Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1909-06-11
TOWN TOPICS


Monday night from Chattanooga, Tenn.
MIR. and Mrs. John w. Tbursto,
moved last week to their summer cot
tage on the lake shore.
Miss Florence NJ. Blake has gone to
Reading, Mass, to visit her brother, and
wife, to remain there the rest of the
month.
The visit here of Mrs. +. W. Sadleir,
OF Moose jaw, Sask., formerly of Island
Pond, gives great pleasure to old friends
and acquaintance.
Have you contributed your mite to-
ward the proposed Fourth of July cele-
bration here? Remember "many a
mickle makes a muckle."
The stated communication of Island
Pond Lodge, F. & A. NJ, for the cur
rent month will be held next Monday
evening al o'clock. Work.
Miss Harriet Lally, who has been
visitor in town the past three weeks, the
guest of Mrs. Will Smith, returned to
her home in Montreal Monday.
The auction sale at the customs house
last Saturday of struggled goods, for
teited to the United States, realized sew
ersl dollars more than the appraisal.
A hard frost Monday aud Tuesday
nights destroyed everything it could
reach in some gardens, while others in
another part of the village escaped I'M
scathed.
l.. +. Jones advertises this week straw
and panama hats, special brand of
underwear, children's play suits, "and
all the other summer matters goods
that satisfy.
The Rev. and>Mrs. l.. n. Moody are
entertaining at the Methodist parsonage
for a few days the formers mother, Mrs.
f. b. Moody, also his brother, c. c.
Moody, both of Waterbury Centre.
Mr.. aud Mrs. W. j. Overbury left
town Thursday to attend the Seattle
Exposition, and will visit relatives at
Edmonton and Alberta en- route. They
expect to be absent about two months.
A special meeting of Christ Church
yestry is to be held next Monday morn
ing at o'clock, at the office OF the
senior warden, for the purpose of CON
sdering the nomination of a rector. The
Rev. F. ID. Miller, now of Erie, Pa, has
been suggested for the position by
Bishop Hall.
Mrs. George Osborne went to the
Sherbrooke (Que) hospital Thursday,
and on Friday underwent an operation
for the removal of an internal growth.
The operation was successful, but Sat
urday evening word was received from
the hospital that her condition was
quite critical Since then there has
| been no further communication, which
gives hope that she is now improving
A subscription paper is being clrcu-
lated to raise funds for rousing Fourth
of July celebration here, and good'y
sum has been promised. The pro-
q ANNE. if a sufficient amount is Sc
cured. will include various contests Oh
skill and endurance in the forenoon,
baseball match in the afternoon, probab-
" Island Pond and Lynionvllle, with
AN entertainment and social dance l"
the evening at the opera hall. 1t Is al
On intended to have a brass band IN at
tendance throughout the day. A prom
ising programme, surely.
Last Sunday morning the graduating
class of the High School, escorted oy
twenty undergraduates, formed IN pro-
cession at the high school building ana
marched to the Congregational CHurch'
where the baccalaureate sermon was
preached by Rev. Thos. Hall Inc
nao bar was in good form and preached
an eloquent and instructive sermon"
,Iis text was from Exodus XIV, 10, aho
his theme, Go Forward, emphasized i'u'
mathis educational, moral, physical a"o
spiritual. Appropriate musical selections
we're rendered by the choir, assisted ny
Mrs. Quimby and c. Foster.
We have a large amount OF hardwood
.;,ho, ali abont us and it would see"
,s If Island Pond would be 1aVorao''
location for some wood working ih'"s'
trv Let each and every citizen Oh '"''
,oyn ask himself If we, as a town. az
doing as much as we m'g"' iowa." .''
making this old town grow ana p'o'p,
We nav not all agree as to what Is ''
be done. 1t is not to be expec'e' w."
we should, yet there are some things OF
which we can agree, and we can eac" ''
what we can to help the improVeme"
along. If we pull together we can ''"V =
what we want. Let us put "s''o ."
"sr.ona, differences and work togetne
of the hriglteSt, Dusl