The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-02-14

! called foe ihe farmer shc took her
hMnds cot ~ the curi spd asked me w
al down 10 the next rcom whils she
went 10 call The farmer. II VIA. in the
month al .ane. bcs as hlsses. and ali
ihs dosn SIRE open and ] All where
eould sec the chasse-tah. No scpncfi
had she gone oni than q lcsof ehicksns
aud hens fes up onto the edge ~ the
tab and down onto the card and com.
menced 10 rassnoasly ess il. Before J.
could get there 10 drive them OUT an
old turkey Hcw into the tab and seal.
tered the hens. and they hew ali over
the kitchen. just then the woman
cam. back, "rhoced" them out, and
told me them larnsl fowls" we're the
plague az her life. Gosh" she ssid.
''fhry are IN my cheese-tub half the
time !, is useless 10 say ] never
have hankercd for cheese made in thai
famous old cheese town since have
seen What they flavor il with.
NJ CLoSE.
DORSET.
e. II. West was in Rutland and
Troy last week on business.
Ned Castlsman. who is now liz The
Adirondacks, spent several days al
Mrs. Olive Roberts recently.
Mrs. Merritt Chapman spent few
days last week with her daughter, Mrs.
Charles ID. Willard, at Manchester
Depot.
The annual meeting of the Dorset
Public Library was held last TiMrSRs
in the Library rooms and the usual re-
ports were read and officers elected.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles d. Willard
of Manchester Depot and Mrs. Earl
Hill and two daughters spent Sunday
with their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N.
ID. Chapman.
The annual meeting Of the State
Board Of Agriculture was held We'd
nesday afternoon and evening in the
lecture room Of the church. A fuller
account next week.
Special memorial exercises will be
held in the Sunday school next Sunday
in memory Of Lincoln and Washington
whose birthdays come the 18th and I'D
respectively Of this month. A special
offering will also be taken for work in
the South. Yt
AT the last regular meeting Of the
Dorset Grange, No. 81, nine candi-
dates were given the first two degrees
Of the order, and two more who had
had DENTS were taken back. The last
two degrees, with the Harvest Supper,
will be given at the next meeting, Feb
ruary 20. VI
The last in the series of invitation
dances was held in the Club House last
Monday evening and was well attend
ed, there being about seventy five pres
ent. Although the thermometer regis
tered l6 degrees below zero, by hug
ging the big open fire and dancing
every one managed to keep warm.
About eleven o'clock light refresh
ments in the form Of coffee, sand
witches, cake and doughnnts were
served. McBride's orchestra furnished
excellent music. Everybody went
away feeling they had spent an even.
ing long to be remembered.
EAST DORSET. \
Mrs. Mary Crandell has moved 10
Rutland to live with her sister. G
M:aa Zoe cl---.-. .~.~...~A ss...krs
day after a weeks visit with her aunt,
Mrs. Willard Cook, in Manchester. =
They say the law is off on dee(a)r
today. We wonder if Cupid will get
any gamei
Miss Helen Gray and her friend,
Miss Helen Gulliverof Arlington, were
the guests of the formers sister, Mrs.
Harder, over Sunday. i
The Shuttleworth Company drew
a large smoke stack up from Manohes-
ter Saturday. 1t was 70 feet 4 inches
long and feet in diameter. II is to
be used on the main boiler at the
quarry. The large boilers will proba
bly, be shipped up this week. |
The neighborhood prayer meeting
is with the Harringtons in South Vii
age tonight, not last Thursday night,
as enormously announced in these col
umns. The meeting last week at Miss
Shelters was well attended and very
interesting.
We were just wondering how we
had gotten along without "city water"
so long. Now we are wondering how
much longer we shall have to get along
without IL. We supposed that it was
soft water. 1t has suddenly proved TO
be quite hard. III blows the wind that
profits nobody! This time it is the
plumbers. They rather remind us Of
he "Thaw" case. But seriously, we
hope the pipes will thaw out pretty
soon. M II
Miss Gertrude Brophy has con.
,ented TO take the responsibility oil
the local branch Of the Lid
1rary this coming year. The books