONTRACTOR EDGAR F. BOYD is to
make repairs and Improvements upon
the residence of Harry Shields at the
Centre.
ENGINEER GOULD of Che Lebanon
Springs Railroad, who has been sick for
a couple of weeks, returned to his work
Mond W.
ST. MARY's GUILD of ST. Peters church
will meet on Thursday, March 2lst, from
> to in the afternoon, at the home of
Mrs. L. f. Abbott.
SCHOOL book agents are now commence
ing to swarm around. May the Lord
have mercy on the innocent school di-
lectors.- Wilmington Times.
VIM BARRETT has purchased a lot on
Grand View extension, next to the one
lately bought by Chas. II. Kehoe. He is
to erect house on it, as soon as the sea-
son will permit.
A MILITARY Adirondack summer
school is now talked of. 1t is said that
DR.. w. Seward Webb will give large
trlct of land for the purpose, near Blue
Mountain Lake.
BE careful in addressing yOnr letters.
In the New York City PostOtfice an aver
are of $1,000 dead letters accumulate
every quarter, sent from correspondents
in the United States.
Mr.. GRoGAN, farmer at the Clark farm,
has purchased a good farm in the "Laker
district for less than S2S per acre. The
time to buy is when things are cheap and
tins VIII apply nOW'Co 1arms'
The nineteenth annual meeting of the
Vermont State Dental Society, will be
held at Brandon March Goth, DIST, and
END. DR.. B. C. Jenney of this village is
member and will attend the convention.
Down in Quebec the Board of Trade is
opposing the project of the great Mari
time Ship Canal, on account of disas
trous results that might arise from turn
ing the waters of the st. Lawrence
through Lake ChamDlain into the Hud-
son.
VERTICAL PENMANsHIP is coming into
fashion. The pupil is taught to sit
sqnarely in front of the paper he writes
upon, and to make his strokes nearly
Straight up and down, and the result is
I'D to be improvement in legibility.
AT the meeting of the seectmen, Sat
urday, in conjunction with the Health
Officer, the town Board of Health was
organized as follows: Col Jas. II. Wal
bridge, president; C. C. Kimball, vice
president; Geo. r. Matthews, member;
Il. l.. Stillson, secretary, ex. Of1icio.
A MORRIsvILLE prophet announces
that there will be no sugar made after
April 9TH this year, because February
was a cloudy month. There will be time
enough between this and April 9Th to get
=, - ,,,;+o ~, n ,o,,p+ Of tho ouant l,v,r1y
if the weather takes the right attitude
toward the sugar makers.
LOOK OUT for Canadian 20-cent pieces
which are appearing in increased num-
bers over the border, and are mistaken
som times for quarters This coin was
first issued in 1858, at the time of the
adoption of the decimal system by Cana
da, and represents the shilling of the
"H4lifax currency the pound of which
was worth S4, while the pound sterling
was worth $4.S65.
ONE of the probabilities of the near fu-
ture is very cheap illuminating gas,
called "acetylene," and made from a
mixture of lime and anthracite, known
as carbine of calcium. 1t is said that
this substance can be produced at S. a
ton, and that gas as good as the ordinary
illuminating gas can be made from it and
sold at profit for five cents thousand
cubic feet.
IT is now a fashion in the shingle dis.
tricts to use cedar shingles at church So
Gals, musical and literary entertain
ments, where the programme concludes
with refreshments. The shingle is used
as food tray, and is coming into gener-
al popularity at church socials. There is
always a disposition on the part of some
of the ungodly who attend church circles
to steal the plates on which the refresh
ments are served, but when the luke
warm coffee and ancient sandwiches are
passed around on a cedar shingle worth
about 90 cents thousand, even the small
boy has no desire to steal his plate.