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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-03-13
Wednesday, March 2T, 1900,

At 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
Specifications for furnishing and deliv-
erirg the coal may be inspected at the
office of the Clerk to said Board Groom
y, City Hall, between the hours of A M.
and P. M. daily, where blank forms
Of bid must be obtained,
Parties making proposals for furnishing
and delivering of said coal under the
specifications will be required to present,
with their estimate, a bond as now pro-
vided by law, or a certified check for
twenty-five per cent. of the amount of
their respective bid, as guarantee of
GOOD faith for signing such contract and
bond as will be drawn by the Corpora
tion Attorney.
The Commissioners reserve the. right to
reject any or all bids, If deemed for the
best interest of the city so to do.
Proposals will be marked Proposals. for
Coal, City Hall" directed to Board OF
CITY Hall Commissioners, Jersey City"
and handed to the Clerk in open meeting
when called for in the order Of business
relating to sealed proposals.
GEORGE +. F-A4lRELLs Clerk.
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HURT IN ELEVATOR.

An italian hod carrier whose last name
is unknown and who goes by the name
of Dominick, was fatally injured shortly
after noon today in the building being
erected for the Sugar Refining Company,
at the foot of Fifteenth street, Hoboken,
when the elevator on which mortar is
hoisted collapsed. The injured man was
on the elevator at the third floor when
the mechanism got out of order. The
elevator came crashing to the ground
floor and the Italians skull was fractured.
He was taken to st. Marys Hospital. The
doctors say he cannot live.
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KEAN GIVES AWAY TO BARD.

WASHINGTON, March 10, 1900-In the
Senate today Mr.. Kean On. J.) resigned
from the Committee on Public Lands;
Mr.. Thurston (Neb) from the Commit
tee ON Railroads; Mr.. Simon (ore.) from
the Committee on Potomac River front;
Mr. Foster (Washington) from the Com
mittee on Woman Suffrage, and Mr.. Wet
more (Rhode Island) from the Committee
on Manufactures.
President pro tenn. Frye then appointed
Mr.. Bard California; to the several COM
mittees from which Senators had resign
ed in order to make committee places for
him.
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ARLINGToN CEMETERY

,vas tba FIRST Landscape Lawn Cemetery'' In
+ba State Lot owners have expense for
care of grounds nor for fencing. II you need
= cemetery lot (and every family needs onel.
.-o,, will he interested in Its beauty and neat.
ess its moderate prices and easy terms Of
navment. Office IN JERSEY City. 2ss Washing
ION street. over Provident Savings Bank. Tele-
uhone No 521.
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CITY HALL. +.
SEALED PROPOSALS FOR ABOUT
Seven Hundred (7oo) Gross
Tons of Pea Coal,

for use in City Hall, Jersey City. N. j.,
according to specifications for same on
file with the Clerk of the Board, will
be received at the meeting OF the Board
Of CITY Hall Commissioners, to be held
in the superintendent office, Room Z, in
the City Hall, on
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ToNIGHTs EVENTS.
Dainty Duchess Company at the Bo
Ton Theatre.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, March 10, 19OO.-F'orecast
for the thirty-six hours ending at eight
P. M Wednesday. For New York City
and vicinity:-Rain and warmer tonight,
Wednesday fair, colder at night; fresh to
brisk southeast winds. becoming west and
northwest Wednesday.
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oyster cutletsw Ill soon be on the menu
Of the Pacific States. Fifty barrels of the
famous Yezo oysters of Japan, which
grow to the length of foot will be plant
ed in the tidewaters of Washington and
Oregon.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

An entertainment was last night, given
for the benefit of the German-American
school in Sherman avenue Inc pupils
training
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-03-13
An Old and Well Tried Remedy.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Tor
children teething should always be used
for children wlli1e reething. It softens the
gums allays the pain. cures Wind conc
ard Is the best remedy Tor diarrnoea.
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HUNTINGTON.
CHURCH ITEM S

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ITEMS. Three candidates have been examined for membership of the Congregational church at the next communion. Ms Frank Baldwin will be received by let. ter into the memberseip of the Congregation. | al church on Sundey next. Miss Mabel Wooster has returned from visit with friends in Tashna. Paul Rehnberg, who is at MapleWOOd, N. H.. for the summer. spent Sunday with his family here. Mrs George Nichols and daughter, Ina, have returned from visit in Bridgeport. Mrs Estella Marks and Miss Grace Pulford are visiting in Bridgeport H. F. Glover is quite sick with measles
 Milford on Saturday and spent Sunday.
 Mrs Paul Rehnberg has been entertaining her father, B. F. Upton, from Bridgeport.
 Mrs Duncan Mcdonald is at home again for
 MT and Mrs T. E. Quick have moved to Easton where they have taken charge ot a farm.
 Miss Luella Eldred is very dangerously i'll.
 The Misses Buckingham ot New Haven left on Tuesday tor Bridgeport. Miss Edna Buckingham, who has been ill atsthe home Of K. 8. Hawley for the past six weeks, has not imprOve1 as her friends had hoped She has been summer visitor In this place for sev- acquaintanees who are sorry to learn ot her serious illness.
 Mrs Arthur Laborie is visiting at A. s. Smiths.
 The union picnic of the St Paul's and the Congregational churches was held at the Many were kept at home by the rain but notwithstanding that the Sunday schools were well represented and everyone had very enjoyable day.
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vsnia are the guests of Mrs T. B. Sturges.
 Edwin Sherwood of New York spent
BETHEL.

AMONG TEE EATERS.
 The Crofut & Dibble Hat Company have moved from their factory on Bea- yer street to the old Tweedy factory in Danbury. The firm have bought their bodies in the rough, finishing the hats for market. The finn now occupy the factory in connection with the firm of Starr 6 Comstock, who manufacture the hat bodies and sell them in the rough will probably follow the firm to Danbury, which may leave two or three vacant houses.
 The hat factories are all fairly busy. Samples of nearly all the leading styles will be out by September l. Alter La bor day, next Monday, trade will open in earnest and probably last until the November election.
 Tuesday copious rain cooled the air and had magic effect on the growth of fall feed.
 Home grown peaches will about supply the local markets. A few growers have good crop of excellent quality.
 Tbe tobacco crop looks finely. The farmers are cutting and housing it in good order.
 The potato crop Is turning out small. As ruls the quality is good and not liable to rot. The price talked of is about 75 cents per bushel.
 Mrs Harriet Bassett, who lives with her daughter, Mias Helen, on Main street, passed her S2od birthday, August 2l. Mrs Bassett CT joys good heal; h. Her cheerful disposition makes her ap- pear many years younger.
 MT and Mrs Nathan Seeley on Center street appear to e, joy cultivating flowers. Their lawn is not bed of beautiful flowers of many choice varieties.
 MT and Mrs David Carey of Stamford are spending week with Israel H. Will. son, and are calling on their large circle of friends.
 Harry Bailey, son of Selectman W. P. Bailey, has secured a position to learn 8 trade in the Farrell Machine Co.'s fac. tory in Ansonia.
 Mrs A. J. Hallock and daughter have returned from an extended visit to Provi- dence, R. l., and Preston City, Conn.
 The remains of Mrs Harriett E. Chipman, widow of the late Hiram Chip. man, who died August 23, in Epping, N. H., were brought to Bethel on Tues day morning and buried in Elmwood cemetery. Mrs Chipman was 8 form CT resident of Bethel. She was 83 years of age.
 Labor day, next Monday, will be ob- served by the working class of the town.
 Tuesday, September 4, the public schools will be open for business. The children generally are ready and ar xious to go back to their routine of studies.
 Rev and Mrs Horace Q. Judd finish ed their vacations in New Preston and on their way home spent Thursday night with MT and Mrs H. c. Judd and family on Maple street. MT Judd takes bic horse and carriage to Long I.land by way of Norwalk and Huntington boats on Friday.
 Mrs Abby Williams and daughter, Mise Lillian, of New York, who have spent and vicinity, returned to their city home, last Sunday, on the evening train.
 James Gilbert, noted chicken breed. CT, has sold out the business and pur- chased home on Grassy Ridge, lately vacated by Charles Fox.
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PLATTSVILLE.

ELLIS F. WHEELER HAS BARN BURNED
 A barn belonging to Ellis F. Wheeler, located some distance from his home, was struck by lightning in the hard shower of Friday, August 17, and totally des- troyed, with all its:coDtents. There was about seven tons of hay, a moving ma chine and other machinery in the barn. MT aWheeler estimates his loss at about $500. There was no insurance.
 Joshua Kent is building large addi- ton on the east side of his house. Marsh Brothers of Bridgeport are doing the work.
 Mrs Fl. Reed and son, Clarence,are the guests If MT and Mrs William Fl. Hall.
 Mise Bertha Banks and Mertie l.. Booth are members of the Home Correspon. dence school of Spring field, Mass.
 c. L Booth has an immense suuf1ower blossom, which he has grown this sea- son. It measures IF inches across. Send it up to the Newtown fair.
 Mrs F. E. Wetmore is visiting friends at Rockaway Beach.
 Thomas A. Beecher left, Monday. for New York City, where he is to undergo an operation.
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The Homestead, published at Spring
 field, Mass., Is a mild anti-expaneionist
 in politics but its publishers believe in
 expansion from the word go. Eight or 10
 years ago, the Phelps Publishing Co.,, publishers of The New England and Springfield ,Homesteads, Farm and Home, expanded and bought out the Orange Judd publications at New York, of which the American Agriculturist was
 the best known. And now they have expanded again by purchasing Good
 Housekeeping, high grade household
 monthly published at Springfield. Good
 Housekeeping was founded by the late
 Clark W. Bryan (who by the way was
 the publisher at one time of the Courier
 at Great Burlington, Mass.), and in it he
 carried out ideas of his own as to the
 home paper of home affairs; he sought
 for competent writers to reach "the in-
 terests of the higher life of the house. hold,' and to it he contributed his own
 warm, hearted verses and cordial advice. The Phelps Publishing Co.'s headquar. ters are on West Warrington street in Springfield, and all the manufacturing of the new property will be done there while it will be published at the compa- ny's branch cff1ce, 52 Lafayette place, New York City; Marquette building, Chicago; the Louisiana sugar and rice exchange, New Orleans; the board of trade building at Montreal, and at San Francisco. Thus to the SprinRfi Id Homestead, the semi-monthly Farm and Home, the New England Homestead, the | American Agriculturist and the O.aIge | Judd Farmer of Chicago, is added Good | We are especially n er- ested in the movement from the act that our old-time chief, James Eaton Tower, an all-round and able newspaper man, is to be the editor of the new publication. President Herbert Myrick of the Home stead publications, by the way, is just 1t me from trip to ELrope, and . new 1eal like this is what might be expected .rcn a man of his bour dlees energy and
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of thanks be given to the retiring presi. dent, which was carried. The new presi-
 dent was introduced who made few we'll chosen remarks and announced the following named comrades as the Execu.
 tive committee for the ensuing year: J Fl. Blakeman, Oroncque. Charles F. Loomis, Norwalk. Rev Isaac B. Brown, New Canaan. A. w. Peck, Newtown.
 George D. Phillips, Bridgeport. Short addresses were then made by
 brook of the 17th and by Comrade W. &.
 Albin of the 2i heavy artillery and Com.
 rade Marvin of the 17sh also.
 Among tbe veterans of the 17th [ res- ent was Alb jah Hawley of tbe Soldiers home at Nuroton who is S4 years, ard still hale and hearty. Also Thomas A.
 Marsh. who stopped three Rebel bullets at Gettysburg, one of which he still car ries in his body. He was member cf Company D that sustained loss of 27 out of 36 men reported for duty in that battle.
 Probably it is not generally kp"wn that the 17th Regiment Connecticut Vol. unteer Ass1 citation keeps Old Glory float ing from their nag pole on Barlow's Knoll, Gettyeburg, near their monument, on Whfsh is inscribed the names of 35 dead heroes from this regiment who were killed in that battle.
 This is the only regimentsl association who keep the old fsg constantly flying by day out of nearly 400 organizations wbo have monuments erected on that battl, fl Id. Among tho number of killed in the 17rh Connecticut in the battle wae Corporal Alva E. Wilcox of Co. D, Ca relative of Mrs John B. Wheeler of New tewp), who was morts lily wounded by a | Rebel sharpehooter, on East Cemetery l hill on July 2. 1863. I had just been re- l'eved from command of 10 men who had been poets d in what is now known ae B 'ocdv Lare" at the base of Eaet Cem- etery bill and had just missed bullet from R. bel aharpshooter, when a cap- tain of my regiment informed me that ,ne of my men lay wounded on the brow ,f the hill. I immediately searched for hlm and soon found Comrsde Wilcox ly- ng on the ground, looking very psle and :eading his Bible. I soon found three of ,ie comrades to assist and we securld 8
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thrill ng effect wss someth ng not soor to be forgotten. Robln Adalr was bril- liansly sung without accompaniment and needed none the harmony was xq uisite and the words were eur 6 with a b, olute- ly perfect enunciation and expre. si, n
 Miss Emma Brett's rich, smooth alto voice was heard with great pleasure in two songs, an encore, and one number 'urg wi h the Club. Howard K. Whites two songs were we'll rt ceived, and woD an encore. Both of thu So singers have s udied with MT Woodruff, and are good opponents of his method and style. w ash. ington is highly favored in having a musical director of such gif and repu. tstion among is summer residents. B, invitation the concert was repea'ed ID Litchfeld on the following evening, where the Club met with a warm recep- tion and sang to an enthusit sticsllg az precfative audience.
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rubber blanket ard placed hin, in 1t and four of us carried him to the 11th Corps
 Field hoepitsl lt cated just inside Of the gate to the National cemetery. The sur geon in char ge probe d the wound as snon as possible and informed me that the wound was not dangerous nd that be would econ be all right. Poor fellow. he died in two CT three days ard a stone now marks bis resting lace in Evergreen cemetery. a pert of the present National cemetery. Conrade Wilcox was one of our b! aveet and best soldiers ard had he lived would have received we'll earned promotion. In order to fully realize the horrors of war, one needs to visit the battle field Of Gettysburg, which is near ly six miles in lerRth, and read the in. fcriptions on the 400 monuments located there -[ A W. Peck.
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GREENFIELD HILL.
PERSONAL CHAT.

W. Irving Lobdell and John Williams of Stratford spent Sunday with relatives in Greenfield.
 Miss Jennie Campbell of Watertown is the guest of her grandmother ,, Mrs Eliza beth Campbell.
 Mss Helen Jennings has returned from Cornwall Bridge, where she has been spending several weeks.
 Miss Sarah J. Perry of this place, Mrs Frank s. Banks and daughter and Miss Minnie Perry of San Diego, Cal, Misses Marguerite and Anna Dnucber and Mre Martin Boucher of New York were the guests of Mrs Cha5 les Gray, last Tburs- day.
 Miss Edna Movehouse is entertaining Miss Beach of Bridgeport.
 Miss Tracy of Bridgeport was the guest of Miss Verna Bronson. last week.
 Frank Sturges and family of Pennsyl-
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The great shoe sale going on at the c. h. Bennett Shue Co.'S. store at Brideeport has created no lit'le surprise and excite. ment among shrewd buyers. This firm has mai ked everything in the summer lines of footwear SO low that it makes things lively at their place of business. Ioe immense. .sto ok this firm earliest gives most everyone an oppornity to purchase snoes st almost their own price, as they intend to close out every pair cf eummer shOts H ss than e St. When in Bridge. port lock over their stock. Their adver- t sement appesi on another page of this paper. Read it and you will be con- vlnced that there are some golden oppor. tunities In store for you.
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ID. N. CLARK,
 Shelton, Conn.
greatly appreciated by the travelir g

greatly appreciated by the travelir g public.
 Eugene ard Austin Botsford are GOV. eriDg over with tar the roofs of Stephen French's etoIe.
 Edwin Rockwell of New Haven epent Sunday with his parents, MT and Mrs R. B. Rockwell.
 Gussie al d George Ritter are visiting friends in Bridgeport.
 Charles Clarke and family of New York are staying for few weeks with Mrs Burton.
 Mrs Leach and children returned from Reading, this week. where they have been visiting friends.
 B. Curtis & Son unloaded a fine car of corn, last Wednesday morning.
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TOWN TOPICs.
REUNION OF THE 17th REGIMENT CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS
 ASSOCIATION.

RE-UNION OF THE 17th REGIMENT 1 CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS
 ASSOCIATION.
 OLD SOLDIERS GATHER AT PLEASURE BEACH.
 The 3Sth annual reunion of the 17sl Regiment Connecticut Volunteers Asso citation was held at Pleasure Beach Bridgeport, on August 2S, 1900. Abou 75 veterans with their wives and friends assembled at the railroad station i1 Bridgeport in time to take the 10 a. m rived about 10 30 a. m. The members of the association assembled in the Pa. vilion at 12 o'clock, when the business meeting was held. President Oscar Smith of Saugatuck opened the meeting and prayer was ffered by Comrade Rev Isaac Brown of New Canaan. The min. utes of last meeting were read by the secretary and ordered on file. The re- port of the treasurer pro tenn was read, accepted and ordered on file. Amount on hand from last report, $89 36. Deaths last year: Ms William l.. Hubbell, Co. D. Capt Henry P. Burr, Co. K.
 Capt John Mccarthy, Co. K. Commissary Sergt Edwin D. Hurd, Co. D.
 Sergt Patrick Wade, Co. K. Privates Sylvester Keeler, Coz.
 John J. Green, Co. D.
 '' Henry Peatt, Co. Fl. Appropriate resolutions were read and adopted on the death of the above named comrades.
 A short recess was taken for the pur- pose of giving out dinner tickets and is- suing half fare return certificates, kind ly furnished by the N. Y., N. H. & Hart. fovH cates were also issued to members of the ash Regiment Connecticut Volunteers Association, who held their reunion at the same time and place. In accordance with instructions received fl om the all road company these certificates were countersigned by the secretary of the 17Gh Regiment Association. A recess was then taken for dinner, which was a first classshore dinner, and all were well satisfied.
 After dinner the association reaesem- bled and proceeded to elect the tfflcers for the eneuing year. On motion the president was instructed to cast one bal lot for Comrade Isaac B. Hyatt of Meri- den for president and be was declared elected. The president was also instruct cd to cast one ballot for A. W. Peck of Newtown for secretary and he was de- clared elected. The secretary was in- strrcted to cast one ballot for Comrade George D. Phillips of Bridgeport for treasurer. He was also declared lected. l The following named comrades were | elected vice presidents: Co. A. John M. Crowe.
 l" B. John B. Il.
 c. Justin Ket Ter.
 " D. Barney Marshall.
 /" E. Thomas Bradley.
 !" F. Oscar Smith.
 |" G. Smith Gilbert.
 |" H. Norbert Bossa.
 " I. Whitman Sackett.
 !" K Enos Kelly.
 It Wss moved aAd seconded that Q vote
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WASHINGTON.
THE CONCERT OF THE LADIES' SINGING
 CLUB.

CLUB.
 Whenever expectation is raised to the highest pitch, disappointment is sure to follow; but such was emphaticallv not the lease with those who attended the recent concert of the Ladies' Sing ng club of Washington, under the directi, of Arthur Woodruff. It was cne of the few instances in which reality outdoee expectation. The program was both beautiful snd varied, and the club simply covered itself and it's director with glory by it's singing of the numbers allotted to it. Where all was so fine, it is difficult to mark anything for special me ntion, but probably the consc nsus of opinion would settle upon the Ave Maria" and 'sRob: n Adair' ss the mr st enjoyable numbers. The first was sung by Howard E. White snd the club, accompanied by the Damn reu:her string quintet, and the
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STEPNEY.
BAPTIST CHURCH IN

BAPTIST CHURCH INTERESTS.
 The Stepney Baptist church will be open for service, next Sunday, Septem- Der 2. Covenant meeting at 10 30 a. m. Preaching service at II o'clock, followed by Lords Supper.
 Prayer meeting, Wedne sday evening, September 5, 7 30
 Rev F. P. Braman and wife returned home, last Thursday.
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THE REPuRL1cAN cAucus

l
 At the Republican caucus h Id at Men. roe, Saturday, August 25, the following delegates were unanimously selected
 State convention, D. A. Nichols, Rob- ert Sinclair.
 Congressional, Samuel Hurd, Lester Burr.
 Senatorial, W. B. Mead, John M. Burr, J. B. Wayland, Ambrose Hurd.
 Probate, c. H. Broderick, Dr Wales. D. A. Nichols in few we'll chosen words formally declined to allow the use of his name as candidate for Senatorial honors and urged his friends to direct their energies to secure the renomination and election of Sturges Whitlock as Sen- ator for the 18th district.
 Mrs Isaiah Burritt of Southington has been visiting relatives and friends in this vicinity.
 Mrs Frank Hodge of New Haven is the guest of Mrs Turney for few days.
 Miss M. E. Seeley and Miss Bessie Hayes have returned from their outing at Fairfield Beach.
 l MT and Mrs George Platt of Bridge port have moved their goods into the res- idence of Mrs Platt's parents, where MT and Mrs Platt will live for the present.
 Fred Nichols, Edward Nichols, Harry
 
 Clarke and wife and Dwight Sharpe and wife spent Tuesday at Mrs l.. o. Os- borne's.
 MT and Mrs Addison Hoyt and Mrs W. G. Coley and daughter of Bridgeport have been entertained at George Coley's Michael Griffin has been quite sick. MT and Mrs A. W. Kinney, son and daughter, William and Alice Kinney, from Hartford, Miss Bessie Hayes, Miss Jessie French. Miss Mabel Hayes and Miss Emily Seeley from Stepnay and Austin Botsford from Newtown have en- joyed week at Little Bridgeport, Fair field Beach.
 Ralph Roy and Helen Frederick are spending week at the shore with Mrs A. LeavenwOrth.
 Mrs Storck of Marlette, Mich, is wis. iting at A. LsDgenberg's.
 Mrs G. W. Brodericksand daughter of Bridgeport are spending a week at the Leavenworth homestead. c. L. Smalley will observe Labor day by closing his shop. Mrs John T. Porter and children of Bridgeport are guests of Mrs Porter 8 l mother, Mrs O;lando Platt. Mrs William Penfield ia entertaipipp her sister and child from Orange, N. J.
 MT and Mrs W. O. Purdv, who have been spending a number of weeks in Port Jefferson, returned to their home, last Monday. MT and Ms William Big low spent Sunday, August 26, at Coney Island. B. Hs~ley 'and Moses Thorpe have l been appointed appraisers on the estate | If the late Perkirs French.
 SeIectman Stephen Hayes, with force of men, is lowering the hill just south of g.: pney Center several feet, and carrv- iux the dirt into the valley beyond. c H. HaWley has charge of the blasting. Tte when completed, will be