Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1909-02-19


out after being restricted to his home
SIX weeks or more with pueumouis.
Mrs. Charles Lsdd Of Lyndonville has
been here several days visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. McKelvey.
The regular meeting for the current
month of Ross encampment, /. q. .. F.,
VIII be held next Tuesday evening at s
O'Clock.
The firemen were called out Tuesday
night for burning chimney in the Essex
House, but happily their services were
lot required.
The masquerade promenade last FRI
day was great social and financial sue
cess, enjoyed by everybody. The Seniors
realized some $40.
Harry Blake came home from Lynn
donvilie Friday to renew acquaintance
with his wife, returning Sunday. Mrs.
Blake expects to move there next week.
Miss Proulx, milliner, left Monday
Tor few days visit with her parents in
Montreal, enroute for New York, where
she will attend the spring millinery
openings.
A suit of underwear was either blown
from Mrs. W. II. Norton's clothes line
Tuesday night or stolen. If the former
the finder will know to whom the gar
ments belong.
The town meeting warning has been
posted and contains twenty articles.
The warning is printed in the town
report, which will be ready for distribu.
ton early next week.
The graduating class of the convent
school will give social and promenade
at Woodmen's hall Monday evening,
February %. Admission 10 cents.
Refreshments will be served.
Mrs. Johanna Lofgren, who has been
i'll all winter with chronic gastritis,
died last Saturday, February ID, aged
So years aud months. Funeral services
we're held the following Monday, con-
Quoted by Rev. Thos. Hall.
BY invitation of the ninth grade
teacher, Erastus Buck Post and W. r.
9. attended the centennial exercises
February II, where they enjoyed an
hour listening to recitations aud national
songs, appropriate to the one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Abraham
Lincoln.
February 81 will be observed as Anti.
Saloon League Sunday at the Congrega'
tional and Methodist churches. In the
morning Rev. J. X. Fuller will speak in
the Congregational church, and Rev. j.
l.. Badger in the Methodist church. In
the evening there will be mass meet
lug in the Methodist church, addressed
by Mr.. Badger. Special music. Do not
fail to hear these speakers.
James c. Tracy, formerly of Island
Pond, is i'll in New York. He is ap
gearing in vaudeville in a sketch called
"rhe Lass o Lock Lomond", An Allan
town Pa) paper thus speaks of him -
James c. Tracy, the male member OF
the troupe, is an excellent tenor, possess
ing a voice of great range. He presents
a magnificent appearance, wearing the
uniform of the A2d Highlanders, the
regiment dearest to the hearts of all
Scotchmen, and familiarly aud Affection
ately known as "The Black Watch"
James N. Thompson, who was
resident of Island Pond in the sixties,
engaged in business as a blacksmith,
died at his home in Brighton, Mass.,
February -, aged seventy years.
Leaving here he went to Maine, and
later moved to Walpole, Mass. From
Walpole he went to Boston, where he
founded the Ivers & Pond piano company
and became interested in oil wells in
Pennsylvania. He was man of simple
tastes but belonged to the Ancient and
Honorable artillery company, the Masons
| and Neighborhood club of Brighton.
The drama, "Above the Clouds" the
fourth in the entertainment course,
presented by local talent Tuesday even
ing, gave great pleasure. Notwithstand'
ing the severe storm large audience
was present. All in the cast deserved
the praise so freely bestowed for the
very efficient manner in which they
rendered their respective parts, their
representations being very good, and
their stage appearance natural. All
doing so nicely it would be invidious to
maze distinctions. Mrs. Fitzgerald and
Mrs. Quimby added materially to the
general pleasure by their vocal solos, and
both responded to we'll merited encores.
Ladies Literary Club.