Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-12-25
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COMING. H0WFS MOVING PICTURES.

day, TO visit his daughters, and will re-
main two or three weeks.
There will be no service of midnight
mass Christmas eve at the Church of st.
James the Greater this year.
Miss Esther Fitzgerald, student at
st. Mary's College, Concord, n. H.. is
home fofthe Christmas vacation.
Mrs. II. f. Sargent and two children
are the guests of her sister, Mrs. Mackey,
at Portland, Me, during the holiday
season.
Mrs. ID. Morse, who has been here
several weeks visiting relatives, returned
to her home in Brockton, Mass,
Wednesday.
Road Commissioner o. l.. Mansur is
on to his Job. The roads are cleared
after each storm, and the icy sidewalks
promptly sanded.
AT the auction sale at Thomas Todd's
last week, cows were sold from SIT to
$50. NJ. {. Davis purchased eleven cows
and heifers, also one horse.
Gerald Durham of Lyndonville came
last weak to spend few days with rel
atives returning with his uncle and aunt
Mr.. and Mrs. Almon Smith, who have
gone there to reside.
A. A. Pomeroy was business visitor
here Monday and Tuesday. He assumes
the proprietorship of the Coaticook
House, Coaticook, Que, new years day,
and his friends in this vicinity wish him
prosperous business career.
Mrs. Ensign Barrett of Gorham, N.
H., came to Island Pond Tuesday and
left Wednesday for Stanstead, Que, to
spend Christmas with her parents, Mr..
Mr.. aud Mrs. VIM. Willoughby. Her
sister, Mrs. A. NJ. Stevens, accompanied
her to Stanstead, returning the same day.
Misses Effie Webster and Blanche
Rexford who are teaching at st. Johns
bury, Misses Martha Davis and Iva APP
plebee at Newport, Miss Malissa Moore
at Wells River are all at home for the
Christmas vacation, and Miss Ella
Moore, teaching at Bradford, is expected
home tonight.
At the annual meeting of Essex
Lodge, |. 90. F., held last Thursday
evening, officers for the year ensuing
were elected as follows:
Noble Grand, James Pilgrim.
Vice Grand, f. j. Maxwell.
Secretary, F. c. Mosher,
Treasurer, G. +. Clarke.
Fire was discovered in s. NJ. Harmons
barn Saturday evening, originating pre-
snmahly from pan of ashes. The hen
house inside the barn was burned, also
thirty hens, and one side of the barn.
Two streams were sufficient to extinguish
the fire, and the high pressure was favor
ably commented upon by everybody
present.
Last Saturday afternoon Mrs. Almon
Smith was surprised by receiving a visit
from the Ladies of the Congreg ational
Church. After a brief season of social
Intercourse the visitors presented Mrs.
Smith with a handsome embroidered
center piece, and while regretting her
early departure from Island Pond wished
her happinss in her new home at
Lyndonville.
Conductor Henry Moffett was injured
near Gilead, Me, Wednesday morning.
He was descending from the monitor,
and somehow slipped and fell, distance
of six feet to the opposite side of the car,
fracturing two ribs At Gorham he re-
ceived medical care, and again at Grove.
ton, but despite his injuries he brought
in his train to Island Pond. 1t will be
some time ere he can resume work.
Last week Mrs. Frank Russell pre-
ferred to the school board charges
against the principal and complained,
among other things, that Prof. Wiley
on December 10th inflicted a grossly i'm
proper punishment upon her boy, Edgar
Russell, for alleged misconduct while in
attendance at school. The board, upon
hearing, has found that it is unable to
approve of the method of punishment
employed by Prof. Wiley, and recon-
| mends that he return to the time-hon-
ored mode Of chastisement.
Miss leila Harmon OF Island Pond
and A. |. Farnham of Canaan were
united in marriage at Canaan, Friday,
December II, sby G. NJ. Fletcher, esq
The following evening reception was
rendered them, at which they were pre-.
scented with several pieces Of silverware,
china cabinet, and other articles. Re
treatments we're served, and music was
furnished by the Criterion orchestra. 1t
was a very pleasant and joyful occa
sion. That their married life maybe
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