The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1907-03-14
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Spring seems 10 be headed tins
way uui the robins don I come yet.
John K billiard Of Rutland spent
Thursday with his aunt. Mrs. Charles
W. Phelps
Mr.. aud Mrs. Charles W. Phelps
and Mrs Merritt G. Phelps spent FRI
day in East Rupert.
Thomas Kelly and wife will 90 10
Pittsheld. Mass, aud run n boarding
house there. We shall miss them.
III is reported that Freddy is about
to open up his marble quarry near the
Van Buskirk place at the foot OF Mt.
Equinox.
The opening chapter Of 81 Clones
new story was well received aud anotb-
or chapter is issuing in which the In
dams get scared out. Read it.
John NJ. Armstrong had Bowen
take four photos of the interior of the
church at Dorset last week. he will
have cuts made Of them 10 be used on
post cards. They are very fine and
will reproduce nicely.
The Norcross. West quarry shut
down last week without date of start
ing up again. The Italians and Pc.
landers have gone TO Dandy. Some of
the white men will 90 to other jobs.
The old gang is scattered.
EAST DORSET.
The sleighing seems TO be on its
last legs.
--Delmer Stone of Peru was in town
with his brother Lloyd on Monday
Marshall Hope has been in town
since Tuesday on business.
Mrs. +. N. Hasbin Of Arlington
was the guest of Mrs. HARDER on Fri
day.
Miss Bertha Brophy has gone to
Rutland for two weeks visit with
friends.
Miss Eva Streeter has returned
from visit with her aunt, Mrs. Mil
lard Cook, at Manchester Depot.
The neighborhood prayer meeting
this Thursday evening is at John
Fairman's, Freedeyville, at 7.3O p. m.
Pearl Lakin returned to the hote
last Thursday after weeks absence,
during which he had attended large
Masonic gathering and spent several
days in Peru.
If we continue to have such cold
nights and warm days the maple sap
will soon be flowing freely. Some trees
have already been tapped, and several
are cleaning their pans, kettles and
.nI gathering ."oss', .. 5000.
ness for business when the time comes
to begin.
Among the visitors in town over
Sunday were Miss Clara Chamberlain
Of Manchester. Horace Dryden of Rut.
land, Miss Mildred Bacon OF the Sem
mary with Miss Anna Coping; Miss
Bessie Colvin of Rutland with her cous
ms, the Bulls; John Andrus and his
mother of Pawlet with the Ames.
Nelson l.. Walker went to Rock
rift, n. Y, on a business trip Friday.
and returned Tuesday morning. AT
the same time Mrs. Walker, who has
been in town the greater part of the
winter, returned home to Nicholson,
Pa. We shall miss her familiar face
at the hotel as well AS at church.
The members of the Young Peo-
Pies Society and their friends enjoyed |
, very delightful evening at Mrs. Geo.
Copping's Monday. Several out of
own friends were present. An inter
,sting feature of the evenings enter.
ainment was the bidding at auction
or partners who were dressed in
sheets and masks, the barter being
beans found by the fellows after long
md faithful search through the vari.
rus rooms. Lloyd Stone was the eff.
lent and entertaining auctioneer. AT.
er the social the members returning
ZONE enjoyed very rare and most re-
display Of aurora borealis.
sot only was the northern sky aglow
1 times with what seemed yeritable
ainbow, but the bars and beams OF
ght shot clear up into the sky over
cad. even beyond the zenith, and the
orthern half of the empyrean from
he west to the east was aquiver with
be wavy cloud of forescent light
- Mrs. Dimis lake Harrington,
'idow Of Elisha Harrington, formerly
I Dorset, passed away last Thursday
Forming after brief illness Of less
nan week. She had just passed her
xty-second birthday. Mrs. Harring.
IN was an unusually strong and Wig.
rous woman, but succumbed very ,
uickly TO the effects of plenra-pneu- ,
'onia. She had lived in Dorset and
anby the greater part OF her life.
ince her husbands death from disease
during his service in the !
ar, more than thirty years ago, she
nd been very efficient helper for Ira !
arris' mother, and since her death,
II twenty years had kept house for q
II. Paris. She was hard and faith. :,
i worke-. more than the equal Of a :,
,od many men in doing chores on a
e farm. She was an excellent house a
seper, very efficient and willing q
arse, always ready 10 help any neigh. n
,r who was in need Of her assist
ice or care, thoughtful always of
hers interests, forgetting her own
,mfort, motherly, kind-hearted and q
'mpaihetic in spirit. She will be v
rely missed by those 10 whom she n
She is survived by two II
stem, Mrs. William Tobin and Mrs. n