The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-03-14
MANCHESTER prr,T

The Junior Card Club met Monda
evening with Harold Taylor.
Monday was surely forerunner o
gentle spring"
-Wissell a Stevens. successors b
! Utley Bros, report business very good
Rev j. s. Robinson was in Soutl
SALISBURY last week attending fu
neral.
WIN. II Rice OF Bennington wa
the guest Of many OF his old friends
here last week;
Religious services at g. A. X. Hal
Thursday evening, Rev. Philip Schuy
Ter of Bennington officiating.
Lyman Whitman and wife of Yer
gennes visited at Hon. J. W. Fowler,
Sunday last.
Mrs Sarah Bourn is in rather poo,
health, not being able TO go from th,
house.
Mrs. II. c. Reynolds is so much
improved that she was able TO attend
ltebecca lodge meeting last week.
Mrs. X. Bradley has been i'll for a
few days, being under the care of DR..
Lewis Hemenway.
MIR. and Mrs. Moilitt from Derry
are stopping for a few days with the
family of +. o. Bourn.
Miss Allie Bourn, who is attending
school in Rutland, spent Sunday with
her parents.
Louis Bourn, who is in the employ
of the White Manufacturing Co., North
Bennington, was home over Sunday.
All accounts due Utley Brothers
that are not paid to them by April lst,
will be put in the hands of collector.
Charles Parker of the Blackmer
company reports business so rushing
that he has TO take his meals between
acts.
Mrs. Il. Hahn and son Joseph of
Philadelphia were in town Saturday on
business, and dined at the Battenkill
Inn.
Mrs. Jennie Coleman, housekeeper
at II. b. Kendall's, is seriously i'll with
pneumonia. Il Later. Mrs. Coleman
died wednesday AFTERNOON at 2o'clock
Thomas Healey says he has rented
more mlleages during the past two
weeks than he has for years. Sure
sign of spring.
John Mayhem who has been in the
employ of J.H. Hicks for several years
has moved to the Center. He is to
work the coming season for DR.. 4. l..
Wyman.
John Squires has gone to Dandy
TO 5. l.. Griilith's "old job" as it is
designated, to press about so tons of
hay for h. l.. Staples. manager of the
Emporium lumber company.
James h. Amedon has presented
the relics of the siege of Vicksburg,
which have been on exhibition at the
New York Store, to Skinner Post, No.
"a, q. A. X. together with ease to
keep them in.
w. II. Fullerton met with an ac-
bldent last week, as result of which
he is compelled to meet the urgent de-
mands of his business with great diff
Guilty. We trust he will soon be him
self again,
Henry Hicks started his sawmill
last week. This is now the only place
in town where man can take a load
of logs, sell them for cash, or get bill
of timber sawed, or a job of planning
and matching done.
r. o. Bourn and NJ. A. Taylor were
in Dandy Thursday, looking for work
horses. Myron Taylor purchased of
John Fullum black mate for his gray.
He now has team weighing about
300 lbs, which he will use on his
Standard Oil delivery wagon.
Judge Fullerton sold two beautiful
monuments on Saturday Of last week,
one to be erected early in the spring
4, Cypress, Hin cemetery in Philadel.
phia, aud the other in Bennington.
Both were fine specimens of the high
art Of granite work which the Judge is
50 well able 10 turn out.
Some Of our people are worrying
over the prospect Of the Norcross West
Marble Co. disseminating business here
and 10 Dorset. Lets not be scared
until We are hurt. Changes must Of
necessity come in all business, and al
though We should be sorry if such was
the outcome We should have that with
IN the town and community which will
yet make our homes the mos, desirable
spots on the face Of the earth.
Although have handled a good
many million fee, Of lumber, and con.
slider that have quite a bit Of practi-
cal knowledge as TO methods used in
working lumber jobs on large scale
here in the east lbut nothing as com.
pared 10 the extent that such opera
tons are carried on in the vest, on a
recent visit 10 what used 10 be the late
;. /. Gnihlb's south eudn plant IN
Dandy, nov owned by the Emporium
lumber company from Pennsylvania,
and managed by Edward l.. Staples. |
am convinced ihst in all these years We
have been dong Il the hardest way.
This company purchased ot the admin.
istrators Of the estate Of S. l.. Griffith,
about year since, the entire landed
property east Of the Rutland railroad,
about 5000 acres, paying therefor
$50. 900. or seven dollars per acre, in
cludiug the mills. boarding houses.