Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-12-18
WATCH FOR XMAS.
TOWN TOPICS.

To issue more than half sheet this
week, but accidents will happen in well
regulated printing offices, rs in families.
Later on we will make good the omis.
sion.
Christmas greetings aud a Happy
New Year to everybody.
Charles NJ, Dyer is more com Portable.
and daily improving.
Wright Danforth and family arrived
from Brooklyn last week, and will spend
the winter in Island Pond.
Prof. and Mrs. 5. +. Marks have gone
to the latter's home az Limington, Me-,
TO spend the Christmas vacation.
We are pleased to report that Mrs.
Luther Ladd, who is under treatment at
the Maine General Hospital at Portland,
is improving.
There will be a Christmas tree and
appropriate exercises for the children of
Christ Church Sunday School this
Thursday evening in the Church parlor.
The work of laying brick for the new
Il. /. k. office and store room was COM
menced Monday, and with favorable
weather will be completed in two weeks.
The shirt factory continues its night
work owing to rush of orders, and the
operatives are earning excellent wages.
Fifty additional operatives can secure
steady work.
We had a great fall of rain Sunday,
followed 10y a freeze, which made the
streets anything but agreeable to pedes-
TRANS, and several met with ugly falls
owing to the icy condition of the streets.
| But the rain was most welcome.
The annual district meeting of the
fourteenth masonic district will be held
with Island Pond Lodge, Wednesday
evening January &. We expect to pub
lish the programme next week. l.. A.
Cobb is the district deputy grand mas
| ter.
While the towns all around us have
been suffering from lack of water, Island
Pond is very fortunate in having an
abundance, with the reservoirs flowing
over. There is also strong pressure on
the hydrants SO that we feel quite safe
in case of fire.
Monday evening Robert Davis fell on
the icy road on the Reeve hill so called,
aud broke his leg in two places, at the
ankle and just below the knee. Drs. Ellie
and Sargent rendered the necessary sur
gical aid. We are all very sorry fol-
Rob in his misfortune.
AS engine 9l9 was coming into Island
Pond Saturday night with an extra
freight, tube burst when the train was
within two miles of the village. The
fireman c. II. Moulton was slightly
burned, and brakeman named Savorey
was injured in leaping from the engine
and strange to say there was no damage
to equipment. After the accident the
train was hauled mile before the en-.
CINE was totally disabled.
This is the seventh Christmas tina
James Strathern has been confined tt
his bed, great sufferer from rheuma
tism. Although deprived of all use O.
arms and legs he is cheerful and patti
ent, even happy in the care of loving
daughters and the visits of friends. 4
well informed man generally it is 1
pleasure to converse with him, and he il
able to hold his own in arguments OF
civil, political and religious affairs.
Our people were delighted to SCI
George II. Young of Portland here las
Saturday. Mr.. Young is an engin'
driver on the Grand Trunk, and som
six months ago his engine ran into
washout near Gorhan, he being badl.
injured by the overturning of his ell
CINE, also badly burned. His injrrie
were considered quite serious, but he ha
entirely recovered, and will soon resum
his run. The congratulations extende
him on his recovery were as numerou
as they were sincere.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson ar
sorelv bereaved by the death OF thei
son john. which occurred last Frida
December Is, Of appendicitis, after
weeks illness. The young man was
his seventeenth year, OF great help t
his parents, and popular with his assoc
ates. Funeral service, solemn hlg
mass of requiem, was held Monday
the Church of st. James the Greater
| conducted 10y Rev. FIR. Lachance. Yer
/ general sympathy is felt for the paren
in this sudden affection.