The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1909-07-29

one i shs te,i games q The seAssn Ia
Fsa Atlinghan. uhen ihe homs lean
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t9ah. geuutne rysirkins insm ths West
rn plAius und krsegsalion. Iwp
game ar played. ons i, he afternoon
AMI TO- alhef in ~ evening". The n
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taH. ai.nui our pretty halle town 81
Arllnrias. The Yiiiarv lmpmyrmrn,
Soeieiy i doug sery much 80 improve
,he place, Ne have aae roadr. and
sidewalks ran 90 rvtry street hut
there are leo dasl'acks. one ls The
lighting ~ streets ~ electricity, bot
lhru THAI l. slonly canning forward
The other drawback Is station. We
have on. alibo' one would think We
didn't. bat We have One that has been
standing since the railroad was bulii.
Al ous time i VAS painted. bat nov
you cannot tell whether u aas ~ not.
Yoa eau see a strip 81 red paint here
aud there. The towns people have
tried hard ~ have new station aud
lhe officials would say. "oh. yes, vel
have one built But wheni That y
4 question which cannot be answered.
Why spoil a pretty place by having an
old depot which is ready TO fall down.
This is out Of the power Of the Village
improvement Society and the citizens
Of Arlington. Nearly every place on
the New York Central lines has a new
station. Why can't wei
SOUTH DORSET
oh, what delightful weather.
Wild raspberries are quite plenty,
Having is well along, a fine crop
will be secured.
Ed. Bowen was ia Manchester sew
eral days last week.
The autos are having fan wadlng
in the new made mud.
The much threatened X. Il. don't
seem 10 materalize vet.
Bowen ha. asst got lot of No Tan
Roofing. be is swapping it for hay.
Mrs. Fred Stannard and children
are visiting at her brothers, Henry
Stone, in Dandy, this week.
Apples are almost failure here
trees that have born large crops every
year did not have blossom this year
"A. l.. Bowen has by constant sci
eeton of the largest and earliest sweet
corn for years, produced a very early
fine large cared variety. 1t has large
ears silked and tasseledl now, 90 days
from planting.
"A tight fence eight feet high vii
will be built along the road at the
quarry now being opened TO prevent
| the frightning of horses and stop autos
from blocking the road by stopping t.
see the naehnes working in the new
opening which is almost under thu
road.
The forests are continually grow
ing into the cleared land of this sec
ton. All through the hill section larg'
fields that were once in cultivation arr
now grown up to woods, and in man,
places one can see the corn and potato
hills AS they were left years ago, witt
trees a foot through growing there
Fifty years ago farmers tried TO kill th,
brush, but today the woods are on
best landed property.
Last week an old friend of min
stopped me in the road aud asked IN
what they had done with the old chronl
mud holes in the road. He said, .
have been coming to Dorset FOR twent.
years. | used to drive my team. bu
this year got an auto. knew befor
left home where ! would find the oil
mud holes, big one at William
water trough, one at McBride's, one a
Manley's, one at the Cody farm, a 10
Of them at the South Dorset X. X
station. also at the Manchester X. K
station, several at Almon Smiths an
few wherever the road is too narroy
TO turn out. Twenty loads of grave
would fix them all, yet they are nul
sauce year after year, summer an
winter, spring and fall they are Away
here County Road COMMISSIONS
Bates was in this valley last week an
with Selectmen Lee and Kelley an
Town Road Commissioner Matson wa
planning TO locate the state road TO b
built this year. Mr.. Bates is yer.
well posted and pleasant man. III
called al Brookside and we had pleas
aut chat.
NORTH PowNAL.