Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-04-06
TOWN TOPICS.

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Edwin j. Barnes has been prantsd .,
Increased pension of 50 per month tax
ing effect January, 1900.
"Folly" was the subject of the Re-,
+. =. Lees Lenten discourse at Chris,
Church last Sunday, April |. all fool.
day.
Foi the three onths ending March 81
there Was recorded ia the town clerks
Office ten births, three marriages, thirteen
deaths.
The season has been anything but
promising Tor an average sugar crop.
NOT many good runs of sap are reported
thus far
Is. l.. ingalls,, rea. estate agent from
New York, was in town "Wednesday,
looking over the Stewart House property
IN the interest of other parties.
The several grades in the high school
building and the Pleasant street school
began the spring term last week. The
term will be of ten weeks duration.
Two special trains, in all sixteen cars
filled with emigrants, passed through
here Monday afternoon. The destination
OF the emigrants was largely for Canada
West.
Mrs. Samuel Moore, who has been
very i'll with typhoid pneumonia, is, we
are much pleased to report, decidedly
better. Miss Aging, trained nurse, is
in attendance
Easter is coming, and so is Jones
big advertisement. In the meantime
notice on the first page his advertisement
Of 1.-The style and quality of clothing
boys like to wear"
The annual communication and cleo
ton OF officers of Island Pond Lodge, F.
& A. NJ. will he held next Monday
evening at o'clock. A large attendance
Of the members is desired.
Wright Danforth returned Tuesday
to Brooklyn, following months visit
here with old friends. The day previous
he shipped five horses that he had pur-
chased for use on his waffle carts.
Through the enterprise of the Boston
morning papers putting on an early
morning train from Boston, we now
have the daily papers on the 1870 train
in the afternoon instead of waiting for
the evening train.
George A. Haynes, night station agent,
has resigned his position, to take effect
April Is. He and his family will soon
thereafter move to New York, he having
obtained position as agent on the
Long Island Railroad.
A merry party Of young people took
snowshoe tramp to East Brighton Mon
day night. and were most Hospitality
entertained by f. +. IIobson and wife
at Meadowbrook farm, where they spent
"A pleasant time. returning home on. the
midnight Pullman.
Up to April lst, the town clerk issued
l7S dog licenses, one less than in the
previous year Those who have neglected
to take out license are now subject to
IA double license fee, and if not paid on
or before May 10, next, the owner is
liable to a fine, and the dog must by
law be killed
DR.. Robinson Bosworth of Barton was
in town Sunday aud Monday, to visit
his father. also to introduce to Island
Pond the new physician, DIR. Whitehouse.
who comes well recommended as a
successful practitioner. The HERALD
bespeaks for him the confidence OF those
he can serve. His office is at the house
of Mrs. NJ. j. Hall.
The listers have already begun their
work, distributing the blanks for the
appraisal of property. A new feature
this year in connection with the blanks
is slip whereby voters are required to
declare their intentions as to which
party they intend to vote with at the
coming election, otherwise they cannot
participate in the caucus.
Miss Charlotte Thurston. who Is
visiting Prof. and Mrs. +. X. Woodbury.
at Saco, Me-, has resigned her posit'o"
os teacher of the grammar school. MISS
Thnrston has greatly improved in health
hut has finally yielded to the advice oil
physicia,,s, not to take up school work
again before another year. Miss EIlza
beth Jones has been engaged to fill the
vacancy thus occasioned.
The Grand Trunk steam shower Is
again here, engaged in removing the
hill at the southeast end of the yard
and will finish the job commenced last
fall In addition to leveling this hill 1t
is the company's intention to take away
a considerable portion of the hill back
of the engine house in order to make