Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1902-05-23
TOWN TOPICS.
son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. W.
l.. Currier Friday the 10th inst.


l.. Currier Friday the 10th inst.
At the Bemis auction sale last week
the price realized for the II cows aver
aged about s37 each. -
The selectmen have posted notices
forbidding ball playing in the streets
and riding bicycles on the sidewalks.
Nathan lIobson and wife who have
been boarding at the Stewart House
since winter began resume housekeeping
this week
f. NJ. Bartlett, Z. G. NJ, and Robert
Thompson started for Ludlow Tuesday
morning to attend the Grand Lodge of
Vermont, |. O. OF.
At the age of II years Mrs. Lawrence
j. Kelly is the youthful and happy
mother OF promising little daughter,
born on the 10Th inst.
A special communication of Island
Pond Lodge, F. & A. NJ, will be held
next Monday evening at o'clock.
Work in the first degree.
James Cooper who has been confined
to the house the past three weeks by
badly sprained ankle, is able by the aid
of a cane to limp about the village.
All appreciated the gentle rain Mon
day after suffering from the great clouds
of dust during several windy days pre-
vious. The rain was a great blessing to
this vicinity.
Gov. Dale, L. S. Consul at Coaticook,
Que, is here on leave of absence for
few days, by reason of poor health His
friends, the whole community, wish him
a speedy and complete recovery.
Who would think to see Nathan Hob
son in his daily walks to and from BUSH
ness, and to note the energy with which
he conducts his business, that he is in
his eightieti, year! Yet such is the fact.
May he round out a full hundred years.
The HERALD is pleased to welcome to
Island Pond Mr. and Mrs. John Guest,
two daughters and three sons from
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. They came
here Tuesday with the intention of To-
eating and will occupy the Dunbar
house.
Last Friday the station caught fire by
sparks from passing engine and the
man who discovered it and gave the
alarm so that it was promptly extin-
guished has since been repeatedly told
that it would be better Tor him if he
would mind his own business.
A check list of the republican voters
of the town of Brighton has been pre-
pared for use at the approaching caucus
to elect delegates to the state, district
and county conventions. The town com
mittee has decided upon Saturday June
Z as the date for holding this caucus.
The Island Pond High School ball
team played their first game at North
Stratford last Saturday. The boys put
up a good game but meeting heavier
team were defeated, by the narrow mar
| gin of one run only, the score being
North Stratford | and Island Pond 10.
A patent medicine concern, with a
speciality company as side show, were
in town last week giving entertainments
and advertising their nostrums. They
did good business. Baby Stokes
gained the prize of a silver pitcher, of
fered to the baby for whom the most
votes was recorded.
Eugene o. Baldwin of Dixville, Que,
has been reinstated in the Dominion
customs service, and is once more in
charge of the Canadian customs Office at
Island Pond during the absence of Mr..
George f. Adams, who is on a fishing
trip, to be absent two or three weeks.
Mrs. Baldwin spent Sunday here with
her husband.
The Right Rev. A. c. A. Hall, d. d.,
Bishop of Vermont, will make his annual
visit to Christ Church parish next
Wednesday May %. Service in the
Church at 100 p. NJ, to include the rite
of Confirmation and sermon by the
Bishop. All are cordially invited to at
tend this service. Thursday morning
at 80 there will be a celebration of the
Holy Eucharist. The Bishop goes from
here to Canaan.