The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-07-02
Hard's Drug Store

summer home year after year. 1t il
pleasure to see the same people
coming back to Manchester each sue
ceeding summer,
Mrs. Il. S. Plummer and two
daughters of Hyde Park, Mass, &C
companied by Miss Helen Way OF
Pittsheld, Mass, arrived Monday al
the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary
T.. Way on Franklin Ave, where they
will remain for season.
Miss Hermione Garfield left Friday
afternoon for Mary Fletcher Hospital
in Burlington, accompanied by hel
brother, Arthur G. Garfield. She was
operated upon Monday and at last
reports was doing as well as could be
expected.
G. G. Frelinghuysen and family OF
New York City arrived in town for
the summer on Friday and are at the
Cascades. This is their first season
in Manchester and we trust that they
will enjoy it so well that they will
want to come again. They most all
Hon. and Mrs. David X. Simonde
are entertaining Lucien Howe, the
organist Of Brattleboro, who came
here from Mortified, VT, where he
had been with his sister, Mrs. Mary
Howe Burton, who gave concert at
Mortified University last Thursday
night. Mr.. Howe is a nephew of Mrs.
Simonds.
Mrs. Margaret Mcbride, lifelong
resident of this town died Saturday
at the age of about seventy years.
The funeral was held in st. Paul's
Church on Monday morning, and the
burial was in the Roman Catholic
cemetery at East Dorset. Mrs. Me-
Bride, who was the widow of Joseph
Mcbride, leaves two sons, six daugh-
tiers, and several grandchildren.
st. Johns Church in this village
will be opened on Sunday morning
next for service for the first time this
season. The Rev. Mr. Cook of Bever-
ly, N. j., will preach at the services
both morning and evening. Holy
Communion will be celebrated at tie
close of the morning service which
will commence at II O'Clock, while
the evening service will begin at 5
o'clock.
At the meeting of the Manchester
Village Improvement Society, which
will be held at the residence of Mrs.
John Jacob Gunther on Monday even
ing, July 9th, the matter of holding
a flower and garden exhibit sometime
in August will be gone over very care
fully. If the plans are carried out as
arranged this exhibit
would be one of the finest ever seen
in Manchester. 1t is to be for the
benefit of the sidewalk fund.
A good days work was done recent
ly when William and James Johnston
and John McDade extended and re-
built the bridge near the Cascades"
between the hours of z and p. m.
This bridge is part of the new work
which Mr. Wilbur is pushing forward
to completion in this section, the rest
being the finishing of the fine retain
ing wall commenced last summer,
which when finished will run almost
the whole length of Mr.. Wilbur's pro-
perty on the main highway.
Funds are being raised for the put
ting in shape of the wagon road to
the top Of Mt. Equinox, making it ac-
cessible to vehicles of all kinds. If
good automobile road will be con-
structed to the summit of Equinox |
those who go there will see one of |
the grandest sights to be seen in this
valley. The whole Of the section Of |
the state south Of Rutland is laid open
10 view and as far east as the Con-
lecticut River valley and on clear
lays the White Mountains can be
seen.
From the Rutland Daily Herald Of
Iune 29th, we take the following
rom under their heading Fifty Years
Ago Today"
Personalities. President Lincoln
las engaged a suite Of rooms at the
equinox House, Manchester.
Bennington County Convention
The Bennington county union conven-
10 made the following nominations:
Senator'S Lemuel Bottum Of Shafts
Jury, j. u. Hollister of Manchester;
heriff, Leander Powers Of Benning
on; states attorney, A. l.. Miner Of
high bailif, Martin
Sheelock Of SALISBURY; assistant
Judges. Harmon Myers Of Pownal, Ira
(. Batehelder OF Peru; judges OF pro-
ate, Thomas White Of Bennington, j.
y Batchelder Of Dorset.