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Judge Taft of Willistop is to preside
at the March term of the Rutland court
and Judge Rowell of Randolph at the
September term.
All day meetings are being held by
the Metbodists of this section. This is
a new feature in religious movements
said to be in the interest of REVEALS.
They continue from 10 a. IN. to 10 p. IN.
without interruption.
Prof. James r. Truax is delivering a
course OF lectures this winter in the
interest of University extension, on
American history, his first topic being
american Literature in the Colonial
Period"
Many city people make Eagle Inn at
Orwell winter resort. 1t was the cold.
est Dec. l3 this year here, since 1872
and it was Friday too.
1t is rumored that one half of the
cases of typhoid fever in this city were
in families to whom one vender doliv.
cred milk.
Richard Clark Field, of Gales Co.
Haverhill, Mass, and Edward Davenport
Field of Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass, are spending the Christmas holi-
days with their parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred A. Field.
The Christmas trade in this city has
been the heaviest ever known. Mer-
chants and shopkeeperS have had "A har-
vest. At the popular book and art
store of George E. Chalmers five per
some have been busily employed for the
past 10 days. Although the purchase
of Christmas goods is large the prices
Hs,Vr h,n Mt . 81 l., al.
few years ago and the gifts are NOT 50
elab rate. The two days before Christ
mas and on that day the Post Office and
express employees were kept busy and
both institutions have transported more
packets than in any previous year,
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Agricultural Society will be held
at White River Junction Thursday Jan.
9th.
Pastors of many churches about the
county we're recipients of handsome
Christmas Temembrances, the most
liberal of which were those to Rev. w.
II. Pittsford who is about closing Il five
years pastorate.
The re modelled and decorated Bates
House block contains ample rooms for
the. Y Dung Mems Christian Association
and its gymnasium on the first floor
above the street. The lawyers and in
suranCe men have made grand rush
for the offices, where most Of them are
permanently located, leaving the Glenn
ent bank and Sawyer blocks in a Lone
some condition. The Bates block is
now owned by Mrs. John A. Mead,
Many ironworkers of the city have Sc
cured eligible positions in their vOca-
ton in Chicago. There will be quite
large emigration of skilled mechanics
from here to that city in the spring.
The month of December 1895 will go
on record as a most eccentric one. The
records for the month show a complex
ity OF conditions, scarcely equalled be-
fore in the history of this section. The
cold weather came all in the beginning
aud the warm weather at the close.
Monday night the highest temperature
of the month was recorded, the Their
mometer climbing TO 81 degrees above
,gro at 3 am. The velocity of the wind
was 40 miles an hour. The temperature
for the month ranged from 81 de-
grees above to / degree below zero.
During the first II days of the month
the temperature was each day from ) to
81 degrees below the normal From the
17th TO the 3lst it ranged from to % de
grees above the normal. The new year
ushered in with furious wind storm.
A weather record was kept in the early
century in Rutland by Rev. Samuel vii.
liams, LII. D., the historian After bis re
moval 1t was kept by his son, Gov Chas.
II. Williams during his life, ana since, it
has been kept by members of his family
and others.